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Negative Impact Of Hepatitis C Infection In Renal Transplant Recipients

...orted in 3%-64% of renal allograft recipients; the prevalence depends on the geographic area. Infections are the commonest cause of death in renal transplant recipients. Researchers from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, and Army Hospital Research and Referral, Delhi Cantt, assessed the effect of HCV inf...

Gluten-Free Diet May Alleviate Psychiatric Symptoms In Adolescents

...dolescents has been associated// with an increased prevalence of depressive and disruptive behavioural disorders, particularly in the phase before diet treatment. For the study, 9 adolescents with coeliac disease, aged 12 to 16 years, were assessed using the semi-structured K-SADS-Present and Lifetime Diagnos...

Students Involved In Bullying And Victims Were Equally Stressed

...victims of bullying. The study author said, “The prevalence of frequent bullying among elementary school children is substantial. Associations between bullying involvement and school problems indicate this is a serious issue for elementary schools."...

AIDS Threat Aggravated Due To Sale of Blood by Drug Addicts in Cambodia

...Cambodia has been held responsible for the highest prevalence of HIV infection rates in Asia. Educational campaigns over the past seven years have to a large extent helped in bringing down the rate from 3.8 to 1.9 among people aged between 15 to 49 years. Cambodian authorities have been too relaxed about ha...

Iron deficiency found in children with prolonged bottle feeding

...ts may be at least partly responsible for the high prevalence of iron deficiency seen in this group," said Jane ... ferritin to determine the association between the prevalence of iron deficiency and duration of bottle-feeding among black, white and Mexican American toddlers. ...

Phase II trails of new HIV vaccine to be held in South Africa

...irus, while in neighbouring Botswana and Swaziland prevalence is as high as 40 percent. "We are pleased that South Africa has taken a leading role in the testing of vaccine candidates given the medical and humanitarian promise a preventative vaccine holds," said Eftyhia Vardas, a doctor at the country's Perin...

Mode Of Action Of The Anti-Convulsant Valproate

...nti-convulsant treatment is associated with a high prevalence of reproductive dysfunction compared with age-matched non-epileptics. The researchers examined the widely used anti-convulsants valproate (VPA) and carbamazepine (CBZ) for steroidal bioactivity using a yeast-based steroid receptor-a-galactosidase r...

Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

... cause of diabetes. Their nationwide survey of the prevalence of diabetes in the country has already added lot of attraction from all around the world, including the WHO. Elsevier is a world-leading publisher and information provider in diverse areas such as science, medicine, education, law and business. Accor...

Genetic Disorders, Not Fetal Distress Increase Cerebral Palsy Risk

...sy and found those with the condition had a higher prevalence of thrombophilias, or blood clotting disorders. The university's Professor Alastair MacLennan said fetal distress was only a symptom of cerebral palsy, not the cause. 'We now have evidence that certain hereditary clotting disorders appear to increas...

Meta Analysis Links Diabetes And Colorectal Cancer

...ublished data on the link between diabetes and the prevalence and associated mortality from colorectal cancer. //The analysis was conducted by Susanna C. Larsson, M.Sc., of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and colleagues. The researchers found that having diabetes meant that individuals were at a 30 perce...

AIDS Picture In India Not As Rosy As It Seems To Be

...AIDS/HIV victims. A recent survey conducted on the prevalence of AIDS in India has revealed that the figures could be far more than what has been projected officially. //There have been numerous repots claiming a dramatic decline in the number of new infections. The above has been brought to spotlight following...

Breastfeeding: A Boon For Cealiac Disease

...ing of the bowel inducing gluten intolerance. The prevalence of CD in Celtic populations is highest, estimated at 1:300 to 1:122. The prevalence of CD in North America has been estimated to be 1:3000, but a recent American study found the preval...

Sudden Cardiac Death: Diabetes May Be The Culprit

...sue of the European Heart Journal, assert that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in industrialized countries is rapidly increasing, and diabetes is suspected to carry a particular high risk for sudden cardiac death. The authors examined the association between blood sugar level, diabetes and the risk of sud...

Concern Over High Smoking Rates Among Young

...on a Healthy City has raised concern over the high prevalence of smoking among specific groups such as young people, specially females, lower socio-economic and indigenous groups.//Smoking, which still remains one of the leading cause of preventable death, has the dubious distinction of affecting all the system...

Chennai AIDS Campaign Highlights The Social Neglect Faced By Victims

...ciation of India to create awareness regarding the prevalence and spread of HIV. Multipurpose Health Workers (MPHWs) working in the Urban Health Posts (UHPs) of Vadapalani and Saidapet Zones of the Chennai Corporation were amongst the participants. The programme was also attended by Ranjini Murugan, FPAI bran...

Good Response from Pregnant Women in Delhi for Free ART Therapy

...disease every year, raising concerns regarding the prevalence of the disease among pregnant women//. Nearly 22,837 new born children are infected with the disease and about 11,434 die due to it at the present. Currently, an estimated 2, 02,000 children suffer from HIV/AIDS in India. In response to the above...

Curtailing AIDS - The Fight has to Go On

...figures emerging from ante-natal mothers where the prevalence rate has fallen from 1.25 per cent in 1998 to 0.65.... . The areas where problem still persist and the prevalence has actually shown a rise has been homosexual men and intravenous drug users In an interview to a n...

AIDS More Prevalent Among Teenage Girls In The US

...imilar subjects are believed to account for a high prevalence of HIV among young girls. For example, is not uncommon for a teenage boy to have several girlfriends. It is only considered very normal. But what is less understood is that one young male who has multiple sex partners can infect several females. Fu...

AIDS Cases On The Rise In West Bengal

...ates in India are already designated 'red' or high prevalence states - with an HIV prevalence of over one percent of the total population. And though the levels of prevalence appear to have st...

More Married Women In India Are Getting Infected By HIV

...tly or in the past) frequented sex workers.' 'HIV prevalence of over one percent has been found in pregnant wom...udy says that although the levels of HIV infection prevalence appear to have stabilized in states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, '...

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