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Infertility rate in UK men increasing at an alarming rate with numbers rising over 2.5 million

Infertility can be defined as the inability to conceive following 1 year of unprotected intercourse and affects nearly 15 % of all couples trying to conceive. Approximately one in every 6 couple attempting // to have a baby have trouble with the conception. Infertility has long been regarded as a women’s issue until the scientific community has established that a male factor is held res...

Non-Communicable Diseases Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate in India

The incidence of non-communicable diseases has surpassed that of the communicable diseases in the country, according to the reports of Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare//. The news report was released following the inauguration of a three-day health camp in a village near Vriddachalam. Chidambaram MP, E Ponnusamy, MLAs Dr R Govindasamy, Durai K Saravanan also atte...

Illegal Drug Use In England Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate

The trend towards illicit use of drugs is on the rise in England, accounting for more than 1 million visits and 400,000 admissions to the emergency department each year. The findings are based on anonymous interviews with // patients visiting the emergency department of a hospital in South West England. The doctor in charge of emergency care was also asked to assess the need for treat...

The Alarming Rates Of HIV Incidence In The Rural Districts Of Orissa

With the ever-increasing unsafe sex practices, massive migration and low awareness there has been a significant increase in the incidence of the killer disease // amongst the tribal community, living close to coastal Orissa. Several districts of Orissa including Ganjam, Kendrapara, Balasore Nuapada, Koraput, Rayagada, Phulbani and Sundargarh have very high rates of HIV incidence, whic...

Kidney diseases and their complications, an alarming scenario in the Philippines

Kidney disease is on the rise and is an important cause of death in the Philippines//. Statistics show that kidney disease among the Filipinos is shooting up every year. Almost 10,000 Filipinos requiring either dialysis for life or a kidney transplant for survival. About 31% of them have the most advanced stage of the disease. Hence it is very essential to find a cure or prevent the further rise...

Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

Female feticide has become a common feature in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh that at least 7,500 feticides are carried out every year on an average//, with the gender ratio falling to be the lowest in the country. The shocking factor is that despite such unchecked prevalence of feticides only one case has been convicted so far. The hill state of Himachal Pradesh registers an estima...

Heart Disease Increasing At An Alarming Rate In New Zealand

A study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal says that deaths caused by heart disease among young and middle-aged adults are increasing at an alarming rate. // The study conducted by Norman Sharpe, medical director of the Heart Foundation and colleagues, shows that the death rate is very high among people born after 1951 especially in Maori and lower-socioeconomic groups. Heart d...

Survey Reveals Alarming Prevalence Rates of Diabetes among US Adolescents

A national survey conducted in the US estimates that the type 2 diabetes may be prevalent among nearly 39, 000 adolescents. //More than 2.5 million have been projected to have impaired blood glucose levels (fasting blood sugar) placing them at increased risk of diabetes and other serious health problems. The findings of the study are presented in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,...

Alarming childhood obesity stats: 1 in 5 pre-schoolers fat

A new study presented at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians' annual scientific meeting in Cairns says that 1 in 5 Australian pre-school children are fat.//This happens to be the first national snapshot of pre-school children's weight. He study is part of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children with almost 5,000 four to five year olds and another 5,000 babies from ever...

Alarming Increase In HIV Infections In Hong Kong

The Hong Kong health authority had announced on Tuesday that the city has experienced a 37% rise in the number of new HIV infections with 89 new cases reported// in the first three months of the year. According to the Center for Health Protection under the Department of Health, which filed the statistics on the newly reported HIV cases, 58% were related to sexual contact. Reviewing th...

UN Report Paints Alarming Picture Of Narcotics Scenario In NE

A report of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) has painted an alarming picture on the narcotics scenario of the north-east // , saying most of the injecting drug users (IDU) belonged to under-20 age group with one-third of them being unmarried and mostly male. Women constituted only 5-10 per cent of the IDU, said the report titled 'Drug use in the north eastern states...

