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Scientists Assess Risk of Flu Pandemic Spread Via Global Airlines

...r traffic. Census information from more than 3,000 urban centers in 220 countries and related disease patterns from those areas also was analyzed. The model already was introduced in a previous study conducted by the same researchers more than a year ago, showing in detail how air-transportation-network ...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...umed a variety of forms including monkey menace in urban areas, crop raids by ungulates and wild pigs, depredation by elephants and cattle and human lifting by tigers and leopards. The Minister has also called for increasing financial assistance to the States for paying compensation to the villagers for ...

Chronotype, a Measure to Assess Patterns of Daily Activities

...s the influence of sunlight as a zeitgeber because urban dwellers are typically exposed to less natural light than individuals inhabiting less densely populated areas. The authors propose that the gradual uncoupling of the circadian clock of city dwellers from local sun time may reflect the relative streng...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

... has been reduced to a trunk sewer passing through urban towns, carrying a heavy load of pesticides released both from factories as well as agricultural run off from the fields, says the report released by Janhit Foundation. The foundation is an independent, not-for-profit NGO actively engaged in the prom...

Explosion Of Rat Population Poses Health Threat In UK

...d litter, bird feeders, compost bins and neglected urban property to be responsible for the rise. The National Rodent Survey -United Kingdom, looked into records from over 30 local councils and concluded that the need to recycle was the major factor. Refuse collecting containers given to residents weren`...

Telephone Outreach Boost CRC Screening In Urban Minority

...nce of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) in an urban minority// population, constituting predominantly ...matically increase the rate of CRC screening in an urban minority population. By providing such screening, health insurers and employers could find a signifi...

Lifestyles Cause Concern To Welsh Health Officials

... a relatively young age." He said these deprived urban areas would soon replace communities of South Wales. "It looks like we have got a set of attitudes to food that look fairly entrenched in terms of fast food and high levels of fat," he said. "Group one isn't surprising. It's the classic ex-mining...

Indians Make One Major Human Race: US Study

...nisation, complex genetic diseases associated with urban and western lifestyles have risen to near-epidemic proportions, making genetic cataloguing and association studies of particular importance. The research group also includes other researchers from the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine at the Keck S...

Research on to Find Link Between Airborne Pollutants and Respiratory Illness

...ly found an association between small increases in urban particulates and health effects, including increased illness and deaths, particularly in people with respiratory and cardiovascular disease," says Hopke. Hopke is part of an international team of experienced investigators testing the hypothesis th...

Researchers Make Progress in Studying Genetic Traits of India-born Populations

...nization, complex genetic diseases associated with urban and western lifestyles have risen to near-epidemic proportions, making genetic cataloging and association studies of particular importance. In response to this dearth of information, a team of researchers, including Pragna I. Patel, professor of bi...

Insurance Cover for Girl Child

...nd education of various social groups in rural and urban areas against the female foeticide. Participating in the discussion, Members of Parliament said that Panchayats should be involved for creating mass awareness about the issue of female foeticide at the grassroot level. Suitable incentive schemes s...

Pregnant Women Can Minimize Risk Of Rodent-Based Virus

...f Iowa at UI Hospitals and Clinics. "Women in both urban and rural areas should be aware of the risks and take appropriate steps to protect themselves." Bonthius said while field mice pose the most common risk, there have been instances of LCMV-infection involving mice and hamsters purchased at pet store...

HIV Cases In India May Be Lower Than Official Estimates

...en and women, in the age group of 15-49, from both urban and rural areas, and from all socio-economic groups, in Guntur and compared their results with the estimation of HIV burden for the district obtained using the official method based on sentinel surveillance in large public-sector hospitals. The re...

Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity

...action by individuals, schools, local authorities, urban planners and employers to make it easy for us all to be physically active.” Play schools would be asked to increase the physical activity of children which would, “help children and young people to maintain a healthy weight, eat a healthy diet and ...

Indian Men Need Smaller Condoms

...ed of representatives from all classes, religions, urban and rural levels. Doctor Chander Puri, a specialist in reproductive health at the Indian Council of Medical Research, points out the need for custom-made condoms, as those available currently are too large. “Since Indians would be embarrassed ...

Integrated Child Development Scheme

...790 in rural areas, 805 in tribal areas and 523 in urban slums. This was stated by the Minister of State for Women and Child Development Smt. Renuka Chowdhury in a reply to a question by Shri Janardhana Poojary in Rajya Sabha today. She further stated that the services provided to children below six yea...

Urban Women , Beware Of Bulimia !!

...ur at random, bulimia is more likely to be seen in urban environments. A number of other mental disorder...ia, psychosis and depression, are also linked with urban life. Bulimia, is thought to affect up to four per cent of the UK population. The study found th...

Unsafe Sex, HIV Infected Transfusion Spreading AIDS in Madhya Pradesh

...le were factors contributing to high prevalence in urban areas, traditional practice of selling sex by communities like Bedia, Banchhda and Sansi have added to the woes in rural areas," a survey says. "They have little or no knowledge of AIDS or its prevention. They don't even know what venereal diseases a...

Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative and Hawaii Biotech Partner Against Dengue Fever

... mosquito transmitted disease and occurs mostly in urban areas of Latin American and Asia with an unknown level in Africa. The disease causes substantial illness and significant economic costs for hospitalizations and treatment. Efforts to control the mosquitoes are expensive, of varying success, and diffi...

Iron rich rice to beat anaemia in children

...onducted a study on the benefits of the rice in an urban slum in Bangalore in cooperation with St John's National Academy of Health Sciences. The study found: "Extruded rice fortified with micronised ground ferric pyrophosphate (MGFP) has excellent sensory characteristics." "Fed in a school lunch meal, i...

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