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Lives Saved through Simple Changes

...nt and health care policymakers strive to regulate safer hospitals, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, led by Dr. Donald Berwick, has enrolled more than 3,000 hospitals to take part in its "100,000 Lives Campaign", over an 18-month period. The campaign is to establish better standards of care in an ...

Need for Change in Social Norms to Prevent Spread of HIV

...societies don’t have the social power to negotiate safer sex or control sexual interaction, including within marriage.’ She hailed the efforts of CARE to address these deeper sources of risks. Gayle said, ‘I just visited a community-based savings-and-loan program that CARE supports in Guatemala. CARE h...

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

... "Fear of AIDS will not scare people into having safer sex. It will become like the anti-smoking drives w...ucational organisation, believes that "we can have safer sex if we know how to have good sex". "The HIV 'industry' avoids discussion of sexual desire and p...

Women Prefer Office Procedure during treatment of Early Pregnancy

...d not demonstrate that office-based procedures are safer than traditional operating room management, the authors said they are concerned about the four-fold increase in bleeding-related complications in the operating room group in this study. The most likely explanation for this finding was that all but on...

Unpasteurized Milk And Milk Products: Are they Safe for Health?

... there are also risks associated with it and it is safer not to include these particularly in diet regimen of children. ...

New Test Could Detect Breast Cancer Early

...rmann of UCL. "This may allow new, less intrusive, safer and much less expensive approaches for the early diagnosis of cancer, for distinguishing malignant and benign cancers, and for monitoring cancer therapy." Stephen Duffy, Cancer Research UK's professor of screening said the test looked interesting. ...

New Arthritis Drug Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attacks

...rom the National Prescribing Service says that the safer option for patients should be to first try to manage their condition with over-the-counter painkillers. He said, "People with osteoarthritis should first consider an effective dose of paracetamol and speak with their doctor if they need a medicine...

Revolutionary Net To Control Malaria

...Dr Alexander said: "Not only is this potentially a safer and cheaper method of protecting people, it will also avoid the problem of chemical resistance. We're already seeing bedbugs in the mattresses covered by nets becoming resistant to pyrethroids. We need to break the cycle of playing catch-up as insect...

Revolutionary Net To Control Malaria

...Dr Alexander said: "Not only is this potentially a safer and cheaper method of protecting people, it will also avoid the problem of chemical resistance. We're already seeing bedbugs in the mattresses covered by nets becoming resistant to pyrethroids. We need to break the cycle of playing catch-up as insect...

Male Mantids- not Voluntary Victims of Sexual Cannabilism

...havior, and mounting from a greater – and possibly safer – distance. "This shows that male mantids actively assess variation in risk and change their behavior to reduce the chance of being cannibalized," explains Brown. "Males are clearly not complicit, and the act of sexual cannibalism in praying mantid...

Sensitive Taste Buds Can Be The Blame for Lil'One Not Eating Vegetables

...ce. She concluded by cautioning that it was always safer to serve cooked vegetables rather than raw ones as cooking might take some of the sting ou....

Experiments In Outer Space To Determine single Cell Survival

...national Space Station, to test if they can secure safer homes for their occupants amidst the vacuum and radiations of outer space, than those created by standard chemical procedures. These experiments are carried out courtesy of Sandia, a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory, University...

Automated Hepatitis B Test Approved By FDA

...w years have helped make the nation's blood supply safer from infectious diseases than it has been at any other time." Hepatitis B virus infects the liver and in some cases can cause infection, cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure and death....

Serotonin the Answer for Anti-Obesity Treatment

...t drugs. That knowledge could aid in the design of safer anti-obesity drugs nearly a decade after Fen-phen was banned for causing harmful side effects. The study, which tested the effect of several drugs that alter serotonin levels in the brain, found that serotonin activates some neurons and melanocortin-...

Watch Out for the Sugar and Salt Content of the Popular Breakfast Cereals

...ts which would make the use of their products much safer and healthier. It has also urged the cereal manufacturers to adhere to the colour-coding standards put forth by FSA of red, amber and green labels on front of the packs so that it would be easier for shoppers to pick out healthier products even tho...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

...o are now available to make endovascular treatment safer than ever,” says Thompson, an associate professor of neurosurgery who directs the U-M Neurovascular Program. “An example is the use of stents, which bolster the coils that we place inside the aneurysm to seal it off. They reduce the risk of a stroke ...

External Catheters Linked with decreased UTI Risk in Men

...ollected with condom type catheter, which proved a safer and less-unpleasant option for men. In fact, men whose urine was collected with an external or 'condom' catheter during their hospital stay had an 80 percent reduction in the risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) or death as compared with men whos...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

...economical alternative than sidewalks in making it safer for rural residents to be physically active, particularly in areas with winding or narrow roads.” Her research validates the importance of community leaders, researchers and practitioners from the fields of public health, urban planning and transpo...

Suicide Has No Age Bar

...le self-harm cases and also planning and designing safer urban neighborhoods. Canterbury Suicide Project leader and associate professor Annette Beautrais said that the youth male suicide rate have halved considerably over a period of time. Slowly news media organizations, some coroners and families of suic...

Brain Cancer Could be Safely Treated with Radioactive Scorpion Venom

... Israeli scorpion venom protein named TM-601, as a safer and different way to destroy proliferating brain cancer cells. Responding to this urgent problem, scientists at the Transmolecular Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts created a radioactive version of this scorpion venom. Called TM-601, it cont...

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