Study finds sexual violence against women "endemic" in some countries
The study revealed that an estimated one in 14 women worldwide have been sexually assaulted by someone other than their partner.
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The study revealed that an estimated one in 14 women worldwide have been sexually assaulted by someone other than their partner.
An increase of €2.2 billion in Research and Development, combined with a shift in GDP calculations, could bring about the change “within a generation”.
The new drug can stop people from having to be admitted to nursing homes, those in charge of the drug trial claim.
A major new study also shows that strokes caused by high blood pressure and unhealthy lifestyles were now to blame for over half of stroke deaths.
A major research project into the economic burden of cancer has thrown up some shocking numbers.
The symposium next month will look at what can be done to achieve an AIDS-free world.
A new class of drugs could replace statins, which have 30 million people prescribed to them.
Fancy stopping Father Time? Eat your greens and meditate, researchers say.
A new test will cut down on the labour and time it takes to test for certain strains of malaria.
A third of 10,000 men in the Asian Pacific region who had committed a rape said that they had done so to punish the woman.
Researchers found that there was “no threshold below which there was no risk” in a major study of 300,000 people.
Research has also found that the size of these risks can be predicted.
A new study shows that the results could be used in future drug trials for people who are gene positive for HD but who are not yet showing overt symptoms.
A Lancet study advocates for regulation, saying that it is the only way to change transnational corporations.
The Lancet study showed that there is a 4 per cent unmet need in Ireland.
That is according to the largest ever study on global disease, which also shows that fewer children are dying every year from diseases such as malnutrition.
Experts say that in some cases, women are diagnosed with tumours that would have remained undetected for the rest of their lives and which they would not have died from.
The study published in The Lancet found that the earlier women give up, the more likely they are to not to see their lifespan cut by a decade.
A new study says that people with demanding jobs are 23 per cent more likely to experience a heart attack.
Researchers say that increasing contraceptive use in developing countries has cut the number of maternal deaths by 40 per cent over the past 20 years.
Counterfeit anti-malaria medicines are contributing to deaths across the world and also leading to drug resistance – putting billions of people at risk – according to researchers.
A study by American doctors showed that scar tissue mass that occurred after a heart attack could be reduced after treatment with the patient’s own stem cells.
The increase has been blamed on longer life-expectancy and western-style diets spreading across the world.
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