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Human Intelligence Gene Identified By Scientists

...bility and intelligence, it only explained a small proportion of it -- about 3 percent. This supports a model involving multiple genetic and environmental influences on intelligence,' said Anil Malhotra, MD, principal investigator of the study. The specific role of dysbindin in the central nervous system is u...

Nursing Home Residents Receive Appropriate Emergency Care Despite Poor Funds

... poor funds. A new study has now revealed that the proportion of such transfers is relatively low. The study conducted by researchers at University of Western Australia and the Royal Perth Hospital and the Catherine McAuley Nursing Home, is reported in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. T...

Health Insurance Plans Varies among States

...cording to the authors, between 1997 and 2002, the proportion of medical bills paid by insurance rose about 8 percentage points, from 75 to 83 percent. This is due to a shift from coinsurance to copayments in PPO and point of service (POS) plans that resulted in patients paying less because they no longer pay a...

Fear Of Flat head Syndrome Makes Parents Ignore Advice About Cot Death

... their front or side. Researchers believe that the proportion of parents who are ignoring the official advice on the best way to avoid sudden infant death has doubled in six years and they believe this may be because of increased publicity about so-called 'flat head syndrome' where babies' skulls can deform bec...

Smoking and Obesity- A Deadly Combination

...l health interview survey was used to estimate the proportion of adults in the United States who have one or both problems. The number of Americans who fall into both categories is about 9 million people and this would include a larger percentage of them being poor with very low education. It has been revea...

Results of Clinical Trials Vary According to Source of Funding

...ta favoring standard of care or no difference. The proportion of trials significantly favoring new treatments for studies jointly funded by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations was approximately midway between these 2 values (56.5 percent). For 202 randomized trials evaluating drugs, the proportions fa...

Risky Behavior In Teenagers Leads To Depression

...re was no noticeable gender difference for a major proportion of high-risk activities, except that girls preferred to exchange sex for money or drugs. Depression symptoms included lack of appetite, sadness, getting upset over things that were not an issue before, disinterested in otherwise interested areas an...

The Australian Medical Association To Focus On Health Of Aborigines

...rom non-indigenous groups. He explained that their proportion in prisons is much higher than their proportion in the community and they have a significant set of problems arising from mental illness, substance ...

Breast-Feeding In Public – Will The Society Accept It

...U.S. Healthy People 2010 target is to increase the proportion of mothers who choose to breastfeed their babies for at least six months to 50%; the World Health Organization recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for the first six months. However, these goals may be difficult to meet since some mothers ...

All State Run Schools Are To Ban Whole Milk To Children

...n fatter. The figures show that in only a year the proportion of boys aged 11-15 who are obese or overweight has risen from 26.9% to 36.4%, while the number of overweight girls has gone up from 29.3% to 45.6%....

Socioeconomic Status Plays A Role In Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

...e Medicaid group had higher disability and a lower proportion of children with normal physical function, although they had similar access to health care services compared to the privately insured children. ‘Similar to results found in studies of other pediatric diseases, the results of this study support the th...

Breastfeeding Mothers Arrested For Public Indecency

...U.S. Healthy People 2010 target is to increase the proportion of mothers who choose to breastfeed their babies for at least six months to 50%; the World Health Organization recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for the first six months. However, these goals may be difficult to meet since some mothers ...

UN Report Paints Alarming Picture Of Narcotics Scenario In NE

... Mizoram - where the IDU abuses assumed 'epidemic' proportion with a strong link to AIDS. HIV epidemic followed the IDU syndrome as sharing of injection equipment became a norm of the drug users, it said. The report also mentioned about equally worrying scenario among non-injecting sexual partners getting inf...

Illegal Drug Trafficking Pose A Great Threat For HIV Epidemic In Northeast

... government. The report said HIV has assumed the proportion of a 'generalised epidemic' among injecting drug users in Manipur and Nagaland. "Northeastern states which are distant from the Myanmar border have generally reported fewer episodes of heroin injecting compared to the states which are closer to the...

HIV/AIDS Declining In Maharashtra, TN, Ktk And AP: UN Report

...ith HIV. But India was much better off as a lower proportion of its population being infected. Only 0.9 per cent of the population was infected against South Africa's 18.8 per cent. UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot who released the report, rejected the suggestion that India was under reporting cases b...

Premature Birth Could Lead to ADHD

...r 45,000 premature births every year, with a large proportion of these children born between 34 and 36 weeks.’ She has called for more research into the causes of premature birth. Professor James Walker, consultant obstetrician at St James Hospital in Leeds has attributed the cause of these problems to nutr...

Intermittent Explosive Disorder is More Prevalent Now Than Before

...Intermittent Explosive Disorder attacks are out of proportion to the social stressors triggering them and are not due to another mental disorder or the effects of drugs or alcohol, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). People with this disorder overreac...

Worried About Weight

...o be overly concerned about tests and exams. The proportion of older teenage girls worrying about their body image has not worsened significantly since the huge jump in the 1990s, said Mr Regis. 'The worrying thing is that the annual surveys show an upward trend among younger age groups,'he added. Around 55...

Parking Charges at Hospitals Morally Wrong

...charges ￡1 per day. The North-east also has a high proportion of hospitals that charge, as well as Glasgow and Inverness. Kate Seymour, of Macmillan Cancer called attention to the plight of cancer patients who are forced to come to hospital regularly for chemotherapy. ‘With cancer patients we are talking ab...

Cure Insight for DMD

...grafted by the team of researchers, a considerable proportion of patients' muscle fibers are now able to synthesize the missing protein. Analyses showed that between 4% and 26% of muscle cells in the cubic centimeter of treated muscle eventually produce the protein produced by the fusion of the donor cells. The...

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