Archive for July, 2008

obesity.jpgNational-Obesity-Reduction-Plan: Germany

1. Teenagers obesity measuring plan

2. German Ministry of Health

Obesity is increasing day by day in Germany and it is creating a lot of problems especially for the teenagers. Meanwhile, the medical doctors have said that almost 30 million Euro (47-million-dollar) plan is going to be launched pretty soon and this is the project designed for the next two years to improving the health and fitness conditions of the Germans’ adolescents so that they can pass a happy life. This program is designed by the Ministry of Health.

3. Fasten health improvement services
Health Minister Ulla Schmidt elucidated a short while ago that the plan of reducing high rates of Germans’ obesity can merely work when there would be fasten health and fitness opportunities for the German civilians, so there will be a lesser amount of obesity cases.

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More than 12000 couples with reproductive health related problems have been studied by the Researchers in France. The researchers found that among most of these couples pregnancy rates dropped and miscarriage rates surprisingly increased when the man’s age was over 35. And they concluded from that to reach successful pregnancy, the father’s age was as important as of the mother.

The study has been presented at the 24th annual conference of the European Society of human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona, Spain by the lead researcher Dr. Stephanie Belloc.

Belloc told in a press conference that it was the first research that showed such a strong effect on reproductive success rates from the father’s side.

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diabetes_drug_avandia_in_spotlight.jpgWASHINGTON (AP): Diabetes medications became the major issue for the drug-makers, because these are costing millions of dollars to the companies under strong recommendations.

The officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted 14-2 that all newly manufactured diabetes drugs must go through in-depth studies to assure they don’t raise risks of heart attacks.

The recommendations from different diabetes experts, cardiologists and statisticians became lesser than a year, while the FDA was reprimanded for its managing of heart risks connected with an extensively used GlaxoSmithKline pill. Read the rest of this entry

broccoli.jpgLONDON: Merely a smaller number of parts “Broccoli” each week could protect men from prostate tumor, according to British reporters Wednesday.

The investigators expressed by the core of heart ,it is the chemical in food which embers hundreds of genetics alterations and turning on some of the genes that could fight malignant virus and knobbing others fuel cancers, said by Richard Mithen, a biologist at Britain Institute of Food Research.

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Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is being demanded by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to instantly issue its latest figures about the new cases of HIV infections in the United States. New questions about the actual figure of HIV cases in the United States have been raised after an editorial published in the esteemed British medical journal, The Lancet, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s remarks who is director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The CDC issued its data for the public last time in 2005 and now it has been expected that it would show an alarming higher HIV rate and it is going through a through an attentive review process and that’s why it has not been finalized about its publication. This has been stated in a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter from CDC officials on November 26, 2007.According to some specialists there may be more than 50% increase in new cases per year countrywide.

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