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Africa Is Not The Only Continent Struggling Against AIDS

... of other Africa focused anti-poverty efforts. The reports of WHO/UNAIDS on the need of antiretroviral treatment required worldwide is very much dramatic in which it reports. India is the country with the highest number of HIV infected patients who need treatment, with an estimated 735, 000 patients receivin...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...e to radiation dates back to as early as 1896 with reports of vision problems and skin damage in radiation workers. The fall of radiation was further hastened in the 1930s by the death of the wristwatch dial painters, who ingested tiny amounts of radiation during work. They were so thoroughly imbued with rad...

Robo-Dog To Monitor Your Calorie Intake

Recent Research Study published in New Scientists reports the results of the study investigated by Scientists from United States. The study reports the results of a robot dog, which has been designed to monitor your daily food intake and pleads wit...

Obesity Surgery May Not Work All The Time

...about the efficacy and safety of these procedures, reports the investigators. With a decade of bariatric surgery performed on obese teens and adults, data suggest that a significant number of patients fail to sustain clinically meaningful weight loss. Scientists participating in the last year’s IFT Obesity...

Controversy over spread of Mad Cow disease from India

...ease outbreak. A recent report published in Lancet reports that mad cow disease would have spread from India....is daughter Nancy, of the University of Edinburgh, reports that more evidence for this is circumstantial and more work is needed. They feel as many human and...

Fitness levels in Men Correale with risk of Cardiovascular disease

...ease - even when their cholesterol rates are high, reports a research study.//The above finding holds good regardless of the cholesterol level in men. Infact, men can cut by half their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease if they are physically fit.The study which analysed the variuos cause and effect r...

Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women

...were still more likely to die after CABG than men, reports the health portal Med Page Today. Researchers say factors that may help to explain the poor outcomes in women include the effects of body fat composition, which renders tissues and blood vessels less likely to heal and more likely to dissect. They ...

Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking

...ives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, research reports say that the perception of children in the age group of two to six years old were different about cigarettes and alcohol if they are exposed to the same in movies or if parents smoked as well. // When pretending to shop for a social evening, childre...

Vitamin D With NSAID Drugs May Prevent Prostate Cancer

...flammatory drug on prostate cancer cultured cells, reports the online edition of Ivanhoe Broadcast News. The researchers saw a 25 percent reduction in prostate cell growth using only calcitrol. They noticed approximately the same reduction using only ibuprofen or naproxen. But the prostate cell growth cam...

Smokers Face The Risk Of Becoming Blind In Later Life

... percent of people know that AMD affects the eyes, reports the online edition of Daily Mail. Steve Winyard, head of campaigns at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) and chairman of AMD Alliance UK, said: "Smoking is the only proven cause of AMD that people can do anything about, yet people are ...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

News from the British Science Festival reports that Mental exercises can keep the brain young and improve its working efficiently. Brain exercises such as crossword puzzles, Su doku and aerobic exercises keeps the brain// younger. Su Doku, is a number puzzle in which a number has to placed from...

Women with stress has less breast cancer risk

...fe have less risk of developing breast cancer. The reports of the study have been published in the British Medical Journal. The study was conducted in 6,689 women for a follow up period of 18 years.// The estrogen which is responsible for growth of cancer cells, causes increased risk of breast cancer. Res...

Unbiased Treatment Options Required For Breast Cancer Patients

...ologist. The study published in the Journal Cancer reports that tamoxifen is recommended to older women with ...d tamoxifen therapy when appropriate. Dr. Silliman reports that Seventy-nine percent of the participants had been referred to medical oncologists, which is low...

Child Friendly Zidovudine Preparation for treating HIV infection Approved By The FDA

...ld-friendly zidovudine oral solution, according to reports by the FDA. The drug has been approved following the fulfillment of the safety, efficacy and quality standards established by the FDA. Following approval the drug is to be in combination with other drugs used for the same purpose. The generic drug...

Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region

...id external X-ray or ?-irradiation. The study also reports that dose response relation appeared with the higher doses (>10Gy) associated with cancer therapy. Professor Sigurdson showed that the risk of thyroid cancer increased linearly with increasing therapeutic radiation doses in the low dose range up ...

Measuring Exercise Capacity To Predict Heart Disease

...opkins University School of Medicine research team reports that 90 percent of men and women with no early signs of CHD who, nevertheless, died from it had had below average results from their cardiac stress tests conducted 10 to 20 years earlier. The team’s analysis showed these asymptomatic people were tw...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

...of 1.1 kilogram relative to placebo. Adverse event reports of hypoglycaemia were observed in 4 percent of patients taking Sitagliptin, 17 percent of patients taking glipizide and 2 percent of patients taking placebo. Results from the studies conducted to date are very promising and ongoing Phase III trials...

New Vaccination For Smokers To Quit Smoking

...tor in smoking leaving the smoker // with no kick, reports news portal Annanova. The anti-nicotine injection, CYT002 - NicQb, patented by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Cytos, works by building antibodies in the blood that stop nicotine from getting to the brain, it said. The vaccine has so far proved to be suc...

Late Pregnancy Women Face The Risk Of Heartbreak, Fertility Problems

...rkedly and the average age of mothers has gone up, reports the online edition of BBC. Writing in the British Medical Journal, the London-based fertility specialists say the best age for pregnancy remains 20 to 35 and women who defy nature risk heartbreak. The specialists are "saddened" by the number of wo...

Pediatricians Need To Talk To Parents Of Overweight Kids

...exercise, the study found. The findings examined reports from visits in a nationally representative sample of physician visits from 1997 to 2000. Source: Newswise ...

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