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New Guidelines to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic

...als; Patients participating in weight management programs should be provided with education and support in behavior modification techniques as an add-on to other lifestyle modifications; Programs to promote healthy, active living and to prevent overweight and obesity should be implemented in schools to re...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...d. There is evidence suggesting that television programs depicting tobacco usage may encourage smoking among adolescents. “Although bans have prevented direct tobacco advertising on television there is still widespread portrayal of smoking on television in prime-time programming, movies and music videos. ...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...porated into a number of large-scale prenatal care programs for HIV-positive women. The current study was conducted to determine if the benefits of maternal multivitamin supplementation on birth outcomes applied to HIV-negative populations. "In light of these findings, we recommend that multivitamins be con...

New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

...children would be eligible for therapeutic feeding programs and those already on programs would be discharged sooner than at present. A similar pattern emerged in the diagnosis of severe ...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pledges $500M To Fund Anti-Obesity Programs

...l spend $500 million during the next five years on programs that address childhood obesity//, particularly tar...ding to the foundation. The RWJF money will fund programs that aim to improve access to low-cost, healthy foods and to increase physical activity in schools a...

New Vaccine to Combat Pneumococcal Diseases

...rains of pneumococcal diseases in the immunization programs of developing countries. Pneumococcal diseases, ...le in 74 countries and is part of the immunization programs of 16 of them. However, in India, the vaccine is yet to be officially introduced. "Broad adoption ...

500 Million US Dollars to Fight Childhood Obesity

... change that.” The foundation plans to invest in programs to improve access to healthy food, encourage the development of safe play spaces, increase research to enhance understanding of obesity and prod governments into adopting policies to address the problem. The foundation had played a major role in cu...

Intensive Psychotherapy Effective in Treating Bipolar Disorder

... were similar—36 percent of those in the intensive programs discontinued and 31 percent of those in collaborative care discontinued. None of the three intensive psychotherapies appeared to be significantly more effective than the others, although rates of recovery were higher among those in family-focused the...

TB Cases, Deaths Decline in Yemen Because of Awareness Programs

... Further, the TB control program runs awareness programs about the disease on seven local radio stations and on television, according to IRIN News. "We distribute posters among patients and educate them on how to prevent the epidemic," Othman al-Hasoosah of the TB control program said, adding, "We have als...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

...her desensitize the penis. If such circumcision programs are to be funded at the expense of other programs, such as the "zero grazing" campaign in Uganda, the result will be an even greater increase in the rate of HIV/AIDS transmission. Until vaccines are available, the emphasis needs to stay on proven,...

Teens Get Needed Access to Care With State Health Insurance

...d. "Enrolling adolescents in these state insurance programs is a good investment because with greater access t...ld Health Plus served as a model for other state’s programs when state children’s health insurance was created nationally in 1997. The national program is sched...

Guiding Hand For Junior Doctors

...nuum from medical undergraduate tocollege training programs when a junior medical officer works in supervised hospital and communitypractice settings for a period of 1 to 3 years," says Dr Graham. "In the curriculum framework, the key areas are broken down into topics covering patient safety,clinical practi...

Penn Scientists Engineer Small Molecules to Probe Proteins Deep Inside Cell Membrane

... of Biochemistry and Biophysics. "We used computer programs to design small proteins called peptides that can bind to only one of a number of closely related membrane proteins." The researchers targeted two transmembrane proteins called integrins that influence the behavior of platelets, small blood cells i...

Corporates To Help Combat HIV/AIDS

...Apollo Tyres and Transport Corporation of India in programs to fight against the spread of AIDS. These organizations have partnered with International Labour Organization (ILO) which trains the employees in spreading information about HIV/AIDS at workplace. They will also be educating the truckers on AIDS pre...

Computer Based Therapy For Depression

...er, health experts have warned that computer aided programs may not be suitable for everyone and needs more fu...on and anxiety before prescribing medicines. These programs can be accessed either from home or from a local library. Effective handling of stressful situatio...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

...esearch team used Medicare and pharmacy assistance programs records from 1995 through 2004 to identify nearly 22,000 patients who had been hospitalized due to a heart attack and survived more than 30 days after discharge. These patients were followed from the index date (30 days after discharge) until they di...

Exercising With Peers Has Added Appeal

...rtunities should include both traditional exercise programs as well as building more activity into everyday life through walking, biking and dancing,” Chodzko-Zajko said. Source-Nwswise SRM...

Screening by Private Companies Must Be Regulated: NSC

...e of UK are considering ways to regulate screening programs by private companies.// According to Sir Muir G...ng considered due to evidence of these screening programs creating unwanted fears in the minds of patients, and resultant pressure being put on the National H...

TCM Continues to Deal Dental Problems in Beijing

..., can aid in the development of future oral health programs and assist oral health-care practitioners in serving their patients better. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Forsyth Scientists Wiping Out Tooth Decay Through School-based Cavities Prevention Program

...ldren, did not have access to dental care. Through programs like the ForsythKids we can eliminate barriers to care and improve the health of all children." The ForsythKids program began as a pilot in two elementary schools in each of three Massachusetts communities: Lynn, Hyannis and Boston. Today, the Fors...

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