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US and India Exchange Best Practices to Battle HIV/AIDS in Africa

India and the United States have teamed up to contribute their mite in the HIV/AIDS prevention and control program. A US Embassy release said that a ten-member delegation from Ghana visited India from August 20 through 28 to learn about India's best practices in HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts and was particularly impressed with progress made by India in mapping and data collection, micro planning, and training of peer educators and health ...

New Models may Help With Effective Treatments for Fractures

Researchers have used new models reinforced by in vivo experimentation to demonstrate that 5-10 percent of bone fractures don't heal properly. Results of the model may benefit the ageing population in which the occurrence of bone fractures is expected to rise substantially in the near future. In 5 to 10 percent of bone fracture cases, the healing process does not succeed in repairing the bone, which leads to the formation ...

Those Women Who Spend Their Lives Worrying About Money Find True Happiness at 54

A study has revealed that women who spend the best part of their youth worrying over money and life may find real happiness at the age of 54. The poll conducted by the bank First Direct found that those in their mid-40s are unhappier than any other age group, and that people who are above 54 are the happiest. Researchers have renamed those aged between 45 and 54, from the Baby Boom generation, to the 'Baby Gloomers', as they are so fraught with worries, ...

Men are Paid Much More Than Women So That They Stick to the Job

A new survey has revealed that employers of banking and financial staff cough up more to male employees so that they stay in the firm. A survey of 2095 accounting and finance professionals by recruitment firm Marks Sattin Australia found 360 had resigned at least once in the last six months and of those 31 per cent had received a counter offer from their employer to stay, reports news.com.au. A similar 2009 survey revealed only 22 per ...

Just Two Words to Describe What Men Want in Bed - More Sex!

An Australian sex therapist Bettina Arndt has offered an insight into what men really want most in bed from their partner - more sex. Arndt, 61, wrote the book titled, 'What Men Want - In Bed', after she recruited 150 men to write to her over the course of a year about what they want from women. The answer she got from them is that they want more sex, which she says is lacking in a majority of cases, as the opposite sex would rather have a cup of tea. ...

Policy on Use of Antibiotics to be Drafted by Task Force

A 13-member taskforce has been set up by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry to draft a policy on the use of antibiotics in the country. The task force has been setup as a result of the spread of the superbug called New Delhi Metallo-beta lactamase-1 (NDM-1).It will be headed by the Director General of Health Services and is due to report within 60 days. "Once the task force submits its report, we will finalize a policy that will have to be adopted ...

Madras Medical Mission Introduces Advanced Cardiology Device

In a first of its kind development, the Madras Medical Mission has introduced a state-of-the-art device that has the potential to improve care for complex heart diseases. The 3-D Electro Anatomic Mapping System or the ENSITE Velocity System from St. Jude, U.S. will help doctors zero in on the exact site in the heart that is causing abnormal heart rhythms. "The imagery provides a close look at the electrical system of the heart, localize the arrhythmia and ...

Government Negotiating for Cheaper Cancer Drugs

A government official has confirmed that the government is in talks with drug companies to get discounts for cancer drugs to be sold at the low-cost pharmacy chain Jan Aushadhi stores. "We are motivating companies that make cancer drugs to supply medicines at a minimal rate to Jan Aushadhi stores," Srikant Jena, minister of state for chemicals and fertiliser said. The Jan Aushadi stores were launched in 2008 and sell about 44 unbranded medicines at hefty discounts. ...

Patients Suffering Due to Lack of Branded Drugs

The Chemist and Druggist Stock Survey 2010 has found that many pharmacists are finding it difficult to stock branded medicines. This in turn is hurting the health of patients, UK experts have warned. It has emerged that drugs intended for sale in the UK are being exported to take advantage of the exchange rates, forcing patients to wait for long until their prescriptions are filled. Some of the drugs that are most difficult to obtain include Parkinson's ...

Scientists Generate Functional Motor Neuron Subtypes from Embryonic Stem Cells

In a new development, scientists have devised a method for coaxing mouse embryonic stem cells into forming a highly specific motor neuron subtype. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of the journal ICell Stem Cell, /Iprovides new insight into motor neuron differentiation and may prove useful for devising and testing future therapies for motor neuron diseases. Motor neurons in the spinal cord communicate with other neurons ...

Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors, MIT Researcher Finds

Social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly, scientists have previously thought. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has reached a different conclusion: Individuals are more likely to acquire new health practices while living in networks with dense clusters of connections - that is, when in close contact with people they already know ...

Cancer-causing Gene Crucial in Stem Cell Development

All multi-cellular organisms have stem cells, which can turn into a dazzling variety other cells-kidney, brain, heart or skin. One class, pluripotent stem cells, has the capacity to turn into virtually any cell type in the body, making them a focal point in the development of cell therapies, the conquering of age-old diseases or even regrowing defective body parts. Now, a research team at the University of Georgia has shown for the first time that a ...

MRSA Susceptibility Findings may be Due to Serendipity

Two genes in mice which might help identify why some people are more susceptible than others to potentially deadly staph infections have been found by Duke University Medical Center researchers. The researchers uncovered important genetic clues that ultimately could help inform patient management and drug development. "If you know up front that a patient is at risk for developing an IStaphylococcus aureus /Iinfection, then you will be better able ...

Ladies Night Promos Not Discriminatory Says US Court

A lawsuit against New York nightclubs which sought to brand their "Ladies Night" promotions as unconstitutional has been thrown out by the US appeals Court. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected lawyer Roy Den Hollander's bid to outlaw the specials -- in which women are let into bars and discos for free or half-price -- on the grounds they violate gender equality laws, according to a Wednesday ruling. New York state has no control ...

Pitt Study Finds Safety Cultures in EMS Agencies Vary Widely

There is a wide variation in perceptions of workplace safety culture-providing a tool that might point to potential patient safety threats, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, to be published in the October/December issue of IPrehospital Emergency Care/I and now available online, analyzed survey results from 61 EMS agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Researchers adapted a survey used in other health care settings ...

More on Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease

The medical community has divided views over the existence of chronic Lyme disease. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians. Others, however, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, state that there is no convincing biological evidence that chronic Lyme disease exists. Many doctors are concerned ...

Small Business Employees Could Benefit from ACA Provisions Starting This Year

A new Commonwealth Fund report says that 16.6 million small business employees work in firms that will be eligible for tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The credits, designed to offset health insurance premium costs and help small businesses afford and maintain health insurance, are available in taxable years beginning in 2010. Researchers estimate that by 2013, 3.4 million workers may work in firms that take advantage of the tax credit. The tax credits ...

Gay Community in Malaysia to Push the Limits

There was massive outrage when Malaysia's only openly homosexual pastor announced he was establishing the nation's first gay church. Reverend Ouyang Wen Feng faced down threats to block the plan by government and religious leaders who said it would encourage homosexuality -- still a crime punishable by 20 years in jail in the Muslim-majority nation. The church he co-founded has however been operating quietly in suburban Kuala Lumpur for the past three ...