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Alcoholism & Dependence Seen More Commonly In Early Alcohol Drinkers

...op dependence on alcohol faster, and face a longer struggle with alcohol throughout their lives. The study's lead author, Dr Ralph W Hingson of the Boston University School of Public Health's Youth Alcohol Prevention Centre said that while people could recover from such a problem they are generally at a gre...

Residents Doctors Hold Candle Light Procession

...stitutions, Lal said. He claimed that the doctors struggle against the reservation policy of the Centre for the OBCs in elite educational institution would continue. Source:PTI News...

Aggresive Therapy Needed for Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries

...hy when patients have heart rate problems, doctors struggle with the best treatment approach, often opting for the least-invasive options. Transvenous pacemakers can increase infection risk in already-compromised patients. Also gaining adequate access for lead insertion can be difficult in a neck secured be...

Vulnerable Suffer As NHS Budgets

...fering due to cuts in NHS expenditure, as councils struggle to deal with the situation, a study says.// The study, which has been commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), discovered that almost seven out of 10 local authorities, in areas with a NHS deficit, have suffered. Cost-cutting meas...

Junk Food Promotional Ads To Be Restricted: Blair

...ioned that the National Health Service (NHS) would struggle to deal with health issues in the future unless individuals showed initiative in tackling problems of obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse, and urged Britons to take more responsibility for their health. It is worth pausing for a moment to consider t...

Fittest Of Newborn Neurons Survive

...ells are involved in how we learn." This ongoing struggle for connections between young and mature neurons is apparently more than just a spectacle designed to keep Mother Nature amused: the fact that enhanced learning is correlated with adult neurogenesis suggests constant rearrangements within neural netw...

Children With OCD Are Often The More Bullied Lot

...n (OCD and bullying)." About one in 100 children struggle with OCD, an anxiety disorder that leads people to engage in rituals such as hand washing to drive away obsessive thoughts about germs or other worries. Rituals often become so involved that they interfere with a person's ability to function, accordi...

Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

...s, the adivasis, the urban and the rural poor, who struggle for two square meals a day. Some hard truths that have emerged from the survey should not be undermined. With 45% of Brahmins breaking the ground rules of their belief by consuming meat, and with ‘aggressive’ vegetarianism being used to coerce the ...

Researcher Hits Bulls-Eye for Antibiotic Target

...in almost all living things because most organisms struggle to find food or nutrients and have had to develop a way to avoid starvation, he said. "Bacteria typically are in an environment lacking nutrients and respond by limiting their reproduction," he said. "And that's a good thing because if they were gr...

Children of Alcoholics More Likely to get Addicted

...nsuccessful, vulnerable and anxious." They also struggle to develop strong personal relationships, the study says. Source-IANS...

Kalam's Intervention Brings Hope to Orissa Student

...r President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam intervened //in his struggle to secure a study loan. Imran Alli, 23, a resident of Bhadrak town, secured the first position in his graduation in social work. He managed to get admission at the National Institute of Social Work and Social Science here to pursue postgraduate stu...

Burnout imminent with round-the-clock stress

...always on call. It is hard to slow down and people struggle to find the time to relax. This has obvious health implications." Not surprising that work-related anxiety and depression has simply doubled in a matter of ten years crossing more than a million....

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

...s detected with HIV. Since then it has been a long struggle and life has been akin to carrying the burden of a...rongly feel that generic ARVs are essential in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and are committed to providing high quality, cost effective generics," said Malvind...

Malayali Nurses - Lifeline of Keralites Abroad

... play a major role. After their initial years of struggle abroad, the Malayali nurses are now settled and li...nt or the medical profession. Perhaps their own struggle and the condescending glances they had to face back home in Kerala, where many look down on the nurs...

Doctors to give complete information on prescriptions to patients

... communication does need to occur -- some patients struggle with poor literacy.” The American Medical Association has brought out guidelines fro doctors as to what is to be told to the patients. This would prevent the problems due to lack of communication. As per the guidelines, oral counseling should be gi...

Call To Increase Family Physicians

...imary care specialties, millions of Americans will struggle to obtain high-quality, affordable care." In response to the study's findings, the AAFP has identified a number of goals it plans to pursue to help reform the family physician workforce, including: 1. Encourage its 94,000 members to implement the...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

...t psychosocial development. Children and teens who struggle with this problem also have heightened risk for clinically significant psychiatric and psychosocial problems as adults. Cognitive behavioral therapy, which has been shown to work for adults, now appears to benefit children as well. The treatment i...

HIV Takes Advantage of Rivalry among T cells

...on: A novel HIV study has demonstrated how intense struggle among the human immune system's T cells gives the leeway to the virus to survive harm and take on a more virulent form, developing into the advanced stages of AIDS. // The study, which uses a computer model of simultaneous virus and immune system evo...

Patient Safety Not Addressed by NHS

... get this information and that all major countries struggle with it. But without that knowledge, and the reasons behind it, improvement cannot take place. "There is clearly room for improvement in compliance with standards on safety. And this goes for the independent sector, which needs to raise its game o...

Alzheimer's - From Curiosity To Worldwide Disease

...members and friends, have orientation problems and struggle with speech. "The presentation in Tuebingen did not necessarily get the hoped for attention," writes Alzheimer biographer Konrad Maurer. Hundred years later, the situation has reversed. In view of an ageing society, Alzheimer's disease is regarded ...

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