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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

... people who were treated for heart attacks in U.S. hospitals from 1994 to 1998. It found that patients who had no chest pains were more likely to have delays in treatment and were less likely to receive lifesaving therapies such as clot-busting drugs or the artery-clearing treatment angioplasty. And they were ...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...art of an El Ni?o event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks. Details of the climate-disease model are reported in the latest issue o...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...ese ironically happy occasions. Almost all major hospitals across the country report an increase in number of cases coming into their emergency rooms with acute respiratory failure during these festivals where unfortunately the victims themselves give history of lighting fireworks and inhaling a lot of smoke...

Doctors needed urgently in Gujarat

...enviable task of clearing theproblems at hand- the hospitals are crammed with patients and doctors aredesperately needed in most of the quake affected towns. As India rallies round to help the victims, localauthorities are quick to point out that help is literally pouring in. Medindia.net spoke to Dr. As...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...eported the incident to the police.The report says hospitals should advice doctors on what causes aggression, how to deal with it, how to come out of such situations, how to prevent such incidents from recurring and how to report such incidents. Ultimately it is a matter of communication skills, leadership qua...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...The emergence of moderncorporate and investorowned hospitals in the country is steadily luring moreand more NRI...w possible with the growing number of state-of-art hospitals in thecountry,'' says MD, Apollo Hospitals, Dr Yogi Mehrotra. Dr Rupinder Singh, who gave up 12 year...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

...iotic resistance is a major problem worldwide, and hospitals are ground zero since infections and antibiotics a...tions will become untreatable. Before 1989, no US hospitals had experienced vancomycin-resistant E. faecium infections. By 1993, however, more than 10% of these...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...umented that 38% of acute live failure cases in 22 hospitals in the United States were associated with excessive paracetamol usage. Also 35% of the study group were found to be suffering from severe liver damage as a result of paracetamol use. In children paracetamol can cause death due to poisoning and seri...

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

...he private doctors and the patients come to public hospitals when their condition becomes serious, said the hea...id that test kits have been supplied to all public hospitals in the city and the state has begun a massive public education programme. "The treatment is very si...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...aceuticals said it will start shipping Natrecor to hospitals this week and each vial, a day's treatment, will cost $380....

The cocaine danger

...this week that the number of people admitted to US hospitals with cocaine related emergencies has jumped from around 80,000 in 1990 to nearly double that two years ago.// Working on rabbit hearts, a University of Michigan team have found that taking in cocaine causes a reaction called a complement cascade. Th...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...ast Tuesday through the media. In New York City, hospitals are responding to the need for counselling and support by setting up walk-in clinics and rapid response teams. Dr Michael Faenza, head of the National Mental Health Association in Washington DC, says that he expects the prevalence of mental health di...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...nti-emetics. The authors are now recommending that hospitals offer the treatment to patients in whom conventional drugs have failed to prevent vomiting. Mark Bovey, a research co-ordinator, at the Acupuncture Research Resource Centre at Exeter University, said that doctors were beginning to become far more a...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...seizures (eclampsia).// The study, carried out at hospitals in London, looked at 346 women known to be at high-risk of the condition. Half were given 1000mg of vitamin C, and 400 IU of vitamin E a day, and compared with the other women, who received a placebo instead. Pre-eclampsia happened in 17% of the plac...

Ranbaxy gets US FDA approval for Lisinopril

...le to access retail pharmacy outlets, wholesalers, hospitals and generic distributors in the US, only post - June 2002. Sales in 2000 for Lisinopril touched $ 1.2 billion. It is sold under two brands in the US market , of which Zestril alone sold $ 0.66 billion in 2000. The tentative approval has been given ...

Protein signals need for heart surgery

...-year study included 2,220 patients who arrived at hospitals suffering from unstable angina or chest pains caused by an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart. The study found that mortality rates were also reduced among patients with only slightly elevated levels of troponin who were treated quickly with an...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...k of damage to normal tissue, is to be trialled at hospitals around the US. Researchers will enrol 50 children suffering from medulloblastoma – the most common malignant childhood brain tumour – who will be treated with lower radiation and increased chemotherapy doses than those currently used. // In the US,...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...ary artery bypass operations performed in Scottish hospitals between 1981 and 1996. Of those surgeries, 78 percent were performed on men and 22 percent on women. "Overall, the total number of operations increased over the period," says Dr. Jill Pell, the study's principal investigator. While the percentage o...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...On the strength of these studies, researchers from hospitals and other medical institutions across the UK, with funding from the Medical Research Council, plan to undertake extensive trials to find out conclusively if this type of treatment can lessen asphyxia's serious effects. During the study, parents of m...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...rns and hospital episode statistics relating to 12 hospitals carrying// out heart surgery on children from 1991 to 1995. Dr Spiegelhalter found that a hospital carrying out 120 open heart operations on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per cent lower than a hospital carrying out 40 such o...

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