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Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...mmense. Returning doctors should be seen as a long term asset to enhance the practices of existing networks rather than taking a short term view that the existing network many end up with a smaller size of the cake. Medical infrastructure...

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...million cases of serious illness resulting in long term consequences such as deafness, learning disabilities, paralysis and mental retardation. This simple, life-saving vaccine can prevent Hib pneumonia and meningitis in children, often called the invisible cause of forgotten child killers in Asia, said...

IVF Tourism Marred by Ethical Differences in EU

... that are encouraging reproductive tourism." The term 'reproductive tourism' refers to people travelling to countries other than their own for fertility treatments because it may be cheaper or easier to access that over there. According to Guido Pennings, professor of ethics and bioethics at the Univer...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...hology in the German Society of Psychology. "Short term advantages are preferred to the long-term variety." Ernst made his remarks as a scientific panel prepared to release a United Nations report on global warming, part of a massive effort every six or seven years by the UN to gather consensus among th...

Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...llectomy in the short term, but the overall longer term benefit is still unclear, and any benefits have t...that, until we have more evidence about the longer term benefits of surgery, it is difficult for doctors to provide firm advice to patients. The main prob...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...d by the US Food and Drug Administration, but long term research was not required for approval and the long term safety of menstrual suppression remains uncertain, she warns. Some proponents have argued that men...

Health Budget Must Focus On Access To Medical Services, Fitness And Nutrition

...quity into the health system and to provide a long term vision through promoting better health, fitness and activity in the Australian population, Dr Haikerwal said....

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

...ere let off with less than a three-and-a-half year term with a possible parole in August 2009, leading to all round outrage. They too showed no tinge of remorse....

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...hanges suggestive of an acute coronary syndrome, a term that encompasses both heart attack and unstable angina. Troponin-I, a blood test for heart damage, was positive in 95 percent of patients. Twenty percent of patients were unable to breathe on their own and needed a respirator. In all patients, card...

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

...rontology: Social Sciences. "Traditionally, long term care has been provided in nursing homes, but there is a movement to help older people live at home and in the community," said Naoko Muramatsu, associate professor of community health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health and lead author of the...

Cutting Calories, Not Exercise, Plays Bigger Role In Maintaining Weight Loss

...follow-up study. This could have a positive long term effect on weight maintenance by giving individuals a more easily attainable physical activity goal, which they may be more likely to pursue. Ard says research indicates that failing to reach an exercise goal can cause a decrease in self-efficacy an...

Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function

...evel enough to keep the mice alive over the short term without dynamin 1. 'The enzyme's function appears to be much more subtle than we had imagined,' Dr. Ryan says. 'It may not be necessary under conditions of low synaptic activity. In those cases, we suspect that other related enzymes, such as dynam...

Mediterranean Diet Could Help to Prevent COPD

...onic obstructive pulmonary disease) is an umbrella term for chronic progressive lung disease, such as emphysema and bronchitis. The researchers tracked the health of almost 43,000 men, who were already part of the US Health Professionals Follow up Study. This began in 1986 and involved more than 50,000...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...ildhood malnutrition. "Why, in an era that saw the term 'girl power' coined, are millions of girls being condemned to a life of inequality and poverty?" the report asks. While many of the most shocking figures in the Plan International report relate to developing nations, sexual discrimination is still ...

Study Finds That Fruit Flies also Have Free Wills

...bjective notion of "Free Will" is an oxymoron: the term 'will' would not apply if our actions were completely random and it would not be 'free' if they were entirely determined. So if there is free will, it must be somewhere between chance and necessity - which is exactly where fly behavior comes to lie,"...

IT Delays Putting Patient Safety at Risk, Say Senior NHS Staff

... information about implementation timetables, long term goals of the programme, and value for money. Trusts also need help in prioritizing IT modernization, they conclude....

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...mmended. Very little is known about exposure, long term or otherwise, and safety under free conditions of use, and whether and how functional foods interfere with drugs designed for the same target. Nynke de Jong and her colleagues from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in th...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...raise the issues of mercury contamination and long term medical remediation of the victims at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The HLL had closed down permanently its controversial thermometer plant at Kodaikanal six years ago in the wake of allegations by environmental activists that it was polluting...

Research Favors Aspirin In Prevention Of Pre-Eclampsia

...gnancy, whether benefits outweigh theoretical long term risks is more difficult to judge." The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the latest study findings are "very valuable". Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the college, was quoted: "It is a moderate reduction of around 10 per cent,...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...and said it is "serious". The country needs a long term strategy to control the deadly H5N1 strain, the FAO said. Though no cases of human infection have been reported in Bangladesh, some 157,000 chickens have been culled and 1.5 million eggs destroyed as the virus spread to 11 out of 64 districts since...

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