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Dosage Of Tamiflu Sought To Be Increased

...rus has also been emerging, making it necessary to administer a higher dosage of the medicine. A total of 15 localities in Vietnam have already been hit by the virus, leading to the culling of a whole flock of ducks. Across the nation, poultry deaths due to the virus have been reported in 24 localities. Since...

New Sensor Created For Lung Disorder Patients

...ory distress in the emergency room doctors usually administer high concentrations of oxygen via a mask. But for some people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease it can actually shut down the body's breathing reflex. Spotting at-risk patients normally takes precious minutes, but the non-invasive sensor c...

New Fund Launched To Help HIV Positive Women

... The KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) will administer the Fund, which has over US$ 200,000 already. As many as 10% of the new HIV infections in Singapore are accounted for by women, who continue to remain a vulnerable group. The women in the city-state have no one to care for them, and they often for...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Be Prevented?

...atients to explain about their experience and then administer the drug, Propranolol to prevent storage of these events in the blunt memory. But this treatment also has a lot of disadvantages like it cannot be given to soldiers and rape assault victims. In case of soldiers this cannot be administered as it wou...

Cancer Patients Do Not Get Uniform Treatment

... it privately, a public hospital cannot be used to administer it to the patient. Provinces like Quebec, New Brunswick and British Columbia are reported to have the best where cancer care is concerned. Universal health care is also considered an issue by the Cancer Report Card, as different statistics are bei...

A new test to detect pregnancy risks

...r organs to fail. By detecting this, doctors can administer antibiotics in the earlier stage. Hence the researchers concluded by saying that this test is a gold standard for the identification of inflammation with neonatal outcome. ...

Xenon Could Limit Nerve Damage After Stroke

...dous importance as it shows that it is feasible to administer xenon safely to a population of patients at risk f...d medical treatment, with paramedics being able to administer it to stroke and brain-injured victims to stop ongoing nerve cell death. Contact: Tony Stephensona...

HIV Vaccine Field Trials In Advanced Stage

... immunodeficiency centres have also been set up to administer antiretroviral therapy drugs to the patients and their families. More than 40 million people around the world have been infected by HIV/AIDS and some 25 million people have died. --Edited IANS...

Neurological Damage Can Be Reduced By Stem Cell Transplants

...tment will cost, and that it might be difficult to administer unless researchers find a way to avoid injecting cells directly into the brain. He also added that they need to figure out if the treatment affects other brain skills, such as learning and memory, he said....

GlaxoSmithKline's Zofran Helps In Treatment Of Dehydration In Children

...en. Another alternative to stop the vomiting is to administer ondansetron, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and marketed under the brand name, Zofran, reveals a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was conducted on children who had to be hospitalized (Children's Memorial Hospital i...

Virulence of H5N1 virus may not weaken even in hot climes!

...opt quick mass culling in areas with outbreaks and administer vaccination for poultry in surrounding areas....

Government Might Conduct Measles Vaccination Campaign

...ation campaign similar to pulse polio programme to administer a booster dose of measles vaccine. // Though the measles vaccines are provided free of cost to children in state-run hospitals, the government wants to ensure full coverage through an additional dosage, a top official of the Tamil Nadu Health Depar...

Administering Polio No Mean Task In U P

...e health department staff who went door-to-door to administer polio on May 21 were either thrown out or had cow dung applied on their faces. Chief Medical Officer Vijay Shanker Singh said a woman employee of health department was pushed out from a house in Babupurwa locality, causing injury and had to be hospi...

Alberta pharmacists vested with authority to prescribe

...ted the Alberta pharmacists to prescribe drugs and administer vaccines, without a doctor’s approval//. But drugs under the narcotics category or addictive drugs will still need a doctor’s approval. Now, beginning fall, pharmacists who have undergone a full-fledged training program can prescribe medicines for ...

Unqualified Staff , Patients At Risk :An Australian Scenario

...hem utilized staff with little or no training, to administer chemotherapy to cancer patients//.The society also indicated that the practice posed a risk to these patients. According to COSA’s Craig Underhill, ‘There's a risk that the patient (might) be under-dosed, so they have a non-effective treatment. ...

Immunisation Drive After Case With Polio Symptoms

...said today. Three medical teams had fanned out to administer door-to-door polio drops to under-five children in the area, Civil Hospital senior medical officer Yash Mitra said. WHO Surveillance Medical Officer for Punjab Y C Dolima was also monitoring the situation. AFP was only one of the symptoms associate...

Polio On the Rise in Namibia

...ngula has said the training of trainers; on how to administer the monovalent Oral Polio Vaccine (mOPV) for the different regions had been completed. He said the trainers would, in turn, go back to train health personnel and other volunteers in the regions next week.The World Health Organisation had helped with ...

Afro American Women at a High Risk of HPV and Hence Should Be Vaccinated

...d should lead to targeted vaccination efforts that administer the safe, effective, three-dose prevention tool to them,’ says Loida E. Bonney, MD, MPH, a research fellow at The Miriam Hospital and lead author. The authors suggest that developing a school-based vaccine delivery program would provide an effective ...

Advance in Program for Development of Non-Intravenous Therapy for Hemophilia

...manding procedure. It is presently not possible to administer these molecules by non-intravenous routes because of poor distribution or rapid inactivation of the molecule in the body. Therefore, potential non-intravenous therapy must be able to reach its target site quickly and effectively without being inactiv...

Klebsiella Outbreak In Durban Blamed On Staff Shortage & Overcrowding

...y the multiple uses of intravenous bottles used to administer Vamin-Glucose. Sturm had further stated that the task team had submitted recommendations to KwaZulu-Natal health minister Peggy Nkonyeni to establish a monitoring system in the province. A community group who were assisting the parents of children ...

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