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March of Dimes Praises Folic Acid Fortification

...ing women not to be scared off it by a recent news story suggesting otherwise. In an Associated Press report today, it was suggested that food fortification with folic acid should be reconsidered. "The Food & Drug Administration's decision to add folic acid to our nation's fortified grain foods was a v...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...rorist attack against the U.S. The attention this story has been receiving over the past few days is no surprise, but it's just a glimpse of the potential nightmare ahead. 'It's the main reason we released the April special issue of the Gold & Energy Advisor, titled 'The biological 9/11 capable of killi...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

...ting and uncertainty. "That's the real . . . tough story here, is that most of these people are not going to have been infected by this fellow, but it might be hard to know that," said Gardam, head of infection control at University Health Network, a consortium of three large Toronto teaching hospitals. ...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...e to fracturing over time. But that side of the story takes a while to get through. Meantime the coffers of the drug firm should be overflowing, while many who took the drug might be undergoing some agonizing time. It is against such regrettable situations, activists are raising their voice. They als...

Actress Sally Field Vows to Fight Against Osteoporosis

...sis and bone breaks until Fields mother shared the story with her. With increased bone health knowledge and improved care, women can now prevent or reduce osteoporosis problems. Every woman should receive a bone density test by age 65 to determine if she has osteoporosis or is at high risk for the dise...

Women in Iraq More Unsafe Than Ever

...Organisation for Women in Baghdad. "I think this story will be absolutely repeated again." Kurds who had suffered the most under Saddam Hussein are the most friendly ethnic group for the occupation forces. But obviously that does not make them more open to liberal values. If anything they would like ...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...Post's expose of the Walter Reed scam included the story of Cpl. Jeremy Harper, 19, who had seen three of h...n the Hartford Courant last May After the Post's story came out, a familiar sequence of firings, testimony and reform commenced. In April the House passed ...

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

The shocking story of medical negligence that led to a one-year-old child having his foot amputated has moved the Delhi High Court to ask the concerned hospital for an explanation. In January, a fractured leg brought Jai to the government-run Safdarjung Hospital in ...

Brains White Matter: More Talkative Than Once Thought

...he discovery in mouse cells, outlined in the cover story of the March issue of Nature Neuroscience, shows that brain cells talk with each other in more ways than previously thought. We were surprised to see these nerve axons talking to other cells in the white matter, says Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., an assoc...

Dutchman Rebuilds Noah's Ark to Spread His Faith

...o show people what the ark looked like to make the story more tangible. When people don't believe in God se... been like, and visitors were in awe. "The Bible story starts to become alive for you. I actually said 'thank you Lord' when I was inside," said 59-year-ol...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...alf. -- Vineyards in drought's grip -- It is a story replicated in vineyards around the country, most of which remain in the grip of the six-year drought. In Australia's agricultural heartland further south, the Murray-Darling River region which is home to about 65 percent of the country's viticultur...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

...g will take after them, but it's a very different story when it comes to the daughters, especially in the case of red deer. A new study on red deer has found that genes that may prove useful for their sons, may not have the same effects when it comes to their female offspring. The boffins also state t...

Puppet Show, Music Gives Message - 'say No to Drugs'

...ed soberly to the packed auditorium. If Sampad's story touched one, so did the puppet show put up by children of the Salam Balak Trust, an NGO for street children, under the guidance of noted puppeteer, Dadi Pudumjee. Using different shoes for different characters, the play revolved around how innocent...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...n. But the present practice tells a very different story according to the patients and experts. The doctors, nurses and surgeons routinely demand payments even bribes from those they treat. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked the country's health system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par w...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

... estrogen or not, but it was an entirely different story in the older animals. The older rhesus monkeys that got the estrogen boosters performed as well as the younger animals, whereas the older untreated monkeys displayed dramatic cognitive declines, the paper said. Autopsies showed that the estrogen ...

The Doctor Parents of a 15 Year Old surgeon Arrested

...up as notoriety and, worse, the lead actors in the story could have to spend some prison term too. A doctor couple in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been remanded to 15-day judicial custody for allowing their 15-year-old son to perform caesarean section on a pregnant woman sometime ago. T...

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...ir forward thinking." If you are planning a future story on the world's healthcare challenges, U.S. Preventive Medicine executives are available to comment on prevention and its critical role in helping to solve the current healthcare crisis: Christopher T. Fey, Chairman and CEO, U.S. Preventive Medicine...

Actor Travolta Blames Psychotropic Drugs for US School Shootings

... insisted that if one carefully looks at the whole story , it has not so much to do with gun control but drugs. "I still think that if you analyze most of the school shootings, it is not gun control. It is [psychotropic] drugs at the bottom of it," New York Post quoted Travolta, as saying. The Hairspra...

Four Organ Transplants Dont Help, Canadian Teenager Dies

...ive the operation, and when he did, his miraculous story went around the world."You're slowly getting stronger and you realize 'I can make it through this,' and then as you keep pushing, you're able to walk a little bit, eat a little bit, and you realize that you made it through it ," he said in a TV inter...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

... the long run. There is a fairy tale ending to the story of the 28-year-old Lee Cowden. Following her heart attack in 2004, Lee who was infertile after being diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome as a teenager was told it was too dangerous for her to continue with conventional IVF. But another trie...

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