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14th November - World Diabetes Day
November 14th, is a day with some good names for itself, couple of them being the Childrens Day and World Diabetes Day.
World Diabetes day is specifically recognized for awareness and campaigns related to diabetes and its control in communities. And every term or couple of years, the theme for this day changes for some age groups or a category of people.
The theme for 2007 and 2008 is Diabetes in Children and Adolescents. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases to affect children. It can strike children of any age, even toddlers and babies. If not detected early enough in a child, the disease can be fatal or result in serious brain damage. Yet diabetes in a child is often completely overlooked: it is often misdiagnosed as the flu or it is not diagnosed at all.
Tumor risk increase due to heavy cell phone usage - Studies
According to an Israeli study, published by American Journal of Epidemiology, there is an effect on the parotid gland causing tumor if a regular cell phone user uses phone near the ear for more than 22 hours a month. The person’s risk of developing a tumor increases by 50%.
Agence France-Presse reported that the study said the tumor risk was even greater in people who fall under categories like usage of cell phone on a single ear side, non-usage of hands-free devices, and people in rural areas. The research was done on 402 benign and 58 malignant parotid gland tumor patients in the time period of 2001-03 in Israel, and for the age group of 18 years or older. The risk factors depends mostly on the conditions like the rural area users etc. For regular mobile phone use, regardless of duration, the risk estimates for malignant and benign tumors were 0.7 (95% confidence interval: 0.4, 1.3) and 0.9 (95% confidence interval: 0.5, 1.5), respectively. The risk factor does not depend on the type of phones used, and also the time period for which it is used.
