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As the US Population Ages, Hospital and Doctors Visits Shoot Up

...ibed medications are antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday. The survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found most people who visited emergency rooms had private health insurance, although the uninsured were twice as likely to use emergency services as p...

Experts in Istanbul Seek Nature and Measure of Happiness

...rasmus University in Rotterdam said that in future statistics had to take into account how happy people felt they were. Those surveyed had to reply to a simple question: "To what extent are you at present happy with your life?" They had to give it a mark out of 10. Veenhoven, who heads the World Database on...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

... College in the state capital. "We have seen the statistics from Feb 2006 and the normal mortality rate in this hospital is around 12 deaths every month and the total number of deliveries on an average is around 2,500 every month. The present level of deaths is a serious cause of concern," the minister said. ...

Over the Counter Drugs can Be Highly Addictive, Warn Doctors

...rrently have this problem. There are no official statistics documenting the extent of dependence on legal non-prescription drugs, say the authors. They call for large scale research to assess and monitor the extent of the problem....

Lymphocyte Count Found to Be a Predictor of Survival for Young Patients With Leukemia

...tment at M. D. Anderson between 1995 and 2005. The statistics showed significant differences in survival rates in multiple analyses. The results from the study showed that AML patients who had a low lymphocyte count on day 15 of treatment had a five-year overall survival chance of only 28%. However, patients...

Trade Center Collapse Caused Lung Ailments in Rescuers

...ns leading to death. A year after the collapse, statistics showed the incidence of this illness in 86 cases per 100,000 workers. Doctors also detected 26 cases of sarcoidosis in the five years after 9/11. Although there have been no deaths due to this lung condition, five are permanently disabled and anothe...

Car Airbags Most Suited To Medium-Built Individuals

...Newgard based his results on an analysis of injury statistics for the period 1995-2005, from a motor vehicle crash database. The database shows that during the years studied, 52,552 drivers and 14,732 passengers were involved in crashes. Most of those people were not seriously injured, but 2.5% of the drivers...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

...fair that someone should lose his life because the statistics haven't reached the 100,000-mark?" asked Elango Ramachandar, president of Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Ramachandar is HIV positive. "The cause here is simple - we support those who are fighting AIDS and will fight for them in get...

Figures of Dengue In Singapore On The Rise

According to official statistics from Singapore, the tropical city-state saw a nearly 50 percent jump in dengue infections in the first trimester of this year compared to the same period in 2006. Dengue cases reported from the start of January to May 12 rose to 1,488, an in...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

... Organization (NACO), a government body, has cited statistics to show that eight percent of the gay population in India is afflicted with HIV/AIDS compared to one per cent of the general population. NACO has also said that Section 377 pushes the issue of AIDS underground....

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...so will be given access to the cards. According to statistics from Beijing's Health Bureau, migrant workers accounted for about 80% of the city's new HIV cases in 2006. There are 200 million migrant workers in China and at least 120 million work in cities, Xinhua/People's Daily reports. An International Labor...

Breast Cancer on Rise Across Middle East

...ment are the only ways to bring down breast cancer statistics in the UAE. But for post-menopausal women, not all current treatments are safe and effective. For many years, adjuvant Tamoxifen has been the gold standard for endocrine therapy in early breast cancer. In recent trials, however, third generation ar...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

... ridding people of glasses." According to recent statistics presented by Shariff Mondavi, an industry analyst writing in this month's Review of Ophthalmology, LASIK is the most popular elective surgical procedure in the U.S. LASIK treats nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, conditions which interf...

Cot Death on Rise in Australia

...k. "It is of grave concern that 20 years on, the statistics seem to reveal there could be a growing level of complacency in the community," she said. "We think it is because people feel the SIDS thing is sorted." Doyle said some parents were worried that following advice to put their babies to sleep on th...

India Main Source of Counterfeit Medicines Seized in Europe

...zed in the European Union in 2006, according to EU statistics released in Brussels Thursday. About 31 percent ...d even painkiller Anacin tablets. Presenting the statistics to the press in Brussels, John Taylor, head of the European Commission's counterfeit unit, said it h...

Advanced Breast Cancer: Study Reveals White and Black Women Have Different Survival Rates

...ce of 8.8 percent. "We do not suspect that these statistics are due to the biology of the disease because we would not expect the biology to change over time. It's more likely due to socio-economic factors," says Giordano, the study's senior author. "While SEER data does not code for treatment, we hypothesize...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...ssing the percentage of population affected, a few statistics are available. A 1998 study in Rochester, Minnesot...ven completely disappears without reason! However, statistics of such total remission is anywhere between one-in-ten to one-in-twenty. One must remember that t...

Hunger Awareness Day to Shed Light on Surprising Face of Hunger June 5

...esearch from America's Second Harvest with current statistics from government agencies including the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than 35 million people in the United States, including 12 million children are identified by the USDA as being at risk of hunger, which means the...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

... thought to have slightly more cases: The official statistics are wrong. India is in first place. He warned that Indias epidemic could shoot up to African levels, wiping out the surging economy and leaving a nation of orphans. S. Y. Quraishi, then director of Indias National AIDS Control Organization, took of...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

An Associated Press review of national statistics found that the courts are seeing a number of sex o...ffenders in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, thinks the statistics are misleading. "There aren't more kids, there are more laws," he said. "We now have fairly dracon...

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