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New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

...ergencies. Untrained bystanders and CPR-certified lay people will no longer have to check an unconscious... have already successfully deleted pulse checks by lay people from CPR training. Pulse check is not effective. Even health care workers have difficulties. ...

IMA to create database on physicians

... will take at least six months, as it has to first lay down the parameters for grading, appoint an agency and finally work together towards the final gradation of the hospitals....

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

...tween group defined as normal where blood pressure lay between 130 and 120 (top figure) and 70 and 80 (bottom figure). Over the 12 years following initial blood pressure measurement, rates of cardiovascular events were1.5 per cent, 2.2 per cent and 4.1 per cent for women depending on whether blood pressu...

Frequent meals can reduce cholesterol

...ey may skip lunch and then eat everything they can lay their hands on for supper. Others 'graze' through the day, while some people stick to three meals a day and no snacking between times. If these people eat the same amount, does it really matter when they eat it? Ofcourse it does, according to a new r...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...instit." Although some traditional advice was to lay a baby on its front in its cot to relieve digestive problems such as colic, parents are now urged to lie the baby down on its back instead to protect from cot death....

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

...een no evidence proving this to be true. Hoping to lay this question to rest, researchers set out to study the most effective drug therapy for children with this combination of disorders. In the study, 136 children with both ADHD and a chronic tic disorder were divided into four groups. While one group...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

... wasn't ready for. One week later, the 18-year-old lay dying on an emergency room //table, the victim of complications after she took the abortion pill. Patterson's death is likely to reignite the debate surrounding RU-486, the pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration two years ago as a way for...

Asbestos Exposure Associated With An Increased Risk For Autoimmune Disease

... study researchers say // exposure to asbestos may lay the groundwork for future autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Researchers examined 50 residents from Libby, which is known to be polluted by asbestos. They found these residents were more likely to have a class o...

Sleeping Less May be related to Weight Gain

..., few in the general medicine profession or in the lay public have yet made the connection." The authors stress the need to investigate whether intervention in sleep disorders could help reduce obesity's negative effects on metabolism and health. In commenting on a second article appearing in the same...

MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects

...les are responsible for birth defects and this can lay the pathway for discovering what microRNAs as a group are capable of. Reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2005...

Worried About The Sensitive Skin Of Your 2 Year Old? Fetal Skin Cells To Offer Help

... connected with the patient's own tissue, but just lay on top. Still, a lot of experimental work needs to be done before doctors will know whether fetal skin can provide a more effective way of treating burns and wounds for both children and adults....

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...on (KMC) and the state health department on Monday lay down measures to combat dengue. The disease has mainly been reported from Lake Gardens, Golf Green, Dhakuria, Jodhpur Park, Tollygunge, Santoshpur and Jadavpur, which have posh apartments as well as slums. The acting Chief Minister Mohammed Amin a...

Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell

...this it was her turn to fall ill with the flu. She lay still in the hospital with headache on drips and oxygen for six days. In an interview she said: 'I thought 'what's happening to me now? I can't stand this for a week. It's too much torture,'' she added: 'I felt dizzy and faint. My hands turned pale...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

Twelve-year-old Israeli girl Samah Gadban lay in bed at Schneider Children's Medical Centre in the Israeli town of Petah Tikvah, her mother seated by her bed holding her hand. Samah got a new heart last week, a heart that once belonged to a Palestinian boy//. At the same age as Samah, Ahmed al-...

‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

...h of the country. // Mr.Ramadoss said India would lay emphasis on attaining "population stabilization" through a series of measures including awareness initiatives like 'ASHA'. The minister said: “we are trying to achieve population stability through reducing infant mortality and maternity mortality. Fo...

Kalam To Lay Foundation Of Vellore Research Center

President APJ Abdul Kalam will lay the foundation stone on December 1 for the country's first stem cell translational research centre, being set up by the Christian Medical College, Vellore.// The centre is being set up in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology at a cost...

Health Conclave to be opened by minister

...ected to make recommendations and suggestions, and lay down an agenda for achieving the goals, according to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) sources. Health Secretary Prasanna Hota, CII Chief Yogi Deveshwar, and the head of the lobby's national committee on population and health Naina Lal Kid...

Women call for health right to rural women

...ould, and pointed out that the root of the problem lay in the unchecked growth of population. Indu Capoor, Founder Member, WHRAP felt it was imperative to ensure that the needs of marginalized women are met. The urgency of the hour calls for community-based health care system to address their comprehens...

Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?

...alif. The research done by these people tells that lay people are mislead thinking that magnets do relive pain. The researches say that every year about $300 million is spent by the public in US and $1 billion across the world on magnetic bracelets, insoles, wrist and knee bands, back and neck braces, ...

Northeast Governments Warn Against Andhra Fish

... the local demands. "The need of the hour is to lay emphasis on fish farming locally rather than depending on others. In that way we could be eating fresh fish and at the same time our economy would also be strong," a minister said. Edited IANS...

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