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According to the American Cancerdefine Society (ACS), more than 16,000 new esophageal cancer cases are diagnosed each year in the United States. Unfortunately, the survival rate in these cases is only 10 percent.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF)’s World Diabetes Day campaign focuses this year on children and adolescents with diabetes. According to IDF, children and adolescents with diabetes face a lifetime of living with a disease that poses particular challenges for them. These struggles include higher insulindefine insensitivity linked to puberty, rapid behavioural changes, increased risk of depressiondefine, anxiety, and low self-esteem and transition to adult services.

What is Peyronie’s Disease?
Peyronie’s disease is an unusual and sometimes painful form of erectile dysfunction that causes penile curvature. Mostly found in middle aged men, the disease may occur in those younger and older. Estimates show that more than 80,000 men in the UK may have Peyronie’s disease, with one study suggesting that as many as one percent of the nation’s male population may be effected.(1)

Stigma related to diabetes is particularly more pronounced for girls. "Who will marry my daughter who has diabetes?" asks Ram Anuj, a native of Ganga Jamuni village, Bahraich district in India. Ram Anuj's 14 years old daughter Munni (name changed) has type 1 diabetesdefine and needs daily insulindefine injections.

An umbrella organization of over 200 member associations in more than 160 countries, IDF leads World Diabetes Day (www.worlddiabetesday.org) which falls on Nov. 14. The campaign is focusing its efforts on raising awareness of diabetes in children and adolescents.

In fact, the World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization in 1991, to draw attention of the world community towards escalating incidences of diabetes amongst the rich and poor, old and young alike. WDD is celebrated world wide on 14th November, on the birth anniversary of Fredrerick Banting, co-discoverer of insulindefine.

With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimating that two million people in the U.S. each year contract an infection unrelated to their primary condition during a hospital stay, one of the country’s major healthcare concerns is the prevalence and prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

Such are the advances of medicine that life can now begin whenever you want it to – fifty, it seems, is just the starting point. The ‘golden years’, once considered a time to slow down and reflect, can often be among the most active years in a person’s life. Running a marathon at eighty is no longer headline news, nor receiving one’s first degree at ninety. Thanks in large part to new therapies, medications and medical advances, society as a whole is living longer, healthier lives.

The government of India and countless people who have been advocating the enforcement of public health policies need due credit. It was certainly not easy, more so because of the financially robust, strategically shrewd tobacco industry that has mastered the art of circumventing public interest policies.

Over the past two years, the FDA and device manufacturers have placed an increased level of importance on tracking device performance in an effort to ensure complete patient safety.