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No link between blood groups and prostate cancer

Men with blood group A are not likely to get prostate cancer than men with other blood groups, despite popular belief. According to some medical writers, your blood group affects your health.// In particular, men with blood group A are supposed to be more likely to develop prostate cancer and to get more aggressive forms of the disease. Hence it may be of big concern for men who have type A, but...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

A consumer group has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the prescription diet drug sibutramine. Public Citizen says the drug, sold as Meridia, is associated with 29 deaths, including 19 from// cardiovascular causes such as heart attacks. But obesity experts say it's difficult to determine if people died because of Meridia or because they were obese, which put them at increased ris...

Suicide risk high in 12-17 Age Group

According to the National Household Survey, approximately 3 million Americans age 12 to 18 considered suicide in 2000 and more than a third of those tried to kill themselves, a government survey found. According to the on Drug Abuse report, girls were almost twice as likely as boys// to have thought about or tried to commit suicide. The study, released Sunday by the Substance Abuse and...

Religious groups overcome objections to cervical cancer vaccines

WASHINGTON - Conservative groups in the United States, who had voiced vociferous protests against the proposed general availability of the "morning-after" pill, are now having no such qualms about the introduction of cervical cancer vaccines.// These vaccines manufactured by Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline are still in the experimental stage and are years away from the market, but concer...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

The Wockhardt Hospitals Group is planning expansion of its super-speciality hospital chain with a 280-bed hospital in Delhi, and bigger units in Kolkata and Bangalore.// "We have embarked on the construction of a new hospital at Pitampura (in west Delhi) which would be ready by 2007-end. We also plan Greenfield projects in Bangalore and Kolkata," Vishal Bali, the chain's vice president...

Group Suicides On The Rise In Japan

Japan recorded a total of 91 suicides in 2005 through what is known as group suicides organized through the Internet, up from 55 deaths the previous year, according to a recent survey. The number of group suicides and related deaths// almost tripled from 2003, the first year the National Police Agency kept records of the phenomenon. Group suicides have been widespread throughout Japan...

Yogic Moments: Age Old Yoga, Benefits All Age Groups

Yoga is known for its immense health benefits. Now, teens, who want that dream weight, can seriously consider yoga, which is a proven method to keep obesity at bay, according to a new study. Researchers at Hampton University //in Virginia have revealed that a program which combined yoga with breathing exercises certainly helped knock off the extra weight. 60 overweight high school girls...

Group Jogging More Beneficial To Health Than Solo Jogging

According to the American researchers, group jogging or jogging with a friend will be more beneficial to health than solo jogging. // Researchers led by Professor Elizabeth Gould at Harvard University compared the costs and benefits of solo jogging with those for exercise in a group and found that contrary to accepted wisdom, jogging was not always good for those jogging alone, repor...

Plastic Surgery Is Primetime among Ethnic Groups

American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) reports say that plastic surgery was performed mainly on Hispanics, Blacks and Asians. // The ethnic community opts for this surgery than any other community. It was mainly chosen to enhance their appearance or minimize the signs of aging. Statistics show that more and more people opted for it in the year 2005 with nearly 2.3 millio...

Study Finds Online Support Groups Emotionally Benefit Women Suffering From

One of the first of its kinds study conducted by the University of Wisconsin Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research (CECCR) found// that Women suffering from breast cancer seem to obtain emotional benefits when they were given the opportunity to participate in online support groups. These women through there's online support groups were able to openly express themselves...

Specialist Services Can Help Ethnic Groups To Tackle Alcohol Misuse

Ethnic minorities may have particular problems with alcohol use, yet may not be seeking help, warns a senior psychiatrist. He believes that these hidden populations// may need specialist services to overcome the problem. In the United Kingdom, several ethnic minorities have higher levels of alcohol use and resulting health problems than the general population, writes Rahul Rao of the...

Distinct Support Services Needed, To Resurrect Ethnic Groups from Alcohol Abuse

An experienced Psychiatrist has pointed out inherent alcohol problems that Ethnic minorities undergo, albeit silently, since they are wary of approaching assistance. // They need to be given a helping hand from distinguished services – which are few and far between. Ethnic minorities do not seek help proactively, and hence they lose out from being overlooked by health providers in developing spec...

Low Awareness Of Kawasaki Disease In Capital: Parents Form Support Group

Probably lots of people are well aware of Kawasaki as a motorcycle rather than a disease. Infact, this was how Dinesh Ghai responded when doctors informed that his 9 year old daughter, Utkarsha was suffering from the disease. // The disease is named so as it is prevalent among Korean and Japanese children. 'I have heard of the motorcycle, but I never knew that Kawasaki was a disease,' remarked D...

