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11 Sep 2012Health
Show Cost-Effectiveness Of HIV Testing In Drug Abuse Treatment ProgramsResearchers Show Cost-Effectiveness Of HIV Testing In Drug Abuse Treatment ProgramsLess than half of community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the United States currently maketesting available on-site or through referral. A new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College shows the cost-effectiveness of...
Source : Medicalnewstoday | 282 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
Fish oil supplements may not be as heart-healthy as once thought, a new study suggests.-- Fish oil supplements, widely touted for their ability to improve heart health, may not be as useful in protecting the heart as once thought, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Fish oil supplements contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in salmon and other cold-water...
Source : CNN | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
etc.But the researchers find that amount of time a person was breast-fed has no bearing on the severity of later depression, theThey studied 52 people with an average age of 44 who were being treated for severe depression at an inpatient facility.The patients were considered to have been breast-fed if they, or their mothers, stated that they been nursed for more than two weeks.The researchers then...
Source : Times Of India | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
Short bursts of stress could actually be good for your health - warding off infection, helping wounds to heal and even speeding up the recovery following surgery, researchers have claimed.There are even suggestions that injections of stress hormones could be used to help people to recover from illness, the Daily Mail reported.Researchers at Stanford University in the US, who have been investigating...
Source : News Track India | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
There is no evidence that getting screened for ovarian cancer helps women beat the dread disease, according to updated recommendations from a U.S. government-backed expert panel.The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said it continues to discourage screening in women at average risk, adding that there is no reason to believe women at higher risk would benefit either."There simply is not ...
Source : Reuters India | 282 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
Government has, for the first time, acknowledged a connection between toxic dust at Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and several different kinds of cancer.The federal government has recognized that people who lived near Ground Zero and first responders got cancer from toxic dust from the sight.The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health announced the findings ahead...
Source : DNA | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
backstage.(Reuters) - China's health authorities will investigate allegations that genetically modified (GMO) rice was tested on Chinese children as part of a Sino-U.S. research project, state media said on Tuesday.One Chinese researcher has been suspended by authorities while investigations are carried out.China is already the world's largest grower of GMO cotton and the top importer of GMO soybeans...
Source : Reuters India | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSPT) today announced that it has completed enrollment in its Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating TO-2061 added as adjunctive therapy for patients with(OCD) who have not adequately responded to first-line treatment with an approved OCD medication. The Company plans to announce top-line results of this study in the first quarter of 2013.OCD affects 1 to 2 percent...
Source : news-medical | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
love to be able to rewind the universe and watch what happened from the start. Since that's not possible, researchers must create their own mini-universes inside computers and unleash the laws of physics on them, to study their evolution. Now researchers are planning the most detailed, largest-scale simulation of this kind to date. One of the main mysteries they hope to solve with it is the origin...
Source : World News | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
etc.Cutting red meat consumption can benefit health as well as planet (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)Cutting out on consumption of red and processed meat consumption would not only prompt a fall inFood and drink accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions attributable to UK consumers, with livestock farming accounting for around half of this proportion, owing to the large quantity of cereals...
Source : Times Of India | 281 Day(s) AgoCategory : Health
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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