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Drug Risks Must Be Balanced Against Benefits, Researchers

...t of all modes of transportation, only motorcycles pose a greater risk (450 per 100,000 person-years) than all drugs, even Vioxx, which had a 76 per 100,000 person-years fatality rate. * Aspirin, clozapine, Tysabri and Vioxx all had risks equal to or greater than the annual mortality risks for firefight...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

... stroke. Increasing testosterone levels may also pose problems for the prostate, a small male gland that produces most of the fluids in semen. Testosterone naturally stimulates the growth of the prostate. Long-term testosterone treatment could cause prostate gland enlargement. Also, doctors are concerne...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

... loss and living in a limited geographic area does pose significant risks for extinction of a species, but under pressures of hunting, it's reproductive speed with which they proliferate that really matters; the slower the reproductive cycle, the higher the risk of extinction for large grazing animals, sa...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...nder EU regulation, whether or not HLL thinks they pose a danger....

Rice Containing Breast Milk Proteins to Be Grown in Kansas

...that the any seeds eaten by animals or birds would pose them no significant risk. It also says that a tornado or extreme weather conditions would not disperse the seed widely, though it accepts that there is a requirement of an emergency management plan to deal with such situations....

Now, Cellphones That Alert Against Impending Lightning Strikes

...getting closer. Researchers say as lightning can pose a major risk to people taking part in outdoor pursuits, such as golfing; the software could become an indispensable safety device for outdoor enthusiasts. As of now, Nokia has filed a patent in the US for the software, reports the New Scientist....

Aspirin may Help to Prevent Colon Cancer in High-risk Individuals

...ediator in the development of colon cancer and now pose questions about the biologic basis and clinical applications of discovering differences that express high or low levels of COX-2, he added. Earlier research by Markowitz in the field of colon cancer genetics and prevention found that a new Celebrex...

Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

...orazepam, is more effective. Childhood seizures pose a serious problem for doctors. Epilepticus or continuous unrelenting seizures can lead to brain damage or even death if not treated. Now there are two drugs currently prescribed to tackle emergency situations - diazepam and lorazepam. But there...

FDA Reaffirms Policy Barring MSM From Donating Blood

...f it receives data showing that doing so would not pose a "significant and preventable" risk to blood recipients, the AP/Times reports. The agency said that current HIV tests are highly accurate but still cannot detect the virus 100% of the time. According to the AP/Times, opponents of the policy say it...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

...cultural industry. In other states, however, RIFAs pose a threat to both crops and livestock. They feed on...ower buds on tomatoes and other plants. "They also pose a problem for young or debilitated livestock," Miller added. "A calf may not have the strength or mo...

TB Patients in Marginalised Groups Need Social Support for Effective Medical Treatment

...n by TB specialists found that the growing numbers pose a challenge for agencies trying to halt the spread of the disease. "TB has risen considerably in major European cities in the last 10 years and London is no exception" says lead researcher Dr Gill Craig from The City Universitys Institute of Health...

Scientists Create Fire-proof, Eco-friendly Plastic

...t cells and breast milk, raising concern that they pose a risk to human health and the environment. Led by UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris, Bryan Coughlin and Todd Emrick, the research team presented an update on their work to industry representatives and scientists from the Federal Aviation Adm...

Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans

... definitively say that one carbon nutrients either pose a benefit or a hazard to most people, but they note that it is the best analysis that can be performed outside of a randomized clinical trial....

Warning Over Drug-resistant Diseases in EU

...ope but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed . "The public health systems in Europe are doing a good job and EU citizens are well protected but there is no room for complacency," Zsuzsanna Jakab, director of the European Centr...

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

...ity, said she didn't know why sulfur dioxide would pose a problem, since it's often used to preserve raisins and other dried fruit. She said raisins would be an unlikely host to bacteria because they are dry. In the past week, the Chinese inspections administration has promised to implement a recall sys...

Dinos may Have Died in Agonizing Death Throes of Asphyxiation

The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth...eopteryx are in this posture, exhibiting a classic pose of head thrown back, jaws open, back and tail reflexed backward and limbs contracted". Dinosaurs a...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...e an estimated 60,000 residents live in homes that pose an unacceptable risk of lung cancer. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control confirms "there are thousands of British Columbians blissfully unaware that their homes could be slowly and quietly killing them." Health Canada estimates radon gas kills 2,...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...ervice members, their families and their survivors pose a daunting and growing challenge to the Department of Defense," it said. Also on Thursday, a Senate panel voted to expand brain screenings and counseling for wounded veterans of the Iraq war and to reduce red tape for service members moving from Pe...

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

...k analysis to try to pinpoint shipments that might pose hazards. Risk based inspections could reduce the ...roposals is to move the FDA towards shipments that pose the greatest risk to food safety. To enable the proposed system to work efficiently, countries and...

Major Change Needed to Achieve Dignified Care for Older People

... Dundee. Of course, both illness and dependency pose threats to dignity, but people of all ages have a fundamental right to be respected. So why is dignified respectful care for older people still lacking, and what might restore it, they ask? Legislation, regulation and standard setting are widesprea...

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