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SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...is a great ignorance buster and is targeted at the urban and semi-urban youngsters who shy away from seeking help. The help-line will initially run for a three-month trial period till April, and depending on the response we receive we may go into the second-level of a multi-pronged strategy for fighting HI...

Women Who Deny or Hide Pregnancies Get Little Psychiatric Care

... of more than 30,000 birth records at a Midwestern urban hospital, Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D., of Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues found that pregnancy denial and concealment is relatively rare, occurring in only 0.26 percent of all deliveries. However, fewer than 5 percent — four of 81 ...

Incidence of Cancers Among Chinese Women on the Rise

...e number of female cancer patients in the Shanghai urban area has almost doubled in 20 years and more younger women are contracting the disease, the center reports. The latest figure shows that one woman out of every 100 in Shanghai is a cancer patient and that women account for 56 percent of the city's ...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...ce issues that are completely different. While an urban woman faces issues such as divorce and sexual discrimination or abuse at work, her ‘ country cousin’ faces issues like illiteracy, early marriage and childbirth, female infanticide and a decreased access to health care. A western woman may face i...

India to Beat Blindness Elimination Target by 2015: Health Minister

... and we are conducting more and more camps in both urban and rural areas to deal with it. In 2006, we had c...which means one eye surgeon for 100,000 people. In urban areas, there is one eye surgeon for 20,000 people and in rural areas the ratio is one eye surgeon fo...

Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers

...rveys used in this study, has led other studies of urban families and their children under stress and his research has shown links between chronic parent stress and children’s emotional well-being. This new study is innovative because it links stress to objective health and biological indicators of immune ...

Researchers Urge Regulators to Rethink Strategies for Soot Emission

...ver a larger geographic region. "We’re seeing that urban pollution doesn’t stay contained in the cities, but impacts rural and other downwind areas, creating even more complicated issues for regulators," Robinson said. Fine particles such as smoke or dust form droplets in clouds and affect how much sun ...

Down Syndrome Testing for All Mums?

... why Down syndrome births are higher in rural than urban areas of //Queensland, according to senior Queensl...ate of Down syndrome births to mothers who live in urban areas, but not to mothers who live in rural areas. The authors say that possible reasons for highe...

Incidence of Malaria Has Come Down, Says Economic Survey

...nother mosquito-borne infection has, now spread to urban and semi-urban areas in the country. "In recent years, dengue is increasingly being reported from semi-urban and rural areas due to expanding urbanisation and lifestyle changes," the survey remarks. In 2006, dengue fever affected 10,891 people of...

Busy Intersections Invite People to Walk More

...n 10 major U.S. cities to determine to what extent urban design guidelines increase walking. Only two of four smart growth criteria investigated held up as reasons for walking — the presence of four-way intersections and a diverse business environment. The other two — housing density and the length of ...

Diesel Exposure Model Reduces Allergy Risk Assessment Errors

... the UC study, says that isn’t necessarily true in urban environments, where infants are exposed to a large number of pollutants, and he advocates using the so-called land-use regression model. "Unlike proximity models," says Ryan, "land use regression lets us consider more complex exposure factors—like ...

Access to Pornography Among Teenagers on the Rise

.... A total of 429 students aged 13 and 14 from 17 urban and rural schools across Alberta, Canada, were sur...r DVDs at least once, compared to one-third of the urban participants. Thompson is unsure why rural teens access porn more on video and DVD, but suggests tha...

Minister Supports Private Sector In NHS

...cility is useful to people from both the rural and urban setup. Though there was some kind of apprehension when the change had commenced, it is well understood now. People realize now that the private sector in NHS has actually benefited patients immensely. Waiting time has been reduced to a large exte...

Urban Poor in Dire Need of Proper Healthcare: Report

Healthcare facilities in urban India continue to be "alarmingly dismal" with over 180 million urban poor having only 1,083 family welfare centres// to diagnose their diseases, says an industry analysi...

Kids Living Near Parks Less Likely to Be Overweight

...s such as park and lawns in their neighborhoods in urban areas are less likely to be overweight//, said a US study. Researchers studied 7,334 children, ages three to 18, in Marion County in the US and used body mass index to determine which children were overweight. They also looked at the amount of gr...

Allergies Not Just for Children Anymore

...on (especially ozone and diesel exhaust as seen in urban areas), excessive use of antibiotics early in life and exposure to tobacco smoke (especially for asthma). The first line of defense is prevention. Keeping a child away from second hand smoke (and not smoking as the child ages), controlling air poll...

50% Of India’s Children Are Malnourishe

...mortality in rural areas is 62% while it is 42% in urban regions. Underweight children account for are 46% while in China it is only 8%. On the nutrition front, it is as poor as Burkina, Faso and Cambodia which are the poorest countries in the world. On the brighter side, 51% of pregnant women visit the ...

Osteopathic Medical Education Will Help With Shortages

...ial focus on primary care, especially in rural and urban underserved areas, osteopathic physicians will be able to have a greater impact on the U.S. population’s health and wellbeing. Growing numbers of DOs will provide some relief to projected physician workforce shortages, which are slated to reach a c...

Breastfed Kids Enjoy Greater Social Mobility Than Bottle-fed Children

... Childhood. Over 3000 children from 16 rural and urban areas across England and Scotland were monitored from birth, as part of the Boyd Orr Study of Diet and Health in Pre-War Britain (1937-1939). The study results are based on 1414 people in their 60s and 70s, for whom information on breastfeeding in ...

India Lags Far Behind in Controlling Maternal Deaths

...ailable to them while the ratio is the opposite in urban areas. Non-functional health centres, scarcity of blood banks, inadequate number of specialists like gynaecologists and anaesthetists in rural areas and the poor condition of the transport system are some of the bottlenecks of the problem. 'Sev...

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