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Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

Startling! But true! In a censure of the doctors around the world, a study conducted by researchers at the prestigious Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities has revealed that more than a third of physicians have no regular source of healthcare Dr. Cary P Gross of Yale University is New Haven, Connecticut says, ‘ these physicians without a regular source of health care are less likely than oth...

Children exposed to smoke show decreased levels of Vitamin C

A recent study has shown that children, who are exposed to smoke, as a reason of having parents who smoke at home, are likely to have impaired vitamin C levels. Earlier studies have however, revealed the same// results in smokers. The study, which involved 520 children aged 2 to 12 years, who were exposed to smoke at home were found to have plasma ascorbate concentrations that were low...

Expose on eating disorders!! Scientists trace “brain’s eating control center pathway”

Treatment of obesity and other eating disorders may be round the corner as scientists have traced the pathway of these disorders in the eating center of the brain!! To start with they have experimented on the rat brain and they are very enthusiastic about the findings, as this is the first time that such advances have been made vis-à-vis eating disorders. Specific sets...

HIV Positive Men in Singapore Exposed

HIV positive patients in Singapore are on the rise and data show that till date 2584 cases have been recorded out of which 954 are dead, 631 are confirmed to have AIDS and 999 were symptomless//. This has raised an alarm and the Singapore senior minister of health Balaji Sadasivan called for a press conference to inform the public that wives of HIV positive patients will be notified abou...

Kate Moss Glad her Drug Addiction was Exposed

The exposed super model and ramp queen Kate Moss has confided to Sir Richard Branson that she has no regrets about getting exposed by the media about her cocaine addiction. // Richard is the famous Chairman of Virgin Airlines and Kate Moss is very close to him and he has known her ever since she started her modeling career in 1999. She said to him that it made her face the reality a...

Australian Children Not Being Exposed To Enough Sunlight

Professor Peter Ebeling the head of endocrinology of the Western Hospital in Australia warned that many Victorian children were not receiving enough sunlight// , there by lacking vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium for healthy bones. He explained that children who were not exposed to a minimum of 25 minutes of noonday sunshine, or up to 52 minutes a day before 10am and after...

Lakhs of Indians Exposed to High Levels of Poisonous Gases

New Delhi: Millions of Indians are being exposed to high levels of poisonous gases, including cancer-causing volatile organic compounds and sulphur fumes//, and the country lacks the mechanism to monitor or regulate these toxins, according to a report relased here today. Titled 'Smokescreen: Ambient Air Quality in India,' the report by the Chennai-based Community Environmental Monitori...

Murky Relationships between Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies Exposed

53-year-old Dr. Peter Gleason was arrested last March for promoting Xyrem for medical purposes other than those approved by the US government.// When this news hit headlines in the US, many felt that the long overdue exposure of murky financial relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical companies would finally happen. Dr. Gleason has admitted to earning over $100,000 las...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

A government body issued a warning today that thousands of people in Ireland are being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.// The warning issued by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) came after a house in Kerry was discovered to contain 40- fold the acceptable level of the deadly radioactive and cancer-causing gas, Radon. It is categorize...

Babies Could Be exposed to Third Hand Smoke If Parents Are Smokers

A new research done in the US has shown that babies whose parents smoke are exposed to ‘third hand smoke’ even by simply touching furniture and other objects in the home.// The researchers had explained that the babies might take in nicotine and other chemicals from cigarettes even as they hug their parents even though they never light a cigarette next to them. George Matt...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

According to University of Rochester Medical Center study people exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not// exposed. The study author Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., said the study provides further evidence that widespread environmental risk factors such as lead must be explored. The study, which might be the largest study ever to fin...

Babies in Womb Exposed to Harmful Chemicals

Babies are exposed to certain harmful chemicals before they are even born, finds a news study that lays stress on the need for pregnant women to be careful about their diet.// Scientists led by Maria Jose Lopez Espinosa at the University of Granada, Spain, tested blood samples taken from the placentas of pregnant women and found up to 15 different types of pesticide, reported the onli...

An Infectious Agent of Deception, Exposed Through Proteomics

Salmonella bacteria, infamous for food poisoning that kills hundreds of thousands worldwide, infect by stealth. They slip unnoticed into and multiply inside macrophages, the very immune system// cells the body relies on to seek and destroy invading microbes. Just how Salmonella escapes detection by macrophages, turning predator cells to prey complicit in promoting infection, has seeme...

Children exposed to smoke prone to bladder cancer

Children exposed to smoke may be prone to bladder cancer later in life, says a new study. // Naomi Allen of Oxford University and other British researchers analysed data of about 430,000 people across Britain and found that people who smoked before the age of 15 were three times more likely to get bladder cancer later in life, reported the online edition of BBC News. Prev...

Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

A new study published in the January issue of the medical journal Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery strongly recommends better hearing protection for soldiers to// prevent permanent long-term hearing loss that can be caused by exposure to the sound of gunshots. The study measured the impact of “impulse noise” (short bursts of acoustic energy) on 80 subjects with no history of hea...

