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Papworth Breathing Technique Cuts Asthma Symptoms by a Third

...ses known as the Papworth method has been shown to reduce asthma symptoms by a third by the first randomised controlled trial to investigate the technique, which is published online ahead of print in Thorax. Eighty five people with mild asthma were randomly assigned to receive either five sessions of tre...

Pakistan to Launch World's Biggest Anti-measles Drive

...mobilisation and safe vaccination to significantly reduce child mortality and morbidity," she added. A pilot campaign in Pakistan in March reached 95 percent of targeted children, she said. The relatively low vaccination levels in Pakistan mean it has regular outbreaks of measles, which kills up to 10 p...

Boffins a Step Closer to Solving Puzzle of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...eins in all of these diseases" Would a strategy to reduce or prevent protein misfolding work against these and other diseases" These are avenues for further investigation by researchers. When Valentine first began working on copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, she was not a biochemist but a biological inorg...

Probiotic Drinks can Stave Off Hospital Infection

...ea among those who received the probiotic. It will reduce the risk of getting diarrhoea and this would apply not only to patients taking broad-spectrum antibiotics in hospital but also those taking them at home."...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...ists have been facing a tough challenge to further reduce side-effects such as impotence and incontinence. Aiming to meet these rising standards for improving patients' quality of life, they have been seeking new technologies for accurately and effectively targeting the cancer, while preserving long-term or...

Vitamin C Helps Reduce Complications Linked to Type 1 Diabetes

...w research has found that the nutrient could help reduce some of the complications linked with the disease. Researchers from the University of Warwick have found that the nutrient helps 'mop-up' free radicals that are produced in excess in diabetics. Free radicals are tissue-damaging molecules, and Vit...

Adopting Healthy Lifestyle in Middle Age Lowers Heart Disease Risk

...en their risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and reduce their death rate. Investigators saw a 35 percent drop in CVD frequency and a 40 percent decrease in mortality once this age bracket achieved 4 healthy behaviours: eating at least 5 fruits and vegetables daily, exercising at least 2.5 hours per wee...

Routine Hib Vaccination Could Save Innumerable Asian Children

...ear indication of these governments' commitment to reduce child mortality," said Julian Lob-Levyt, Executive Secretary of the GAVI Alliance. The WHO recommends that all countries implement Hib vaccine into routine child immunization programs. They assess that Hib internationally is to blame for 400,000 d...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...the inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs that greatly reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmissions. I...actor of six between 2001 and 2006, but efforts to reduce HIV infection are faltering, the report said. In 2006, for every person who started anti-retroviral ...

WHO to Call for More Progress on Tobacco Control at Bangkok Moot

...agency's first international treaty, which aims to reduce death and disease caused by the global tobacco epidemic. The Treaty contains measures that have proven effective in curbing tobacco use and addressing supply issues, such as illicit trade and alternative crops to tobacco. Items on the agenda of the...

Better Resources Needed To Control Hospital Infections

...ssor Collignon. Professor Collignon says that to reduce the prevalence of MRSA, all areas of the health care community and government need to have a better understanding of the pathogen and infection control issues. 'We need basic infection control practices to be followed by all clinical staff and stud...

Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

...n rates, lessen the stigma surrounding testing and reduce the number of people being diagnosed in the later ...recise goal for any changes in policy should be to reduce the average time between infection and diagnosis....

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...lear indication of these governments commitment to reduce child mortality. The WHO recommends that all cou...nistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan for moving quickly to reduce needless Hib related child deaths....

No Clear Link Between Conflict, Rape and HIV: UN Study

...f infections and consensual sexual encounters, and reduce social networks in which individuals might be exposed to HIV. Moreover, most refugees tend to come from rural areas where HIV is lower than in urban areas, the report noted. Spiegel and the other authors did stress the study's limitations, howeve...

Healthy Lifestyle can Reduce Cardiovascular Risk

...ed healthy lifestyle behaviors could substantially reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and reduce their death rate. Once these people achieved 4 healthy behaviors, eating at least 5 fruits and veg...

Non Smoking Workers Absorb the Carcinogen Immediately

...king about high costs of insurance and the need to reduce their potential liabilities, Ashe said. Voluntarily banning smoking and supporting state and local legislation mandating smoke-free workplaces is a relatively cheap and easy way of removing a cumbersome and costly liability....

Public Places in England Go Smoke Free

...1.7 billion pounds. The legislation is aiming to reduce the exposure of non-smokers to the health risks of smoking, such as lung cancer, and cardiac and respiratory illness. The World Health Organisation classes passive smoking as a carcinogen. Numerous Britons have been spurred by the prospect of the s...

India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

...ut also to announce a six-fold jump in spending to reduce the rate of infection over the next five years, officials say. Almost three billion dollars, including about a third from foreign donors, will be poured into the next stage of India's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts to be launched in New Delhi on Fri...

A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage

...dicine. "Preventing disease is an opportunity to reduce human suffering and the costs of degenerative diseases to the community," Pyne said. "A growing body of scientific evidence has linked the degeneration of the human genome to an increased likelihood of degenerative diseases, such as cancer an Alzhe...

DelSite Working Toward Solving Delivery of Influenza Vaccine in Pandemic Situations

...ut the need for a separate adjuvant. 4. A way to reduce the number of months required to produce necessary antigen, if different from stockpile. Currently, chicken eggs are used in the U.S. for production of vaccine antigens. This egg-based manufacturing process requires a minimum of six months. The newes...

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