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Canadians flocking to India for quick and efficient medical treatment

...nesses in major Canadian cities are making a quick buck arranging trips for ailing Canadians seeking medical help abroad. In addition to speedy medical help, the patients are also assured of recuperation at luxurious locations- combining health with pleasure. Hospitals like Apollo are a favored destinati...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...ception of mental illness. Indeed the media can buck the trend, by using its power to undo the misconceptions created, in an all out effort to remove prejudices from people’s mind. Finally ‘Mental Illness’ is not a bad word and like any other form of illness, can be successfully treated. As they say, ...

Sit-Ups and Sundaes Don't Mix: Diet With Exercise Works Best

...onal intake because there’s a bigger bang for your buck from modifying nutrition than there is with physical activity," Shaw said. The review of 43 trials appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates resea...

Children of a lesser God?

...orted to Africa from other continents and pass the buck on to mothers who are blamed for not taking their sick children to the nearest clinic which is many miles away unknown to the westerners who are used to hitch hiking miles thanks to their sophistication, which by the way is also missing in interior A...

Row in Australia Over Mental Health Support Available for Returning Soldiers

... "Quite often, soldiers get lost in bureaucratic buck passing, and frustrated by the bureaucracy," he said. "We believe that the Federal Government must set up an urgent counselling service specifically for returned soldiers from the Iraq war, so that we don't have any more unnecessary suicides." Ho...

Domestic Violence in Australia Leads to Number of Suicides

...indicates where you can get the most bang for your buck in prevention". With national elections not far away, the data has also begun to be a subject of hot debate in political circles. Labor health spokeswoman Nicola Roxon said the report showed preventable diseases "remain a huge threat to our natio...

Lets Care For Our Physicians A Salute to Them on Doctors Day!

...rain drain. India needs to get its act together to buck this trend. At the same time, there are many expatriate medics whose altruism brings them back to home ground. This turns out to be a turbulent period for many who are at the receiving end of illogical government policies, corruption and politics...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

... food and obesity. But breast cancer appears to buck the trend, with the report clearly illustrating "significantly higher" rates in the local government areas of Woollahra, North Sydney, Manly and Lane Cove. These breast cancer hotspots are more than 17 per cent above the average figure for NSW - a...

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