Fewer health workers mean more child deaths in Africa

Children in countries facing a dearth of health workers, mainly in Africa, are five times more likely to die from illnesses than those in developed countries, a Save the Children study showed Tuesday. The new Health Workers Reach Index by the UK-based NGO shows that Chad is the worst place to treat a sick child, while Switzerland is the best, with 13 of the worst 20 countries for a child to fall ill in, in Africa.

Famine and war-wracked Somalia is the runner up for worst place. Countries like Laos, Nepal, Afghanistan and Bangladesh feature at the bottom. Finland, Ireland, Norway, Belarus and Denmark are also at the top of the list.

"At the moment, a child's survival depends on where he or she is born in the world. No mother should have to watch helplessly as her child grows sick and dies, simply because there is no one trained to help," said Aboubacry Tall, the NGO's West and Central Africa regional director.

Blood Pressure May Hint at Kidney Cancer Outcome

In people with advanced kidney cancer, blood pressure appears to indicate how well their medication is working, with high blood pressure linked to longer survival, new research shows.

The finding comes from a study of 544 people being treated with the drug sunitinib (Sutent) for advanced kidney cancer. The researchers found that those whose maximum systolic blood pressure reached 140 mmHg or higher survived nearly four times longer than those who had a lower maximum systolic blood pressure -- 30.5 months vs. 7.8 months.

Systolic is the top number and diastolic the lower number in a blood pressure reading.

Hair Loss Treatments Info and Proscar

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In reality, the immense majority of these purported hair's-breadth passing treatments are all ineffective at preventing ortreating haircloth expiration.In world-wide, if a whisker exit discussion is not sanctioned by the FDA, or endorsed by the American Hair Loss Association, it is near probably a desolate of valuable metre and money. It is authoritative to recall that the well-nigh successful haircloth deprivation intervention testament often want betimes interposition.

Americans reluctant to share sex, work details on web

Although many American workers have embraced social media sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn, they are uncomfortable about sharing information about their sex lives or salaries, according to a new survey.

The poll of 2,118 adults showed that slightly more than three out of four participate in a social network site but they lean more towards posting things like restaurant reviews or vacation photos.

"In this era of over-sharing, people tend to clam up on a couple of topics, one of which is salary," said Rusty Rueff a career expert at Glassdoor.com, an employment website that commissioned the Harris poll.

Sportsmen select Propecia Pills Online

More than ten eld ago, finasteride was sanctioned for the treatment of baldness. Now thither is another blade gens of the dose – Propecia.

For a foresightful sentence, scientists believed that the cause of virile design phalacrosis was just dihydrotestosterone (along with familial factors), so after the dismission of Propecia no one hasn't doubt that finasteride volition be used for this function. It was a discovery for men wretched from pilus deprivation.

Fertility treatment can use semen from men with HIV

Fertility treatments can be done safely and effectively in couples where the man is infected with the AIDS virus and the women isn't, according to a new review of past studies. Over the last 2 decades, researchers have improved methods of "washing" the semen of men infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Unwashed semen could pass HIV to the woman or their baby.

"I think the procedure is getting safer and safer," said Dr. Deborah Anderson, a scientist at the Boston University School of Medicine who studies HIV. She was not involved in the current research, but she told Reuters Health that washing the man's semen lowers the risk of transmission enough that "it's an acceptable ... procedure for couples that really want to have children."

Nexium Tablets And Their Side Effects

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