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New Web- Based Calculator to Assess Heart Disease Risk

... been taken, the nurse or doctor can go online and plug in the numbers to get a more accurate risk score for that individual. " The recommended way of preventing heart disease involves using the Framingham risk score to identify high-risk patients. Patients above an agreed threshold are prescribed preve...

The Face Of Indian Health Care: A World Health Day Evaluation

...r help. The room has everything from television to plug points to recharge a mobile. Within few days of successful treatment, the patient is discharged from the hospital, led to believe that illness and death happens only to those outside the heaven. The above-mentioned scenarios only reflect the realit...

Food labels to include information on trans fats in US

...it easier for consumers to avoid trans fats, which plug arteries, and have been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, among other things. Trans fats are a result of manufacturers adding hydrogen to vegetable oils to improve shelf life. If a product is labeled "partially hydrogenated," it means a...

UK children getting high on binge drinking

...mary care trusts to stop spending in an attempt to plug the hole in NHS deficits, he expressed concern that preventative measures to tackle the causes of these hospital admissions, such as alcohol treatment services, are not scrapped. Throughout the year reports have illustrated the growing alcohol prob...

Crohns Disease Could Be Caused By Gaps In The Intestinal Barrier

...lammatory disease may not have the same ability to plug the gaps left by the cell renewal process – meaning that bacteria can seep through the lining of the intestine. The research may also explain the development of colon cancer as a result of failure in the renewal process of epithelial cells. Underst...

Digoxin Pill To Fight Against Both Heart Diseases And Cancer

...d it to antibiotics and antivirals. If you want to plug a sugar and see what it does for you, this is the best way to do it. This technique is an important biomedical advance, which could increase the chances of finding active drugs against cancer and a wide range of other conditions. Any drug develope...

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

... Malaria and Tuberculosis.// The drug accord will plug a gap in the world trade law and allow poorer countries, unable to manufacture medicines domestically, to override international patents and import cheap generic drugs when required. ''The WTO drug deal is an historic agreement. Now people from the ...

Nose plug: switch that stops smelling

...nal Science show that a protein called CNGA4 helps plug the ‘nose’ of odour receptor cells.The main job of these neurons is to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an electrical signal. The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and c...

Nose plug-switch that stops smelling

...nal Science show that a protein called CNGA4 helps plug the ‘nose’ of odour receptor cells.//The main job of these reurons is to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an electrical signal.The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and cl...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

...nd record electric currents during each heartbeat, plug into a wire that in turn plugs into the top of the...less phones to a computer for a doctor to view. Or plug in a printer and the PocketView will spit out the electrocardiogram's traditional spike-covered pape...

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