Two Per Cent Of People In England In Contact With NHS Specialist Mental Health Services, New Report Shows One in 50 people in England were in contact with NHS specialist services for those with severe or enduring mental
health problems in 2006-07, according to a new report by The NHS Information Centre.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNews Briefs Highlight Research In Pulmonary, Critical Care And Sleep Medicine At CHEST 2008 #7720 PATIENTS' HOME PHOTOS HELP IDENTIFY ASTHMA TRIGGERS The use of in-home photography may be a more cost-effective alternative to in-home inspections for identifying asthma and allergy triggers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFewer Women Than Ever Before Need Their Cervical Screening Test Repeated, UK Fewer women than ever before are having to give a repeat cervical screening sample because the first proved inadequate; a new report from The NHS Information Centre shows today. Less than 100,000 women had to have a repeat screening in 2007-08, with the rate of inadequate screening samples now at its lowest level ever (2.9 per cent). The fall is largely attributable to the introduction of liquid based cytology (LBC) as a method of taking samples.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLink Found Between Obesity And Erectile Dysfunction A new study states that obese men with erectile dysfunction (ED) are shown to have low levels of hormones, such as testosterone. The findings also show that certain conditions associated with obesity, particularly hypertension, are the most important determinants of obesity-related ED.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInteractions Among Co-infecting Parasite Species: A Mechanism Maintaining Genetic Variation In Parasites? Animals are often infected by several parasite species. If the co-infecting parasites interact, this can alter the disease dynamics by increasing or decreasing the infection success. Interactions between strains of fish eye flukes, however, show high variation between different strain combinations of co-infecting parasites.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWPIC Partners With Pitt And Community Members To Bring Unique Depression Counseling To Students According to national statistics, one out of four college students will experience some form of depression by the age of 24, and nearly half of all college students report feeling so depressed at some point in time that they have trouble functioning.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLink Found Between Obesity And Erectile Dysfunction A new study states that obese men with erectile dysfunction (ED) are shown to have low levels of hormones, such as testosterone. The findings also show that certain conditions associated with obesity, particularly hypertension, are the most important determinants of obesity-related ED. The study was published in The Journal of Sexual
Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual
Medicine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBridging Public And Private Research On Bioinformatics And Proteomics The European BioAlpine Convention 2008, an international event organised by the trinational Transalpine Biocluster - Rhône-Alpes (France), Piemonte (Italy) and Western Switzerland -will bring together researchers and professionals from academia and industry in order to present and discuss the most recent findings in the fields of Bioinformatics and Proteomics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
# posted by Network @ 8:00 AM
