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Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...authors warn that hookah smoking carries a greater risk of carbon monoxide poisoning than cigarette smoking, particularly if smaller hookah pipes and quick lighting commercial charcoal are used. There is also some evidence that hookah smoking causes chromosomal damage. When used for smoking tobacco, the...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

A new score for predicting the risk of heart disease gives a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing the disease and which adults are most likely to benefit from treatment . The study p...

Concerns Raised Over Risks for Patients and Staff in Australian Hospital

...ing patients, families and staff to high levels of risk and reducing service capability." The Women's an...cluding: INFECTION control represents a critical risk "as a result of the outdated and poor condition of the current facilities and infrastructure". The r...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

... overweight or simply obese, which increases their risk for illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. ...rville already were classified as overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. The mayor reckoned that a programme that encouraged people to strengthen the...

New Conditions That Will Increase the Risk of Alzheimers Identified

...ological disease, is already associated with other risk factors such as poor cognitive scores, education o... cognitively normal adults, shows that there other risk factors we need to consider, she adds. During the study, the researchers examined MRI images of p...

Cancer Risk is High Among HIV/AIDS and Kidney Transplant Patients

.../AIDS and kidney transplant patients are at higher risk of developing 20 different types of cancer than t...eficiency, which was responsible for the increased risk of developing cancer. The only thing that people with AIDS and transplant recipients share is immu...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...ent the less desirable births, the country ran the risk of dumbing-down its future population. if it does not act to boost the birth rate of its most highly educated women, says a world-ranked expert on intelligence. He said easier methods of contraception, or even contraception in the water supply, co...

Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies

... blood, abnormal blood triglycerides and increased risk of diabetes-associated heart disease. It's clear that some of us have different amounts of this protein in different tissues, and some individuals don't have any of it," she added. The study has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistr...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...f chronic liver disease and inflammation caused by risk factors such as hepatitis B and C viruses, or alcoholic liver disease makes up the majority of liver cancers in humans. Overall, men are three to five times more likely to develop HCC than women; however, in individuals who are under 50, HCC is s...

Combination of Tratuzumab and Chemotherapy Yields Better Results for Breast Cancer

...ed disease-free survival, overall survival and the risk of locoregional and distant recurrence of breast c...ival benefits were accompanied by decreases in the risk of both locoregional and distant recurrences of the cancer. Taken together, these results confirm ...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...fe-threatening, people with it are at an increased risk for blood clots and stroke. While some experienc...Warfarin, often prescribed as Coumadin, raises the risk of excessive bleeding in any case of injury. At the same time every major ablation center can ci...

European Commission Seeks To Dispel The Darkness Out Of Sunscreens

...posure to both types of radiation can increase the risk of developing skin cancer. Cancer Research UK says that the skin cancer rate has more than doubled in 20 years, with more than 75,000 new cases diagnosed last year. Recent tests by Which? -a consumer association, found that many sunscreens failed ...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...lion adults under the age of 75 in Britain at high risk of developing heart disease. This is lower than pr...health inequalities.A new score for predicting the risk of heart disease gives a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing the d...

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

...system. The first patient treated had intermediate risk prostate cancer and was planned with MRI-CT fusion and fiducial marker insertion, and treated with dose-escalated 7-field IMRT with online cone-beam CT and electronic portal image verification. "As a result of the technology now available at the NC...

Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

...ological disease, is already associated with other risk factors such as poor cognitive scores, education o... cognitively normal adults, shows that there other risk factors we need to consider. MRI images of participants brains were examined to identify poor brai...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...om menopausal symptoms and was known to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease. But recent stud...so indicated a possible link of HRT with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and breast cancer putting this treatment under a scanner. The History of...

Chromosone Disorders - Unrevealed Facts

... lead to new medical treatments able to reduce the risk of foetal damage. Over 0.3 per cent of children are born with some kind of chromosome disorder. Most develop Downs Syndrome, or obtain the wrong number of sex chromosomes and develop Turners or Klinefelters syndrome. Turners syndrome only occurs ...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...ppear to prevent type 2 diabetes and "may increase risk for the disease." The study is published in the ...why selenium would be associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes. "No single study can provide the answer to a scientific question, but at t...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...hange (IPCC). But for poor tropical nations, the risk is the greatest by far. For them, malnutrition, caused by prolonged spells of drought and flooding, looms as a distant but serious worry. Experts pondering how to tackle the threat are delving into history, exploring how civilisations of the past, ...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

... of the population, in the US too they are more at risk of contracting a whole range of health problems than most others . They account for nearly 15 percent of U.S. work-related deaths. Obesity is rampant among them. Many don't bother to wear seatbelts because their stomachs get in the way, says a stud...

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