NGOs and Various Groups Come Together To Address the Issues on AIDS

AIDS in are country is deep-rooted and hence various organizations are putting in their effort to combat the deadly disease. Various organizations are working towards the complete eradication// of the disease from the face of the earth. One such step is taken by the Manipur AIDS Control Society, India, and asked all the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are thriving day and night to fight...

IOF world congress to discuss osteoporosis: a multi group of experts to attend

The IOF world congress on osteoporosis saw a host of allied health professional converge on a platform to discuss osteoporosis//. It was held at Toronto in Canada. In the words of Professor René Rizzoli, chairman, IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors and chairman, IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2006 Scientific Committee, “We are delighted that allied health professional...

New Group Of Drugs For HIV Treatment

In a breakthrough move against HIV drug resistance, scientists have now developed a group of drugs called Maturation Inhibitors that is the first in a new class of HIV drug candidates //. Designed to prevent the formation of Caspsid, a key viral protein from its precursor protein,this group of drug in question, PA- 457, is a derivative of betulinic acid, and interferes with the prod...

Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel Develops A New Bird Flu Vaccine

A Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel has collaborated with researchers from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute and developed a new bird flu vaccine //, which unlike previous ones, can be sprayed over birds instead of individual injection, and therefore harbor hopes of being able to shield greater numbers in lesser time. Explaining that this vaccine is the first of its kind and it includes...

U.S: Prize for the best hearing category (ethnic groups) goes to…. Non-Hispanic Blacks

A recent study has revealed that Non-Hispanic black adults scored the best in hearing abilities in the U.S., among the race-ethnic group across the nation//. And Non-Hispanic women were found to be sharper in hearing compared to the men. William Murphy, Christa Themann, and Mark Stephenson at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Cincinnati reported on t...

Classes on Proper Use of Diet Supplements for Low Income Group Elders

According to the program it was advised that elderly low income group North Carolinians were provided with five short classes regarding// managing their dietary supplements. Participants in the program took more multivitamins and calcium supplements and were more likely to read the labels on dietary supplements than adults who did not take the classes. The program also persuaded more pe...

Anti-Obesity Groups Criticize Response of Medical Professionals

Medical Professionals’ comments on banning sugary drinks from schools have met with criticism from anti-obesity lobby groups//. Health Minister Pete Hodgson’s idea to make all schools to be soft drink-free by 2008 to help fight the obesity epidemic has been described as "misguided and based on weak evidence" by Associate Professor Wayne Cutfield and Dr Paul Hofman, diabetes physicians...

Hospitals Appeal to Citizen Groups to Rush Doctors, Paramedicals

Hospitals in the city tonight appealed to citizens and citizens groups to donate blood, rush doctors and paramedical staff to help treat those injured in this evening's serial bomb blasts' injured. // Doctors in several hospitals including KEM, V N Desai and Bhaba, which are getting hordes of injured patients at the casualty and emergency wards, appealed to citizens groups to help in...

Corporate Groups To Participate In Jharkhand Health Care Scheme

The Tata group, the Essar group and the Jindal group have committed to contribute in a non-profit charitable trust that would ensure medicare for people leaving Below Poverty Line in Jharkhand. // In the country's first public-private partnership, the Sarva Swasthya Mission trust is being formed by Jharkhand Government in partnership with the major corporate groups, an official releas...

Incompatible Blood Groups Not A Hurdle For Kidney Transplant

Doctors in Melbourne Australia have performed the first incompatible blood group kidney transplant.// The doctors from the Royal Melbourne hospital have performed a kidney transplant despite the donor and recipient having incompatible blood groups. It was explained that Davorin Gelemanovic, 24, who is of the blood type O, is now carrying a kidney from his father, who has type A blood....

Cancer patients benefited by online information services and support groups

Novel research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research has revealed that breast cancer patients, who avail// the online information services and the information provided by support groups, feel confident about managing their illness and coming to terms with it. Breast cancer patients who use online information services in combinat...

Apollo Group Permitted to Carry out Surgeries in its Oman Centre

India's Apollo group of hospitals has got the Oman government's permission to carry out surgeries and admit patients for providing quality healthcare services// at the group's new centre in the Omani capital Muscat. "The Ministry of Health (MoH) has given us the green signal to start our operation theatres, Intensive Care Units (ICUs), labour room and in-patient rooms," a report in the...

Apollo Group Planning to Set up a Hospital in Fiji

India's Apollo group of hospitals is planning to set up a large hospital in the Pacific island nation of Fiji. The Fiji Chamber of Commerce (FCC) has supported Apollo's proposal, according to the website of Radio New Zealand International.// "The Apollo group (has) already secured a site in Lautoka for such a facility; so we are hoping that in the next year or two we shoul...