Alarming Rise In Teenage Sex Rate

In a study, U.S. researchers have found an increase in the number of teenage girls who involve in sex - quadrupled over the last 50 years//. Girls lose their virginity at the age of 19, and for boys it was 18, but both falls to 15 for which the reasons may be less guilt about having sex and an increasing acceptance of premarital sex. The study done by Jean Twenge, associate professor in...

Diabetes On A Steady Alarming Rise From The Past 20 Years

According to a report by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) the last 20 years has seen the total number of people with diabetes worldwide having risen from 30 million to 230 million //. They also state that China and India now have the most diabetes sufferers in the world. The reports stated that of the surveyed countries, China and India amount for the most diabetics, even m...

Incidence Of Diabetes Taking On Alarming Proportions: Study

The incidence of diabetes has taken on alarming proportions in the last two decades, rising from 30 million to 230 million, resulting in the loss of millions of lives, according to a recent study. // The study by the American Diabetes Association pointed out that China has the largest number of people with diabetes - 39 million - in the age group of 20 or over followed by India with...

Alarming Rise of Diabetes in Rural India - Survey Reports

A large-scale survey of rural India by the George Institute for International Health revealed that most of the people in rural //India were at a higher risk of developing lifestyle diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In a developing area of Andhra Pradesh, about 13 per cent of adults aged 30 or above were found to have diabetes and another 16 per cent with symptoms of pr...

Alarming Raise In Illegal Blood Alcohol Levels Among Emergency Patients

According to report that has been published in the Emergency Medicine Journal, a study conducted in an major hospital, the blood// alcohol levels among the patients admitted in emergency care have gone up well above the legal limit, on an average risen to almost 113% in the past 5 years. The report further added that though men more consistently outnumber women, the absolute number...

Alarming Increase in Obesity In China

An editorial published in the British Medical Journal has noted that there has been an alarming increase in the obese and overweight individuals in China.//China now accounts for one fifth of the world's population in this condition. Factors like changes in food habits, changes in lifestyle, and reduced physical activity have been attributed to being responsible for this problem. <...

Alarming increase of MRSA cases in children

A potentially fatal type of MRSA affecting almost double the number of babies and children, as compared to previous years statistics, has raised concerns in medical circles//. The Health Protection Agency has shown that almost 150 children were down with a virulent form of blood infection, spurred by the super bug from NHS hospitals. 75% of the affected children were not even a year...

Access Economics Report: Alarming Rise in Dementia

Australia will need to double up to take stock of the growing numbers of people with dementia, which is expected to rise to alarming proportions, according to The Access// Economics report, Asia Pacific Region. The report commissioned by Alzheimer's Australia, forecasts that the Asia Pacific region may see a rise in the condition from 13.7 million to 64.6 million. By 2050 the region...

Rise of Dengue Cases in Delhi Alarming

The national capital has recorded 327 cases of dengue fever this year so far, which is double the number reported in 2005. // According to health authorities here, two more people have died in the city earlier this week taking the total toll to nine. Out of the 327 cases reported, 127 cases were reported last week only but what is alarming authorities is that the next two...

Probing Into the Reasons for Alarming Increase in Breast Cancer

London: Breast Cancer is the most notorious of cancers, going by the United Kingdom statistics. Evidently, of all the cancers diagnosed in women//, one out of three cases happens to be of the breast. The present modern day living is being blamed for this alarming increase in cancer. The present record for breast cancer is 36,939 cases in the United Kingdom, which shows that the incide...

Worldwide Diabetes Figures Alarmingly High

Diabetes , which is also called the silent killer, is steadily attacking more people all over the world , and many may be unaware of the disease// they are living with. India is the diabetes capital of the world , followed by the US . In fact one in six out of every American is pre-diabetic which means that they have higher than normal blood sugar levels. This leads to diabetes onc...

An Alarming Increase in Diabetic Cases in youth in Asia

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which leads to various other problems like hypertension, heart diseases, renal disoders to name a few. // Type 2 diabetes is a disease caused largely due to obesity and lack of exercise. According to researchers in South Korea, there has been an alarming rise in young people developing the disease. Sedentary lifestyles coupled with Fast food consumptio...

