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HIV/AIDS Epidemic Scare In Bhutan

...the virus that causes AIDS, from assuming epidemic proportions with the nation witnessing a rise in// the number of prostitutes and lack of safe sex practices. Bhutan's Public Health Division has launched a three-year programme to encourage the use of condoms and voluntary testing of blood to prevent HIV from ...

Canada Confronts Obesity Head-on, Anti-obesity Campaign on Fast Track

...pecially opportune as obesity has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. The Health Minister, Philippe Couillard, while inaugurating a 10-year plan to improve the health of people and reduce weight-related illnesses, blamed improper dietary choices as well as inactive lifestyles , that is amounting to high ob...

One More Victim Succumbs to Dengue in Delhi

... can prove fatal. The disease has taken alarming proportions since the first week of September when the first deaths were reported. As the post-monsoon period of September to October each year is known to be favourable months for the breeding of the mosquito, experts are hoping the weather will turn cooler t...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

...to Kathmandu. After the disease assumed epidemic proportions in India, a private laboratory in the capital, Everest International Clinic, is offering free tests for dengue patients. There was no immediate official reaction to the reports Wednesday. Source-IANS...

India registers 3,000 dengue patients, toll crosses 40

...nsmitted viral fever, has already assumed epidemic proportions in Madhya Pradesh with about 30 people dead and over 200,000 estimated to be infected in more than half a dozen districts, health department officials said. In Karnataka, the Health and Family Welfare Department intensified surveillance in capital B...

World's 3 out of 10 Cigarettes Smoked in China

...rin warns: "The world is facing a pandemic of epic proportions because it is under attack by a ruthless industry - the purveyors of tobacco." That warning, the authors say, is particularly pertinent to China where they estimate that a third of Chinese men under the age of 30 will be killed by tobacco if curren...

Lipitor Reduces Risk of Major Cardiovascular Events

...ssed that these days the condition is “at epidemic proportions throughout the world” and is directly related to obesity of the population. Andre Scheen, a Belgian researcher, writing in a comment that accompanied the study, said, “The TNT findings suggest that the presence of metabolic syndrome might help to s...

Leptospirosis Epidemic Overtakes Gujarat

Leptospirosis has reached epidemic proportions in Gujarat according to the government there although they have denied any outbreak of plague in any part of flood-ravaged Surat.// Quoting the final report from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, State Health Secretary Amarjit Singh,...

MP Forms Youth Network to Spread Awareness on AIDS

...eventing the killer disease from assuming epidemic proportions since information is the key to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS," said Anil Gulati, UNICEF communication officer for the state. "We need to involve young people who can act as agents of change and help spread awareness on the issue," he added. Sai...

New Approach to Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

... profiles that show the identities, structures and proportions of metabolites (metabonomics). This NMR-based metabonomics approach has identified characteristics, known as biomarkers, in blood samples that can leave a “biomolecular signature” that distinguishes women with early stage ovarian cancer from health...

More than 50,000 Affected by Chikangunya Fever in Madhya Pradesh

...uito-transmitted viral fever, has assumed epidemic proportions in Madhya Pradesh with about two dozen dead// and 50,000 infected in half a dozen districts, said health department officials. About 35,000 people are suffering from the disease in Betul district alone where 12 people have died. Another 13 people h...

Measuring the Quantity of Information Passed on From the Eye to the Brain

...y, measured in bits per second." Calculating the proportions of each cell type in the retina, the team estimated that about 100,000 guinea pig ganglion cells transmit about 875,000 bits of information per second. Because sluggish cells are more numerous, they account for most of the information. With about 1,0...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

...rd, their speed diminishes as they assume gigantic proportions to conserve the total energy. They unleash their fury on reaching the land, and destroy everything within their reach. The Tsunami normally occurs in the Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii, a pacific island, is at the greatest risk for it. Although consider...

Japanese Encephalitis Epidemic Kills 15 in Assam

...on said Japanese encephalitis had assumed epidemic proportions in the four districts of Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji with close to a thousand people hit by the disease. "We have alerted health officials across the state to take preventive measures to stop Japanese encephalitis from spreading to ne...

Weight Management - What Patients Want

...ht and obesity in Australia have risen to epidemic proportions over the past two decades. Dr Daisy Tan, Advanced Academic GP Registrar of Fairfield Hospital and co-author of the study, said little is known about what advice patients want from their GPs. The study explored patients' views on the role of GPs ...

Study finds Smoking Mortality Higher Among Lower Economy Class

...tudy groups were used as a guide to the respective proportions of deaths attributable to smoking in each group. Results were consistent across the five national populations studied. Although mortality from smoking has recently started to decrease among men in Europe and North America, during the present decade...

New UCSD Program to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria

...aphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has reached epidemic proportions in both hospital and community settings and poses a major threat to the public health. “The crisis is compounded because many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have abandoned antibiotic development efforts,” said Nizet. He said there ...

WB Asks Centre To Continue Supply Of Anti-Rabies Vaccine

...side speculations that dengue had assumed alarming proportions in the metropolis saying every month about two to four cases were reported, but there was no fatality. "Earlier, we had about 10 to 15 cases annually. This has gone up to about 60 now. However, there are two crore cases globally...It is bound to hav...

Sex Education Cannot Be Ignored: US Official

...n India, he said. HIV/AIDS could grow to alarming proportions in India, if people became complacent, thinking vaccines were around the corner. A vaccine may not be available in the near future, he said. "The suffering caused by AIDS is like that of cancer, but the stigma attached to it is more than cancer. Thr...

Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

...in improvements at four years (mean DAS 2.2)1. The proportions of subjects achieving clinical remission by adding ENBREL to methotrexate and adding methotrexate to ENBREL at four years were 41.8% and 38.2% and were not statistically different from each other nor compared to the combination group. Ailsa Boswort...

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