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More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...ar disease. The cost of these diseases to American society is more than $430 billion a year. Due in large part to new drug treatments, death rates from heart disease and stroke are falling, states the new report. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), if death rates were the sam...

The Global Health Council Announces Launch of Global Health TV

...e bringing brief news clips from experts and civil society on the major health issues faced by people throughout the world. This new service is a collaborative project between HBL Media, a London-based communications agency and the Council. The Global Health TV website, http: www.globalhealthtv.com, will ...

Esophageal Cancer Patients' Positive Responses to Chemotherapy Accurately Identified by PET

...he 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, German researchers stated that early metabolic imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), accurately identifies patients responding to chemotherapy for esophageal cancer. "This is the...

Brain Tumor Patients Survival Depends on Predicting Treatment Responses Earlier

...he 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals , declares that use of metabolic or molecular imaging to measure brain tumor patients' response to treatment is a powerful predictor of survival. "Our study opens the door to the possibility ...

AAPPO Launches ACT on Diabetes Initiative to Promote Improved Diabetes Care

...eir employers, the providers who treat them and on society at large," Shurney said. "We are collaborating with AAPPO to help put the right tools and information about what works to improve diabetes care and the health of those diagnosed with the disease into the hands of PPO leaders. This will help PPOs deve...

PET/CT: The Best Test for Women With Ovarian Cancer

...he 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals. The study shows that positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging "is a much better test for patients with suspected recurrent ovarian cancer and is the preferred imag...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...iness strategy. 'Besides, in a now more affluent society in Taiwan, fewer young women are now willing to work at facial salons, considering the job boring.' At NB headquarters in Shanghai, Tsai continues her role in product development and promotion, and coordination of education programmes while her husba...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...om all sides -- from classmates, teachers, family, society and also myself," Duan said after completing part of her two-day test. She has taken supplementary classes throughout the year to prepare for the exam, known to all by its Chinese abbreviation "gaokao." She has lost five kilogrammes (11 pounds) this ...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

...ease in numbers 40 percent over two decades on a society saturated with sex and violence and the fact that many of the accused were themselves victims of adult sexual predators. Others say there aren't more children committing such crimes, simply more awareness, better reporting and a general hysteria abou...

Scientists Have Found Way to Delay Menopause

... saying. "What we are seeing is, increasingly, a society where women are waiting later and later to have their first baby. Thats wholly admirable in every way. It shows how women are gaining full status as women in our society. They are getting educated and having careers," Professor Winston said. Accor...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...ld AFP. Excessive drinking damages individuals and society in various ways, including serious illnesses, a rise in crime and reduced work efficiency, he said. The ministry estimated the social and economic costs of alcohol consumption at 20.1 trillion won (21.59 billion dollars) in 2005, he said, without g...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

...buying condoms freely as a great step forward in a society which still regards sex as a taboo subject to be dealt with behind closed doors only. In fact, two months ago, the neighbouring state of Maharashtra banned sex education in schools after some legislators protested it would corrupt young minds. But as...

Deadly Skin Cancer Bites the Rich Harder

...hough our research highlights that some section of society face greater risks than others, the safe sun message is one that we all need to heed if we are to halt rising skin cancer rates" concluded Dr Hoey. The study is published in the June issue of British Journal of Dermatology....

Breast Reduction Surgery Among Boys Rising in US

...ing to the National Institutes of Health. But in a society that values chiseled abs and Rafael Nadal biceps, adolescent boys are willing to resort to surgery to fix problems their bodies might resolve later on their own. David Zinczenko, the editor in chief of Mens Health, said that many of his magazines r...

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

...ionship. Men experience a lot of pressure in our society to have sex with a number of different partners, t...alk a fine line between wanting the risky sex that society says they should have and paying the price for having had it, he said. Not surprisingly, women wer...

Stem Cells- a Miraculous Boon

...cell research is vigorously opposed by elements in society ranging from the Vatican to US President George Bush, Christian fundamentalists and some bioethicists and doctors, who argue that the promise of stem cells should not be realized at the expense of human life, even in its most nascent, embryonic stage...

India’s First ‘condom Bar’ Inaugurated by AIDS Patint

... Singh Bir told IANS. Chandigarh's AIDS control society project director Sonia Trikha appreciated the move by CITCO to spread awareness about the use of condoms through a regular bar. "Those visiting the bar will not be under any compulsion to be part of this awareness campaign. But this is a positive ...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...d added they were still existing in the fringes of society despite positive intervention from NGOs and the go... "The community was confused about themselves and society is confused about them," Isabel said quoting citing the study. Source-IANS/B...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...olation of a woman's freedom. But in a patriarchal society with lopsided values, there seems to be no escape from it//. But ducks seem to show a way out. Females in certain species have developed complicated genitals that frustrate aggressive male ducks, scientists have found. A team of biologists at Y...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...the dangers of obesity have had little effect on a society where fatness is revered as a symbol of nobility and good breeding. Nonetheless, force-feeding and the nomadic way of life is fast disappearing, said Mounina. 'The country has been hit by years of drought and we simply don't have that kind of qua...

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