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U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...d extend the period of healthy life, but will also reduce healthcare costs and improve the productivity and vitality of the world. The UAE has already made positive strides toward embracing a prevention model of healthcare. They currently have nine preventive medicine centers that focus on widening immuni...

Sioux Herb Confirmed as Shield Against Colds

... has confirmed. Taking echinacea supplements can reduce the risk of a cold by 58 percent and may also shorten the duration of a cold almost one and a half days, according to the paper, published on Sunday in the July issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The study is a "meta-analysis" comp...

Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality

...ould be much higher. The greatest opportunity to reduce mortality is among women hospitalized for stroke and heart attack, which combined represented 60 percent of the potentially preventable deaths. Wide variations were found across the 19 states evaluated. For example, Arizona had an overall risk-adju...

Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care

A unique system to reduce medical errors and improve patient care in local hospital emergency departments was developed by researchers from University of Cincinnati (UC) Although guidelines for care on select disease conditions may be available in some emergency departme...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...at this scale, it would be virtually impossible to reduce rural poverty and distress,' he said. But around New Delhi, free-range and organic goods from newcomers to farming are showing that money can be made by growing specialty products that consumers are willing to pay more for. At the French Farm in Gu...

Patient Confidentiality Must Be Ensured-UNAIDS

...nclude: * Health data needs to improve health and reduce harm for all people. Policies, procedures, and technical methods must be balanced to protect both; * Individual and public rights must be balanced, and should be based on human rights principles; * Within countries, privacy and confidentiality laws...

Kenya Says HIV/AIDS Rate Drops to 5.9 Percent

... in slashing new infections. The country aims to reduce the rate of infections to 5.5 by 2010. Officials said awareness campaigns have succeeded in reducing Kenya's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate from 10 percent in the late 1990s, with condom use rising and a decline in the average number of sexual partners. ...

Desert Droughts Shorten Mountain Snow Cover, Reveals Study

...entre, who led the study. The fact that dust can reduce snow cover duration so much a month earlier -- transforms our understanding of mountain sensitivity to external forcings, he said. Findings further revealed that while just three or four significant dust deposition events occurred annually in the ...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...th control program in hopes of helping poor people reduce unwanted pregnancies and dangerous illegal abortions. This announcement comes just a month after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the government would provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across Brazil. This action has ...

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

... Zurich, Switzerland has developed a drug that can reduce high blood pressure for several months at a time .... pressure went down by 13 mmHg. We can certainly reduce blood pressure, but whether it's enough to be clinically meaningful we can't say yet," New Scientist...

Ban on Smoking is Not a Magic Wand to Reduce Health Inequalities, UK Campaigners Warn

... professional occupations. The government hopes to reduce smoking to 21% among adults by 2010 and 26% in man...areas in line with national figures. "The ban will reduce opportunities for everyone to smoke, but it is not going to tackle health inequalities," he says. ...

Non Communicable Diseases to Be the Cause of Deaths in Poor Countries by 2115-World Bank

...tive ways to cut back on smoking. It will not only reduce cancer and heart diseases but also increase revenue for the government. It will also discourage new smokers. The report advocated banning of advertising, providing health care information and forbidding smoking in public places as cost-effective met...

Childhood Cancer can Lead to Chronic Health Problems Later in Life: Study

... heavy toll on the survivors' quality of life, and reduce their life expectancy. The results emphasise the need for ongoing monitoring of young cancer patients so subsequent problems can be diagnosed and treated early, the authors said. The study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Associatio...

Giant Microwave That Recycles Plastic Back into Diesel, Gas

...materials, and a mix of materials made from oil to reduce the product back to oil, a combustible gas, and a few leftovers. As the material is zapped at the appropriate wavelength, part of the hydrocarbons that make up the plastic and rubber in the material are broken down into diesel oil and combustible g...

US Needs to Show Leadership in Cutting Emissions: Schwarzenegger

...y, 'This is what we want you to do, we want you to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, when we are in fact the one that has five percent of world population and emits 25 percent of greenhouse gases. We have to show leadership," The China Daily quoted Schwarzenegger, as saying. US President George W. Bush ha...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

...n not understanding the linkage between efforts to reduce poverty, meet the land use development goals and combating desertification." Along with reforming land use policies, Adeel said, governments could provide financial incentives for herders and other dry land users to preserve threatened land while g...

Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

... Making air conditioning universally available may reduce heat-related mortality but would, on the other hand, have a perverse effect by enhancing global warming through carbon dioxide emissions from electricity consumption....

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

...improve safety and care for health care workers to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis infection," he said .The hospitals could adopt so-called sharp less technologies where possible, including electric scalpels, clips and glues. He and colleagues also called for better reporting mechanisms, such as i...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

...g systems for safer product supply is essential to reduce infection risks. Without forgetting that efficient veterinary services and improved private public partnership for better surveillance and control activities remain indispensable," said Mr. Domonech There is a need for intensified monitoring of vir...

Meningitis Shots for Teens

... bacteriaVaccination is going to do a whole lot to reduce the incidence of this disease," said Lynn Bozof, executive director of the National Meningitis Association. "The CDC's action will raise awareness ... among parents and adolescents that this disease is out there and it is potentially vaccine-preven...

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