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Additives in Baby Products Raise Fresh Concerns in New Zealand

...ula for fear that it has additives not cleared for use in New Zealand . This warning has raised fresh con...uper market for the past six months. It is also in use at more than half of the countrys hospitals. The four products identified as a risk by the authority...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...tus of each child as well as the village. The maps use colour coding to the grade the child - the colour red indicates severe malnutrition, yellow moderate malnourishment and green normal. The charts stating the health status of each child is prominently displayed at Anganwadi centres, stirring the mot...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...stead of on an empty stomach, we could potentially use 40 percent (or even less) of the drug," said Ratain. "Since lapatinib costs about $2,900 a month, this could save each patient 1,740 dollars or more a month." Topping off that meal with grapefruit juice, "which may also increase plasma concentratio...

Patients Not Complying With Their Dermatologic Problem

...ill know they have a treatment that works and will use it as needed to keep their scalp psoriasis under c...their doctor, worry less about adverse effects and use their medication more regularly, he said. Media Contacts: Karen Richardson, krchrdsn@wfubmc.edu; S...

Diabetes may Lead to More Complications

...ar to spend more days in the intensive care unit , use more ventilator support and have more complications during hospitalization for trauma than non-diabetics. Approximately 17 million Americans have diabetes, with one-third remaining undiagnosed, according to background information in the article. T...

Alien Hand Syndrome Causes Random Hand Movement

...t wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the healthy hand to restrain the alien hand. A new study identified the areas of the brain involved in both voluntary and involuntary movement and found that neural activity was restricted to the primary motor cortex during the unconscious motor ac...

Study Finds Genetic Link Between Smoking Addiction and Major Depression

...a personality trait. In addition, clinicians could use the findings to identify those who are at risk of developing major depression or nicotine addiction. When they see people with a history of conduct disorder, they may be able to predict those people who could develop major depression or nicotine de...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...ature of the diabetic condition, Richter said. The use of proxy indicators like metabolic control is not ... manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline takes issue with the use of meta-analyses in a May 12 statement, saying they are not the most rigorous way to reach definite ...

Vitamin C may Not Help You from Getting a Cold

.... Vitamin C was discovered in the 1930s, and its use was made popular in the 1970s by Nobel Prize-winni...spite the fact that evidence was found against the use of Vitamin C in later years, the nutrient remains popular because many people including those fundin...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

...tive diagnostic modalities that do not involve the use of ionizing radiation should be considered, such as stress electrocardiography, echocardiography, or magnetic resonance imaging. If CTCA is considered as an alternative to invasive coronary angiography, the risks and benefits of each test require c...

Steroids may Reduce Recurrence of Asthma

... has found. Giving the steroids also reduces their use of inhalers. The benefit lasts for about three wee...nada. Our systematic review strongly supports the use of systemic corticosteroids for treatment of outpatients who leave hospital after an asthma attack, ...

Implanon,norplant,Jadelle - Vary in Side Effects

...ding pattern. Rates of amenorrhoea after two years use were significantly higher in women using Implanon ... contraceptive is to see whether women are able to use them over a long period of time, there are indications of good tolerability in that over 80% of wome...

FDA Approves First Artificial Cervical Disc

... surgical treatment is to remove the disc and then use a graft of bone and plate with screws to fuse the two vertebrae together. The Prestige Cervical Disc would instead replace the impaired natural disc. It consists of two main pieces of stainless steel that articulate against one another with a ball ...

Kerala Institute to Hold International Seminar on Drug Discovery

.... One of the missions of state-run IIITM-K is to use IT to support higher education and research in var... state-of-the-art chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research. The company's products range from general molecular ...

Reducing Smoking - Mixed Messages and Latest Findings

...her chewing gum or inhaler managed to reduce their use of cigarettes. This may not seem like a large re...ter proportion than the 1-3% of people who reduced use in control groups where no NRT was given, says lead researcher Lindsay Stead, who works at the Depar...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

..., and, especially among older ones, more likely to use contraception when they do not abstain. While the reasons are not all understood, government data show the trend began years before abstinence education became the multimillion-dollar enterprise it is today. Through a combination of less sex and more...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...type of Crohns disease. Other approaches may be to use immune-boosting drugs to blunt the inflammation, or determining whether particular foods interact with genetic susceptibilities to affect disease symptoms. Understanding gene influences gives us a more targeted way to look at disease physiology, a...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...mption in the United States and has only a limited use in the European Union, it is already popular in Asia where China has planted thousands of hectares (acres) of rural land with the shrub. "Coca-Cola's announcement has sparked a giant interest," said Nelson Gonzalez, head of the stevia chamber of co...

Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

.... "It merely reduces the risk, you still have to use condoms, men can't think 'that's all I need to do, I can now have unsafe sex'." The clinical reason for circumcision's preventive effect is still being investigated. One theory is that the foreskin has a very thin lining and suffers minor abrasio...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

...ence of HIV. Exposure to HIV from injecting drug use was infrequent. Prof Kaldor says an increase in risky sexual behaviour due to changing perceptions of the seriousness of HIV may have contributed to the high rates of exposure in men having male-to-male sex. While Australia remains a low-prevalen...

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