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Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ensible to," said Chee. "Understanding why we make poorer choices when sleep deprived is important not only because of the increasing numbers of persons affected, but also because there exist today unprecedented opportunities to incur damaging losses by means such as online gambling. This work is one of man...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...areas where healthcare facilities, in general, are poorer than in the urban areas. The management methods are being tailored to the availability, accessibility and cost of infrastructure. The Respiratory Research Foundation of India will conduct a free screening camp in Chennai the capital of the souther...

Social Factors Not Genetics Drive Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival

...c status (SES) is well known to be associated with poorer health outcomes, including higher death rates. It is linked to impediments to healthcare access and receiving suboptimal care; higher risk of exposure to occupational and environmental hazards; and riskier behavior and less healthy lifestyles. Surv...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Disability in Older Adults

...p between low vitamin D levels in older adults and poorer physical performance." About one-fourth of people over age 60 have low vitamin D levels. Previous research has shown that vitamin D not only plays a role in bone health, but possibly also in protecting against diabetes, cancer, colds and tuberculos...

Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

...vice to facilitate// cervical cancer prevention in poorer parts of the planet. The device, cerviScope, is a portable colposcope - an electric microscope that gives an illuminated and enlarged view of the cervix, that will cost roughly 95 percent less than comparable technology in US-based hospitals. Since...

Shockwave Lithotripsy is Effective for Pediatric Urolithiasis

...00 mm2. Larger stone burdens are associated with a poorer clearance and required subsequent procedures. They also found hat the larger stone burdens had a higher complication rate. If shockwave lithotripsy is going to be used as a modality in stone treatment, it is our responsibility as the surgeons to foll...

Women Struck By Smoking Diseases

...rof Adams. “People with undiagnosed COPD have a poorer quality of life and functional status than people with similar lung function who have been diagnosed and are receiving treatment.” Prof Adams says smoking is responsible for at least 60 per cent risk of COPD. “Reducing smoking prevalence amongs...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

...For every minute that goes by, the likelihood of a poorer outcome increases," said Harold P. Adams, Jr., M.D., chairman of the writing group. Intravenous delivery of the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is only approved to be used within three hours of symptom onset. The panel said ...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...comes higher than the average GNI. Clearly then poorer patients are even less likely to receive care and medication, as they are unable to make it to the hospital. In the circumstances, the treatment of the Parkinson’s needs to be addressed by appropriately changing India’s health policies, the team h...

More Aggressive Breast Cancer in Hispanics Independent of Health Care Utilization

... tumors with cellular characteristics that predict poorer clinical outcomes. In this population of women w... of earlier mean age at diagnosis, advanced state, poorer grade, larger tumor size and fewer cases with estrogen receptors may suggest that true biological di...

Transplant Tourism on the Rise, Says WHO

...y against the undesirable practice of preying upon poorer nations by patients from the developed countries of the West. Demand for human organ transplants far exceeds supply, WHO said after a meeting of experts on the issue. The kidney is the most sought-after organ with the 66,000 transplanted in 2005. T...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Affect Risk of Depression, Inflammation

.... “The data suggest that higher depression and a poorer diet in terms of omega-3 can work together to promote inflammation. Other researchers have shown that clinically depressed people -- those with more severe depression -- often have lower omega-3 levels in their blood, and several studies have shown t...

‘Nursing’ a Dream in Foreign Lans

... foreign trained registered nurses hailed from the poorer nations like Africa. The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, summarizes, "The prospect for higher wages overseas attracts talented local workers to the field of nursing, which may increase local and worldwide nursing supply." ...

Impact of Exercise on Body Fat Is Different for Boys and Girls

...ain metabolic changes, which in turn are linked to poorer cardiovascular health. Boys tended to be more physically fit than the girls. But the amount of hard exercise taken regularly had a direct impact only on the boys’ weight. Unlike the girls, those boys who did the least hard exercise were the fatte...

Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix

...digenous making of the heart drug will benefit the poorer Thai patients. According to a health official the company had offered a special quota of 3.4 million Plavix tablets for 34,000 patients. The drug industry was shocked last November by the action of Thailand government when it decided to supersede ...

Chicken Pox Rears Its Head in Tamil Nadu, Yet Again

...he vaccine is expensive and not affordable for the poorer sections. Voluntary organizations should move in and arrange large-scale vaccinations for the poor, it has been suggested. SRM...

Sex – Three Hundred Years Ag

...s cheap and widely available. Though many from the poorer sections of society are considered illiterate because they were unable to sign their name, they may still have been able to read: "Many more people could read than write," she said. "In London, for example, we believe about 70 per cent of men could r...

Due to Cost, Heart Attack Patients Often Avoid Follow-up Care and Medication

...ents and leads to a worse recovery//, more angina, poorer quality of life and higher risk of re-hospitalizat...r prevalence of angina, worse quality of life, and poorer overall physical and mental function, both at the time of their AMI and one year later,” said Krumho...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

...gests that hospitalized obese individuals may have poorer discharge clinical outcomes than their leaner counterparts," the authors conclude. "Future studies are required to confirm these results and to identify the pathophysiologic mechanisms at play. In the interim, our study provides further impetus for i...

WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

...y, told that sale of spurious drugs in some of the poorer nations account for more than 25% of the total drug sales. He said that this issue needs the intervention of experts to chalk out a strategy that is specific for a particular nation. Some of the measures discussed in the conference included bar codes...

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