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Are Hospitals Practicing What They Preach?

...d social messages'. McDonald was one of the most prevalent restaurants found at hospitals. Bill Whitman, spokesperson of McDonald denies having seen the study yet. He also said, 'McDonald's menu provides customers with a wide variety of menu choices, including fruits, vegetables, mixed greens, 100 percent ...

Microbicides, Need of the Hour, to Aid the Fight Against HIV

...hods that are under the control of a woman, as the prevalent male-controlled methods are not even 20 percent helpful. A new thrust to the fight against HIV/AIDS may be provided by over-the-counter microbicides, which are gels, creams, films, or suppositories, meant for women. This is a blessing for many sex w...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...fundamental to the pathogenesis of one of the most prevalent of human diseases, PKD, polycystic kidney disease, forms of which can affect as many as 1 in 500 people. Rosenbaum has produced much of his groundbreaking research by studying cilia/flagella in single celled protistans, principally the bi-flagellate...

Genetics Plays A Crucial Role In Preemies' Destructive Eye Disease

...ediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. ROP is most prevalent and severe in extremely low birth weight newborns with an overall incidence estimated to be as high as 68 percent among those born at less than 1,251 grams (2.75 pounds), and 93 percent in those born less than 750 grams (1.6 pounds). Despite early de...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...e the cause of “our unique vulnerability to highly prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders.” The paper argues that viewing the brain as a myelin-dependent “Internet” may be key to developing new and novel treatments against disease and aid in assessing the efficacy of currently available treatments, including the...

High risk of mental illness linked to early parental separation

...er in life. Separation from either parent was more prevalent among the ethnic minorities than native Britons. An early separation creates an ambience of social adversity explained researchers.Even when other risk factors were taken into account the findings remained the same. The journal Psychological Medicin...

Opioid Abuse More Prevalent than Heroin

...' says Dr. Fischer. Heroin use was substantially prevalent only in Vancouver and Montreal. It was de facto absent in smaller cities like Edmonton, Quebec City or Fredericton. And, in all study sites, there was a significant decline of heroin use among participants between 2001 and 2005. Dr. Fischer also hi...

Prescription Opioids Abused More Than Heroin - A Report Says

...rugs such as OxyContin or Demerol is becoming more prevalent //than heroin, raising questions about drug control in the country. The research shows that the users turning to opioids or prescription painkillers are at increasing rate though heroin addiction is one of the most significant problems in Canada for ...

Poor awareness of lymphomas

...ht disease. Data reveals that it’s the fifth most prevalent cancer that afflicts more women than cervical or ovarian cancer .Survey shows that more Australians die from lymphomas than melanoma. Studies point out that more than 4,000 Australians are likely to be diagnosed with lymphoma this year. Occurrence of...

Effects Of Diabetes Epidemic On The Asian Subcontinent

...d diabetes. And by the year 2025 diabetes would be prevalent in 20 million Indian people around the world. The same figures are estimated for the Chines community as well. What is even more alarming is that recent success of the Asian markets with the BPO and IT boom lifestyles of the community are changing ...

Breast Cancer Screening in Meghalaya

...ess day.Breast cancer is rapidly becoming the most prevalent cancer among Indian women followed by cervical cancer. Addressing a press conference here yesterday, joint director and medical superintendent of Shillong civil hosoital Dr B Garod said, "The number of cancer patients was four in 1989 which went u...

Low Iron levels in infants lead to brain defects

...same journal revealed that iron deficiency is more prevalent among kids past one year of age who drank cow’s milk from bottles than those who drank from cup. Dr. Trenna Sutcliffe of the University of Toronto and her team conducted a study on 150 healthy kids of the age 12-38 months, who drank unfortified cow ...

New Bird flu Strain Claims Refuted

...n Chinese province of Fujian last year, had become prevalent in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia. Chen Hualan, director of the National Bird Flu Reference Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has rebuked the report that was published in the US-ba...

Cereal Bars Slammed for More Sugar Than Sweet Snacks

...ment report which showed obesity in the UK is more prevalent than in many other European countries." According to the survey, a Jordans Original Crunchy Honey and Almond bar contained the most fat (6.8g) overall. It would get a red light under the FSA labelling scheme. Nestle's Fitnesse Original was found to...

New Bird Flu Virus Resistant To Vaccine: Study

...u surveillance programme, found that H5N1 was more prevalent from July 2005 to June 2006 compared with the previous 12 months. The researchers tested 53,220 birds in poultry markets and 2.4 percent of them tested positive for H5N1 strain, up from 0.9 percent a year earlier. It was found that ducks and gees...

Greenpeace takes legal action against Thailand over GM crop

The suspected prevalent contamination of Thai farms with genetically modified papaya has led to suing of the Thailand government by an international //environmental group called Greenpeace. Greenpeace is to take legal action against those Thai Agriculture officials who pe...

New Nationwide Study on Leading Cause of Vision Loss for Seniors

...ce the development and progression of the two most prevalent age-related eye diseases, age-related macular degeneration and cataracts,” said Dr. Yu-Guang He, an ophthalmologist and principal investigator of the study at UT Southwestern. The Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2, sponsored by the National Institute...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome More Prevalent in Overweight Women

... the health burden distinctly associated with this prevalent disorder.” Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

Scourge of Obesity

...ipple economies. WHO says that although it is more prevalent in some countries than others, but still constitut...as severely overweight. Although obesity is less prevalent in European countries, the percentage has increased steadily over time. It has been found that overa...

YSR launches 'Operation Dengue'

...vember every year. But this year, it has been more prevalent and we have to be careful.’ He added, ‘You should make sure that there is no water stagnation anywhere near your house’ Before addressing certain concerns of students of the Government High School, Shahinayatgunj Dr. Reddy had earlier distributed c...

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