Men, Blacks In Particular, Less Likely Than Women To Be Aware That They Have High Blood Pressure, Study Finds Men are one-quarter less likely than women to know that they have high blood pressure and black men with high blood pressure, are particularly unlikely to know of their condition, according to study published in the Archives of Internal
Medicine, Reuters
Health reports. For the study, lead researcher Ronald Victor of the University of Texas'
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGE Healthcare's Omnipaque Helpful As Oral Contrast Agent, Technical Note Reports Low-osmolar contrast media, such as GE
Healthcare's Omnipaque (Iohexol), make effective oral contrast agents for abdominal CT scans concluded a technical note written by a team of physicians from Johns Hopkins Medical and published in the March/April 2008 edition of the Journal of Computed Assisted Tomography. "It [Low-osmolar contrast media] is relatively non-absorbable and of low risk to the patient if aspirated," according to the technical note.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBIO Applauds U.S. Adoption For GE Corn, Cotton, Soybeans American farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn, cotton and soybean varieties, according to a new USDA report. USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) report, Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. was released July 2, 2008. Key findings include: - Adoption of GE soybeans with HT (herbicide-tolerant) traits reached 92 percent in 2008.
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