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Men Under Knife to Reduce Bulging Waistline in Britian

... a record 177 men have had liposuction in the past year to reduce the size of their breasts - eight times the figure of three years ago. One in five operations are to remove eye bags, called a blepharoplasty, while facelifts account for 14% of procedures, nose jobs for 11% and tummy tucks for 8%. Neck l...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...ases of attempted suicide from 2001 until May this year in the Kashmir Valley, the picture may be quite different. The records of just one major hospital in the summer capital Srinagar, the SMHS hospital, show that it admitted 1,124 patients who had attempted suicide in 2004 alone. "During the last 18 y...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

...searchers plan a five-year follow up study by next year and strongly opine that politicians, regulators and doctors need to be aware that living close to heavy traffic may pose an increased risk of harm to the heart. The researchers say their results support those from a recent study conducted in Los An...

High Court Upholds Ban on Teenager's 'purity Ring'

...irl fought and lost at the same court earlier this year for the right of his daughter to wear the full-face Muslim veil or niqab at her school. Playfoot is part of a US-based programme -- "Silver Ring Thing" -- in which young people wear a ring engraved with a Biblical verse to show their decision to ab...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

...s are being used 200 days a year. So, for half the year that hot water's not going to be used," Prof Flann...units on houses where there is a demand 365 days a year for hot water. "Instead of spending a dollar and getting 50 cents back you'll be spending a dollar...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

...ludes data from about 7 million hospital stays per year in 1,000 hospitals located in 35 states; thus, it ...ludes data from about 7 million hospital stays per year in 1,000 hospitals located in 35 states; thus, it approximates a 20 percent stratified sample of U.S...

Female Doctors Facing Barriers to Careers in Education and Research, Study Finds

...ten doctors who graduated from medical school last year were female, but the same is emphatically not true of the professors who taught them. Women contribute a huge amount to teaching and research in the NHS and medical schools, but career barriers are preventing them from reaching their full potential. ...

Vitamin C may Not Help You from Getting a Cold

... It doesnt make sense to take vitamin C 365 days a year to lessen the chance of catching a cold, said co-author Harri Hemila, a professor in the Department of Public Health at University of Helsinki in Finland. Vitamin C was discovered in the 1930s, and its use was made popular in the 1970s by Nobel Pri...

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

...p that they have taken," said ArjunKhanna, a first year graduation student. Recently, a new U N backed government estimate has put the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India at 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates. And although the country reported its first case over 20...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...rious issues about the push to vaccinate 11 and 12 year old girls. "We shouldn't think about this as a 'virgin vaccine.' ... This is a vaccine that will prevent disease in women of all ages. So the target, and the extreme emphasis on twelve-year olds, is misleading to the public in making them feel tha...

World's Biggest Condom to Take Off to Spread Safer Sex Campaign

...ow following the AIDS upsurge of the 1980s. Last year 69,000 Dutch nationals had themselves tested for sexually transmittable disease, 10 percent more than in 2005. Among homosexual men, 22 percent tested positive for one or more such disease, while the figure was 12 percent for heterosexual men....

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

More than a year after President Bush unveiled a plan for coping wi...ercent of the tasks that were to be completed this year under the presidents flu plan have been finished, officials said. The remaining 14 percent of those ...

HIV Drug Combo can Boost Immune Marker in Long-term Patients: Study

...of blood at the start of the study. In the first year of taking antiretrovirals, there was a big spurt i... annually, and this continued even up to the fifth year of treatment, which by the standards of HIV therapy is a long time indeed. Most rewarding of all w...

India Grapples With First Bill to Stop Workplace Sex Harassment

...sed three superiors of sexually harassing her -- a year after three trainees were also sacked when they levelled similar charges. And a 2005 survey by the Confederation of Indian Industries reported only four percent of women in the organised sector held senior management positions. The draft offers v...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- and last year a report by Unicef said India continued to lose almost 7,000 girls every day through abortions. The British medical journal The Lancet has put the loss of females at 10 million over the past two decades. "With technology making it easier to find ...

Disquieting Slow Down in Heart Disease Deaths Among Under 55s

...er and now seem to be levelling off. For 35 to 44 year old men the decline in death rates was 35%, and fo...e among those aged between 35 and 44. In 45 to 54 year old women, the annual decline in death rates was 38%, and while rates in those aged 35 to 44 continu...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...ere increased by 14 to 21 per cent in zero to nine year olds and seven to ten percent in zero to 25 year-olds, the study said. Childhood leukemia is a rare disease and nuclear sites are commonly found in rural areas, which means that sample sizes tend to be small. The advantage of carrying out a meta-a...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...in about 8 percent of cases. Fewer than 30 cases a year are linked to food, and those illnesses are most often associated with home canning. The bacteria clostridium botulinum is commonly found in soil and can produce nerve toxins under certain conditions. Botulinum toxin has become so rare in canned fo...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

...ods for children can contribute to a better school year academically, physically and socially, says Alfaro. Alfaro recommends that in order to make their kids food more nutritious, parents should keep the following things in mind. Go for variety to get different nutrients and beat boredom. Try bagels...

Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...s migrating to Britain and the United States every year in search of better salaries. One nurse serves 50 patients in most hospital wards, and the doctor-patient ratio is 64,000 to one, according to a recent survey by the health ministry. Malawi's mortality rate, currently at 984 per 100,000 live birt...

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