Alarming Rise in HIV Cases in China: Report

HIV is spreading in China from high-risk groups to the general public as the number of reported infections has grown by nearly 30 percent this year, the China Daily said// Wednesday. The latest statistics from the health ministry showed the reported number of cases has grown to 183,733 this year, up from 144,089 at the end of last year, the newspaper said. Of the reported cases, 40,66...

Suicide Rate Among NY's Ethnic Women is Alarming

Driven often by cultural or linguistic isolation, young Hispanic women and elderly Asian women here are at exceptionally high risk //of attempting or committing suicide, mental health experts have warned. The problem is mainly fuelled by cultural and linguistic isolation, the stress of immigration and a shortage of psychiatric and counselling services, according to advocates who atte...

HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa

An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with Alzheimer’s// disease and dementia from strokes may be among the most common forms of dementia in the world. In the first study of HIV dementia on the African continent using rigorous neurological and neuropsychological tests, 31 p...

Alarming Trend in Prescription Drug Abuse

The annual report for the year 2006 of the International Narcotics Control Board (an agency affiliated to UN), suggests that abuse of prescriptions drugs is increasing// at an alarming rate across the globe. The abuse of prescription drugs surpasses the conventional illegal drugs like ecstasy, cocaine and heroine in parts of Europe, Africa and South Asia. The abuse of tranquilizers, s...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

The number of dengue cases in affluent Singapore has surpassed an epidemic threshold for the first time since 2005, the government said . The National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Health Ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday that the weekly number of dengue cases reported last week totalled 401, up 37 percent from 293 cases the preceding week. This number breached th...

Tuberculosis Drug Resistance 'alarming' in India

An alarming 20 percent of the people availing re-treatment of tuberculosis are at the risk// of developing drug resistance in India. According to a leading global health advocacy, India witness nearly 1.8 million fresh cases every year. On the eve of the World TB Day, March 24, the Global Health Advocates (GHA), a Switzerland-based non-profit body, said that TB drug resistance is beco...

Alarming Trend In Eating Disorders In Children

Scientists have discovered a disturbing trend in the eating habits of children under the age of thirteen. According to British Paediatric// Surveillance Unit’s (BPSU) findings a child as young as six years was found to be suffering from such an anomaly. Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are some of the common eating disorders. These findings are said to be the first-ever national study...

'Alarming Rise in Caesarean Births a Cause of Concern'

Birth through Caesarean section is becoming an epidemic, a leading obstetricians has warned//. "Any surgery could become hazardous and could lead to major crisis. With Caesarean this is the risk if the procedure is not carried out by competent obstetricians," said Dr Dermot MacDonald, former Director of the Dublin-based National Maternity Hospital, which is one of the largest maternity...

Scales Tipping Alarmingly in the U.S.

Reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there has been a sudden increase in the count of extremely obese Americans//, with a body mass index of 40 or more. Accordingly, not only has the proportion of extremely overweight people increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005(twice as fast as the increase in moderate obesity), there has also been an increase by 24 perce...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

Drug abuse is increasing at an alarming rate in Australia, among the youth// especially. Teens as young as 14 are turning to drugs and at least one in ten in that tender age group has tried them, according to Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2006, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. According to the report, an estimated 100,000 Australian's have t...

Groundwater Levels Depleting Alarmingly in India

Water authorities of India say there is an alarming depletion of ground water levels in the country and are proposing a model legislation to prevent further erosion of water table. The Central Groundwater Board has carried out a survey to find out the ground water level at various places across the country and identified about 800 areas that were in the danger zone on this score, a se...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

There has been an alarming rise in the number of suicides ever since a separatist campaign erupted in Jammu and Kashmir way back in 1989 . Unfortunately, most such incidents have gone unnoticed. Although police records show that there were 736 cases of attempted suicide from 2001 until May this year in the Kashmir Valley, the picture may be quite different. The recor...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

Three United Nations agencies on Tuesday launched an appeal for 32 million dollars (23.5 million euros) to help combat "alarming levels" of malnutrition amongst Somali and Sudanese refugees based in camps in Kenya. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that as of mid-2006, the acute malnutrition rate stood...