Kids From Low-Income Groups Could Enhance Their Nutrition By Choosing Better After School Snacks

The latest study by the UC Davis researchers states that children from the lower income groups can increase their nutrition values by choosing better after school snacks. // The study by the UC Davis team, which is being published in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health, has bought to light that the lunches offered in school and the vending machines aren't the o...

Swiss Group Appeals Invocation of Euthanasia Option For The Severely Depressed

United Kingdom is being nudged by a Swiss organization to rework on the laws governing assisted suicide, or euthanasia, so that it can be considered for patients// suffering chronic mental ailments and depression. Dignitas, who has Ludwig Minelli at the helm, is petitioning the Swiss Supreme court to permit modifications in the law. Minelli said: "The question for politicians in Br...

Highly Potent TB Strain Plays Favorites Targeting Specific Ethnic Groups

A highly severe form of tuberculosis that caused a major outbreak in a British school just five years ago, affecting at least 254 school children//, has surfaced again, directing its destruction on a specific ethnic group, reveal scientists. Scientists’ stumbled upon this discovery while conducting a study to examine the potency of the 2001 outbreak. Sadly, 50% of the children had been immunized...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

New Delhi: Reliance Life Sciences, the biotechnology venture of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, is developing specialty plasma proteins or blood products and building// a world class manufacturing unit to produce them. It has been encouraged to set up a manufacturing unit due to the response to its Factor VII product, which is proving a boon for hemophiliacs who have deficiency of Fact...

Vasan Group to Open Eight Specialty Eye Hospitals

Chennai: Vasan Eye Care Hospitals, one of the largest eye care hospital networks in southern India,// has set up its first branch here, with seven more in the offing. The Chennai facility has been set up in collaboration with K. Premraj, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and managing director of Prems' Eye Clinic. The first facility would have 70 specialists. The Vasan Eye C...

Take Third Generation Oral Contraceptives Off the Shelves-consumer Group Insists

Public Citizen- an advocacy group for the protection of consumer health has come out strongly against the FDA//. According to them the fact that third generation oral contraceptives have twice the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, a side effect of the synthetic hormone used in it, than second generation birth control pills, was known to the FDA, yet it has allowed the sale of thes...

Kids Who Snack in Large Groups Tend to Eat More

Children snacking in big groups eat almost a third more than when snacking with a couple of mates, reveals research published// ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The researchers analysed the eating behaviour of 54 children between the ages of 2? and 6? when they were in a group of nine children and when they were in a group of three. Each child was gi...

Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

Lawmakers looking to force preteen girls to take Gardasil, a new vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer, are targeting// the wrong age group, cancer data shows. Middle-school girls inoculated with the breakthrough vaccine will be no older than 18 when they pass Gardasil's five-year window of proven effectiveness -- more than a decade before the typical cancer patient con...

Risk of Birth Complications Varies Between Racial Groups

Babies born to South Asian women are at a higher risk of perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) than babies born to black or white women// , concludes a study published online by the BMJ today. The World Health Organisation defines post-term pregnancy as beyond 41 completed weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period. Post-term pregnancy is associa...

‘Gypsies' and Travellers' Health Much Worse Than Other Vulnerable Group

The health of Gypsies and Travellers is significantly worse than that of other vulnerable groups, reveals research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.// It is not known how many Gypsies and Travellers there are in Britain, but estimates put the number at around 300,000. The researchers assessed the health of just under 300 Gypsies and Travellers of UK and...

Breakthrough in Converting Blood Groups

European scientists have identified two novel enzymes that could help convert blood groups A, B and AB into the universal O group.// The shortage of blood available for transfusion to those in need essentially arises precisely because of the shortage in the O group that could be donated to any one. Now an international team led by Henrik Clausen of the University of Copenhage...

Groups Join Forces to Fund Promising Lung Cancer Research

Two health groups are joining forces to fund three promising lung cancer researchers. The LUNGevity Foundation and the American Cancer Society// are contributing $370,000 to fund the first-ever LUNGevity Foundation and American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowships. The grants will go to three researchers whose novel approaches may help improve the understanding of how lung cancer d...

Researchers Have Identified Subgroup Sensitive to the Drug Cisplatin

Researchers have identified a subgroup of hard-to-treat breast cancers that may be sensitive to the drug cisplatin, rarely used in the treatment of breast tumors. They also have discovered// the molecular basis of this sensitivity, which may help identify patients most likely to benefit from cisplatin treatment. The findings will be tested in a clinical trial anticipated to begin at the MGH Gille...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

Five environmental groups, joined by a labor union, have appealed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide health and safety protection from the endocrine-disrupting chemicals, nonyplphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs). They have sought a ban on the use of these chemicals in industrial detergents other cleaning products as safer alternatives are available. The c...