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Herceptin Not A ‘Wonder’ Drug, Says The Lanct

...arth as the most respected British medical journal questioned its effectiveness//. "The available evidence is insufficient to make reliable judgments. It is profoundly misleading to suggest, even rhetorically, that the published data may be indicative of a cure for breast cancer," the editors of The Lancet wr...

Vitamin Abuse Syndrome In the UK

...king vitamin supplements. Nearly all the doctors questioned by the research team said their patients overestimated the health benefits of taking vitamin supplement pills. Many people were using them as a substitute for balanced diet and lifestyle. Dr Tony Calland' Chairman of the British medical Association...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

The safety of Tamiflu, the anti-flu drug, has been questioned for the second time in a week following reports that it has been linked to the deaths of 12 children in Japan // . The drug is being stockpiled by governments around the world preparing for a threatened flu pandemic, but American drug regulators ar...

U.N. Official Doubts India On AIDS Data

...ons AIDS program said in an interview that he also questioned the figures. "India having only 28,000 new infections is plainly impossible," Mr. Piot said. With some districts across the country with populations of several million having about 4 percent or more of infected adults, such a sharp decrease in the n...

Children’s Stress Levels Directly Related To Maternal Job Satisfaction

...hormone. As a parallel approach, mothers were also questioned about their workplace conditions and life at home for a period of six months. Any form of stress, either physical or mental is associated with an increase in cortisol secretion. This is a wonderful mechanism conferred by Mother Nature without which...

Khushboo Should ‘Talk about Safe Sex’ and not ‘ Premarital Sex’ Says Miniter

...ner and C for use of Condoms for sex.. Ramadoss questioned the pre-marital statement of Khusbooo by asking: ‘‘With the danger of HIV/AIDS how can we propagae premarital sex?’’...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...vernment failed to prepare for such a disaster and questioned the decision to allow construction of a plant handling such dangerous materials near important water supplies. Premier Wen Jiabao promised a full investigation when he visited Harbin on Saturday and told leaders to see that every resident got runnin...

Legalization Of Euthanasia Would Not Affect Patient’s Trus

... using a five-point scale. The participants were questioned if they would trust their doctors less if they helped patients die. However, the question did not distinguish between physician-assisted suicide, where the physician helps a patient take his or her own life, and euthanasia, where the physician direct...

Adolescents Influenced By Maternal Attitude Regarding Weight Control

...r counterparts (8%). More than half of the mothers questioned admitted about their desire for losing weight. Out of this, only less than 25% were found to indulge in weight reduction activities. A very small fraction of the respondents actually perceived the importance of their weight to maternal attitude. Th...

Scotland faces shortage of dentists questioning the dental facilities

... service to all the people, but this statement was questioned when statistics revealed that not enough dentist were available at the NHS.// More than a million Scots have not registered with an NHS dentist because they don’t have any access to one. Statistics reported that 41% of children are not registered w...

Induced abortion results in years of trauma.

...They were asked to fill in questionnaires and also questioned in person. They were given a set of questionnaires to be filled in with a time interval of ten days, six months, two years and five years after induced abortion and miscarriage respectively. The questionnaire mainly had questions about the event,...

Scientist Calls Upon Media To Retract His Work

...reported the first cloned dog and, in the research questioned by Roh, the first stem cells removed from cloned human embryos and, therefore, tailored to specific patients. The most recent research was especially hailed as offering potential breakthroughs for incurable diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...

Ban On Smoking Will Affect Children

...ich and the poor. Action on Smoking and Health has questioned the reliability of the study....

Queensland Bans OTC Sales Of Cold And Flu Drugs

...re that unknown and frequent buyers are thoroughly questioned in order to find out if their need is genuine. Pseudoephedrine is often used as a raw material to manufacture speed and combination with cocaine. This is the most abused drug on the streets among the youth. It has also emerged that the Pharmacy Gui...

Milk Thistle Not An Effective Cure For Liver Disease

...mployed in the treatment of liver disease has been questioned with a recent study highlighting the lack of evidence for its safety and efficacy // . There has been a good market for thistle milk, with over 1 million people suffering from liver disease (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or alcoholic liver disease) worldw...

Hospitals May Face Funds Crunch

...rpose to be served by the ￡1 billion plan has been questioned by Ms Hewitt. The original plan involved the rebui...f the debts that the trusts will run into has been questioned by the Commons Public Accounts Committee in the country. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust is alrea...

Genetic mystery behind muscle development unraveled.

...ptance as global regulators of gene expression, we questioned whether they could be involved in the development of muscle," said Dr. Da-Zhi Wang, the senior and corresponding author of the study. Muscle tissue is generated when myoblasts, or pre-muscle cells, stop proliferating and instead undergo irreversibl...

Doctors Seek Legislation To Protect Them

...he efficacy of the antiviral Tamiflu is also being questioned in medical circles. Most Asian countries do not have the resources to deal with a problem of such a magnitude and foreign assistance may be required. The Asian nations also suffer from brain drain as many of their medical professionals are migrating ...

New protein diet program questioned.

... rich diet that created waves among the public was questioned as they recommend the patients to include double the amount // of proteins in their daily diet. Scientist at the Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization wrote the book on this diet. This best seller sold half a mi...

Art therapy compliments cancer therapy.

...ing, painting, pottery and jewellery design. When questioned about the art therapy and their effect on the cancer the patient said that they experienced decreased pain, depression, breathlessness, drowsiness and loss of appetite. Art therapy previously was used to treat patients suffering from post-traumati...

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