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Talking About Your Feelings Really Does Help

...nce. The study was conducted on thirty people, 18 women and 12 men between ages of 18 and 36, who viewed images of individuals making different emotional expressions. Below the picture of the face they either saw two words, such as "angry" and "fearful," and chose which emotion described the face, or they...

Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality

...r risk-adjusted mortality rate when compared with women at the nation's poorest-performing hospitals. Th...-adjusted mortality for cardiovascular disease for women improved an average of 8.7 percent from 2003 through 2005. "Cardiovascular disease is the nation's...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...alyzed DNA samples from a group of American Indian women living in a community in which rates of alcoholism... in this population, reported by about half of the women in the community, compared with a U.S. average of 13 percent. The high rates of sexual abuse and a...

Ultrasound Better Than Biopsy for Breast Examination

...dings indicate that ultrasound follow-up can spare women from unnecessary, invasive biopsies, said Oswald G...erican Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that 212,920 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year. Early detection through screeni...

Patient Confidentiality Must Be Ensured-UNAIDS

In order to protect the almost 40 million men, women and children living with HIV from potential stigma and discrimination, the United Nations agency dealing with AIDS today released new guidelines to ensure that patient confidentiality is not compromised in the process of collecting and storing infor...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...y protect the aging brain cells of post-menopausal women if it's given early enough, said a study released ...e may possibly prevent memory loss." Millions of women abandoned HRT after a 2002 study showed that combined estrogen and progestin could raise a women's r...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

...niser of the conference. "In Africa it is mainly women and children who suffer from witchhunts. The men are less vulnerable because their social status is more solid," she said. While witchhunts gain ground in some parts of the world, sorcery and witchcraft are making strides in the West, in particular...

Link Between Teenage Violence and Domestic Violence Found

... In addition it showed that nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year including kicking, biting or punching their partner, threatening to hit or throw something at their partner, and pushing, grabbing or shoving their partner. Funded by the National Inst...

Goans Celebrate Monsoon Festival

...en diving into a well and splashing around. Men, women and children donning colourful headgears made of flowers sang and danced, as they made merry on the occasion. Hundreds of people gathered in the picturesque village of Siolim, to watch heavily decorated boats row up the Chapora River from several a...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ing the hazards of tobacco use, many young men and women have got themselves enrolled in several de-addicti...ding to authorities, every year over 1,000 men and women reach hospitals in fading condition, mostly suffering with lung and tongue cancer. Jane R.Ralte, O...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

...to an increased rate of bone loss in older men and women . The antidepressant medications known as select...t mechanism. A total of 198 (7.3 percent) of the women were SSRI users, 118 (4.3 percent) took tricyclic antidepressants and 2,406 (88.4 percent) took neit...

Kenya Says HIV/AIDS Rate Drops to 5.9 Percent

...ing with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, 65 percent of whom are women between the ages of 19 and 45, according NACC statistics. Last year, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced that public hospitals would no longer charge HIV/AIDS patients for life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs in a new bid to fight the deadly di...

Fine Particulate Matter from Traffic may Reduce Unborn Babies Birth Weight

...children born in Munich between 1998 and 1999. All women included in the study had not moved out during the pregnancy. On the basis of a measuring campaign at 40 locations in the city of Munich, the concentrations of traffic-related atmospheric pollutants during pregnancy, including fine particulate matter...

New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt

...itting them right below the belt by showing young women wiggling their little fingers at fast riders. The New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority decided to go for the derogatory gesture which traditionally means a small penis, because they thought it would be more effective than showing gory mishap...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...gal abortions in Brazil each year, and about 4,000 women die from such procedures annually. Temporao political influence is from the socialist health reform movement. Being faithful to his political root he has now taken on the beer industry and global pharmaceutical companies. He has proposed limitati...

Non-availability of Anti-rabies Vaccines Put Jackal Bitten Patients in a Fix

...kal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Gopalganj, the home district of union railway minister Lalu Prasad. But the unava...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

Latest research shows that air pollution affects women more than men . Researchers at Pennsylvania Stat...at we found to the human population, it would mean women with lung infections may be at higher risk for negative outcomes if they are exposed to high amounts...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...rce, and to a lesser extent, a transit country for women and girls trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Moldovan women are trafficked to Turkey, Israel, the U.A.E., Ukraine, Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Romania, Hun...

Ban on Smoking is Not a Magic Wand to Reduce Health Inequalities, UK Campaigners Warn

...gher smoking rates. In 2005, 32% of men and 29% of women in routine and manual occupations smoked, compared to 18% of men and 16% of women in managerial and professional occupations. The government hopes to reduce smoking to 21% among adul...

Antidepressents may Lower Bone Density in Older People

...a, Minneapolis, and colleagues studied 2,722 older women (average age 78.5 years) beginning in 1997 through...t mechanism. A total of 198 (7.3 percent) of the women were SSRI users, 118 (4.3 percent) took tricyclic antidepressants and 2,406 (88.4 percent) took neit...

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