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University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

...tentially expand therapeutic options for a patient population in need", said Frank Ruschitzka, MD, University of Zurich, and co-principal investigator of the study. "We expect the results of EchoCRT to pave the way to better outcomes." More than 1000 patients with advanced heart failure (NYHA class III) will...

Stem Cells Aid in Hearing Recovery

...the inner ear could restore the cochlear fibrocyte population and aid hearing recovery. Stem cells injected into the inner ear survived in half of the injured rats, where they migrated away from the site of injection toward the injured region within the inner ear. These stem cells divided in the new environme...

Australian Government Charged With Under-funding Public Hospitals

...r the future of the health system, with the ageing population and medical workforce two major challenges. "We will face even more dramatic shortages of health professionals in the future and this will have a serious impact on Australians' access to services and the quality of patient care," he said. But Fed...

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

...ise. If Youngstown becomes more livable, job and population numbers may stabilize or grow. The city estimates ... has lost more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs. The population is about 82,000, about half of what it was some 40 years ago. Youngstown stands out among the nati...

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...s of thinkers with its prediction that the world's population would outgrow its food supply, prompting starvation on an epic scale. "The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must i...

Ancient Ancestors Might Have Had a Clue to HIV

...at the virus jumped into humans from a Cameroonian population of chimps early in the last century. A separate group of chimps in Cameroon has infected a handful of locals with a nonpandemic version of HIV. Waste from wild gorillas suggests they are probably responsible for a third form of the virus. Michael Em...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...is type of infection is very common in the general population -- and more common and more severe in people with weak immune systems. People who have diabetes or weakened immunity are particularly prone to developing cellulitis. Staph cellulitis usually begins as a small area of tenderness, swelling, and redne...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...5 covering five districts. But most the 180-strong population preferred the old way of heading for open fields to ease themselves, reports Grassroots Features. Fed up with the stubborn refusal of villagers to use their private latrines, Sarpanch Dinesh Kaushik decided to take drastic action. He invited offic...

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...me 18,500 slot machines across Norway, which has a population of 4.6 million. The ban on charity slots "will af... the 71,000 or so Norwegians -- 1.5 percent of the population -- who are addicted to gambling and the 133,000 considered to be in the risk zone. The average gam...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

... high rates of sexual abuse and alcoholism in this population make it particularly suitable for studying the interaction of genes and stressful environmental exposures, explains senior author David Goldman, M.D., chief of the NIAAA Laboratory of Neurogenetics. Analyses of MAOA-LPR genotypes in this study reve...

Revealing the Secrets of Gut Ecosystem

...teria dropped," Palmer explained. "The size of the population was relatively stable." Over time, however, the composition of the intestinal microbial communities converged toward a more generic profile characteristic of the adult intestine. The new study, the authors noted, might bring some clarity to the f...

Toll Free National Drug Helpline Launched

... the pandemic pool, South Asia has the largest IDU population in absolute numbers. Instances of injecting drug use are reported to be on rise in India too. She also informed that every year a theme is selected to mark the occasion. This year, the theme is Do drugs control your life? Your life. Your community. N...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

...). It is estimated that between 10 and 17% of the population has suffered tinnitus at some time in their lives, according to a number of international studies. Depending on the intensity of the symptom, the patient may have their everyday life affected. In extreme cases the discomforts may make working routi...

Fine Particulate Matter from Traffic may Reduce Unborn Babies Birth Weight

...ration the distance of each home from streets, the population density near the home as well as the fluctuations in the concentration of the air pollutants over time during the pregnancies. Using a detailed questionnaire, the study authors could unravel the influence of air pollutants from that of other factor...

Obesity Linked to Lower Tuberculosis Risk in Older Chinese Population

...a lower risk of tuberculosis in the countrys older population . Led by Chi C. Leung at the Tuberculosis and Ch...risk of active pulmonary tuberculosis in the older population of Hong Kong, the authors said. The presence of such a strong but selective association across the...

Galapagos on UN Endangered List

...isk in April and has vowed to impose more rigorous population restrictions and temporarily suspend some tourism permits. The year before, it has been decided to make the island a showcase for renewable energy in remote locations. Wind farm are being set up on San Cristbal, the largest of four inhabitable islan...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...atients, and we are optimistic that the very large population of glioblastoma patients served by our Indian stud...al program in India to take advantage of the large population of GBM patients served by our study centers and the high level of experience with CED delivery of th...

Georgia may Lose Most Pigs to Swine Fever: FAO

Georgia is at risk of losing most of its pig population to African swine fever and the devastating disease..."a real risk that Georgia may lose most of its pig population to African swine fever", estimated at about half a million pigs. To date, neighbouring countries h...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...loyment, the registered daily income of 80% of the population is below a dollar per day. This fact can explain w...where, and the majority of the country's remaining population lives in poverty." 40% of Moldova's sex slaves are kids, and both the traffickers and the involved...

HIV Prevention to Thai Prisoners

...more common among prisoners than among the general population of Thailandone study, for example, in Klong Prem Central Prison, Bangkok, found that 25% of prisoners who agreed to be tested were HIV positive compared with a general prevalence of 1.5% in the national population. But Thailands prisons, say Ford ...

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