Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies
...val could be termed- "maybe" 20 percent, while the risk of a major handicap is nearly 90 percent, according to Muraskas. The outlook for babies born at 25 weeks is far brighter. Of them, 75 percent survive, with only 10 percent of them suffering a major handicap. Yet, about half will have a mild handicap...Spain Withdraws Contaminated Chinese Toothpaste
...inese origin from the Spanish market because of a risk to public health. The two Chinese brands are Spearmint and Trileaf Spearmint. Spanish laboratory tests have detected the presence of DEG (diethylene glycol) - a substance used in antifreeze and as a solvent - in them, reported news agency INEPNEXT....Study Links Breast Cancer to Western Diet in Chinese Women
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... in a single region of human chromosome 8 and the risk of colorectal cancer. A 10-year study involving ...ncer and may benefit from early detection or other risk reduction strategies. People concerned about a family history of cancer, or those who have been diag...Uncooked Fish may Cause Liver Cancer
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...ations, sleepiness, and swelling. By identifying risk factors, it may help guide treatment decisions, al... treatment and cognitive status were identified as risk factors. In contrast to other studies, we found being male, having multiple health problems and tak...Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat
...ng fruit and vegetable consumption and cutting the risk of heart disease and cancer in later life by improving children's diets.Apples, pears, bananas, satsumas, carrots and cherry tomatoes were the fruits on offer, along with extra varieties, depending on the time of year. The researchers, who published...Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women
...arly increase in thromboembolic and cardiovascular risk in older women starting hormone replacement therapy many years after the menopause, say the authors. It shows that there is no overall disease prevention benefit, and some potential risk, for women who start hormone replacement therapy many years ...Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease
...se the worlds first blood test that identifies the risk of Alzheimers . If so, the NHS Trust of UK will stand to save billions of pounds per year, as Alzheimers disease, one of the most common neurological diseases in the western world, costs the NHS up to 17 billion pounds per year. According to the sc...Milk and Dairy Products Protect Against metabolic Syndrome
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...urist arrivals . "We have to clean our cities or risk losing tourists," said P.R.S. Oberoi, the chairman of the EIH Associated Hotels group, which includes the five-star Oberoi chain. "Water is a big problem, power is a big problem, the roads are a mess. Cleaning up our cities must happen," he told re...Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients
...tific controversy over the possible cardiovascular risk of treatment intended to produce higher (more normal) hemoglobin levels, and the use of generous doses of ESAs, in patients with kidney disease," Dr. Will explains. (A separate debate concerns the use of ESAs in cancer patients.) "There is also app...Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team
A three fold risk increase by gene variant A group of research sci...rovide evidence of a genetic component that boosts risk levels. "We reckon that environmental influences, like the wrong diet, are 70 to 80 per cent respons...HIV Prevention Programs on a Massive Scale Turn Out Economical
...ormation, education and communication initiatives, risk reduction programs for injection drug users and programs preventing transmission of HIV from mother to child. We found that, on average, each doubling of scale of a prevention program reduced unit costs by a third. Although our analysis is broadsom...U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate
...ex cutoffs of 25 and 30, respectively. Children at risk for overweight and overweight were classified as b...dren and adolescents are overweight and 34% are at risk of becoming overweight in 2003-2004. White children and adolescents had the lowest prevalence of o...New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision
...lier study linking dietary glycemic index with the risk of developing AMD. "Men and women who consumed d...age for their gender and age-group were at greater risk of developing advanced AMD," corresponding author Taylor says. "The severity of AMD increased with i...Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart
...er due to a heart attack or stroke and the overall risk of such death 50 percent higher than men who were ... the mens lifestyles to check links to other known risk factors such as smoking, drinking or obesity, and no such link was found. This negated the theory th......ount of engineered precursors in people who are at risk for being obese," said Spiegelman, who is also a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. "In theory, you would only have to reduce the accumulation of white fat by 1 percent or so to have an effect."...