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Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

... It was very inconvenient for patients because the elective cases would have to be rescheduled. I hope we will never reach such an extent, but we can't tell. "Elective cases are non-emergency cases, so instead of having immediate surgery, one may have to push the date back until this whole outbreak is over....

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

... I think, more importantly, ensuring that those on elective lists are eligible and therefore not delaying New Zealand eligible patients." Many hospitals in other districts too have become stricter in their process. The health care has become vigilant in their approach to crack down on illegal immigrants who...

C- Section Does Not Affect an Infants Health

...n that there is a growth of medically unnecessary, elective C-sections. Though there was no evidence of longer-term harm in this study, "we still recommend the judicious, informed and evidence-based" use of cesareans, Leung said....

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...ientists has added a new weapon of defense against elective caesarean operations . The study lead by Dr Qiuying Yang, from the University of Ottawa and published in an international journal of obstetrics and gynecology -BJOG, has linked C-sections to a very strong risk of future pregnancy complications, ari...

Doubling Plavix Dose Recommended Before Angioplasty

...d. "One concern is that should the patient require elective bypass surgery, does a higher dose of clopidogrel increase the risk of excessive bleeding? "Also there is the bleeding risk. It is addressed in this meta-analysis, which shows very minimal potential downside," he added. But the final word is not...

US Hospital Group Offers Warranty on Surgeries

...began its experiment in February 2006, focusing on elective heart bypass surgery, it says patients have been less likely to return to intensive care, have spent fewer days in the hospital and are more likely to return directly to their own homes instead of a nursing home. Geisinger presented the first-year ...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

...Review of Ophthalmology, LASIK is the most popular elective surgical procedure in the U.S. LASIK treats nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, conditions which interfere with distance vision and which unlike Presbyopia, do not occur in all of the population. Of those who could benefit from the LASIK...

Caesarean Births can Be Reduced by Computer Based Decision Analysis

... likely clinical outcomes of a normal delivery, an elective caesarean section and an emergency caesarean secti...e outcomes associated with a planned normal birth, elective caesarean section and emergency caesarean section. Women were then asked to consider the value th...

Abnormality in the Red Blood Count Cell Poses High Risks

...hough hematocrit tests are nearly universal before elective surgery, doctors don't have a reliable yardstick for gauging a 'normal' or a mildly 'abnormal' result, said Dr.Wu. "One of my biggest hopes for this research is that it eventually helps doctors better interpret hematocrit test results to improve pati...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...ientists has added a new weapon of defense against elective caesarean operations//. The study lead by Dr Qiuying Yang, from the University of Ottawa and published in an international journal of obstetrics and gynecology -BJOG, has linked C-sections to a very strong risk of future pregnancy complications, ar...

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Saves Men's Lives

...e "the balance between risk of rupture and risk of elective surgical repair … is difficult to judge for people who are healthy," Cosford said. "Patients may therefore be asked to undergo this risk to repair a large aneurysm which may not kill them," he said, adding that some people may also become "signific...

Infections in UK Hospitals Drive British Patients to India

...orth pounds 50 million. The most common types of elective surgery for patients travelling abroad are hip or knee replacements, laser eye surgery and cataract removal, with some 10,000 patients spending pounds 37 million in 2007. According to Treatment Abroad, which received replies from 132 out of 500 com...

New Zealand’s Medical Lab Workers On Strik

...but life-threatening conditions. In addition, many elective surgeries will be cancelled and thousands of hospital patients will face disruption to their treatment from tomorrow. Medical Laboratory Workers Union national president Stewart Smith was quoted that he doubted today's negotiations would avoid the ...

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs may Trump Nitroglycerin for Heart Protection

...y useful as adjunct therapy in patients undergoing elective procedures, including coronaryartery bypass graft, coronary angioplasty or heart transplantation. In addition, he said another potential application could be to prevent the multiple organ damage that occurs following cardiac arrest, resuscitation or ...

C Section On The Rise In Obese Women

...e is an increase of emergency C sections while the elective caesarians remain at the same level. When age factor is considered, older women in Netherlands and Finland are having considerably lower levels of C sections than their British counterparts. The common reasons for C sections are the foetal distress...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

...rain on hospitals. Some wards are being closed and elective surgery cancelled because of it." The vaccine was registered for use in Australia last year, and in October the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recommended it be included in a national immunisation program, giving it the green light for ...

Link Between Childbirth and Stress Incontinence Established

...n against using these findings as support for more elective C-sections because that would result in numerous women having an operation they do not need. Rather, they say, the study results should be used to help determine how to prevent these injuries in the first place. The study – appearing in the Februar...

Patients Dissatisfied Following Closed Reduction Of Nasal Fractures

...orhinoplasty may be offered as a definitive and/or elective procedure when the post-injury assessment suggests that a closed reduction of the nasal fracture may be inadequate to address all the deformities.' Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Refusal of Surgery for Smokers – To Be or Not to Be

...ave low priority for, or be excluded from, certain elective procedures. "Doctors should certainly inform patients that they might reduce their risks of post-surgical complications if they stop smoking before the procedure. But should the price of not following the doctor's advice be the denial of beneficial ...

Korean Varsities Seek Partnership With AIIMS

... areas of interest from the Korean delegation were elective training programmes in the field of undergraduate and postgraduate training, nursing education, bio-technology, physiotherapy and research," said Shakti Gupta, the media in-charge at AIIMS. R.C. Deka, the dean-academics, and several department head...

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