Stakes Higher for Elderly Women Exposed to Air Pollution

Post-menopausal women exposed to high concentrations of air pollutants, are at a higher risk of cardiovascular problems than previously thought, reveal a new study.// The study conducted by Women’s Health Initiative, which is funded by the government of America, has brought out findings that urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise its limits on air pollutant concentratio...

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

A review of existing research confirms that health-care workers should undergo a month of preventive drug treatment if they are exposed// to HIV on the job. Still, the reviewers say that there’s been little research into so-called occupational postexposure prophylaxis, and it’s still not clear what should be done when health-care workers are exposed to patients who are resistant to s...

Adolescents Exposed to Family Turmoil and Violence Face Stress-related Problems

Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain// than other young people. However, when they have responsive, supportive mothers, they do not experience these negative physiological changes, reports a new study from Cornell. But the research group also foun...

Dangerous Side Effects of Tea Exposed

Even though previous researches have authenticated about the beneficial aspects of tea, scientists have now pointed out// the dangerous side effects it poses. Scientists have earlier shown that antioxidant properties found in green tea could help prevent coronary artery disease. They had also said that drinking tea could help fight against autoimmune disease - when the immune system a...

Lead Removing Drug Improves Muscle Function in Lead-Exposed Children

Researchers say a therapy commonly used to remove dangerously high levels of lead from the body may also improve muscle functions associated with postural// balance and movement in lead-exposed children. Led by Amit Bhattacharya, PhD, the UC team found that children treated with succimer (SUX-sim-er) chelation therapy showed a 19 percent improvement in their ability to perform moving...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

A BBC panorama investigation into the functioning of maternity units in UK is an eye-opener to prevailing malfunctions which appears to be an everyday// affair in the hospitals. In a sting operation conducted by BBC, some maternity units came under the scanner, to reveal some alarming practices. Some of the maternity units were facing an acute shortage of staff. As a result most midwi...

Link Between Eye Infections and Contact Lens Use Exposed

A recent research has found that the use of a specific contact lens solution is very strongly linked to Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), a rare severe eye infection. The study, by University of Illinois researchers, has been published online by the American Journal of Ophthalmology. AK is an often severe, aching infection of the cornea that normally causes corneal scarri...

PG-13 Rated Films Adversely Expose Kids to Violence

Researchers have found that PG-13 rated films are not safe for kids for they depict violence, which has a negative effect on them. The PG-13 rating strongly cautions parents that some material in the film might be inappropriate for children, but the rating still allows children under 13 to be admitted without a parent or guardian. The study was conducted by a team of researchers le...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

When US forces destroyed a chemical munitions dump in Khamisiyah, Iraq in March 1991, the soldiers concerned did not realize what they were getting into. Only much later it was revealed they could have been exposed to the deadly sarin gas, released during the demolition. Sarin is a chemical weapon estimated to be over 500 times as toxic as cyanide. Non-lethal doses can create perma...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

Drug-resistant tuberculosis may be the disease generally identified with the third world and the poor. But it is spreading its tentacles everywhere. US authorities fear that an American might have exposed fellow air passengers on two transatlantic flights this month to the potentially lethal disease. The man has since been quarantined. Now they authorities are looking for travelers...

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have a 48 percent increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence following surgery than their unexposed peers , and when the disease comes back, it seems more aggressive, researchers say. "We need to be screening these patients earlier, treating their cancer aggressively and following them closely afterward because they are at higher risk for recurrenc...

Myths About Hydropower Projects Exposed

Shattering the myth of big hydropower projects being clean, a new scientific study has revealed that large dams in the country are accountable for at least 19 percent of India's global warming emissions, especially methane. According to the study, Indian dams are larger methane emitters and total methane emissions from the country's large dams could be around 33.5 million tonnes (M...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

Recently in a school in California a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves and a couple of children collapsed in spasms , vomiting on the blacktop. Apparently hundreds of school children in many agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals, leading to sickness, brain damage and birth defects. Though there are no federal laws specifi...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

A BBC panorama investigation into the functioning of maternity units in UK is an eye-opener to prevailing malfunctions which appears to be an everyday affair in the hospitals. In a sting operation conducted by BBC, some maternity units came under the scanner, to reveal some alarming practices. Some of the maternity units were facing an acute shortage of staff. As a result most midw...

Lohans Boozing Stint in Rehab Exposed

It seems that hell-raising actress Lindsay Lohan got back to her boozing ways while still undergoing treatment in rehab for the second time . The actress guzzled vodka and Red Bull energy drink secretly during her 21st birthday in Promises rehab. Following the incident, furious rehab staff ordered the starlet to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet. Lindsa...

Frank Sinatra's Boozy Night Nap on Cop's Couch Exposed

Singer/actor Frank Sinatra once slept on a policeman's couch after a night of heavy boozing . The 82-year-old's boozy night nap in 1952 has been revealed in Dennis Wood's book 'A Few Coppers More - True Tales Of Policing In Manchester'. Sinatra was at a career low when he met a Manchester cop at the Palace Theatre after performing at a half-empty theatre during a Brita...