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Risk of Heart Disease Greater from Mom than Dad

...r’s heart disease rather than the father’s tend to pose more of a risk to a person with a family history of coronary disease//. The results of the study have been published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This could help to better guide the treatment of patients with a ...

Safety Measures Pose an Added Expenditure for the Airlines

..., to help track a potential epidemic. But these pose an additional expenditure on the airlines which is already facing lot of difficulties. The new costs associated with additional safety measures is an insupportable burden on an industry sector. The CDC said the airlines department should be in a posi...

Death Pumps Up Aggressive Thoughts

... to pre-emptive strikes against countries that may pose a threat to the United States. Support for extreme measures increased when thoughts of either death or 9/11 in case of Americans were introduced prior to the survey. The scientific findings demonstrate that thoughts of death increase people’s read...

Dental Amalgam Doesn't Pose Health Risks In Children

...contain mercury, it has been found that it doesn't pose any health risk in children // , bringing much respite not only for parents but also to dentists as well, according to foodconsumer.org. The studies were conducted independently, one in Europe and other in the US, and have come to the same conclusion...

Zimbabwe To Get ￡22-Million For Support Of AIDS/HIV Childre

...nd the traditional practice of polygamy is said to pose serious challenges to the accurate assessment of the HIV/AIDS infection rate. The collapse of health services, acute shortage of food, medicines and gasoline, triggered by the soaring inflation rates (913%) has led to home treatment of HIV/AIDS relat...

Good news: there is no threat of bird flu confirms US

...e passengers arriving from an afflicted area would pose a greater threat than any chicken. He concluded by saying, "At the end of the day, you have a broader, more favorable, beneficial effect on society by preventing the spread by vaccinating the spreaders -- not the grandpa who sits at home watching TV...

Too Much Of Fried Food Increases Cancer Risk

... the most dangerous. Corn oil and olive oil also pose a risk. Deep-frying chips in particular produces large amounts of the cancer-causing chemicals polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the scientists say. The chemicals, also found in tobacco smoke and exhaust fumes, are released when oil is heat...

African Union Launches A Programme On Acceleration of HIV Prevention

...illion by 2010. According to UNAIDS, HIV and AIDS pose the greatest threat to security and development in Africa. Life expectancy in some countries in the region has dropped almost to 32 years. The gross domestic product (GDP) of one country has dropped to 1%, while agricultural production in another is ...

Is There A Strong Link Between Fluoride In Tap Water And Bone Cancer?

...rd researchers reported that fluoridated tap water pose a great risk of boys developing for a rare bone cancer. Douglass is an epidemiology professor at Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine. He is paid to work as an editor of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a newsletter supported by the toothpaste maker. T...

Strange Theft Of HIV Infected Blood Leaves Authorities Puzzled

...He said that as long as the vials are sealed, they pose no danger to the public. He further stated that, as it is not like an airborne disease, that the persons standing next to it or handling the vial, which is sealed, would actually to get HIV. HIV-infected blood can remain infectious 72 hours after the...

Staff Nurses Contract Measles from the Patient

...men and those who have a compromised immune system pose a serious risk of contracting the disease....

New Twist To The Mental Health Law

...ould be detained to receive it so that they do not pose a threat to the community nor themselves. The bill became contradictory when ministers wanted to increase the possibilities of convicting and detaining people with personality disorders while at the same time requiring new rules to prevent violati...

Protective Protein Could Hold The Key In Fight Against Tuberculosis

...ins of the bacteria and co infection with HIV/AIDS pose a significant problem in combating the AIDS epidemic, particularly in India and Africa. Indian scientists and researchers from university of Florida have joined hands in unraveling the mystery the associated with a protective protein, which they be...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

...uberculosis (MDR-TB), especially in eastern Europe pose significant challenges to the success of the program. Nearly 260, 000 TB related deaths that occurred during 2004 were a result of co-infection with HIV/AIDS. A majority of the TB patients live in highly populous countries in the Asian region. Infa...

A Bird-Flu Pandemic Is Detrimental To Global Economic Growth: Report

... global economic activity. A severe pandemic could pose risks to the global financial system. Market operations could become more disorderly in the case of a breakdown in the trading infrastructure, leading to limited or intermittent trading." ...

Australia Ready to Meet the Challenges of Bird Flu

... to carry avian influenza viruses. Even if they do pose a risk, the pathway for transmitting a virus into domestic birds have a lot of intermediate steps in between. In the first place the migratory birds would need to infect nomadic wild birds like ducks and water fowl, which would then need to pass it...

Russia Initiates Mass Vaccination Of Poultry To Restrict Bird Flu

...rned against fake vaccines, sold by criminals, who pose themselves as vets. Furthermore, farmers have been urged to keep their poultry indoors to limit the spread of the avian influenza virus. Although some experts have criticized bird flu vaccination as being dangerous, the European Union has granted p...

SEEK To Avert Chronic Kidney Disease

...ronic ailment. For many patients, kidney problems pose a huge financial drain as dialysis in India costs anything between Rs 750 to Rs 2000. 90% succumb to the disease because it is unaffordable to avail treatment. Dr Ajay Singh said that apart from controlling diabetes, it is equally important to start...

Want To Retain Your Memory? Believe That You Can Do So!

...despair. Memory lapses associated with aging can pose a challenge to an individual’s sense of control. It is true that decline in memory and cognitive function is an inevitable part of aging. It worst cases, such a belief can lead to anxiety and distress. More importantly, it can prevent one from engagi...

Pigeons And Sparrows In UK Face Bird Flu Risk

...f faecal dust from bird flu infected pigeons could pose a significant health hazard to human beings. Pigeons have already been known to spread a flu like illness (psittacosis) that can result in pneumonia, liver damage and even death. Close contact with poultry, inhalation of dried faecal discharges for...

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