Tag: "reason" at medical news

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...t care about the victims. Unemployment is the main reason behind the spread of this disease. The cases are not made public because of fear of social boycott," said Nand Kishore, a social worker. Authorities have stepped in with medical assistance and are planning a slew of measures to educate people abou...

UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

...n started. Lack of resources is often cited as a reason for not carrying out health checks of athletes, but the authors conclude that this is not a sustainable argument within professional sport....

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...ee meeting minutes at the facilities. "There is no reason not to presume that many more similar accidents have occurred but have yet to come to light," the group said....

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...e American Academy of Neurology. Rinker says the reason for this biological difference is unknown, but may be related to differences in genetic background. It remains possible that genes are unevenly distributed between ethnic groups to account for different susceptibility to some diseases, said Rinker. ...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...r the next 200 years," Davis says. "The dominant reason petroleum is what we use today is, its the most efficient (fuel)," Davis notes. "Its a matter of time, as I see it, until the two (petroleum efficiency and coal-to-liquid fuel efficiency) become equal." That efficiency equality will result from the...

Watch 'Live Earth' Concerts Simultaneously on the Net

...f the various stars in real-time simultaneously, a reason why it is being predicted that the event may be a record-breaker. "We expect it to be the most highly watched entertainment event online," the Hollywood Reporter quoted MSN senior director Lisa Gurry as saying. MSN, which is competing with telev...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

... is plagued with long delays and this was the main reason that HSE decided to out source tests. Well Woman Centre Chief Executive Ms Alison Begas said the move by the HSE was purely system driven and did not take into account the fact that the method of reporting results in the US differs from that used ...

Harry Potter Final Book - Prediction and Expectations

...t Rowling draws on in this book," she said. "One reason I think you might see Ron be the character who sacrifices himself in the new book is because he is the best friend, and we all know that that is the role of the best friend -- to be the sacrifice," Nel said. "I don't think Rowling is going to kill ...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...rket in North America at the same time may be the reason Merck included in Gardasil an extra vaccine against two other HPV strains that cause relatively harmless genital warts. Merck says it did this because the wart strains can confuse HPV screening tests and cause unnecessary anxiety among patients. ...

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

...c tone had lower levels of inflammation. And the reason were excited about this is that exercise is a great way to improve parasympathetic tone. When you exercise that is the sympathetic/parasympathetic communication your sympathetic goes up, and when you stop exercising, your parasympathetic kicks in t...

Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies

...In the present study, the researcher has found the reason why it was not possible to identify a difference. She says that CD36 normally absorbs fatty acids in the upper, or proximal part of the intestine, but in its absence, lower, more distal, sections of the intestine compensate and absorb the fat. ...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

...y virus, which spreads via four reasons. The first reason is: unprotected sexual relationship with any stranger. The second reason is: re-using an infected syringe. The third reason is: from the infected mother to her pre-natal bab...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...there is no one else who is exempt and there is no reason you should be." Samuel was speaking after the ACCC successfully sued two eminent Adelaide heart surgeons for anti-competitive conduct. Federal Court judge John Mansfield found on Thursday that John Knight and Iain Ross had breached competition law ...

Higher Rates of Trampoline Injuries

...archers. Our first study on this subject gave us reason for concern, and the need to send a warning to parents. Clearly this new study indicates even higher rates of injury than first thought, said James Linakis, PhD, MD, a pediatric emergency physician at Hasbro Childrens Hospital. There were 1.2 millio...

Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!

...e rumour was just not true. Bret writes that the reason why Gable was not 'amorously interested' in the sex symbol was because not only did he have a 'fetish for cleanliness', but she was well known to not care about personal hygiene. "(He) not in the least amorously interested in Marilyn. In as much as...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...ding to lawyers in Washington and elsewhere. One reason is that applicants face multiple burdens of proof. They must demonstrate that they were abused or harassed by authorities, not merely by angry relatives or drunken hooligans, or that the authorities failed to protect them. They must also prove that t...

Fasting Makes Women Talk Less

...ers concluded, "fasting affects voice". The main reason for this the researchers say, is dehydration. Since Ramadan fasting includes refraining from liquids as well as food, the larynxes tend to dry up leading to inability to speak much. "(The study) supports what we as voice therapists constantly try a...

Ginger Spice Determined to Win Bulimia Battle

...le over her eating disorder bulimia . That's the reason why Ginger Spice attended a private addiction clinic and an over-eaters' group recently, reports The Sun. Geri, who has confessed battling bulimia in the past, looked bloated and exhausted as she made her way between the London sessions. Accompan...

Smoking Speeds Up Muscle Loss

...rsity of Nottingham have just given people another reason to kick the butt by finding that smokers lose more muscle mass in old age than non-smokers . This finding adds to a series of other dangers posed by smoking such as cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Though earlier research had established that s...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...researchers believe they have uncovered a possible reason why these potentially damaging but mostly neutral bits of DNA accumulate over time by comparing the sequences of human numts with those in different animals. How closely the different species' sequences match can provide an estimate of when that part...

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