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Loss of Virginity Could Prove Traumatic If Relationship Falls Apart Subsequently

...rs focus help on those most vulnerable rather than promoting a one-size-fits-all approach. She was referring to legislative push for abstinence education as a way of combating depression among adolescents as a consequence of sex. Meier's study, "Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health," will be p...

Calcium and Vitamin D Intake Lowers the Risk of Breast Cancer Before Menopause

...been shown in vitro to interact with each other in promoting growth inhibition in breast cancer cells," they say. Since blood levels of these compounds decline with age, they would be more prevalent in younger, premenopausal women. "Further investigation is warranted to study the potential utility of calci...

Skinny Girl-bands are Making Detrimental Impact on Teenage Girls

...ome under flack from researchers who fear that by promoting an ideal for what a womans figure should look like, they are having a detrimental impact on teenage girls. Researchers from the universities of Leeds and Sussex conducting a new study on the impact of such groups where all the band-members are skin...

WHO, UNAIDS Issue New Guidance on HIV Testing and Counseling

...cess to HIV testing and counseling is essential to promoting earlier diagnosis of HIV infection, which in turn can maximize the potential benefits of life-extending treatment and care, and allow people with HIV to receive information and tools to prevent HIV transmission to others. "Scaling up access to HIV ...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...avor and glow-in the dark packaging are aimed at promoting the product to the young. In the Middle East sheesha or water-pipe smoking is getting increasingly popular among teenagers. Many believe that it is relatively safe because the smoke passes through water. However, serious forms of lung disease, ...

FDA Approves ZYFLO CR(TM) (Zileuton) for Chronic Treatment of Asthma

...e formulation of zileuton. DEY's sales force began promoting ZYFLO(R) on April 30, 2007. Upon the launch of ZYF...bined sales forces of the two companies will begin promoting ZYFLO CR(TM) to approximately 15,000 allergists, pulmonologists and primary care physicians across t...

Targeted Initiatives may Help Promote Walking in People

... advice or telephone support, using pedometers, or promoting walking as an environmentally friendly mode of tra...ors reviewed 48 studies of different approaches to promoting walking. The most successful approaches were tailored to peoples needs, and targeted at sedentary pe...

US, India Join Together to Improve Healthcare in India

...ise awareness about the scourge of HIV/AIDS, while promoting preventative measures and improving access to effective and affordable treatment regimes. Somers said USIBC is concerned that a populist trend is taking hold in other countries towards compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals - essentially expropria...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

...IV/AIDS, preparing disaster response programs, and promoting humanitarian values. "The Red Cross works for healthy borders which benefits both countries in preventing and controlling the spread of TB," said Leverenz. The American Red Cross helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies in the...

Exercise After Meals Helps Better to Lose Pounds

... suggests that exercising after meals is better at promoting weight loss as it boosts hormones that suppress appetite. Researchers at the Surrey University and Imperial College London conducted the study on 12 volunteers who were given the same breakfast. One hour after the meal, half of the volunteers wer...

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

... to ensure success through actively attracting and promoting the inclusion of other laboratories, hospitals and institutions by an open access policy and by informing the public of progress, he added. Dr Lyndon Da Cruz, lead clinician and consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital, said that the ...

New York Legislature Highlights for Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease

...king with the Alzheimer's Foundation of America in promoting Memory Screening Day on November 13." The assemblyman also encouraged other state legislatures to follow New York's lead. "We need Memory Screening Day in every State of the Union. "It's good that New York State will be doing its part," he said. ...

Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

...t muscle cells appear to be sensitive to the death promoting effects of inflammation. Our experiments in isolated human heart muscle cells indicate that lapatinib activates a pathway that protects cardiac muscle cells from the death-promoting effects of mediators of inflammation, which are activated in cance...

Eating Smartly- A Key to Lose Weight

...e of calories in the short term, but their role in promoting weight loss over the long term was not clear, said Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, who directed the study and who holds the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State. We have now shown that choosing foods that are low in calorie density he...

Low Calorie Diet can Promote Healthy Weight Loss and Help Control Hunger

...e of calories in the short term, but their role in promoting weight loss over the long term was not clear, said Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, who directed the study and who holds the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State. Ello-Martin said that the study showed choosing foods that are low in ca...

Chandigarh to Become India's First Smoke-free City

... global image of Chandigarh and will be helpful in promoting business and tourism," said a senior government official. The idea to make the city a 'smoke-free' zone was first mooted by Burning Brain Society, a NGO that pounded the administration and Punjab and Haryana governments with 293 petitions under the...

Stress- Harms Now And Later

...s research might lead to early treatments, such as promoting exercise to reduce stress or drug therapy for depression. Depression appeared in this study to be merely a "proxy for the enduring tendency to experience negative emotions," according to the researchers. "It (the research) could open up new avenues...

Where Children Lead the Sanitation Drive

...d by Rashida Khan, a health worker at Pandadah, in promoting indoor toilet use. "Nobody was willing to listen. They grumbled that toilets within the vicinity of the home caused the spread of diseases and not open-air defecation," she said. "I, along with members of the self help group made countless door-to-...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...g firewood, an environmental group in New Delhi is promoting a new, more eco-friendly pyre. "Our faith tells ...ns. Since then the Mokshda group has been actively promoting it across the country. Mokshda has installed 41 pyres, while some cities, including India's financia...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...dministration and its friends in Europe are avidly promoting biofuels as a viable alternative to the environmen...onment David Miliband who has published a strategy promoting bio-fuels. It coincides with a surge of anger among environmentalists over the weak pledges on clima...

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