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Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

...f wheeze or asthma warrants use of FluMist in this population as well." It also said it would continue to monitor the drug in younger patients if approved. FluMist competes with injectable flu vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis' Sanofi Pasteur unit, and Chiron, which was recently acquired ...

Higher Intake of Fish and Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Age-related Macular Disease

...The prevalence of AMD is likely to increase as the population ages. There is currently no known way to prevent t...irmation of the vitamin D-AMD association in other population studies."...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...destroyed. Florida has undergone an explosion in population a growth of about 13 percent between 2000 and 2006. This has meant that more and more people are pushing into rural areas. In dry weather conditions, such regions can be rife with dry, crackling brush ideal kindling for a wildfire sparked by a bolt...

Yoga Should Not Be Patented: Ramdev

...tices to me," he said. "Around 10 percent of the population of India is suffering from diabetes. Yoga and ayurveda are one of the most effective ways to cure this deadly disease." "We have carried out studies at our center by treating patients suffering from many kinds of cancer through yoga and ayurveda. A...

Americans Get Least Value For Money In Healthcare

...vis opines. Davis also noted that 15% of the US population had no health insurance, which contributed to the countrys medical woes. The US is also far behind in adopting modern health information technology, which translates into spiraling costs and poor care, according to the researchers. We pride ours...

Spare Just Ten Minutes A Day For A Healthier Heart

...o health statistics, more than one third of the US population is overweight, and 60 million US adults are obese....

WHO Director Urges Nations to Share Bird Flu Virus Strains

...uses it shares would be used for vaccines that its population cannot afford. China has also been less than forthcoming with bird flu samples. No H5N1 viruses have been received from China for nearly a year _ during which time Beijing has reported several human bird flu cases. China is readying five virus samp...

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...ith mildly elevated cholesterol levels. Within the population as a whole these people are often unaware of their cholesterol level. It therefore follows say the writers that these enriched foods may only be eaten by people with much higher levels of cholesterol, who know they have a problem and are thus more li...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...aine patients and 305 adults from the general U.S. population who may have chronic health conditions. All patien... online panel that closely reflects the U.S. adult population overall. Physicians were recruited from a list of all board certified gastroenterologists in the U.S...

Study Finds the Spread of Rabies in North American Raccoons

...he demographic and spatial processes of spread and population expansion over 30 years have shaped viral evolutio...r study demonstrates the combined evolutionary and population dynamic processes characterizing the spread of a pathogen after its introduction into a susceptible ...

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...ormed, on average, better than previously reported population averages. We were pleasantly surprised by how well the lower-income children did when we focused on those who were healthy, says Waber. Waber cautions, however, that these data are snapshots at a single point in time, averaging the performance of...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...ver has been badly affected by the high density of population living in Delhi, the illegal dumping of untreated water and solid wastes into it, and mismanagement of projects to clean it. Water in this river remains stagnant for almost nine months, making the situation worse. Yamuna's floodplain is being con...

Doctors Urged To Help Close Indigenous Health Gap

...n which an overwhelming majority of the Australian population voted to end discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. Dr Wenitong says the purpose of the letter, originally published late last year, is to campaign for a national commitment to a plan of action to close the 17 year ...

Health Benefits Of Traditional Land Ownership

...tors that the poor health of Australias Indigenous population is due to policy that has forced people to live in remote communities, preventing them from benefiting from the mainstream economy. The evidence shows that poor Indigenous health is a problem in both rural and urban areas, he says. What is need...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...scription drug spending growth in 2006. An aging population and the alarming rise in obesity a leading cause of diabetes are expected to push spending growth rates on diabetes drugs up 16 percent to 20 percent annually. The analysis projects that, by 2009, spending on medicines to treat diabetes could soa...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

... long-term therapies must target the self-renewing population of cancer stem cells. The zebrafish is ideally suited for use in targeted chemical genetic approaches to specifically inactivate cancer pathways we have identified in our study. Identifying drugs that inactivate these pathways in the ERMS cancer st...

Ganges River Dolphins Continue to Die in India

... and pollution. Researchers estimate the dolphin population across India to be a little over 1,500. Half of these are found in the Ganges in Bihar. The numbers have dropped drastically over the past decades. In the 1980s, the Gangetic delta zone alone had around 3,500 dolphins. In 1996, freshwater dolphins ...

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...have the largest and best-detailed prostate cancer population to perform this study because Dr. Catalona has a rich database and follow-up on all of his patients," noted Helfand. The 8q24 genetic variation was originally discovered by deCODE genetics, a biopharmaceutical company in Iceland, in collaboration w...

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...blacks and whites and the results held up. "As a population in general, if you were exposed to Agent Orange, youre more likely to have a recurrence," says Dr. Shah. "If you were black and exposed, you were more likely to recur than if you were black and unexposed." If it sounds odd that men who had their pr...

Sleep Apnea Patients Have Greatly Increased Risk of Severe Car Crashes

...apnea. The study found that while in the general population men have more vehicle crashes than women, among sleep apnea patients, men and women crash at a similar rate. Although the issue of treatment is not addressed by this study, Dr. Mulgrew notes that data from other groups suggests that crashes related...

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