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Tag: "summer" at medical news

Media Plays Crucial Role In Flu Vaccinations

...en were brought to a clinic of the VUMC during the summer months of 2004. Various factors like physician recommendation, media coverage, and other people going in for such vaccinations influenced the parents to vaccinate their children also. As many as 60% of the vaccinations were accounted for by the advic...

Tourism Industry Affected By Bird Flu

...ak in the country has badly affected the country’s summer tourist season. The birds in Kusadasi are reported to be affected by the avian influenza, which also happens to be a place which British tourists visit in large numbers. The actual state of affairs of the country’s tourism industry will be known o...

Briton tourists warned of Bird flu threat in Turkey

...ing British tourists to keep away from turkey this summer to avoid spread of bird flu virus into Britain. Despite these warnings of a possible spread of bird flu tourists are booking holidays in Turkish resorts.// The Association of British Travel Agents had reported that the tourist season to Turkey is as ...

Season affects weight loss drive: summers the best!

...ous at the New Year’s but it gets relegated to the summer season. March is when most people actually try to follow through on it, as put by a study based on a survey. According to a survey by the research firm NPD Group, March is the peak dieting month, with 26 percent of adults saying they're on one vs. ...

UK children getting high on binge drinking

...ve illustrated the growing alcohol problem. In the summer a survey from the NHS showed that the number of children under 15 buying alcohol illegally had doubled in 15 years. It said that the annual survey of drinking, drug taking and smoking among 11- to 15-year-olds showed that little progress was made l...

Hospital Admissions Of Kids Plummet After Harry Porter Hit The Stores

... mainly about the number of kids admitted over the summer weekends in the emergency ward suffering from musculoskeletal pains and damages due // to outdoor activities like inline skating and microscooters. <brThe time period under consideration was the weekends of 2003-2005. The study included children...

Reindeer Provide Valuable Insights Into Sleep Disorders

...lty in coping up with constant daylight during the summer and darkness during winter. Other methods of indication, in addition to their body clocks would be required for effective adaptation of these animals to the alternating extremes of light and darkness. An analysis was done on two different species o...

Dealing With Stress Results In Better Academic Performance

...for both parents and teachers, and study clubs and summer camps for students. Particular skills are imparted to students, which help them to cope with their problems more effectively, which also contributes towards better academic performance....

Indian Healthcare Facilities Come In For Praise

...ollapsed disc in the lower back. 'That was in the summer of 2004. After that nothing really happened, but the pain became worse. I was never offered any operation on the NHS.' The Parrys then got in touch with a medical company in Warwickshire that arranges for medical treatment in India. We sent them a ...

Developing Specific Skills Ensure Better Grades In US Kids

...ls and better family management besides conducting summer camps and study tours. 'These programs are important and they teach skills that children need to negotiate in the classroom and the school environment. When we teach them to children they are more successful academically,' the researchers conclude in...

Aussie teens applauded for declining sun tan

...an teenagers aged 12 to 17 by telephone during the summer of 2003/04, and found that 68 % of those aged 12-1...eenagers were still getting sun burnt on a typical summer weekend. Releasing the results on Sunday, Cancer Council Australia's national skin cancer committee...

Legal Action against Authority Regarding Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Diseas

...rough air conditioning units. It is more common in summer and was first identified in 1976 at a Philadelphia hotel where the American Legion organisation was holding a meeting. Young people usually recover completely from the disease that has a mortality rate of 10 to 15 %. The investigators believe that ...

Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany

...aid it was unknown if the dead birds had spent the summer in Germany, which is free of bird flu, or were in migration from Russia, where the H5N1 virus has been detected, to winter feeding grounds. So far the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus has reached Russia, Romania and Turkey. The only poultry infe...

Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...studies that infertility treatments offered during summer have a high success rate. Yes! Women who undergo fertility treatment during the summer are twice as likely to become pregnant //when compared to trials in winter. The success rate in summ...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

...s. A joint House Senate committee is expected this summer to determine which version prevails. (Source: Nature Medcine)...

Sunscreen Lotions Offering High Protection May Be Better Than Usual Sunscreens

... weeklong, randomized, controlled trial during the summer of 2001 to determine the effect of sunscreen protection on sun-exposure behavior. Three hundred sixty-seven vacationers from four French seaside resorts were given one of three sunscreens: SPF 40 labeled as “high protection,” SPF 40 labeled as “basic...

Stem cells form blood vessels

...s kills a living human embryo. President Bush last summer decided that federal funding would be permitted only for stem cell cultures that already existed and were made from embryos that were to be discarded by fertility clinics. The aim was to prevent further killing for research purposes of other human em...

Prevention And Timely Medical Care Can Help With Bug Bites

...hat generally runs from March to October, although summer is definitely the worst span. Antihistamines like Benadryl (either the oral or the topical form) can be very effective in relieving the itch and decreasing the swelling, or hive-like response, said the researchers.. Topical steroids, such as hydroco...

Red Color Causes The Allergic Reaction To Strawberries

...ction some people suffer// when eating the popular summer fruit, Swedish researchers say. "The allergen is in some way or other related to the red color, but it is not clear exactly how. We need to investigate more proteins," Rikard Alm of Lund University said. Alm was quoted in the magazine Chemistry Wor...

Mango: the cancer combater

...atment it will not be so bad after all. Cheers to summer and of course mango! Source: ITRC, Luckno...

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