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Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

A survey conducted by Statistics Canada says teens are smoking less. Smoking rates among 15- to 19-year-olds declined to 15 per cent last year. The result is a substantial change from the rates of 1999, where almost 28% teens used to smoke. The decline is "a step in the right direction," said...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

Roche Holding AG says that arthritis drug Actemra has proved successful in a phase III clinical study. Actemra helps relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in difficult-to-treat patients in a clinical study thus bringing it closer to regulatory approval. The Radiate s...

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

...t Paula Radcliffe, a British long distance runner, says that this is the secret of her success . Many Phy...liffe and the England rugby team. Paula Radcliffe says when she emerges from the bath, her limbs fills up with fresh blood which invigorates the muscles wi...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...an-Israeli team and first author of the new paper, says that the new finding is particularly interesting w... Faculty of Medicine at Technion in Haifa, Israel, says The study of populations in Israel has been shown to be exceptionally fruitful in contributing to kn...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

... of the greatest advances in public health policy, says Mason, who is also an associate professor at the F...dy's response to folic acid appears to be complex, says Mason. While fortification of the food supply is clearly beneficial for women of child-bearing age...

Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow

...1 Tower, an eco-friendly apartment block the firms says will be the tallest building in Thailand. He est...nt costs just one percent of the total outlay, and says the money is quickly made back in energy savings. The 91-floor luxury block, due to be completed b...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...al, Dr Helen Roberts at the University of Auckland says that this study does not change current advice to postmenopausal women. Healthy women in early menopause are unlikely to face substantially increased risks when using hormones for a few years, she writes. However, long term use of hormone replacement...

Screening for Behavioral Health

...hool for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis, says that requiring health plans to screen patients for...identify problems and get patients into treatment, says Horgan. Despite these reasons, most health plans do not require primary care physicians to screen f...

Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients

...nd ESA doses through representation as waveforms," says Dr. Will. "Unlike most statistical methods, our method relied on few assumptions about their potential patterns." The results suggested that hemoglobin levels were affected by the negative feedback control systems being attempted in clinical manageme...

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

... problems that incur the highest treatment costs," says Professor Dr. Frank Lammert, the Bonn-based specia...other gene variants that increase gallstone risk," says the medical scientist....

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

...o be completed to look into the underlying causes, says May A. Beydoun, coauthor of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School of Public Healths Department of International Health. Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading prevent...

New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision

...rate, increased the risk of developing early AMD," says first author Chung-Jung Chiu, DDS, PhD, scientist ...hydrate information we needed to do our analyses," says Taylor, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts and ...

High Blood Pressure Linked to Decreased Pain Perception in Heart Patients

...rently affiliated with the Universite de Montreal, says that this phenomenon extends to people who typical...But the current study provides further validation, says lead author Bianca D' Antono. "This has implications for several areas, such as the effects of st...

Researchers Develop First Mouse Model of Lung Transplantation

...ailure rate of lung transplants is a huge problem, says lung transplant surgeon Daniel Kreisel, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of surgery and a lead investigator of the research. Unlike other organs, lungs are constantly exposed to bacteria and viruses in the environment, and we think this exposur...

Urine is a Rich Source of Phosphorus

...eady in use in Sweden, Mitchell stresses. Mitchell says that all new homes in the local council of Tanum are required to have urine-separation toilets. According to her, the toilets are similar to flushing toilets but with the difference that the urine passes to a holding tank through a second set of pi...

Mild Stress During Pregnancy may Worsen Offspring's Risk of Cerebral Palsy

...al, social and economic burden of cerebral palsy," says Gressens. Victoria Luine, PhD, distinguished professor of psychology at New York's Hunter College, who did not participate in the research, said that the study also added to other findings that showed that constant stress could negatively impact q...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

...sues surrounding off-label prescribing to children says co-author Dr James McLay. What did concern us was... all are specifically licensed for use by children says Dr McLay. Until this situation is rectified, community pharmacists need to be competent and confid...

Neoprene Sleeve in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery

...de advantages over a soft neoprene elastic sleeve, says principal investigator Trevor Birmingham, Ph.D., P.T., Canada Research Chair in musculoskeletal rehabilitation at the University of Western Ontario and the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, Ontario. ACL reconstruction surgery is commo...

Walking is Vital to Keep Yourself Fit

...out there and taking a walk is what its all about, says James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., and a Mayo Clinic exper...he researchers found. In his editorial, Dr. Levine says the study lends credence to the notion that walking is a legitimate, worthy mode of exercise for all...

Lindsay Lohan's Lesbian MySpace Conversations Leaked

...le Lindsay's Lesbian Love Letters, the 21-year-old says that she wants to marry Ronson and have kids with her. "Babe, if I don't have you in my life then I should just go die. ... I want to marry you and have children with you," New York Daily News quoted Lohan, as telling Ronson. "Go to bed babe. I l...

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