by admin at Wednesday, October 15, 2008 in Health
Tags: devices, EU, hearing loss, iPod, teenagers
Stop it! If you listen to iPods and other portable devices for prolonged periods of time, as the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) says there are some health risks involved with such listening habits.
According to the committee, people who listen to personal music players for just six hours a week at high volume (over 89 decibels) more likely to become the victim of permanent hearing loss after five years.
The committee has also made some valuable calculations in this connection and believes that the problem might affect 2.5 to 10 million people and 5 to 10 percent among them would be European people. Click here to read more »
by admin at Monday, September 22, 2008 in Asthma,Child Health
Tags: Asthma, babies, drug, fever, Paracetamol
The risk of developing asthma is higher in the babies who were frequently given paracetamol in the first 12 months of their life, a new study, which involved more than 200,000 children, suggests.
According the Lancet report, babies who were given paracetamol for fever during the first year of their life had a 46% higher risk of developing asthma five years later.
However, the researchers couldn’t find whether the drug directly increased the risk of asthma or there was some other factor involved.
According to experts, parents can still use the drug for high fever.
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by admin at Monday, July 28, 2008 in Health
Tags: Men's diabetes risk, Stress
According to a Swedish study, men who have high levels of “psychological distress” had are more likely to develop type2 diabetes than the men with lower levels of such distress.
Under the study, cases of 2,127 men who were born during 1938 and 1957 were studied similarly, 3,100 women were also studied but the researchers didn’t find any such link in them.
In the Journal Diabetic Medicine, the researchers wrote that stress and anxiety might have affected the hormone regulation in the brain.
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by admin at Wednesday, June 04, 2008 in Health
Tags: Government policies, health sector
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh gave a huge round of applaud to her regime’s loyalty to the far-off northern health sector in this year’s $36 billion State Budget.
One of the important health proclamations for the area consists of a structure dedicated to waves and oncology services at the Cairns Base Hospital.
It is ensign to be completely outfitted and operational in the subsequently couple of years but it is undecided how much it would rate. Ms Bligh elucidated that this year’s Budget marks off all the boxes.
“It conveys in Cairns a $24 million first installment on the new Cairns Hospital and a $2.6 million provision for a Cairns hospital Based chopper,” she alleged. It is the budget that provides more and more emphasizing health facilities for the community of Cairns.
Cairns Mayor Val Schier said that boulevard endowment is one of the places of interest in this year’s Budget.
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by admin at Wednesday, February 20, 2008 in Food
Tags: Cadbury, chocolate, dairy
This is a bad news for all chocolate lovers and for all the fans of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates worldwide. The company had planned on increasing the price of their chocolates to compensate for the increasing cost of its production. Cadbury, one of the leading names in confectionery, plans to increase the prices of its products due to the rising cost of the raw materials used in making their delicious and well-loved chocolates.
Cadbury Schweppes who is famous for Dairy Milk Chocolate and Trident Gum is seeking to increase its prices since the costs of production are set to go up in 2008 by 5-6 percent.
The chocolate company released a comment stating that there was a 9% decline in its annual profit as a result of the increase in cost of production. This decline is estimated to cost $1.3bn. Cadbury, as of the present date, is working on the spinning off of its American drinks. The revenues at Cadbury’s confectionery products had grown in 2007 by 7% as the firm had reported.
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by admin at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 in Health
Tags: beef, disease, Food, ground beef, meat
Westland/Hallmark Meat Company of Chino, California had issued history’s largest recall of ground beef. The said beef was found to be worth 143 million lbs. A certain portion of this exceptionally huge amount of beef had been used in several schools for their respective student lunch programs, as announced by officials from the Department of Agriculture. This controversial order for ground beef recall by the Westland/Hallmark Company arose following a scandal which featured a widened abuse of animals. This involved an undercover video footage which the Humane Society of the United States had released and distributed in January 30. The controversial video captured the workers of the said meat company forcing the sick cows to walk by kicking and threatening them with forklifts to stand.
The said video coverage had caused a lot of doubts with regards to the safety and suitability of these meats. Cows which are unable to walk, or downer cows, carry serious risks pertaining to safety issues. Certain risks include diseases such as mad cow disease. This is considered a major issue due to the fact that downer cows are strictly prohibited by the federal government from the supply of food.
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by admin at Monday, November 12, 2007 in Health
Tags: MSRA, MSRA Prevention
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, better known as MSRA – the deadly superbug which has given so much troubles to schools for having its terrible resistance to antibiotics has been found to be best prevented by an unexpectedly simple habit – having good hand hygiene. This bug is deadly when it enters the bloodstream and it’s something you don’t want to get, since it has even been reported to have a whopping 34% death rate within 30 days of the MSRA infection.
The infection usually starts with a painful bump which can penetrate the skin and deal more severe damage and cause a painful, inflamed area. This deadly bug does not stop there; it is contagious and can easily be passed onto other people and this usually happens in places with close contact such as gymnasiums, locker rooms and cafeterias. Dirty, unwashed laundry can also spread the disease, so don’t just let anyone borrow your clothing.
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Stop it! If you listen to iPods and other portable devices for prolonged periods of time, as the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) says there are some health risks involved with such listening habits.