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Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...t into place sufficient management systems, assess risk and provide isolation facilities. In addition, the commission said the trust did not provide cleansing alcohol gels at patients wash sinks, lockers or tackle superbugs attached to staff uniforms. It also added the trust had no budget for training st...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...ons with poor access to health care and who are at risk for aggressive breast cancers. In the future, we'd...fic way with a more targeted therapy to reduce the risk of the cancer returning, and improve survival," said Dr. Morris. "We would like to explore future...

Study Confirms Benefits of Chemo, Trastuzumab Combo to Battle 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 confir...

Genetic Marker That Increases Colon Cancer Risk Discovered

...covered a genetic marker that increases a person's risk of colon cancer by 23 percent . The 10-year st...n in a single region of human chromosome 8 and the risk of colorectal cancer. People who carry the specific genetic variation, the C allele of rs10505477...

Snacking While Driving Doubles Accident Rates

...eating and drinking while driving can increase the risk of a crash,'' the Independent quoted the researche... 'normal' driving which may reinforce the driver's risk perceptions. "This strategy may be inconsequential during normal driving, but the increased crash ...

Genetic Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer

...lifornia (USC) has found that one of seven genetic risk factors previously identified as increasing the p... edition of Nature Genetics, the colorectal cancer risk factor is located in a region of the human genome devoid of known genes on chromosome 8. The studys ...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...y people have with domesticated birds elevates the risk of transmission and mutation. In Indonesia alone, the World Health Organisation estimates that there are more than 13,000 poultry markets, where birds from many different places are exposed to each other. Scientists worry the bird flu virus could...

Study Links Breast Cancer to Western Diet in Chinese Women

...eet-sweet" diet was linked to more than double the risk of getting estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast...attern was significantly associated with increased risk of breast cancer among overweight postmenopausal women," a summary of the study said. "The Shangha...

Experts Need to Include Children in Research

...g at preventing allergies using prebiotics in high risk infants; a unique treatment for Duchenne dystrophy, which has hitherto been incurable; a study looking at the use of a helium oxygen mixture in intensive care and to treat acute bronchiolitis; and studies into the impact of various allergic problems ...

Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

... Measures of body fat and markers of heart disease risk (such as waist circumference and cholesterol levels) were collected at the beginning and end of the trial. The advice followed healthy eating guidelines and recommended: a reduced daily calorie intake, which was low in fat (35 percent of calorie in...

Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

...taly, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age," News.com.au quoted Professor Bartlett, as saying. Research also suggests we have an inbuilt repair kit, replenishing more than 100 billion cells in our brain every day of our lives. Researchers also found that in moderati...

Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer

...m of aniline in animals and humans, a carcinogenic risk for man cannot therefore be excluded," the Telegraph quoted a spokesman for the EFSA, as saying. "Given new scientific evidence it cannot be excluded that aniline's carcinogenic potential is due to damage to the genetic material of the cells. It is...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

... Measures of body fat and markers of heart disease risk (such as waist circumference and cholesterol levels) were collected at the beginning and end of the trial. The advice followed healthy eating guidelines and recommended: a reduced daily calorie intake, which was low in fat (35 percent of calorie in...

Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

...te smoking appears to be associated with a reduced risk for developing Parkinson's disease and now an anal...nt studies also suggested that Parkinson's disease risk is particularly low in active smokers with a long history of intense smoking; some even suggested do...

Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea

...up random roadblocks to catch drunken drivers, who risk losing their licenses. Some simply abandon their cars at the sight of a roadblock and flee, figuring that illegal parking is a far lesser crime. Besides the night hours and low job status, replacement drivers have an obvious occupational hazard:...

A Balanced Diet can Keep Asthma, Wheezing at Bay in Teens

...especially those who smoke, may be at an increased risk of respiratory symptoms such as asthma it they for..., vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids are at greater risk of having asthma. "Our study, as well as other research, suggests that higher intakes of antioxida...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...with Beijing on the final version of the pollution risk report, which is set to be published soon. WHO leaders, meanwhile, say that meeting new targets on clean air, developed in consultation with 80 environmental health experts across the globe, would drastically curtail the number of Chinese pollutio...

FDA Says Tomatoes Unlikely to Cut Cancer Risk

...that gives tomatoes their red color, and a reduced risk of certain cancers , the US government's Food and ... a dietary supplement, was associated with reduced risk of any of the cancers evaluated," according to chief researcher Claudine Kavanaugh. The review "fo...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...shown associations between visual problems and the risk of death in older individuals. "The mechanisms f... having cataract also was associated with a higher risk of death from any cause," they added. It remains unclear whether there is a direct or indirect lin...

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...ppear to prevent type 2 diabetes and "may increase risk for the disease." Selenium is a naturally occurr... who took the selenium supplement had an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than those who took a placebo or dummy pill. "At this time, the evi...

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