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Sex After Cancer

...ved if the topic was important, their doctor would raise it with them,” says Dr Hordern. One patient said, “I want to enter a partnership between the medical professional and thepatient… which would see me as part owner of everything that is being done to me.” But health professionals reported that it ...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...ons health agency and its partners have pledged to raise within 12 months, and then sustain for as long as ...c milestones in two areas where improvements would raise coverage and immunity levels. The first is to ensure that vaccine reaches children by improving the ...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...ated. "For so many years we have been working to raise our own funds. PFA Calcutta is a flagship project of PFA nationwide and has set an example in animal management," said Chakrabarti. He also said: "I have no faith in the state's veterinary department. They have no positive role to play and their co...

Circumcision Does Not Prevent Spread of HIV, Experts Warn

...escents and adults. These findings in particular raise questions about how to understand the recent randomized trials of male circumcision in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda. These studies, in which some uncircumcised men were randomly assigned to be circumcised in presumably sterile conditions and other...

Pigs Arrive at Bio-secure Center

...es and kidney failure." The project is bound to raise hopes for diabetics round the world. ANN ...

Prostate Cancer Therapy may Increase Risk of Death in Older Patients

...eased body fat deposits and diabetes, all of which raise the risk of death from heart diseased," explains the study's lead author, Henry Tsai, MD, a resident physician at Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women's and the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. "Although our findings demonstrated that older men rece...

Benefits of ADT Against Risk of Heart Ailments

...eased body fat deposits and diabetes, all of which raise the risk of death from heart diseased," explains the study's lead author, Henry Tsai, MD, a resident physician at Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women's and the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. "Although our findings demonstrated that older men receiv...

Anoushka Joins Hands With WFP to Feed the Poor

...oble cause. I will personally do whatever I can to raise awareness among people in the country about the is...I will be traveling across the country with WFP to raise awareness among the people about this issue. I will also perform in a couple of fund raiser programm...

Women’s Health Takes the Spotlight in Ma

...rated May 13-19 this year. It is an opportunity to raise awareness// about steps women can take to improve their health. Women often put their health behind the health of their children, spouses and other family members. This week encourages women to be mindful of their health as well. “Sex Differences i...

Pregnancy Hormone Offers Hope to MS Patients

In a study bound to raise hope in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, researchers have reported significant changes in MS symptoms of mice//, administered with pregnancy hormone prolactin. Multiple Sclerosis causes the body's immune system to attack the protective coating a...

Reset Your Biological Clock and Prevent Heart Attack!

...cine and Therapeutics at Penn FitzGerald. “They raise the novel possibility of modifying blood pressure and consequently the early-morning risk of heart attack and stroke by using drugs to ‘reset’ the molecular clock.” Since blood pressure response (via rising catecholamines) to stress in the early mo...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

...t give them pleasure, fulfillment and hope as they raise their children,” Lieberman says. She credits Bill Harris, chairman of the Children's Research and Education Institute of Belmont, Mass., for coining the phrase "angels in the nursery" to describe the shared effect of moments when the child feels u...

High Carbohydrate Food Brings on Sleep Faster

...Nutrition. Foods with high carbohydrates quickly raise blood sugar and may hasten sleep, especially when eaten four hours before bedtime, the researchers report. Adding protein to the meal might change the results, Chow's team noted. Source-IANS...

Gene Test to Spot Adults Who Might Get Diabetes

A set of genes that appear to raise the risk of adult-onset diabetes has been identifi...a family history of the condition is also known to raise the risk. It is not normally treatable with insulin injections or other drugs, and must usually be c...

Concerns About Working Overtime May Be Misplaced

..., lead author of the new report. "Our results also raise the possibility that policies like the European Union's Working Time Directive—with across-the-board restrictions that severely obstruct the capacity to work longer hours—may themselves be too blunt and onerous in today’s increasingly competitive mar...

A New Treatment Discovered For Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

...ines will help to enhance chemotherapy results and raise the rates of survival amongst these patients. The discovery provides a rational basis for being able to use a series of drugs for this disease - such as quercetine (which produces a programmed death of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells) or Decita...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

...hanked the many hundreds of doctors who had helped raise funds to fight the case. He said: "This is a very sad day. This was a fight to uphold the self-respect of IMGs in the UK. We would like to thank our legal team lead by Rabinder Singh". Source-IANS...

Madness- the Genius Connection

...son’s environment. Weinberger says: "Our results raise the question of whether a gene variant favored by evolution, that would normally confer advantage, may translate into a disadvantage if the prefrontal cortex is impaired, as in schizophrenia. "Normally, enhanced cortex connectivity with the striatu...

MRI Contrast Agent Linked to Complication in Renal Patients

... on another dialysis patient who developed NSF—and raise hope regarding a possibly effective treatment. The patient developed stiffness, pain, and other symptoms of NSF after undergoing numerous MRI scans with gadolinium. Because of her repeated exposure to gadolinium-based MRI scans, the researchers suspe...

Beauticians and Barbers can Do More Than Their Services

... country. Other such groups use beauticians to raise awareness of breast cancer and mammograms. ANN...

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