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Global Warming Threatens Tibet

...rce of the Yangtze River are shrinking much faster than we had anticipated," The China Daily quoted Li Yaj...of this century is 2.1 to 4 degrees Celsius higher than now -- a reasonable hypothesis given global warming trends -- this figure will increase to almost ha...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...vise patients to take selenium supplements greater than those in multiple vitamins," he said. Stranges' ... in a daily dose of 200 micrograms. Thats higher than the Institute of Medicine's recommended dietary intake of 55 micrograms per day of selenium for men ...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

... 5'10", American men are now significantly shorter than men from countries like Denmark (6 footers) or the...s -- men and women -- are now shorter, on average, than the citizens of every single country in Western and Northern Europe. How can one explain that reve...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...an truck drivers are known to be more prone to HIV than any other segment of the population, in the US too...sk of contracting a whole range of health problems than most others . They account for nearly 15 percent of U.S. work-related deaths. Obesity is rampant a...

Backpacks and Backaches

..., like Sharon, who carry backpacks that weigh more than 20% -25% of their body weight are more likely to d... experts suggest that backpacks must weigh no more than 15% of total body weight, the lesser the better. Apart from weighty backpacks, those that do not...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...that African scientists have been working for more than a quarter century on developing resistant varieties of maize by selecting and crossing varieties with various degrees of resistance to the virus. They said the resistance to the virus requires multiple genes located on different chromosomes, thus ...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...nce of overweight and obese horses was much higher than the reported 5 percent. We thought it was at a lev...rses in the study were found to have a BCS greater than 6. Thirty-two percent of the horses in the study were found to have a BCS of greater than 6 but less...

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

...atalities and thousands more diagnoses every year, than in Australia, where there are about 1,000 deaths annually.Figures released by Cancer Research in April show cases have increased by 29 percent in men and 14 percent in women over the past 10 years. According to skin specialists, too many people mis...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ugs in the United States. They are prescribed more than drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholester...ficantly more likely to get a prescription for one than patients who did not....

Imaginary Friends are Good for Kids

...more content talking to an imaginary friend rather than a real one need not worry , for a new study has found that such a pal can have a positive effect on children. Karen Majors, an educational psychologist at the Institute of Education in London also insists that imaginary friends are not a sign that ...

Deficiency of Vitamin D Levels may Be Common in Healthy Kids

... intake, as well as body mass, and found that more than half of the children had low blood levels of vitamin D. Of the subjects, 55 percent of the children had inadequate vitamin D blood levels and 68 percent overall had low blood levels of the vitamin in the wintertime. "The best indicator of a pers...

Erection Drugs Don't Boost Men's Self-esteem

...ined that the drug "improved the sex lives of more than 30 million men worldwide". The findings will be published in the International Journal of Impotence Research....

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

...at patients show progressive memory loss over more than six months, and at least one or more of the supportive biomarker criteria-like atrophy in a particular part of the brain shown by MRI, abnormal biomarker proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, a specific pattern on PET of the brain, and a genetic mutat...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

Its hope revived for women who feel less than that, after a lumpectomy for breast cancer. Researchers from California-based company Cytori, claim that stem cells found in the ubiquitous tummy fat , can in fact be used to reconstruct breasts. If this is so, it would be killing two birds with one ...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

A study of more than 2,200 women at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jeffers...e advanced breast cancer at the time of diagnosis than Caucasian women. In addition, African American women tend to have breast cancer tumour types that...

Study Confirms Benefits of Chemo, Trastuzumab Combo to Battle Breast Cancer

...ucted the meta-analysis of 5 trials involving more than 13,000 women whose breast cancer was amenable to surgery, and found that it helps improve their chances. All the trials compared disease-free survival, overall survival and the risk of locoregional and distant recurrence of breast cancer in women g...

Genetic Marker That Increases Colon Cancer Risk Discovered

...ared the genetic makeup and family history of more than 1,800 colorectal cancer patients with that of 1,90... to be 23 percent more likely to have colon cancer than individuals without the marker. The genetic link between the marker and colon cancer was especial...

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

...s and retinoblastomas tended to have longer delays than other cancers. In addition, physician-caused delays tended to be longer than those caused by parental or patient recognition of disease. Overall, studies showed that delays w...

Genetic Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer

...nic Cohort Study, an epidemiological study of more than 215,000 people from Los Angeles and Hawaii created in 1993 by Brian Henderson, dean, Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Laurence Kolonel of the University of Hawaii. According to Henderson, co-author of the colorectal cancer study, Having previous...

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

...ith the demand for healthcare services set to more than double in the next five to ten years, the Indian h... the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services...

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