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Dieting During Pregnancy may Harm Baby

...ocial class, smoking or exercise habits, weight or sickness during pregnancy. Though experts usually recommend that a pregnant woman needs to eat around 2,500 calories a day, the researchers were unable to determine the optimum number of calories to be eaten per day to prevent the effect. However, they ...

China's Insurance Companies Offer Policy for Altitude Sickness

...e high-altitude region and an increase in altitude sickness cases. According to a research, 30 percent of all visitors to Tibet suffer from headaches, vomiting or breathing problems. (Source: IANS/Xinhua)...

Morning Sickness: Nature's Warning Signal To Would –Be- Mom

...in the sickness. The study suggests that morning sickness might have been nature's way of ensuring that the ...eine and alcohol, increasingly suffer from morning sickness and the severity of the sickness was reduced in those mothers who fed on a predominantly cereals and...

Morning Sickness - Nature's Way Of Ensuring Healthy Diet In Pregnancy

There might be a reason for all that morning sickness in pregnancy. Researchers say nature devised it to...iety's Biological Journal. Until recently, morning sickness was viewed as an unfortunate event that every pregnant woman goes through, but recent findings say t...

Ecological Changes affects human health, food security

...mote sensing technology also can be used to reduce sickness related to poor water quality, such as diarrhea. ‘That is something we can observe with remote sensing,’ Goodin said. ‘We can actually look at water bodies; we also can look at the context to see where pollutants in water are coming from. Armed wit...

Satellite Imagery to monitor the Social Impact Of Geographical Changes

...mote sensing technology also can be used to reduce sickness related to poor water quality, such as diarrhea. "That is something we can observe with remote sensing," Goodin said. "We can actually look at water bodies; we also can look at the context to see where pollutants in water are coming from. Armed with...

Numero Uno Killer - Cancer

... infers that cancer, //is the single most cause of sickness and death in Victoria. It is the rural areas where most poor live that seems to be facing the brunt of diseases. The wealthy seem to be afflicted with more of the breast and prostrate cancer types. In certain government localities, mental health pro...

Precautious Measure Help Tolerate Nausea In Patients

...up. ‘Surprisingly, symptoms of nausea and motion sickness were least severe among participants told their experience would be made more unpleasant by the drug,’ said Levine, an assistant professor of gastroenterology. The authors hypothesize that once the drum began to rotate, the group that was told they...

Depression And Chronic Pain Cause Disability In Women

Long-term pain and sickness related depression makes women more disabled than men – study published in the European Journal of Pain finds. // Thus treatment procedures targeting to reduce stress and pain in arthritis and back pain patients will reduce disability. This suggest...

115 people on board a cruise liner taken ill due to suspected Norovirus

...eturn to Seattle, Washington //. The cause of this sickness is thought to be Norovirus, although it is yet to be confirmed. It is estimated that Noroviruses render nearly 23 million Americans indisposed each year. According to Dave Forney, chief of the vessel sanitation program, 'The reason you hear about N...

Thalidomide for Tumor Treatment

...n when it was prescribed to the mothers to morning sickness but is caused horrific birth defects in 12,000 babies. The babies were born with missing or stunted limbs. Hence it was withdrawn from the market and is now unlicensed in the UK. The mode of action of the drug is that it prevented the formation of b...

Child-Care In Canada A Costly Affair

...ich increased the combined maternity, parental and sickness leave for new parents....

Organ Donation Crusader Passes Away

...way in Pune. She was Ms.Nayan Dhamdhere. In both sickness and health she promoted organ donation in India with her full zeal. She worked for this mission from her hometown Pune and in the work she was helped by her husband Mr.Rajan and her father in law.// She constantly organized campaigns on organ donatio...

New Lease of Life after Kidney Donation

...ple to realize there's no color issue here, just a sickness issue." ...

Finance Problems Result In 'Money Sickness Syndrome'

Uk experiences symptoms of Money sickness syndrome (MSS) due to improper management of finance. In a research conducted by the insurance giant AXA found that Britons have increased stress and other health related problems //due to the feeling that they are not in control of their finance. ...

Thalidomide is the new approved drug for treating multiple cancers

...in the late 1950s and early 1960s to treat morning sickness and as a sedative but was taken off market around the world after it caused birth defects and miscarriages. "The drug fell into disrepute because of miscarriages and its effect on the unborn child, however over the years it has been found to be very...

A cost effective heart failure drug hits the market!

... a burden both on the body as well as the purse if sickness strikes.But as a respite comes a new cardio drug that negates both the above said effects of ill health. // The drug is in the African-American heart failure patients where it has greatly improved the condition. Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., profess...

Malaria Vaccine May Be 10 Years Away

Scientists in past centuries called the sickness by the Italian phrase 'malaria' — or 'bad air' — for the supposedly disease-bearing zephyrs wafting from swamps. These days, scientists know malaria is spread by mosquitos. // And they say ill winds are buffeting their attempts to halt the spread of...

Uganda Reports Failure To Contain Sleeping Sickness

...hat all the efforts to curb he disease of sleeping sickness is not working. The report on this topic was repor...emic of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping // sickness in eastern Uganda began in 1998 as a result of the movement of the livestock reservoir of the parasi...

Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code Unravelled

... that 60 million Africans are affected by sleeping sickness annually. “Perhaps only one in 20 of these will ha...mentary sort,” he said, adding, “Treating sleeping sickness is like a form of medical Russian Roulette because you don’t know who will be saved or killed by the...

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