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Suicide Rate Amongst Male Prisoners Of UK Is Quite High

...mprisoned in England and Wales, one of the highest proportions in Western Europe. Suicide among male prisoners is known to be higher than the general population, although the magnitude has not previously been reliably calculated. Researchers from University of Oxford, UK had assessed the suicide incidence in En...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

... and 6 million Americans and is rising in epidemic proportions as obesity rates also rise. Type-2 diabetes accounts for 70 percent to 90 percent of all diabetes cases. The majority of people who have type-2 diabetes are obese, about 60 to 80 percent. According to him the idea has been developed that the adipose ...

With More Appearance Conscious Consumers The Need For Slimming Products Is Rapidly Rising

...ht people accounted for 41 per cent in 2004. These proportions were much higher for women: 18 per cent of the female population was considered obese while 47 per cent were overweight. The growing concern about the dangers of obesity and overweight will fuel further demand for slimming products as estimates sugge...

Monitoring Blood Pressure

... did not lead to any significant difference in the proportions of patients progressing to multiple-drug treatment. However, they found that the final office, home, and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements were higher in the home blood pressure group than in the office blood pressure group. Researcher...

Study On Self Measurement Of Blood Pressure

... did not lead to any significant difference in the proportions of patients progressing to multiple-drug treatment. However, they found that the final office, home, and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements were higher in the home blood pressure group than in the office blood pressure group. Thus resea...

Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care

... baby boom generation ages and consumes increasing proportions of the health care dollar." Thus medical providers in the public health arena agree that investing in early health care is a policy priority....

Protein in diabetic neuropathy treatment

Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions the world over, with India being touted as the "Diabetes Capital of the World". Amongst the many serious diseases that diabetics can be affected with, diabetic neuropathy is also one. Neuropathy is the deterioration of nerves in the body. A diabetic ...

H.Pylori testing recommended in patients with peptic ulcer

...Logistic regression was used to analyse changes in proportions of H.Pylori testing, infection and treatment over time. It was found that out of the 32% subjects with the disease who were tested for H.Pylori, 36% were found to have the infection and 66% of these were given antibiotic therapy. They also found that...

Wound healing made faster

...ound. By combining different hormones in different proportions in the complex, the QUT team has been able to stimulate the healing response of different types of cells including muscle, bone, skin, blood vessel and fat cells. "Our wound healing complex has more universal application than other systems," he says...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...e stimulant drug, whose abuse has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the world, causes long-term changes in the human brain that are associated with impaired memory and motor coordination, according to a study published in theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers found that these effects are see...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

... drug. He said the situation has reached alarming proportions with the advent of ‘Crocin 1000’ which is been promoted as a pain reliever for chronic conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatic arthritis. Recent studies by Dr Eliam Lee of the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Centre, has documented tha...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...on medical ethics and the matter assumes monstrous proportions if the unwitting error happens to be a fatal one. Two types of products — insulin and the anticoagulants heparin and warfarin — were most often linked to medication errors during the study period. During the ...

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