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India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...m Pretoria to New York, from Copenhagen to Manila, demanding access to lifesaving medicines for South Africa." The Indian government has been seeking to make a strong case against patents for life-saving medicines. The victory in Pretoria has been hailed as a victory for the whole of the developing world. Co...

Stay away from strenouous work

Pregnant women whose job is physically demanding - or who do shift work - could face more childbirt...nificantly linked with premature birth. Physically demanding work was defined as work involving repetitive lifting, load-carrying or other significant physical e...

More information sought by patients on medical errors

...laguing the field of medicine and patients are now demanding that they be given full information when a medical error happens. However, doctors are often reluctant to give full disclosure, not because they do not care. In fact, doctors confessed to being haunted for many years by their mistakes. In the Washing...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

...ociety where they are staying. Neighbors have been demanding that they leave the area. The residents insists that these people are carriers of the disease and should not be allowed to stay there. This raises the question, Are people completely aware of symptoms ? or Is the awareness on SARS been rightly spread...

Boys demand more than girls, even before birth

...e data suggest that in utero boys are already more demanding than girls....

Mentally Demanding Jobs Found To Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer’

A new study finds those who have mentally demanding jobs may decrease their risk of Alzheimer’s diseas...ey are not clear what the link is between mentally demanding occupations and Alzheimer’s disease, however they have several theories. Researchers say the diseas...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

...say surgery on a beating heart is more technically demanding for the surgeon, surgery using a heart-lung machine also carries added risks including an increased chance of stroke, heart attack, and in rare cases, death....

Ayurvedic Therapies Cashing In On Medical Tourism

...ct a hundred percent cure. Still, some of the high demanding therapies are for Arthritis patients, treatment to arrest the ageing process, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, body slimming, stress management and beauty treatments. Although good wholestic Aryvedic treatments can come at a high cost many health co...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

...ock and disbelief, the family of June Wong, 26, is demanding answers. Officials have classified the case as an unnatural death. Wong is suspected of having Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a severe inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes which can be caused by an allergic reaction to drugs, The Straits Times ...

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy

...ng. The increased risk wasn't merely a result of demanding work schedules being concentrated in inherently riskier industries or jobs, contradicting the existing belief that people who work longer have more dangerous jobs or that those who have dangerous jobs work longer hours. Working longer hours, such as...

Junk Food Marketing to be banned

...y so that they think about what they eat and start demanding healthier options. The foundation is sending 600,000 action packs to youngsters and has enlisted the help of celebrities, including actress Fay Ripley and cricketer Andrew Flintoff, to help in the campaign”. Source: BBC ews....

New Drug Found To Improve Driving Performance In Young Adults With ADHD

...r beneficial effect of having performed a mentally demanding task like driving. The effect would even be valuable when the individual is not taking the medication....

Now Employers Focus On Employees Mental health

...tion of the number of hours worked by employees in demanding jobs such as doctors, nurses, pilots, drivers etc. The quality treatment might be more expensive in the short term, but the long-term benefits clearly outweigh the initial treatment costs....

Doctors unhappy with insurer’s ratings proposa

...ep has become necessary since a lot of clients are demanding quality performance since they shell out a lot of money for their health. But doctors say that United Healthcare’s physician-rating program is not error-free and is unfair at best. They say that the idea is good, but opine that in the drive to save c...

Nurses In Ontario demands Safe Disposable Needles

Nurses in the Ontario province of Canada are demanding strict laws to ensure the use of sterile disposable safety needles as they feel that are in the risk of unwanted transmission of blood pathogens. Risk of hospital workers // to blood borne diseases is high due to accidental needle pricks of unsafe ne...

Assaults On Hospital Staff On The Rise

...alth Board area, resulting in the country's nurses demanding more protection. //Nurses also face the chances of sexual assaults from drunk patients. Threats with guns and knifes are not uncommon either. The country’s nursing unions have called for legislation similar to that which protects emergency workers...

Cheerleaders run high risk of injury-US study

...ved from a school-spirit activity into an activity demanding high levels of gymnastics skill and athleticism". Organized cheerleading debuted in 1898 at a college football game in Minnesota, and the number of participants has risen 18 percent between 1990 and 2002, the report said. Organized competitions be...

Smokers Sue Tobacco Major Philip Morris

...arly detection of lung cancer. The four people are demanding that the company pay for spiral CT scans which is estimated at ￡300. //If this were to be brought into force, it will serve to save several thousand lives as a result of early detection. The company has been accused of indulging in deceptive marketin...

Walk-In Health Centers Launched By The NHS For Commuters

...ible if not for the request of the general public, demanding a quick and convenient health care facility, according to Patricia Hewitt, Health Secretary. She also highlighted that the extended working hours of a majority of banks and supermarkets that had won the appreciation of several customers. It has bee...

Americans Not Interested In Choosing Sex Of Child: Survey

...would still not use the technology even under less demanding circumstances. Only 12 percent would use sex selection technology if it were available in any doctor's office, if it required only a single cycle of intrauterine insemination, and if it were covered by health insurance. Even if it were possible t...

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