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Survey Finds Wide HIV Ignorance in the UK

More than 20 percent people aged 18 to 24 in the UK are so i... of HIV as they have holes that let HIV in. More than one in ten young people believed that kissing spreads the growth of the HIV virus. HIV ignorance i...

Smokeless Tobacco Promotion

...tobacco (Swedish snus) is less hazardous to health than smoking tobacco. Arguing the case for providing such information, Carol Gartner and Wayne Hall (University of Queensland, Australia) point to the Swedish experience. Snus seems to be widelyused as an alternative to cigarettes in Sweden, contributin...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...bibe reported fewer heavy drinking days each month than drinkers who took a look-alike placebo pill. How... have been because they didnt feel so good, rather than because the drug just took away an urge to drink, alcohol researcher Raymond Anton said. Karhuvaar...

Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones

...for a new study has found that they are far better than traditionally grown crops. Dr Alyson Mitchell an...matoes have almost double the amount of flavonoids than compared to the tomatoes grown conventionally. Flavonoids are antioxidants that protect the heart ...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

... people prefer to wait for a higher return, rather than going for the money now. This is the first time...more successful, due to their cognitive abilities, than their less intelligent contemporaries. On the other hand, they are generally more tolerant of risk a...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

...ugs, as the prices of Indian drugs are far cheaper than those of Pakistan. Dr Qaiser Waheed, President of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA), was quoted as saying, that low cost of Indian medicine is the major factor behind the flood of medicines in Pakistans pharmaceutical markets...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...gle-nucleotide polymorphisms, in their ORMDL3 gene than healthy counterparts. "We are confident that we have discovered something new and exciting about childhood asthma," said Miriam Moffatt, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at London's Imperial College. "These novel findings do not explain...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...sional," she said. Chang, who has surveyed more than 300 diabetics in Taiwan, also observed that people feared that doctors would not be interested in discussing alternative medicines, or that they might 'get into trouble' for taking them. "The evidence is that patients are using these products and ...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

... mice also had stronger bones and longer leg bones than the control subjects. A report published in New Scientist magazine says that the treatment has already been tried in the US on three children with OI whilst still in the womb, with promising early results seen after the babies were born. Fisk b...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

... Both figures are in 2005 dollars. Slightly more than a quarter of all claims against pediatricians were...oing to trial, often because settlement costs less than the median cost of going to trial 40,000 dollars. Settlement is not an admission of guilt. "Malpra...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

... the California Air Resources Board, resigned less than a week after Arnold Schwarzenegger fired the boar...itted to their own carbon trading scheme, and more than 400 mayors have pledged their cities to reduce emissions. And the green tide is now rising in Wash...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...y kind and current exposure was unexpected. More than one in four of the individuals included in the ECR...ure would be beneficial to a much wider population than previously expected. Furthermore, cat allergen levels were ubiquitous in cat-owning communities, and...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...s is famous for, there is plenty of action. More than 100 weddings are planned at the popular Chapel of the Flowers. At the Little White Chapel the schedule was filled with 460 weddings, with more possible. "We can't make any more reservations but we will take walk-ins and drive-ups, and fit them in...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...DGFB) results in a higher-grade form of the cancer than that caused by PDGFB alone. The high-grade tumors ...ibitor, which killed more of the combination cells than those infected only with platelet-derived growth factor. This connection to Akt, the researchers n...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...eton favorites, for example, can be heard at fewer than 6.5 meters (25 feet) from their vehicle. Think y...lars. If your car alarm goes off at night for more than three minutes, your car can be towed and you may receive a fine of 350 dollars. Alan Fierstein, of...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...Mission, a large Inuit woman lay buried under more than six feet of ice and dirt for more than 75 years. The permafrost plus the womans ample fat stores kept the virus in her lungs so well pres...

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Canada Lags Behind U.S

...nada is rising, but it is still significantly less than that in the United States. Dr. David Birnie and colleagues from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute report that, between 1995 and 2003, the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in adults who survived a cardiac arrest increased from 5....

Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

...t aboriginal people who use heroin are less likely than their non-Aboriginal counterparts to use methadon...g heroin users, Aboriginal people were less likely than non-Aboriginal people to use methadone throughout the follow-up period. Previous studies have show...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...il-fuel lobbyists who dismissed it as nothing more than a greenmongering scare. Thirty years ago, only a tiny number of individuals -- "climate scientists and the granola-and-sandals brigade," says US historian Spencer Weart -- took notice of the idea that unbridled burning of oil, gas and coal might ev...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...much more likely to suffer from migraine headaches than teens from wealthier households. The findings, ...respect to gender, age and geographic region. More than 32,000 teens were identified in this sample, and more than half of them (58.4 percent) answered the ...

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