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Heavy Coffee Drinking Doesn’t Cause Heart Disease: Stud

...nsumption of unfiltered coffee, such as the French press kind, he said. "Studies have consistently shown that drinking a lot of French press coffee increases low-density lipoprotein, the bad cholesterol," van Dam said. "Just because there ...

NGOs and Various Groups Come Together To Address the Issues on AIDS

...e state. Binod Kumar its project director told the press on the occasion of the society launching a three-day capacity-building initiative for NGOs working in this field. The work shop was organized by the Delhi-based Futures Group International (FGI). He addressed the people and urged them to work in unis...

Angelina Jolie Opts To Back For Global Education For Poor Children

...he adopted in Cambodia and Ethiopia had led her to press for better educational opportunities. Referring to her one-year-old daughter Zahara, she said: "There is no possible way she would have gone to school. She is so smart and so strong. And her potential as a woman one day is great." "Hopefully, she w...

Pramod Mahajan Undergoes Third Surgery

...splant considered for Mr. Mahajan. These were mere press speculation as he is a well experienced liver surg...y to help the leader and save his life. What the press and people have failed to understand is that a transplant is no minor operation and organs cannot be...

A Boy Undergoing Treatment For Cancer Gets AIDS At AIIMS

...e hospital. When defence team of AIIMS tried to press with the arguments, Justice Sen ordered the personal appearance of the Medical Superintendent to explain further and posted the matter for further hearing to May 11. ...

New Zealand To Issue Graphic Warnings In Cigarette Packs

... a spokesman for British American Tobacco told the press that they feel that, as written warnings had not cut the number of people smoking and that putting pictures on packets would not make any difference, either. Mr Graham also said that BAT was a legitimate industry that was also working with the govern...

Shares Of AVI BioPharma Drops On Reports Of Disappointing Early Drug Trail

...oodstreams both during and after treatment. In a press release the company officials said that during the 14 days of treatment, three of five patients evaluated had an initial decrease in viral load, whereas two of five exhibited little initial change. They were quick to point out that the results were s...

Bangladesh Progressing But Must Yet Face Challenges In Health Sector

...ess over the years. Ms Thoraya told newsmen at a press conference held in Dhaka on Tuesday at the end of her three-day visit to Bangladesh that to turn Bangladesh into an advanced country, the government as well as other development partners should look into the certain matters very seriously. She said...

NHRC Demands Report From Govt Of Rajasthan On Sex Determination Tests

...nt should submit the report in four weeks," said a press statement issued by the commission. Soon after ...ion and prevention of misuse) Act, 1994," said the press statement. The demonstrators also alleged that 19 of the doctors had agreed to abort the fetus af...

IMA, Punjab, Gives Call For Medical Bandh On May 25

...tempt to divide the society on caste basis, an IMA press release said. Source: PTI News...

Combination Drug Therapy For Hypertension

...Hg compared to 12.5% on monotherapy. Neutel in a press conference to UPI highlighted the importance of combination therapy to reach the target blood pressure. In patients needing 3-4 drugs and he would prefer a diuretic as a third drug of choice. In two other studies, doctors used the combination of tw...

Alarming Increase In HIV Infections In Hong Kong

...ct. Reviewing the AIDS situation in Hong Kong at a press conference Tuesday, the department's Senior Medical Officer Dr. Raymond Ho said the predominant route of HIV transmission in this quarter remain sexual contact. Ho announced that of the 89 new HIV cases reported, 26 acquired the infection via heter...

Interim WHO Chief Confirms 'No radical changes' in WHO

...ization (WHO), Dr Anders Nordstrom, addressing the press for the first time since assuming office // , confirmed that Dr Anders Nordstrom. He also emphasized the need for additional financial resources and the support from the people to continue the fight against HIV/Aids, malaria and polio. He reiterate...

Two Students Try To Self-Immolate As Anti-Quota Stir Continues

...s 16th day, the protesting doctors said they would press on with their agitation despite their meetings with cabinet minister Oscar Fernandes and Health Secretary P.K. Hota. 'After two rounds of talks with the minister and the secretary, the government is yet to give us a written assurance. Till the time ...

UNICEF Ties Up With US Basketball Association To Fight AIDS

...ion promotional spot which was screened during the press conference featured players from the NBA and WNBA sharing statistics regarding the impact of AIDS on affected children around the world. Source:PTI News...

Five Year AIDS Awareness Campaign To be Launched By The Government

...S Y Quraishi, the youth affairs secretary told the press that AIDS could particularly be a youth problem. So he explained that the focus of the programme is to create awareness that prevention is the key to tackle the situation. The large-scale campaign is to involve 21.4 million youth volunteers from five...

Glaucoma Camp Held

...he International Glaucoma Week//. According to a press release from the hospital, glaucoma would affect people above 40. There was a possibility of diabetic, blood pressure and myopia patients contracting this disease. There would not be any symptoms for the patients affected by this disease and comple...

Women More Likely To Die Of Heart Attack And Stroke Than Men

...a,' said CIHI President and CEO Glenda Yeates in a press release. 'It is encouraging to see that the odds of surviving a heart attack are improving. But looking across the country, death rates vary considerably from region to region, which suggests there is an opportunity for further improvement.' The st...

Malaysian health minister asks to cut down the intake of sugar

...in order to life a healthy life. He said this at a press conference when he was invited to open a health seminar. This problem has already reached the cabinet and it decided that the consumption of sugar should be gradually reduced for the welfare of the people....

Supporting children with stress key to improve stuttering

...a Hartfield and Krista Schwenk. The research is in press at the Journal of Communication Disorders and is available online now at www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00219924. The researchers were interested in understanding the relationship between how children who stutter are affected by and handle ...

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