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Indoor Smoking Bans Creating Unhealthy Outdoor Second-hand Smoke Zones

...-smokers who passed by. Researchers found that a rise in the pollutants was associated with an increase in the number of smokers, and not with motor vehicle traffic. "This suggests that we can measure the increase in these pollutants from second-hand smoke," Naeher said. The researchers are conduct...

Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

...produced by the cells of the prostate gland - will rise after surgery, and increase the chances that the disease will reoccur and progress, said Edouard Trabulsi, M.D., assistant professor of Urology, Jefferson, a urologic oncologist and an expert trained in laparoscopic prostatectomy by one of the pionee...

Chinese Take Fertility Drugs to Beat One Child Policy

...nceived twins or even triplets. "We've seen a huge rise in the number of twins in recent years," she says. "That's all because of the fertility drugs that are easily available." China introduced its one-child policy in 1980 because it was worried about its ability to feed a growing population. In town...

Jharkhand Reeling Under Heat Wave

...teorological department predicts that mercury will rise higher in the city. Ranchi has a history of getting rainfall after a rise in mercury but this time the weatherman has no word of hope to offer. "The cloud which is formed g...

HIV Spreading Rapidly Among Gay Men in Hong Kong

... Hong Kong's gay community as research indicates a rise in the number of men having unsafe sex, officials said Tuesday. Profiling of the virus acquired by HIV sufferers has revealed a cluster of cases with similar genetic sequencing which has risen from 34 to 53 cases since October last year. Departm...

Washington Post Examines Increase in Minorities Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

...minorities seeking cosmetic medicine services to a rise in disposable income and a growth in minority plastic surgeons who can provide culturally sensitive care, the Post reports. Harris said, 'Half the world's going to be brown-skinned by 2050. We're not going to close our eyes to all those patients'....

Skinny Girl-bands are Making Detrimental Impact on Teenage Girls

...ed the videos for just 10 minutes had a noticeable rise in their discontent about their bodies. The visual images in the music videos . . . raised girls body dissatisfaction significantly, whereas the music itself had no such detrimental effect, the researchers concluded. The study is published in the...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...ion deaths each year, a figure that is expected to rise to 8.3 million by 2030, the agency says.Increasing...g, higher taxes mean the government's revenue will rise and there will be a fall in smoking-related health costs, diseases and deaths,' he said....

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

... "I was thrilled to see PDA's staff and volunteers rise to the challenge of the epidemic, and I am deeply honored to accept this award on their behalf," he said in the statement released Tuesday. The one-million-dollar (740,000-euro) award, which honors "extraordinary" efforts to improve health in devel...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

...heat structure of the atmosphere and have led to a rise in water temperatures in the sub-tropical Indian Ocean of around two degrees celsius. 'At the same time, we are seeing changes in ocean circulation in tropical regions as a result of a long-term weakening of the Pacific Ocean trade winds. This affe...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

...trol in many areas. Leishmaniasis is also on the rise in some developed countries, specifically southern Europe, as a result of HIV infection. Available drugs are toxic, expensive, and require long-term daily injections. Leishmania are protozoan parasites that inhabit macrophages or the white blood cell...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

... Phase I-II trials in 2007. Dr. Sadoff cited the rise of the new, deadlier strains of TB -- including MD...illion people every year," Dr. Sadoff said. "The rise of MDR and XDR TB, which has a particularly high fatality rate in people with HIV, makes our mission...

New Drug, Other Trends To Double Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments

...essation and addiction treatments are expected to rise from revenues of little over $1.1 billion in 2005 to more than $2.3 billion in 2010, according to Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments: A World Market Analysis, a new study released today from Kalorama Information. Nicotine is clearly the mos...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...ills five million a year and the death toll will rise to 10 million by the 2020s, unless urgent action i...lar. With powerful anti-smoking campaign on the rise the tobacco companies have resorted to amazing marketing strategies to keep the popularity of tobacc...

Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

...n people each year. This death toll is expected to rise sharply to 10 million deaths a year by 2020, due to the rapid growth in smoking rates in low-income nations. The WHO estimates that more than 650 million people alive today, including 250 million children, will die premature deaths because of tobacco...

Surge in Cancer Incidence in Asia Feared

...e in cancer deaths since 1930. Smoking is on the rise in Asia, where it's common to see people lighting up in airports, restaurants and even hospitals. Lung cancer makes up the bulk of all cases regionwide, followed by stomach and liver cancers. It also remains the biggest cancer killer worldwide. "Lu...

Cot Death on Rise in Australia

...abies dying unexpectedly in their sleep was on the rise in Australia. The number of children dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increased from 59 in 2004 to 87 in 2005, SIDS and Kids Western Australia spokeswoman Angela Doyle said. Doyle said education programs about safe sleeping practice...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...spite the media attention, there was no noticeable rise in the number of people registering as donors. And the Dutch transplant foundation has vowed that a possible kidney transplant stemming from the show will not be carried out in one of its nine special transplant centres. The Dutch doctor's federa...

Blood Test may Help Signal Tumor's Remission, Return in Throat Cancer Patients

... in remission, while those who experienced a large rise over time in those proteins frequently exhibited a return of throat cancer. The findings could help lead to the development of a blood test that enables doctors to detect the recurrence of throat cancer early on, when there is still time to pursue a ...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...hich genes are delivered into a cell that can give rise to many distinct cell types. To achieve their goal, the TIGET scientists came up with a strategy to take advantage of a recently discovered network of gene regulation mediated by small RNA molecules, known as microRNA. MicroRNAs downregulate the ...

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