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International community warns India on HIV situation

... has warned India that it is time to treat the HIV situation as a national emergency. Experts attending the Peo...of the World Bank says that India should treat the situation as a national emergency and nothing short of that shall work. He added that all over the world the m...

What happens when Asthmatics consume Aspirin?

... contra indicated in asthmatics, what happens if a situation arises if it is imperative to give aspirin to an a...xis of ischemic heart diseases and strokes. When a situation arises that an asthmatic is in dire need of being administered aspirin, the researchers say aspirin ...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...uries or cerebral hemorrhage are all confined to a situation where they live technically only on life support systems. The most difficult decision for the relatives of these victims is to give consent to the medical staff attending on these brain dead patients to stop life support- thereby accepting the fact t...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

...catching up as a major national debate. Though the situation in India is still different in more ways than one, being promiscuous has become a fad amongst the teen folk. Can it be summed up as the teens at cross roads? Earlier the common refrain was – “ to be or not to be that is the question”. Now it is – “ t...

South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

...nal emergency.While South Africa can feel that the situation is not as bad as that in Botswana or Zimbabwe, hea...that unless the government pulls its socks up, the situation might soon go out of control. ...

IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy

...o three indicators in the census 2001 and said the situation in the State had improved compared to the previous decade. Ms. Sabitha Naqvi, from UNICEF, New Delhi, stressed the importance of roping celebrities and film personalities into the anti-foeticide campaign. Mrs. Latha Rajanikanth, correspondent, Ashra...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

...t will be difficult to control the burgeoning AIDS situation in Africa. But he hopes that by adapting to the changes in the protease, a drug can be developed that would be effective against various subtypes of HIV as well as varieties that have become resistant to drug therapy....

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...s about the side effects of the drug. He said the situation has reached alarming proportions with the advent of ‘Crocin 1000’ which is been promoted as a pain reliever for chronic conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatic arthritis. Recent studies by Dr Eliam Lee of the University of Texas, Southwestern M...

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

...nce with Cipla for ciprofloxacin will be a win-win situation for both companies, enabling to leverage its combined marketing prowess and extensive distribution network. Ranbaxy official said that the company is keen that the benefits of Ciprofloxacin in terms of convenience and better patient compliance should...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...panies choosing to stop making some products. The situation is so bad that 8 of the 11 recommended childhood vaccines are in short supply, including tetanus, diphtheria and a pneumococcal vaccine used to prevent bacterial meningitis. Another Merck vaccine, one that prevents chicken pox, is also in short suppl...

Self control makes stress response easy

...gists, believing that one can control a stressful situation makes it easier on your heart and circulation.// Exposure to a stressful situation is potentially damaging to health because it increases blood pressure and resistance to blood flow. ...

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

...The match ended with a penalty shoot out - a tense situation where in each team takes a shot at the goal and the one who misses first loses the game. England lost the game - and the researchers recorded a 27 per cent rise in heart attack admissions on that day and the following three days. Examinations of the ...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...year-long study started with monitoring the normal situation in the intensive care unit at St. James's University Hospital, which has had recurrent problems with acinetobacter infections, for the first six months. Researchers took samples from surfaces, patients and from the air to monitor bacteria levels, and...

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

...eid concluded that further research will lead to a situation where there will be specific recommendations for various groups of patients like the elderly, the diabetics, and the ethnic groups. He also stated that irrespective of the studies, the choice of agent that best suits the patient and the agent with wh...

WHO lifts HongKong advisory

... 100 cases were reported in the past two days. The situation may explode with almost 1,000 suspected cases yet ...ong. Sixty people have died of SARS in Taiwan. The situation in Taiwan has led the WHO to broaden its advisory against travel to all of the island. Despite linge...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...iod before //the WHO can declare a local emergency situation over. The move, due to be announced at a news conference called for 0700 GMT, will close the current list of local transmission of the potentially fatal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has killed some 800 people worldwide. At one ti...

Reducing The Risk Of Fractures After a Heart Transplant

...al of treatment, but which drugs work best in this situation is unclear. In a study done researchers assigned 149 transplant patients to receive treatment with either the bisphosphonate drug alendronate or calcitriol, a form of vitamin D. All began the therapy about a month after their transplant. At a one-y...

Wrestling found To Be Good for the Immune System

... and pins for 20 minutes. Next, the boys practiced situation wrestling where participants were given specific wrestling positions to perform and live wrestling in which each wrestler was paired with a partner of similar weight and ability for a six minute match. Natural killer cells are the body’s first line ...

An Increase In Number Of Lung Cancer Deaths in Women

...and importance needs to be given , to prevent this situation from repeating in developing countries by implementing effective tobacco control measures....

Pain-Free Heart Attacks Often Misdiagnosed

...ses are excluded that the physician reassesses the situation and determines it is an acute cardiac event after all. In conclusion researchers say that they hope in future their findings will remind physicians that these events do occur in the absence of chest pain and will prompt them to make the diagnoses an...

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