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Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...tially targeting the western parents. Forget the agonizing 20-week wait for an ultrasound scan, in just six weeks you can know the sex of the child, the DNA Worldwide says and the test costs 189 pound sterling. Brushing aside the criticism over the ethics of it all, the company says early results, obtained...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...le many who took the drug might be undergoing some agonizing time. It is against such regrettable situations, activists are raising their voice. They also point out that FDA regulations are lax in this regard. Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, a nonprofit women's health advocacy...

Double Lung Transplant Man in Michigan Recovering

... took off. Everything had to be closed up and an agonizing wait for news of availability of another set of organs began. Fortunately by late Tuesday hospital authorities learnt another set was indeed coming. The operation was finally performed Thursday. The surgery lasted over seven hours. "If he had not...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...nown. But in real life, tuberculosis is a messy, agonizing and debilitating ordeal. Once the tubercle bacilli gain the momentum to proceed unchecked through the body, there is no romance to be found. The actual experience of tuberculosis is one of exhaustion, drenching bouts of sweating, groaning, a cough pu...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...tially targeting the western parents. Forget the agonizing 20-week wait for an ultrasound scan, in just six weeks you can know the sex of the child, the DNA Worldwide says and the test costs 189 pound sterling. Brushing aside the criticism over the ethics of it all, the company says early results, obtained...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

...n suicide, compared to those who don’t suffer such agonizing headaches, a new study has shown. Explaining the importance of timely diagnosis, study author Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine in Taseipei, Taiwan said, “Teens with chr...

NHS 24 Fails To Save a Retired Nurse

... old lady.// Retired nurse Mary Smith, 87 had an agonizing pain in her lower abdomen. Hence she called the NHS helpline twice but the nurse curtly replied that she could not have an ambulance and had to wait for another four hours for a GP to attend to her. Then when the GP arrived he just gave her some pain...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

...ing that history has witnessed, and left behind an agonizing trail of death and destruction. It was triggered by an earthquake of the magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, which had originated off Sumatra, in the Indonesian Archipelago. The 'Tsunami', meaning 'waves' in Japanese, is a series of large ocean ...

When Celebrities Die

It is always agonizing to see our favourite stars die. Worse still when the celebrity dies an unnatural death. The death of Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and MGR- to mention a few are all etched in the memory of the nation and its millions. The...

New Drug in Diabetic Neuropathy

...ropathy can be a painful condition which is a very agonizing nighttime pain seen in diabetics. However, new hope lies with experimental drug, memantine, which blocks NMDA receptors, which are believed to mediate pain effects in diabetic neuropathy being researched by Central Arkansas Research, Arkansas. This d...

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