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Health Sector Has to Keep Pace With Countrys Development: Ramadoss

...ents of the working class. The expectations of the population from the health services have to be fulfilled. The quality of service, the range of services in maternal and childcare as well as general curative and preventive services all need immediate attention, he added. The NRHM has now completed two year...

Breast Cancer Risk is not Reduced by a Diet Rich in Fruit and Vegetables

...reast cancer recurrence was observed overall among population subgroups characterized by demographic characteristics, baseline diet, or type of initial tumor or breast cancer treatment. 'In conclusion, during [an average] 7.3-year follow-up, we found no evidence that adoption of a dietary pattern very high in...

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...ncluded 7,587 women and 6,394 men from the general population of Copenhagen, age 20 to 93 years, who were followed up from baseline (1976-1978) until 2004 (average follow-up 26 years). The researchers found that with increasing levels of nonfasting triglycerides, levels of remnant lipoprotein cholesterol incr...

Chief Medical Officer Urges Presumption of Organ Donation to End Transplant Shortfall

... Surveys show that, while only 20 percent of the population are currently registered as donors, up to 70 percent of people say they would be willing to donate if asked. The "opt-out" system has been introduced in several other European countries including Spain, Austria and Sweden to varied degrees of succe...

Gene Linked With Restless Leg Syndrome Spotted Out

...e gene variant is common as at least 65 pct of the population carry at least one copy of it, and having two copies of the variant increases one's risk of experiencing RLS. According to Dr. Rye, carrying two copies does not guarantee that one will develop RLS symptoms. "There remain yet-to-be-identified medic...

Insecticide and Repellent Combo Effective in Eliminating Malarial Mosquitoes

...for the people of the local villages, whatever the population of mosquitoes present. Nevertheless, their residual efficacy (about 15 days) in real conditions did not match the researchers expectations. The team consequently envisage working in conjunction with a company able to devise a system for encapsulat...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...AID says could climb to 40 million by 2010. "The population density in Asia is so great, with countries like India and China that have a billion people each, that infection rates just have to track up a few percentage points and you're potentially looking at a catastrophe," Fauci told AFP. Cooper, the co-ch...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...means China should have the world's largest online population by the end of 2008, if not earlier, Wang Enhai, an official with the centre, was quoted as saying by the China Business News. China has become one of the world's fastest-growing Internet markets in recent years as its booming economy has generated ...

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

...rgue that user fees deprive a major portion of the population of basic services and severely diminish standards of living. In public hospitals in Man and Bouak, Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without Borders) began providing free health care services after rebels took over the cities in 2002 and government-p...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...against the disenfranchisement of forest-dependent population by overbearing forest officials, critics say. But the ministry seems convinced to think the problem lies elsewhere, with the messengers that is. The MoEF bristled, "advocates, who are experts in law not in forestry, and social activists, who may ...

India Requires Over $200 Bn to Provide Quality Healthcare

...lso shows that even though 72.2 percent of India's population lives in the rural areas, 80 percent of doctors, 75 percent dispensaries and 60 percent of hospitals are in the urban areas, making it nearly impossible for the rural people, especially poor, to avail themselves of quality healthcare services. The ...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...is more prevalent among adolescents in the general population than previously thought, says lead author Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, PhD, a psychologist at The Miriam Hospital and assistant professor of psychiatry and human behaviour at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. If this is the case ...

Binge Drinking on College Campuses is a Matter of Fear, Not Freedom

... no different than the estimated 40 percent of the population that is shy. The transition to college, however, can exacerbate this vulnerability, so students turn to an easy conversation-maker -- booze. "Usually universities have organizers, not facilitators," Carducci said. "You bring these people together,...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

...so shows that even though 72.2 per cent of India's population lives in the rural areas, 80 per cent of doctors, 75 per cent dispensaries and 60 per cent of hospitals are in the urban areas, making it nearly impossible for the rural people, especially poor, to avail themselves of quality healthcare services. ...

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

... The median age of the onset of RA in the sample population was 63.3 years, with an average length of 5.5 years between enrolment in the study and onset of RA....

Smoking, Glucose Tolerance Level may Increase Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

...ment. "The determinants for developing RA in any population are clearly complex and often unrelated. These studies help us to add more pieces to the giant jigsaw of risk factors for one of the most common autoimmune diseases, affecting approximately 1% of adults worldwide," Bergstrom said. "We hope these fi...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

... side effects are pretty gross." As the American population grows ever fatter about 65 percent of adults are either overweight or obese pharmaceutical firms have tried to create a diet pill that is safe and effective, with only minimal success. A previous drug combination popularly known as fen-phen was pul...

African AIDS Epidemic Slows Down: World Bank

...d by HIV, approximately 5.5 million out of a total population of 47 million. The report suggested African countries strengthen and improve their social immune system, discourage habits which went against AIDS prevention, and rectify social activities and individual behaviour so as to prevent the spread of the...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...ly 20 per cent or greater in the circulating viral population in a patient. This study clearly shows that resistance HIV strains present at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy. It is our hope that in the future, clinicians can use this knowledge to better choose antiretroviral drug ...

Singapore's HIV/AIDS Cases Rise by Record Levels in 2006

...n a record high number of new infections -- from a population of just above four million. More than 90 percent of new HIV cases detected in 2006 were through sexual transmission with two-thirds of the infections from heterosexual sex, the ministry said. Of the 3,060 cases overall in Singapore, 1,048 have died...

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