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Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...ealth and indoor air quality for 49 Inuit children under 5 years of age in the Baffin Region of Nunavut. They found that lower respiratory tract infection was significantly associated with indoor carbon dioxide levels and occupancy. On average, there were 6.1 occupants per house (as compared with 3.34.4 ...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

As Kerala staggers under the whipping rod of Chikungunya, the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has been cornered over its quest for a 'politically correct' low-cost health cover plan . Incidentally, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government had dumped its ...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

... anxiety, Swanik added. A follow-up study is now under way in UD's state-of-the-art Human Performance Laboratory with support from the University of Delaware Research Foundation. We're trying to identify people who are or are not 'caught off guard' during different landing tasks. Then we'd like to matc...

Sexual Abuse Payout Re-opens Old Wounds

...less. Lawyers said they did the best they could under the imperfect rules of the civil justice system."All you can do is measure the legal implications of your case," said Raymond P. Boucher, the lead attorney for the victims. "If you are a victim in 1980 and you are the only victim [of that priest] and...

Human Trial for Universal Influenza Vaccine Underway

...0s, VIB researchers connected to Ghent University, under the direction of Prof. Emeritus Walter Fiers, invented a universal flu vaccine. One protein on the surface of the influenza virus, the so-called M2 protein, remains unchanged in all human flu viruses known, including the strains that caused the pande...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

... also suggests that supplementing sildenafil, sold under the names Viagra, Revatio and under various other names, to group therapy can make the treatment more effective than sildenafil alone. ...

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

...he identities of the students who will be admitted under the new reservation criteria, and a total secrecy of identities will be maintained to ensure that those students do not get harassed or suffer from any social stigma. Meanwhile, students at the university have welcomed the move. "I don't have any...

Fortis Plans Multi-speciality Hospital in Jaipur

...s initiated the implementation of the new hospital under the Escorts hospital brand, with specialisation in cardiac care, orthopaedics, neurosciences, renal sciences and gastroenterology. Though refusing to give a detail on investments in the state, Singh said a 100-bed hospital costs between Rs.1-2 bill...

Millions of Births Still Go Unreported in India

...istration of births and deaths was made compulsory under the Registration of Births & Deaths (RBD) Act, 1969. As a signatory to the U.N Convention, 1989 on the 'Rights of the Child', the country has a responsibility to ensure registration of all births, as registration of birth is the first right of the ch...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...t of the tasks that were to be completed this year under the presidents flu plan have been finished, officials said. The remaining 14 percent of those should be done by the end of the year, Dr. Venkayya said.A significant remaining challenge, officials said, is that the country has grown tired of pandemic ...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...an kill them. But the successive plans have come under fire from critics who say it is not only intrusive but also bureaucratically impossible to keep an eye on all pregnancies in a country of 1.1 billion people. Encouraging people to abandon their babies was a "ludicrous" idea, Aravamudan said, becaus...

Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

...und that it's possible to calm aggressive persons under the influence if they're given a rewarding task th...a was to see if they could distract those who were under the influence from their hostile situation. If they could tax their limited powers of concentratio...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...mplex childhood disease, but we have many projects under way, said senior author Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Center for Applied Genomics. Our goal at the Center is to discover the major disease-causing variants and genes that influence complex pediatric diseases, thus providing a ...

UK Licensing Law Changes Have Trebled Overnight Alcohol Related Visits to Emergency Care

...valent to a rise of 15% over the two months. Just under 3% (79) of these visits were alcohol related in March 2005. But by March 2006, this proportion had risen to 8% (250). The number of visits as a result of assault, associated with excess drinking, doubled, and the number of associated hospital admis...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...ly unveiled plans to make a stevia-based sweetener under the trade name Rebiana. And even though the herb...ia chamber of commerce, a trade group of producers under the aegis of Paraguay's ministry of industry. The market for stevia has grown in Argentina, Brazil...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...ommonly found in soil and can produce nerve toxins under certain conditions. Botulinum toxin has become so ...oods, such as beef stew, soups, hash and barbecue, under such brand names as Sweet Sue's, Bryan Meats and Castleberry's. It also makes store-brand products f...

Galvus Soon To Be Seen On European Shelves

...an one treatment to bring their blood sugar levels under control, therefore the efficacy and tolerability of Galvus in combination with other medicines is especially significant. As of now, Novartis expects to resubmit its Galvus diabetes treatment for U.S. approval around the middle of 2009, while start...

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

...pers. Sonu says There was a time when women were under constant sexual subjugation but now its the turn of the men to bear the brunt. Sonu is in the US regarding some shows. He is believed to have received threatening calls. The caller has told him that he would be killed when he comes back to Mumbai. ...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...n of insulin secretion needed to keep your glucose under control when you eat. Therefore, the brain is exposed to less insulin. Since insulin turns on Irs2 in the brain, that means lower Irs2 activity, which weve linked to longer lifespan in the mouse. The study was co-authored by Akiko Taguchi and Lynn...

New Treatment Boosts Survival Chances for Child Leukaemia

...s success rate drops significantly in infants aged under 12 months, where it falls to a range of 17-45 perc...udy of 482 infants from 22 countries who were aged under one year and had been diagnosed with the disease. In addition to the standard drug for acute lymph...

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