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Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

... health staff. But easily the biggest problem is posed by the HIV epidemic. TB is a major cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. HIV is the main reason for failure to meet TB control targets in high HIV settings, the report notes. Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV/AIDS is dramat...

Methylmercury in Marine Fish Pose Health Risks to Pregnant Women and Elderly Men

The health risks posed by mercury contaminated fish are enormous and espe...f the latest scientific knowledge about the danger posed by mercury pollution. It presents 33 principal findings from five synthesis papers prepared by the w...

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

...-care workers’ wounds and the barrier to the virus posed by the lower levels of the skin, said review co-author George Rutherford, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco’s Institute for Global Health. Still, a 1-in-333 risk is hardly insignificant. Many countries recommend postexposure prop...

Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17 Percent

...invited presentation on the hidden auditory danger posed by everyday “impulse” noises. An impulse noise is a brief burst of sound like a shotgun blast, as opposed to a continuous noise like the droning of a washing machine. Price said in addition to the well-known dangers of impulse noises like gunfire, mi...

Mercury can Kill

...ndia. There is also no awareness about the dangers posed by mercury poisoning or the need for careful handl...dy, Toxics Link pointed out that mercury poisoning posed an occupational hazard to medical staff and the community at large, including young children and pre...

Quarantine Sought For Harsh TB Strain

...sh measures are justified given the "extreme risk" posed by an ongoing outbreak of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) in South Africa, they argue in today's edition of the medical journal Public Library of Science Medicine. "We're not saying put people in leper colonies," Ross Upshur, director of the...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

... of the Public Health Agency of Canada, the danger posed by H5N1 virus on human population is not clearly defined now but all the same preparedness to face the impact of this strain would be helpful. As far as H5N1 virus is concerned, it has to combine with another strain or mutate to cause an outbreak in ...

Is Growth Hormone – a Key to Longevity

...ord, Calif. In fact, the study found the therapy posed a risk of side effects, including swollen joints, carpel tunnel syndrome and diabetes. Their findings were published in Tuesday`s edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians. M...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...ring a Polygraph test. Three sets of questions are posed to a candidate and the responses to these question...siological responses to multiple-choice questions, posed to the candidate, about the crime. One answer choice harbors information that only the criminal and ...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

...io affected children from neighbouring states, has posed a new challenge," Dikshit said. Delhi reported six cases of polio in 2006 as against one in 2005. The chief minister Saturday launched a fresh polio immunisation drive after administering pulse polio drops to 20 children at her residence. Around 2...

Alarming Rise in HIV Cases in China: Report

.... Hao said drug abuse and unsafe sexual activity posed a great danger because effective measures to prevent that kind of behaviour "are not yet in place". An investigation by public health workers found that only 38 percent of prostitutes in certain areas insisted on using condoms during intercourse an...

Malaria: The Invincible Might of a Parasite, Nestled in a 'Mite'

... child dies due to the disease. Truly, malaria has posed one of the biggest challenges //to healthcare experts and scientists, who are simply mystified by the parasite that packs a punch through an innocuous looking mite. It is apt to quote Confucius, a renowned thinker, who made his country proud much bef...

Does Child pornography lead to Child abuse?

...ndardized way to evaluate the risk, or lack of it, posed by someone who collects kiddie porn on the Internet. The stakes are high. Dr. Charles L. Scott, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at UC Davis Health System, described the challenge facing forensic psychiatrists this way: "How do you assess...

Threat posed by highly resistant strains of TB

...y in August 2006.)Further complicating the problem posed by multidrug-resistance is the fact that the epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV in South Africa are closely linked. Risk of tuberculosis disease is greatly increased in people with HIV infection, and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is emerging ...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

...hat, in the absence of screening, would never have posed a threat to their health. “It is likely that screening mammography reduces breast cancer mortality, but the other side of the coin is the major harm of overdiagnosis and overtreatment,” said lead author Peter G?tzsche, M.D., director of the Nordic ...

Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina

... accounted for a large percentage of evacuees, and posed special requirements to ensure their health and safety. Among the many obstacles encountered was the lack of a system for identifying and registering evacuees in the overall shelter population. In many cases, patients seen at the clinic couldn't be...

Lack of treatment for cocaine users

...to be done to respond to the ever-growing problems posed by Scotland's increased cocaine use."Cocaine's image means that messages on risk must be seen as being credible and realistic by current and potential users, otherwise they will ignore what they're told. "Cocaine users who develop a problem will requ...

Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown Effects Greater than Suspected

...adioactive material to escape was inert gases that posed no threat. In his study released Thursday, scientist David Lochbaum contends that two dangerous radioactive materials – iodine-131 and cesium-137 – were released in the accident. Lochbaum, the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Nuclear ...

All in the Name of ‘Breast Cancer Awareness

...d actress and long time supporter Pamela Anderson, posed naked in the window of Stella McCartney's London shop. Critics have accused Peta ,self declared enemy of meat products, of using women as pieces of meat. Peta in its defense argued that its organization is mainly staffed by ‘feminist women’ and tha...

Driving Drunk or on Drugs is on the Rise among Teens

...dian. The survey results include: Text messaging posed itself as the biggest driving distraction for teens, with 42% of them reporting that they talk on the cell phone when driving alone. * Half of teens say they speed more than 5 miles per hour over the speed limit when driving alone. * 84% of teens...

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