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SEEK To Avert Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Kidney Disease or (CKD) seems to be household disease worldwide prompting the WHO to dedicate March 9th as world kidney day. India’s record of 20milion diabetics has ‘ensured’ a Numero uno position for diabetes and worse,// with one in every three diabetics getting affected by the disease. WHO has also sounded a warning that these figures will shoot up to 57 million by 2025. Dr...

Using Multivitamins Before And After Conception Averts Preeclampsia

Women who are considering becoming pregnant could prevent preeclampsia if they started a course of multivitamins three months before conception and following it up// during the first three months of their pregnancy. Preeclampsia is a condition where the woman’s blood pressure shoots up dangerously and could prove lethal for both mother and child. Researchers at the University of Pittsburg...

Following A Healthy Lifestyle Can Avert Stroke

Giving up smoking, moderate alcohol consumption as well as a good balanced diet can avert strokes in women, a new study has found. The study started in 1993 with over 37,600 women as participants//. All women were asked to describe their lifestyle habits and were rated on a "health index score." The scores ranged from 0 to 20. Generally, the higher the score, the healthier the woman....

Circumcision to Avert HIV Infection

Adopting male circumcision throughout Africa could help to avert about 5,7-million HIV infections by 2026.// A scientific study that was published in Public Library of Science Medicine, stated that male circumcision could avert 300 000 deaths and about two million new infections over the next decade. According to the report, "Circumcision can avert a further 3,7-million infe...

Carotid Stenting Could Avert Depression In Stenosis

A new study in the August issue of Radiology says that placing a carotid stent in a narrowed carotid artery helps ward off depression that could arise as a result of carotid stenosis. //"The patients in this study who received carotid stenting showed significantly fewer depressive symptoms than those who did not," said lead researcher Wolfgang Mlekusch, M.D., specialist of clinical angiol...

Male circumcision could avert HIV infection

Men who are circumcised are less likely to contract HIV than uncircumcised men, says a new study.// The research presented recently at the International AIDS Conference at Toronto said circumcised heterosexual men are at least 60 percent less likely to contract HIV than their uncircumcised counterparts, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Circumcision is th...

Rheumatoid Arthritis Averted in Mice by Alcohol Intake

A daily dose of alcohol mixed in water , seemed to decrease the risk to develop rheumatoid arthritis in mice //, reported Swedish researchers .The results of the research has been documented in the current proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. . Rheumatic arthritis is the result of a marred auto immune response, due to which the immune system is triggered to fight the tissu...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

A new surgical technique pioneered at the University of Alberta has given back the ability to swallow to patients with tongue cancer.// By modifying an existing technique of transplanting tissue from a patient's forearm to his tongue, surgeons can provide enough bulk to help improve the vital process of swallowing. The modification involves including a 'jellyroll'of fat and connective...

Measures Needed to Avert Another Bloodbath

In view of the massacre that took place last week at the Virginia Tech Many people including law makers university officials are asking the congressmen to formulate some// measures to avert this kind of a disaster. Some kind of program, to identify and treat the mentally ill, before they harm themselves and the others. A law that would permit the university to inform the students parents...

AIDS Charity AVERT Launches Stop AIDS in Children Campaign

The international HIV and AIDS charity AVERT is today launching Stop AIDS in Children, a campaign that calls for an end to the 380,000 child AIDS deaths and half a million new infant HIV infections that occur worldwide every year. At this year's G8 summit in Germany, the leaders of the world's eight most powerful countries had a chance to stop child AIDS deaths by committingspecific...