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Link Shown Between Military Service And Risk For ALS

... in that 1990-1991 war. This study was done on 5 war veterans from the Gulf War It is found that the ch...the disease are also higher when compared to other war veterans who were not part of the 1990-1991 war. A further study mentioned that the risk of develo...

'Red'y to Fight HIV – 'AbstinenceBehaviorCondom', Sacrosanct to AIDS Preventio

...bon today, and take the cause of AIDS forward on a war footing - 'Stop AIDS. Keep the promise.' Chinks in the armour An alarming 12000 people are infected with HIV each day. New data has shown that HIV prevention programmes have not been persistent, which is a major setback to the success of such m...

Good English Gives Better Mental Health To Asian Americans

...rauma that a refugee who is fleeing persecution or war does." And because social relationships can enhance or deter social mobility, the researchers also want to examine how discrimination is associated with mental health among Asian Americans. Other papers in the journal look at the mental health of La...

'Drug Holidays' Increases Death Risk in HIV Patients

...t interruption (STI) and a popular strategy in the war against HIV and AIDS over the past five years, the study warns of 2.6 times greater risk.STI was initially designed to mitigate the serious side effects of HIV medications in patients, including changes in body fat, liver problems and heart disease. ...

Chemical Firms are Secretly Paying Scientists

...properties of Agent Orange made during the Vietnam war by Monsantoto an Australian commission. Guardian claimed, chemical Manufacturers Association, ICI and Dow Chemicals have paid fees to Doll for a certain review made that cleared vinyl chloride for having any cancer links except cancer of the liver. ...

Jingle All the Way With a Lean and Fit Santa!

...stores, are frightfully fat, and need to diet on a war footing. It is imperative they knock off atleast 7 inches at their waist, if they want to be around for next Christmas. The average waist size of Santas this season was an ample 47 inches. Health guidelines have recommended that a waist circumfer...

War Trauma Scars Pose Risk of Heart Disease

...served in the armed forces during the second world war prove that they suffer from symptoms// of post-tr...idn’t have the disorder. Images recorded of the war veterans' brains when the temperature experiment was conducted show a different pattern in which pai...

Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

Scientists are developing a new weapon in the war on cancer by targeting the human genes that allow tumours to grow unchecked in the body.// Two separate teams of researchers have found a way of switching off critical genes within a tumour cell that would otherwise stimulate the spread of the canc...

A New Weapon Against Obesity

...hat they may have found an important weapon in the war against obesity. The researchers are launching the first human trials anywhere to assess a promising natural fibre, which has already been shown to be effective in tests involving genetically obese rats. "It may not be the magic bullet," Reimer ...

‘Baby Food’ to Battle Obesiy

In the war against the lard, a new weapon is being investigated.// Scientists have reported plans to test out a baby food ingredient -oligo fructose, on obese human subjects. The move follows an earlier study that showed the natural fiber seen in baby food...

‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd

...ished in 1942, where it accordingly gave guides on war rationing. The new guide described as a manual on healthy lifestyle choices does exactly that, according to the health minister. “Our new food guide contains more information than ever before to help Canadians make wise choices about the food the...

Wartime Raises Stress, BP Rates in Military Offspring

...e researchers note that the physical impact of the war on military offspring merits attention. 'We are no...y studies examining the impact of the onset of the war on both stress levels and blood pressure of military offspring,' Dr. Barnes says. There is evidenc...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

... J591, we hope to open up a whole new front in the war against this disease." Source-Newswise SR...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

... to expand the health network since the end of the war of destabilisation in 1992, it is still inadequate, and so an estimated half of all TB cases go undiagnosed. There are now about 1,200 health units in Mozambique, but only 250 have the capacity to make laboratory diagnoses. The key problem, Garri...

More Fall Sick from Water Pollution in Tripura

...// "The state government has taken measures on a war footing to make the river water fit for human consumption and check the number of affected people," said Sunil Bhowmik, chief engineer of the state's public health engineering (PHE) department. The affected people, mostly children and women, were a...

Child Brain Likely To Be Harmed By Stress

...or of PTSD or a consequence." He said a study in war veterans with PTSD suggested a smaller hippocampus predisposes to PTSD, not the other way round. Source-Eurekalert JYT...

Delhi Kids to Be Immunized Against Polio

...g that Delhi will continue as a model state in the war against polio, Chief Minster Sheila Dikshit Saturday said over 2.5 million kids// below the age of five will be immunized Sunday. Launching another round of Pulse Polio Campaign, Dikshit administered anti-polio drops to a number of children at her ...

Wiping Out Memories Selectively, is Possible Now

...se who undergo traumatic experiences, say during a war or a riot, are diagnosed to be suffering from the PTSD. Treatment of the PTSD would get a dramatic boost if doctors were equipped with ways of ridding the patients of the more painful of memories. The brain secures memories by transferring them ...

Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital

...to the city when he was a boy during Sudan's civil war in the late 1980s. His statement added: "Jolie and Pitt demonstrate the American spirit of generosity. Hopefully, their donation will inspire others to join with us to rebuild southern Sudan." Sudan has always been close to Jolie's heart. As a go...

African Americans Tend to Suffer More from Drug Abuse

The war on drug abuse in the US is now being dubbed as a war on people of color. Black or Latino teenagers // might comprise a relatively small part of the growi...

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