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Never-Betrayed Men Less Likely to Indulge in Child Sex Abuse

...tered with the men, and their ability to believe a story depended on their personal experience,' she said. The findings, she added, suggest that educational efforts may need to be more heavily focused toward men to help them understand that such acts do occur and that the abuse often can contribue to a n...

Building a Better Breakfast to Manage Weight

...nstitute of Food Technologists, this issue’s cover story reviews recent food science, nutrition and metabolic research and translates it into food and ingredient combinations that could possibly lead to a reduction in consumers’ caloric intake and calorie absorption while meeting their needs to feel full a...

Make Dental Care Affordable for the Working Poor

... the Chief Dentists’ office was inspired after the story of Jason Jobes, a 25 year old man, who could not save all his teeth due to poverty and the absence of public dental insurance. The Chief Dentist, Dr. Stewart, has been actively championing the cause of dental treatment for the poor for many years. ...

Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

...lson, a student at Maryville University, wrote the story during an internship at the Internet Stroke Center under the mentorship of David Murray, editor of the Stroke Center internet site. Another intern and student at Maryville, Christine Warner, provided the watercolor illustrations that accompany the te...

Doctor's AIDS Documentary Focus on Stigma and Discrimination

...ning to her during a trip to Delhi, I found in her story a lot of courage to empower PLHAs," Caravotta told IANS. "India acted as an alarm clock for my film-making creativity, boosting my potential," he added. "I would like the message of the documentary film spread all over this country with the same ve...

Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital

...ofit group Direct Change's Sudan Project and whose story featured in the Pitt firm-produced documentary "God Grew Tired Of Us". "Words cannot express my gratitude and the gratitude of the people of Duk County," said Dau, who fled to the city when he was a boy during Sudan's civil war in the late 1980s. ...

Nandigram Killings Lead to Depression Among Many

...w and Order) Raj Kanojia, however, has a different story to tell on the stress factor among policemen deployed at Nandigram. "This kind of situation definitely leads to stress among police personnel. But we train our officials by teaching them behavioural science and make them physically as well as me...

Indian Films With Smoking Scenes may Get 'A' Certificate

...l judge the requirement of the scene vis-à-vis the story and ask the character who is a part of the smoking scene to speak against tobacco consumption at the beginning of the movie, during interval time and at the end of the movie," Reddy told IANS. Reddy, who was a former head of the cardiology departme...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

... by neurosurgeons? If so, consider submitting your story and help the AANS reach out to the public. This initiative is phase two of ongoing Web site improvements the AANS has implemented over the last two years. The section entitled Conditions & Treatments has been completely revised and updated. The mos...

The Gen(i)e Behind Fatsos

...f the gene. Researchers do not have the complete story yet. With a faint idea of what is happening, this research could give us an answer for people being overweight, despite consuming a low calorie diet. During the study, researchers examined the deviations in the DNA of gene called FTO, which is obse...

HPV Vaccine – Should It Be Mandatory for Girls

...ollowing a familiar path. Taking a leaf out of the story of the Hepatitis B vaccine, //the subject of many debates and controversies, experts were able to evaluate the merits of its inclusion in the mandatory immunization programme for infants. According to statistics, about 250,000 Americans are down wi...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...of research Chang has compiled that shows that the story of the androgen receptor and male hormones like testosterone is much more complex than was once thought. For years it's been widely thought by doctors and scientists that all male hormones, and only male hormones, work through the androgen receptor. ...

Wal-Mart – One Stop Shop for All Your Needs, Including Healthcar

Sometime back we had carried a story about Wal-mart’s foray into healthcare. // This program took off in 2005 as a pilot project which involved the lease of medical space in a few Wal-Mart stores. Today there are 76 clinics actively functioning at the Wal mart stores across 12 different...

No Respite for Rajasthan from Heat Wave

... Singh, a marketing executive. It is a similar story with Ashish Chaturvedi, a manager in a private company. He reaches office by 9.30 a.m. and tries to return only after 6 p.m. The only ones happy with the rising temperatures are ice cream vendors and cold drink sellers. Source-IANS/V...

Therapist Arrested For Breaking Lives

...ound patients be left open most of the time. The story does not end here. Barely a month after Bleyle's arrest, another hospital employee was charged with molesting a comatose toddler patient after being traced through Internet file-sharing networks. Christopher Alan Irvin, a 32-year-old nurse at the tim...

Bengal Teenager to Participate in World Oncology Camp

...r, is all set to fly to United States to share the story of his recovery from the deadly ailment. Bidurin Chakraborty, a class 12 student of Boy's High School in Siliguri, about 600 km from the state capital, is completely cured after three years of treatment against cancer with the financial support of...

DNA Link to a Lost Colony

...ying to colonize the new world. "The Lost Colony story is the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America," said Roberta Estes, owner of DNA Explain, a private DNA analysis company based in Brighton, Mich. The company is working with the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, an independent ...

New Developments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

...rheumatoid arthritis. The genes will help tell the story of how the immune system works to create specific antibodies that in turn increase a persons risk for this crippling disease. On Monday at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Services (FOCIS) meetings in San Diego, CA, Dr. Gregersen and his colle...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

..., Italy, where they were born, after seeing a news story about Egyptian conjoined twins who underwent successful separation surgery in Dallas, Texas. Physicians on the 50-member medical team at the Cleveland hospital were donating their time, and other costs were being covered by donations and absorbed b...

Experts Stresses the Need for National Vaccination Policy

...te of more than 90 percent. India's vaccination story began in 1948 when the BCG vaccine was offered for immunity from tuberculosis (TB). Sixty years on, the government estimates that 17 million people are carrying the TB virus. India needs nearly 60 million BCG vaccines every year. It imports about 2...

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