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Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...sociation between folic acid fortification and the rise in colorectal cancer rates, and present their resulting hypothesis in an article in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. Nationwide fortification of enriched grains is generally considered one of the greatest advances in pu...

Insights into Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

...al translocation between two chromosomes and gives rise to a protein called a fusion protein. In APL, the fusion protein, always involving the transcription factor RARA, acts as a potent transcriptional repressor that interferes with gene expression and prevents normal differentiation of white blood cel...

New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision

...ning that these foods are associated with a faster rise and subsequent drop in blood sugar. Whole wheat ve...hey are associated with a slower and less dramatic rise and fall of blood sugar. "Our results build upon findings from an earlier, smaller study in which w...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...ublic Health. In the article, Ibrahim tracks the rise and fall of state and national efforts to curb smoking for the past 40 years. She chronicles industry strategies to prevent a campaigns creation, steer messages to smaller audiences, limit the content of the message, limit or eliminate the campaigns ...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

...n their houses for them." Dengue fever is on the rise around Southeast Asia with neighbouring Thailand recording 19,000 cases and 18 deaths so far this year. Wealthy Singapore has seen 4,029 cases and three deaths. The mosquito-borne virus is usually associated with poorer tropical countries. The dise...

Gays Who Dabble With Death

...sex campaign to reinforce the message and stop the rise in infections....

Dental Lasers can Help Eliminate Bacteria in Root Canals

...from the root canal walls and that the temperature rise during irradiation was within safe borders. The authors concluded that the Er,Cr:YSGG laser may be suitable for cleaning and disinfecting root canals and that it can be used safely if the common precautions for using lasers are observed and the ene...

Laser to Fight Root Canal Bacteria

...from the root canal walls and that the temperature rise during irradiation was within safe borders. The authors concluded that the Er,Cr:YSGG laser may be suitable for cleaning and disinfecting root canals and that it can be used safely if the common precautions for using lasers are observed and the ene...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

...ed this a stunning comeback and credited it to the rise of a suppressor gene that holds in check the Wolbachia bacteria, which is passed down from the mother and selectively kills males before they have a chance to hatch. "To my knowledge, this is the fastest evolutionary change that has ever been obser...

McDonald's to Start Coffee Chain in Japan

...y a nation of green tea drinkers, has seen a rapid rise in coffeeshops since US giant Starbucks opened the chain's first store outside of North America in Tokyo in 1996. Several coffeeshop chains are now competing in Japan including Starbucks, fellow Seattle company Tully's Coffee and several local fran...

Too Much White Rice, Pasta and Bread may Increase Chances of AMD

...hey are associated with a slower and less dramatic rise and fall of blood sugar. AMD it is the leading cause of central vision loss (blindness) and in the United States. Allen Taylor, PhD, director of the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Cent...

Sun Protection Ignored Despite Warnings

... which is caused by overexposure to UV light, will rise at an even more alarming rate." Rebecca Russell, manager of Cancer Research UK's SunSmart campaign said: "Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK and the number of people diagnosed each year has more than doubled since the early 80s...

Dengue Fever in Singapore Likely to Increase: Minister

...year. He said "cases are expected to continue to rise in the warmer months ahead" and urged Singaporeans to make a daily check of their homes for potential breeding spots. "I would like to stress that our fight against dengue must be underpinned by collective efforts and commitment of all in our commu...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

There has been an alarming rise in the number of suicides ever since a separatist campaign erupted in Jammu and Kashmir way back in 1989 . Unfortunately, most such incidents have gone unnoticed. Although police records show that there were 736 cases of attempted suicide from 2001...

Once-rare Skin Cancer Type on the Rise in US

... San Francisco in California reported the highest rise in the cases with 9.7 for every million among white and 10.8 for every million among African-Americans. Iowa counted the lowest incidence with a rate of 3.7 per million for the whol population....

Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says

...said the changes would not automatically lead to a rise in transplants. "To make a difference we need more surgeons, we need more intensive care unit beds, we need the government to put more money behind transplantation and we need more willing donors," said Chief Executive Timothy Statham. Chief Medi...

World's Biggest Condom to Take Off to Spread Safer Sex Campaign

...smittable infections in the Netherlands are on the rise after being at an historic low following the AIDS upsurge of the 1980s. Last year 69,000 Dutch nationals had themselves tested for sexually transmittable disease, 10 percent more than in 2005. Among homosexual men, 22 percent tested positive for ...

UK Licensing Law Changes Have Trebled Overnight Alcohol Related Visits to Emergency Care

...e more than 3100 overnight visits, equivalent to a rise of 15% over the two months. Just under 3% (79) of these visits were alcohol related in March 2005. But by March 2006, this proportion had risen to 8% (250). The number of visits as a result of assault, associated with excess drinking, doubled, and...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

A concerning rise in the number of Australian HIV cases in the past seven years is likely to be mainly due to risky sexual behaviour in men having sex with men, and some clear geographic differences in trends are starting to emerge, according to research published on...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...conscious Communist rulers, who have witnessed the rise of a potent "citizen journalism" phenomenon in which ordinary web-users have helped expose cases of official corruption and unrest. In perhaps the biggest recent example, last month the Internet was largely responsible for exposing a scandal in whi...

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