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Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

...The shocking factor is that despite such unchecked prevalence of feticides only one case has been convicted so far. The hill state of Himachal Pradesh registers an estimated 7,500 female feticides every year, taking its gender ratio among the lowest in the country. Even more shocking is the fact that there ha...

A potent causative agent of dental flourosis: Fluoride

...er (41% vs. 21%); but no less tooth decay. Cavity prevalence increased by 15% in 2 to 5-year-olds, in surveys taken between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002 according to a US national study. Breastfed children have fewer cavities than non-breastfed, as per another US study, even though breast milk has 100 times less f...

India Crowned As the Diabetic Capital

...opulation of people with diabetes in the world. It prevalence has increased from 3% to 12% from 1970 to 2000. ICMR has estimated that about 10% of the diabetics are in the juvenile age group. Hence to stem the spread of this diabetes the government has stakes various preventive and treatment oriented measu...

Drugs plus Awareness Would Facilitate Reduction of HIV Infection

...ir life expectancy. But Ms. Baggaley adds that HIV prevalence would increase with antiretroviral therapy. She said that in the United States, widespread use of antiviral drugs led to an increase in unprotected sexual activity among gay HIV-positive men. ...

Negative religious 'Spirituality' related to depression in physicians

... "Research from the last two decades has shown the prevalence of significant depressive symptoms among residents to be in the range of 20 percent. We might have expected that number to fall after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented work-hour restrictions in 2003, but our...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

...ld be launched in January and targets reduction of prevalence of TB and the associated death rate by as much as 50% by the end of 2015. If this were to be materialized, about 14 million TB related deaths would be prevented. The new proposal for effective TB management can be found in The Lancet, a leading medic...

Swaziland And Lesotho Sees Sharp Increase In AIDS/HIV Population

...en aged 25-29. // Swaziland and Lesotho, with a prevalence rate of 25 percent, are the African countries most...im, a WHO doctor, confirmed this week that the HIV prevalence rate for young girls - 15 to 17 - in Lesotho stood roughly at 30 percent. HIV prevalence for pregnan...

China Crowned the Diabetic Capital of the World

...ained from a study done 10 years ago, and that the prevalence of diabetes had since increased. In response to th... updated studies. She also said that the disease prevalence in China has gone up but has not reached Indian proportions. China is now on the top of the list due...

Incidence Of HIV/AIDS In The Indian Armed Forces Negligible

...t lost," he said. Pointing out that the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the US armed forces was 0.026 percent, Singh said this was due to compulsory screening that the Indian government had now been asked to enforce. Even so, Indian soldiers going abroad on UN peacekeeping missions are screened before their dep...

Rural India To Benefit From New Diabetes Project

... living in the urban areas//(16. 8 million). The prevalence of diabetes in rural India has increased by a margin of 400% over the past 30 years. In an attempt to change this situation, the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) has launched a 2.2 crore 'Rural Diabetes Project'. The provision of modernized...

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

... with AIDS have tuberculosis." The estimated HIV prevalence among TB patients is 5.2 percent in India, compared to 6.8 percent in Myanmar and 8.7 percent in Thailand. According to health ministry documents, due to the stigma attached to the disease, around 100,000 women are turned out of their homes every y...

Rare Sexual Syndrome In Women Calls For More Research

...s from arriving at a specific conclusion about the prevalence or treatment. 'It deserves continued research, not only because it is a distressing and perplexing condition, but also because ... treatment may lead to greater understanding of other aspects of female sexual response,' concluded Dr. Goldmeier and ...

‘Drug Resistant TB’ Rattles the Union Ministy

... Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said “The prevalence of MDR-TB among the new TB cases ranges between 1 and 3 per cent. Among the old cases, the prevalence is 12 per cent. The ministry is creating diagnostic facilities in each state to detect MDR cases.” ...

Ranbaxy Launches Once-a-day Inhaler For Asthma Patients

...15-20 million asthmatic patients and the estimated prevalence rate in children aged between five and 11 years is between 10 and 15 percent. --Edited IANS...

A National Survey Revealed That Mental Disorders Are Common In Lebanon

...of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation). Twelve month prevalence and severity of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical... that mental disorders are common in Lebanon, with prevalence equivalent to that in Western Europe. However, the number of individuals with mental disorders who a...

Tuberculosis Is Still A Major Health Threat In Africa

..., that of the many factors which contribute to the prevalence of TB in Africa, most important one being unemployment. He feels that unemployed youth spend their free time practicing activities that affect their health, like drugs and unsafe sex. He also feels that the uncontrolled population growth is responsib...

Bihar CM Calls For Concerted Efforts To Tackle HIV/AIDS Menace

...on (NACO). Expressing concern over the explosive prevalence of HIV/AIDS in 7 districts in Bihar, the Minster h...and west), Khagaria and Muzaffarpur districts. The prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS is the highest in Sitamarhi district, with a 3.7%. East Champaran is closely follow...

Rates of HIV infection shows a sharp decline in south India

...isiting sex-workers. The study monitored the HIV prevalence among 294,050 young women attending pregnancy or a...d Northern part of India. The basis of current HIV prevalence was compared with the HIV trends between the years 2000 and 2004, to enable a comparative study. HIV...

India Can Become A Role Model In Combating HIV Infections

...he catastrophe seen in Africa,' he said. From a prevalence rate of 1.7 percent in 2000, it has declined to 1.1 percent in 2004, said Jha. Overall, the HIV prevalence rate in India is 1.6 percent of the population, with a lower estimated prevalence of 0.3 percent in ...

Hormone Can Foretell Presence Of Potentially Fatal Pulmonary Hypertension

...y population, our data allows an estimation of the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in a 'real life' setting of patients with advanced lung disease, because all participants underwent right heart catheterization as the reference diagnostic tool." Contact: Suzy Martinsmartin@thoracic.org212-315-8631American ...

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