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Smokers Are Prone To Number Of Psychiatric Disorders

...Smoking still remains one of the leading causes of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. Several studies have also shown that smoking leads to less stamina...

Vitamin A supplementation inadequate in India: Need for effective strategies

...ency. Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children. In addition, it raises the risk of diseases and death from severe infections. In pregnant women, it causes night blindness and may increase the risk of maternal mortality. "India has a lot of catching up to do even with other ...

Breast cancer women has shown an increase in survival rates

...uld really like to see is breast cancer becoming a preventable disease."...

Indians Are More Prone To Lifestyle Diseases

...styles can lead to a number of diseases, which are preventable and that is possible only through regular health check-ups," P. Srinivasan, Motropolis medical director, told IANS. "Most people do not get themselves screened either because they are ignorant... While others prefer to stay ignorant of the state of ...

Kids In Northern India To Be Vaccinated Against Encephalitis

...ugh the disease, which mostly affects children, is preventable with vaccination, officials in Uttar Pradesh state say they lack money to do it and have sought help from the federal government and the World Health Organization. Health Minister A. Ramdoss said the federal government was ready to bear the cost of ...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

...ld in which 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. Brown is pushing the Group of Seven rich countries and the European Union for the much wider finance facility he says could double aid to the poorest countries to $100 billion a year. Italian Economy Minister Domenico Siniscalco acknowled...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

... cope with an outbreak of a disease that is easily preventable with a vaccine, and comes back with alarming regularity. Always leaving behind survivors who can't tell the tale of official apathy. In 2004, the perennially dominant virus - at least for the past 27 years - killed 225 people. One of those who surv...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

... procedures.// Hypertension is the most important preventable cause of premature death in developed countries, and the benefits of anti-hypertensive drugs for prevention of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity are well established. However, no individual trial using standard diuretic or Beta-blocker therapy, ...

All Play Is No Good For Health

...ve sports soars, doctors are increasingly treating preventable athletic injuries that could have a lifelong impact if not properly treated. Untreated injuries in bones that have not yet fully formed could result in the incorrect growth of shoulders, elbows and knees. Coaches and parents should be alert to pain ...

Success Of Preventable High-Risk HPV Infections With Vaccines May Vary

...tates: “The proportion of high-risk HPV infections preventable by a vaccine for HPV16 or HPV18 might vary by region, being highest in Europe (and perhaps North America) and lowest in sub-Saharan Africa . . . Heterogeneity in HPV type distribution among women from different populations should be taken into accoun...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...stated in 1995 that "Breast cancer is simply not a preventable disease". The American Cancer Society in 1997 announced, "There are no practical ways to prevent breast cancer - only early detection." So mammograms are the front line of defense. Celebrity Talk: When a celebrity develops a disease, it increases w...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

... believed that almost one-third of all cancers are preventable by changes in our life style and // food habits. Exercising regularly and loosing excess weight also helps. To lose weight one should also have fiber rich food. The National Cancer Institute in US recently approved the dietary guidance: "Diets rich i...

Being together matters, both in marriage and smoking

... Smoking still remains one of the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. More on medindia: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ PatientInfo/smoking_hazards_info.htm...

Malignant Mesothelioma – A New Genetic Revelation

...g the risk and how we can protect people from this preventable malignancy." Mesothelioma kills about the same number of Americans each year as passive smoking. About 2,500 people a year die from mesothelioma in the United States, according to National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health statistics. Mo...

Malignant Mesothelioma – A New Genetic Revelatio

...g the risk and how we can protect people from this preventable malignancy." Mesothelioma kills about the same number of Americans each year as passive smoking. About 2,500 people a year die from mesothelioma in the United States, according to National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health statistics. Mo...

Preventable Home Injuries: A Principal Cause Of Deaths In Children

...recent issue of the journal Pediatrics// said that preventable injuries sustained at home account for more than 2400 deaths in US every year. They have studied the results taken from the National Vital Statistics System Mortality Data of USA from the year 1985 to1997 and had looked into the causes of death in ch...

Cholesterol can be lowered using combination of Soy Proteins and Sterols

... Reducing cholesterol is one of the most important preventable factors in the disease. Both soy protein and plant sterols extracted from soy are already well established in the heart health foods market, with the US Food and Drug Administration backing health claims for their effects on cholesterol-lowering ho...

Virtual Colonoscopy May Be Better Than Real-time Colonoscopy

... believed that almost one-third of all cancers are preventable by changes in our life style and food habits. Exercising regularly and loosing excess weight also helps. To lose weight one should also have fiber rich food. The National Cancer Institute in US recently approved the dietary guidance: "Diets rich in f...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

... Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the world. Researchers this week have reported that lung cancer deaths among men are now falling in most EU countries, including all new member states from central and eastern Europe, but they are still rising among women. Tobacco related...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

... believed that almost one-third of all cancers are preventable by changes in our life style and // food habits. Exercising regularly and loosing excess weight also helps. To lose weight one should also have fiber rich food. The National Cancer Institute in US recently approved the dietary guidance: "Diets rich i...

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