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The Environmental Working Group has found out that four out of five brand-name sunscreens are not adequate for consumers, after testing about 1,000 products. They have either failed to adequately protect consumers or contain chemicals that may pose health hazards, EWG said in a statement. The worst faring were sunscreen products with an SPF rating of 15 or higher. Around 85 percent of them included ingredients which are not tested for safety or are already considered health risks, or simply did not shield UV rays appropriately. The top three brand names were also the worst in EWG tests....
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New research suggests that high levels of so-called “good” HDL
cholesterol not only reduce risk of heart disease but also may help prevent loss
of memory. Such loss of memory often precedes the development of dementia such
as Alzheimer’s in the elderly.
Alzheimer’s causes a progressive loss of memory and mental faculties,
which can be devastating for the patients concerned and those around them.
The study, published in the July 1 edition of the American
Heart Association’s journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, measured
HDL cholesterol levels of...
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Thinking about getting pregnant through in vitro
fertilization (IVF)? Then the time couldn’t be better, as Stanford University
researchers have developed a way of predicting a woman’s chances of becoming
pregnant after IVF treatment.
In IVF treatment, a number of eggs harvested from the woman
are fertilized in the lab with the man's sperm. The fertilized eggs are allowed
to grow for about 5 days. Then, the ones that are deemed most viable are
selected for implanting into the woman's uterus.
IVF is both an expensive and emotional procedure with success
only in...
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The World Health Organization unveiled on Monday a new
diagnostic test that will give doctors the possibility to discover multi drug-resistant
tuberculosis (MDR-TB) within hours instead of months.
The current method involves taking saliva samples, which
have to be incubated for as many as 60 days in order for microbacteria to grow
and be tested against different antibiotic compounds. Therefore, it takes up to
three months to discover MDR-TB. This is the main reason why only 2 percent of
MDR-TB cases worldwide are diagnosed and treated appropriately.
With the new...
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A psychiatric patient, 49-year-old Esmin Green, died at the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Department in New York City after collapsing on the floor, where she lied for one hour without receiving any kind of help. The incident took place in the waiting area of the psychiatric emergency room, and surveillance cameras recorded the precise time of the collapse, 5:32 a.m., and that of the hospital staff's intervention, at 6:36 a.m., when she was already dead. The Jamaican woman had been brought to the hospital involuntarily because of alleged psychotic behavior. The City...
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High temperatures and air pollution may lead to a higher death
rate from heart disease or stroke,...
British officials said on Thursday that the foot and mouth virus may have leaked at the same...
A woman who was fired after a mere ten days of employment allegedly took advantage of an apparent...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the
supplemental New Drug Application for Abilify...
The U.S.
scientists are currently testing a new vaccine that protects against infection
by nine...
Results from two wide international studies revealed that patients
with relapsed or refractory...
U.S. death rates from coronary disease have dropped in the
last two decades, but may be increasing...
Older American workers seem to have relatively low levels of
job-related stress according to a new...
Tonsillectomies are one of the most frequently performed
surgeries for children suffering from...
U.S.
biotechnology company Genentech Inc. revealed on Sunday that its cancer drug,
Avastin, seems...
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