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A new study among diabetics in China's northern and southern regions have highlighted the need for a healthy diet and renunciation of drinking and smoking, the state media reported recently.
Diabetics in north China are more prone to foot ulcers and amputations than those in the south of the country, the study has found.
The study involving 634 patients in 14 first-rate hospitals in seven provinces and two municipalities showed that people living north of the Yangtze River are more likely to suffer diabetes-induced foot ulcers.
Diabetics in the north are also more likely to have aggravated local ulcers, greater risk of coronary heart disease and eye damage. The rate of recovery from foot ulcers in the north is lower than the south.
Health Highlights: May 22, 2007
Chinese officials are investigating two companies suspected of exporting toothpaste that may contain the industrial solvent diethylene glycol, commonly used in antifreeze. Some of the suspect toothpaste was made for children. Tainted toothpaste believed to be from China has been found in Australia, the Dominican Republic and Panama, but has not been found in the United States, The New York Times reported. Diethylene glycol in cold medicine killed at least 100 people in Panama last year. There have been no reports of deaths linked to the tainted toothpaste. Chinese authorities have closed the factory of the Danyang City Success Household Chemical Company and have questioned the manager of the another toothpaste maker called Goldcredit International Trading, the Times reported.
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Oscar the cat makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave. A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left. Oscar's purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it's almost a low rumble. "He's a cat with an uncanny instinct for death," said Dr. David M. Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. "He attends deaths. He's pretty insistent on it." In the two years since Oscar was adopted into the third-floor dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, he has maintained close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients, according to nursing staff, doctors who treat patients in the home and an article in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, written by Dosa.
Should Industry Consultant Advise EPA on Asbestos?
Paustenbach is on the "Short List" of potential appointees to the Asbestos Panel of the EPA Science Advisory Board. EPA's Invitation for Comments, dated April 19, 2007, specifies that appointees to the Panel should display "absence of financial conflicts of interest" and "absence of an appearance of a lack of impartiality." Based on evidence of his work for defendant corporations in lawsuits over asbestos exposure, his studies that consistently aim to refute or minimize the scientifically established risks of asbestos exposure, and other evidence detailed below of a lack of adherence to scientific and professional ethics, it is clear that Dr. Paustenbach is unfit to serve on the Panel. Dr. Paustenbach has spent virtually his entire career as a paid expert for polluting corporations arguing for weaker health protections for workers and the public from some of the most notorious toxic substances ever known.
Studies Examine Racial Discrimination's Effect on Asian-Americans ...
Discrimination: Racial discrimination against Asian-Americans can cause stress and lead to chronic illness, according to a study published in the May issue of American Journal of Public Health, HealthDay/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. For the study, lead researcher Gilbert Gee, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and colleagues surveyed almost 2,100 Asian-American adults -- primarily of Chinese, Filipino or Vietnamese descent -- as part of the 2002-2003 National Latino and Asian American Study. Participants were asked about their experiences with discrimination and their health histories. Researchers found that everyday discrimination was associated with a variety of health conditions, such as chronic cardiovascular, respiratory, and pain-related health issues.
Davies suffers earbashing from chairman as Derby do him proud
With this result, they have at least made a positive start in a division that has changed substantially in the time they have been away. It was also the manner in which they earned this point that could stand the Rams in good stead. Derby looked comfortable with the score at 1-1, but John Utaka then gave Portsmouth the lead. Yet the hosts gathered themselves and equalised barely 60 seconds later. .
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Dean had never blogged, but "he went quickly from 'What's a blog?' to 'How come we don't have a blog?'" says Trippi. But the governor isn't much of a writer. When he did a guest-blogging stint this summer at the weblog of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, he was accused in the comment section of using a ghostwriter. "We said, 'If we were writing it for him, it would be better written,'" says chief campaign blogger Mathew Gross, a sometime musician and environmental activist who joined the campaign in February. Most of the entries on Blog for America are written and signed by Teachout, Rospars or Gross, who also serves as Director of Internet Communications for the campaign. The first version of the weblog went up in March using Blogger, a free online product from Pyra Labs, a company purchased earlier this year by search engine giant Google.
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Household Smoking Restrictions More Strongly Associated With ...
In the first study of its kind to evaluate how smoking restrictions in the workplace and at home affect health status, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health found that nonsmokers who live under both a total household and total workplace smoking ban are over two and a half times more likely to report better health than those without smoking bans. The study surveyed 1,472 Chinese American adults who live and work in New York City.
The study confirms that household smoking restrictions are more strongly associated with better health status than workplace smoking restrictions. "As the policy environment continues to move toward comprehensive protection at the workplace, the household increasingly will become the main and perhaps the only significant source of exposure among nonsmoking adults as it is among children," observes Donna Shelley, MD, Mailman School assistant professor of clinical Sociomedical Sciences, director of the Tobacco Cessation Program, and co- investigator of the research with principal investigator Marianne Fahs, PhD, Hunter College.
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