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London Emergency Services Receive Wide Appreciation

...received from various parts of city as serial bomb blasts affected many locations. Within minutes all elective surgeries were postponed. All staff on post duty off were called using Cell phones and pagers. The emergency services were co-ordinated in such a way that there was maximum concentration of effor...

Need for Psychotherapy for Delhi Blast Victims

Victrims of Delhi blasts may have to go for psychological treatment in orde...sychiatrist warn that the people who witnessed the blasts - which left around 60 dead and 210 injured - may need counselling and psychotherapy to get out of t...

Mahdhani to get ayurvedic treatment in prison

... PDP leader and a key accused in the 1998// serial blasts Abdul Nasser Mahdhani in the central prison here. Mahdhani, lodged in the prison after his arrest in March 1998, 45 days after the serial blasts, which claimed 52 lives, is said to be suffering from blood pressure, diabetes, spinal proble and weigh...

Prime Minister Lauds the Exemplary Work of Mumbai’s Medical Fraternit

... But for Sion Hospital's dean M.E. Yeolekar, the blasts brought back the ghosts of the 1993 bomb blasts when over 250 people were killed. "This is far worse then the 1993 blasts. The victims in Tuesdays...

Psychiatrist's Help Sought to Counsel Children Making Hoax Calls

... troubling given that it comes days after the 7/11 blasts in Mumbai when newspapers and TV screens were full of pictures of mangled bodies, injured passengers and grieving relatives. Alarmed, senior police officials have sought help from psychiatrists to counsel the youngsters and try to make them underst...

New Treatment Option in the Pipeline for Those Suffering From Lung Cancers

...hospital visits. In a single treatment, Cyberknife blasts a lung tumor from all sides by delivering typically 100-150 intense, focused x-ray beams, causing the tumor to absorb approximately 10 times more radiation than in a conventional radiotherapy session. Cyberknife can deliver so much more radiation tha...

Victims of Landmine Blasts Walks with the Help of Jaipur Foot

...re than 20 crippled Lebanese, victims of land mine blasts in that country, are able to walk now, thanks to the prosthetic Jaipur Foot developed by a non-governmental organisation here.// A two-member team from the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) conducted a preliminary camp in the last wee...

Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients

...components, one from each pathway, in the leukemic blasts found in newly diagnosed patients. Activation of each component - PKCa, pERK2 and pAKT - had an adverse effect on the patient's prospects that was independent of other traditional prognostic factors. Their cumulative impact was greater than simply ad...

Novel Suicide Gene Therapy Used to Treat Malignant Brain Tumors

...pes virus. When the drug kills the herpes, it also blasts the cancer cells, making them self-destruct. Study patients will also undergo radiation therapy and chemotherapy, if needed. “Malignant gliomas are unique in their ability to grow uncontrollably and aggressively invade and destroy neighboring areas...

New Lung Heating Device can Help Asthma Patients

...edition of Daily Mail. The device gives 10-second blasts of mild heat to the muscles to stop them from contracting. No incision is required. The patient is under conscious sedation with no anaesthesia involved. The technique, known as bronchial thermoplasty, is for patients with moderate and severe asthm...

Clues Found On How Deadly Bacterium Gains Foothold

...f infection if they skin an infected rabbit. Using blasts of water to clean machines, such as mowers, that have inadvertently come into contact with the carcasses of infected rabbits also can be a risk, as it makes the bacteria easy to inhale. Allen noted that tularemia infections contracted though the sk...

Skin Needs “Winterizing” To Head Off Damae

...hy or scaly skin during the winter months// due to blasts of colder, dryer air, winter sun exposure and over-heated homes and offices. “Winter is no friend to the skin any more than summer is,” says Rebecca A. Kazin, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology and director of the Johns Hopkins Cosmetic Cente...

Samjhauta Victims in Pakistan Feel Neglected

Victims of the train blasts on the Samjhauta link train in India, being treate...ed by partition, died and many were injured in the blasts on the train Feb 18 night. While investigations are on, authorities in India and Pakistan have been...

Stress-Related Health Problems Haunts Sanjay Dutt

... special TADA court looking into the Mumbai serial blasts case for possessing illegal weapons. The court Friday sentenced his friend Samir Hingora to nine years' rigorous imprisonment for supplying arms to him, and that could spell further trouble for him. According to close friends, the court's verdict i...

Exposure to CT Scan Radiation may Be Equivalent to That of Nuclear Bomb

...s away from the centres of the World War II atomic blasts in Japan. The researchers say that a CT scan might increase a person's risk of cancer by about 0.05 per cent, although experts stress that on average a person's lifetime risk of cancer is about 20 per cent. They, however, agree that correct use...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...jury. Soldiers hit in the head or knocked out by blasts "getting your bell rung" is the military euphemism sometimes have no visible wounds but a fog of war in their minds. They can be addled, irritable, depressed and unaware they are impaired. Only an estimated 2,000 cases of brain injury have been t...

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