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Pak Has South Asias Highest Infant Mortality Rate: Report

...million children do not go to school, which is the second largest number of such children in a country. The number of street children is growing with almost 25,000 on the streets in Karachi alone, and almost four children are sexually abused daily, the Daily Times quoted the report as saying. The report i...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...e. Emergency services are generally treated as a second class service in the public sector and as a potential cash cow in the private sector. Instead, it should be treated as an independent specialty in its own right. Organ donation is not often thought of as a part of medical emergency service provisio...

WHO to Call for More Progress on Tobacco Control at Bangkok Moot

...rward the global tobacco control agenda during the second session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The meeting will take place from June 30 to July 6 2007 in the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok. Outcomes of the meeting will he...

Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

...ould be seriously assessed, they conclude. In the second article, researchers look at the situation in France, where the rate of HIV testing is among the highest in Europe, but 40% of people are still not diagnosed until the disease is advanced, either with AIDS or with a low CD4 cell count. Therefore, o...

First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another

...fer the naked DNA isolated from one species into a second microbial species paves the way for next experiments to transplant a fully synthetic bacterial chromosome into a living organism and if successful, "boot up" the new entity. There are many important applications of synthetic genomics research inclu...

Britney Claims She was 'forced' into Rehab

...d having emotional problems after the birth of her second child, but was firm that she did not have a drug o... from post-natal depression after the birth of her second child, which was made worse because she had stopped taking the antidepressant Prozac. Spears' law...

X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection

...osed non-skin cancer in women in the U.S., and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. In 2007, an estimated 178,480 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and an estimated 40,460 women will die of the disease. While the causes of breast cancer are unknown, heredity has been identified as on...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

...ated immune responses alone, failing to target the second critical arm of the human immune system. The first component of the DBT-IAVI Programme will consist of a collaboration of principal investigators from different academic research laboratories to design novel HIV antigens. The investigators include...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

... likely to have placenta-related problems in their second pregnancy. The risk of a placenta attaching low ...ing of the cervix - was 47 percent higher in their second pregnancy than women who gave birth naturally. The risk of a second condition, placenta abruptio ...

Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section

...enta praevia and placental abruption in singleton, second pregnancies after a caesarean delivery in the first pregnancy. Data provided by the US National Centre for Health Statistics, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was examined by a team of Canadian researchers. A total of 5, 146 742 pregnanci...

Who Receives a Kidney Transplant First?

...imize the longevity of the transplanted organ. The second strives to maximize access for all potential candidates and utilizes waiting time as an important criterion. These correspond to the "utility" versus "equity" views. Concerns have been raised that there will be less equality in the new allocation s...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...removal of the last larval application. In their second study, he and his team will compare larval treatment with antibacterial silver dressings and the biogun treatment, which uses ionized air to create superoxide radicals and eradicate bacteria. Professor Boulton said: "This is very exciting. We have ...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

... to allow NR to protect against loss of axons. The second NR pathway involves three yeast genes, two of which are found in humans. Granted that the human anti-aging apparatus is more complex, but animal studies indicate potential. Perhaps the best known sirtuin activator is the red wine compound resveratr...

Once-a-year Drug Reduces Fractures from Osteoporosis

...three days of the first infusion but not after the second or third....

Researchers To Test Whether ADHD Medication Helps Young Adults While Driving

...nd have fewer driving mishaps while on the road. A second study Cox's team completed showed that ADHD young drivers fare better when driving cars with manual transmissions rather than automatic transmissions. In this latest study, funded by Shire Pharmaceuticals, Cox's team hopes to determine the benefits o...

Experts Call for Warning Lables on Fruit Juice to Save Kids' Teeth

... a child is about 12, are more prone to decay than second teeth. Decayed teeth can cause abscesses, infection and orthodontic problems later in life. Dr Sawyer described the extent of tooth decay in young children as "disturbing". She said she believed much of it was a result of babies and toddlers...

Disease Outbreak Claims Trout From Idaho Hatchery

...t of Fish and Game hatchery, in Nampa. This is the second such outbreak in the region and official say that it probably resulted when stress from overcrowding weakened the fish, making them more susceptible to the parasite. The outbreak, which began in January, was made public only this week because the ...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

...ilize the muscle bulking agent clenbuterol and the second will evaluate autologous (the patients own) stem cells injected at the time of LVAD implantation....

NRI Boy Underwent a Rare Dual Transplant Surgery

... In the meanwhile, the kidney was removed from the second donor and transplanted on the patient. This is the world's first dual live donor transplant on such a patient," Soin told reporters. Three weeks after the surgery, Ganesh is on his way to recovery. Dressed in a yellow T-Shirt and brown trousers, th...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...als are shown a half-second apart, people miss the second one much of the time. "The attention momentarily... gets stuck on the first target, then you miss the second one." This effect is called "attentional blink," as when you blink your eyes, you are briefly unawar...

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