national institute of health

	Genes Permanently Turned On by Smoking
...Those who smoke tobacco should know that this habit is not considered to be sexy anymore. However, smoking can turn on permanently some of the genes. A study, which was published in BMC Genomics, an on-line open-access journal, was able to explain why those people who used to smoke still have a higher risk for lung cancer development than those who never had the bad habit. Wan L Lam and Stephen Lam, who work at the BC Ca...
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	Mothers-to-be Smoking Results in 90 % of Cot Deaths
...hould be avoided. Ministers are considering whether to rewrite their advice on smoking for expectant women. The scientists made their conclusion, having analyzed the evidence provided by 21 international studies on smoking and SIDS - sudden infant death syndrome. According to them, the evidence suggests that smoking is one of the most frequent causes of SIDS and if parents broke off the bad habit, it would prevent m...
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	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...onsequences for those that are on a waiting list for a transplant. The earlier reports made by the media regarding "malasanita" - malpractice, poor hygiene as well as poor safety standards in the national health system of Italy, prompted an inspection made last month nationwide to inspect all hospitals in the country. Despite this fact at least once a week the media reports on another case of "malasanita". A month ...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
...ntrust your destiny to a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives. A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisions made by compute...
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	Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper
...ored another goal. Afterwards a fight with the frequenters began. The tavern keeper started to part the cockerels but then, according to Mr. Tsibibakis, he found himself lying on the floor. On the national television the tavern keeper said that one of the football fans grabbed his ear and the other one started chewing the other. They have bitten off some pretty big pieces of his ears which, he said, he still keeps as a...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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	Chinese Products - to Buy or not to Buy?
...anqing, a vice-minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine spoke at a forum devoted to the issue. The forum organized in Beijing was co-hosted by the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization. The vice-minister said the Chinese government was seriously preoccupied with consumer safety and worked out startegies to protect product quality, consumers' health an...
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	Violence in US Costs $70 Billion
...ase Control and Prevention, Phaedra Corso, who is also an associate professor of health policy at the University of Georgia College of Public Health together with her colleagues at the CDC analyzed 8 national data sets, which were compiled by the federal government. Then the group estimated medical costs along with losses in productivity. Taking into consideration various sub-populations and different categories of vi...
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	A Better Office Working Schedule Suggested by British Researchers
...loyer, would be better instructed and would even enjoy a better evaluation of their work. Professor Thomas Redmond from the Durham University, JBA (a British consulting company) and Regus (an international company) have conducted a research called "Efficient work in 21st century", where over 1000 office workers from private and social organizations took part. According to this study, the 'classic' scheme of office w...
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	Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants for Babies
...According to the records of the national drug buying agency Pharmac, thousands of antidepressant drugs prescriptions are annually given for children under 10. Medical authorities are seriously concerned by the figures showing that antidepressants are prescribed even for kids less than a year old. Babies are not subjected to depression and doctors could not name any reason for giving them antidepressant drugs. It's not ...
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	77 Percent of Girls Consider Themselves Ugly
...Most young American and British girls are not feeling happy with their body image. The latest research showed that most of them are negatively influenced by advertisements. According to international study commissioned by Dove, by the age 12 most girls have seen around 77,500 ads. Researchers questioned 2,000 girls from the UK and the US aged between 10 and 14 and found out that as much as 77 percent of them described...
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	China Denies the Accusations on its Military Build-up
...port released in October by the United States congressional panel stated that despite China's continuously increasing power and wealth, it is still not ready to turn into an active player on the international arena of maintaining peace and stability. However, a defense white paper, which was released in December, has picked China's side, stating that PRC spends less per capita on military forces than such major countries...
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	First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon
...e work of Peter Scott, the son of another explorer Robert Falcon Scott, and the famous French adventurer and explorer Jacques Cousteau. 2007 for Swan is of great importance. This is because it's International Polar Year. Each year the adventurer takes with him a group of teachers and students as well as the representatives of corporate sponsors to Antarctica. These trips started in 2003 and their goal is to create an e...
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	Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...vernment organizations, mass media and United Nations. The aim of Global Alliance on information technology for development is to help integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) into national policies. This will reach a certain set of antipoverty goals set in 2000 at the United Nations summit, which is entitled Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The United Nations News Center outlined that cutting cost...
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	U.S. and Russia Found a Common Goal - Iraq
... position as Russia does. He wants the United States to solve the issue diplomatically, which is why the two countries need to cooperate with each other, as well as with United Nations and other international organizations. ...
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