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Low Awareness Of Kawasaki Disease In Capital: Parents Form Support Group

...d. However the treatment is expensive and involves administration of purified antibodies or gamma globulin through intravenous route. Vineeta Gupta, a member of the support group said that they had to spend nearly Rs. 1,00,000 for their son’s treatment. The support group will serve the public in the provision of ...

Elephantiasis Is Eliminated In Egypt Due To Mass Drug Administration

...ew World Health Organization-recommended mass drug administration strategy. Gary Weil of Washington University in ... goals in most areas of the country. The mass drug administration programme mainly involved the administration of diethylcarbamazine plus albendazole. This drug was d...

Revolutionary Pill Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer

... experts warn that pro-life groups and the US Bush administration were hampering progress on the development of the new Pill as the new compound was developed on the basis of the RU486 abortion pill. Pharmaceutical companies were also reluctant to market this drug for the very same reason. Scientists claim that...

Abuse of Aged Will Not be Taken Lightly

...nvisages an ombudsman role to look into complaints administration and redressal activities. A rejuvenation of the complaints system with police checks and training in the care of the aged would form an integral part of the reform package....

Cricket Match Lands Mother and Child in ICU after Lathi Charge

.... No official from the state government, district administration or the Haryana cricket association has visited the injured duo nor has any compensation been announced....

Bird Flu Sample Tests Positive In Madhya Pradesh

...sample tested positive from Ichhapur March 28. The administration immediately swung into action and 8,540 birds were culled in 23 villages of Burhanpur district and disinfectant was sprayed in and around 2,600 houses. Earlier, after some cases tested positive in Warad in Maharashtra, 2,916 birds were culled in f...

Americans Dissatisfied with their Health Care

...owever in an effort to improve efficiency the Bush administration has stepped up efforts to promote the use of electronic medical records and to link payments to doctors according to quality of care provided by them....

Tibet Announces the Dalai Lama’s Tour of South Americ

...ulo. According to an announcement by the Tibetan administration here, the Dalai Lama will deliver lectures on wisdom and compassion and science and spirituality during his tour. The Dalai Lama has been living in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959....

More Culling in Madhya Pradesh Due to Bird Flu Fears

... areas close to Burhanpur. Earlier this week, the administration has culled 6,000 chickens in some 20 villages of the state following detection of bird flu in a poultry sample from Ichhapur village, barely three kilometres from the Maharashtra border. Edited IANS...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...-camps to be undertaken by Akha while the district administration supplies the fuel for such missions. Oil India Ltd also allows a grant as Akha's maintenance expenditure. The remoteness of the areas in which Akha operates is evident by the fact that hardly any government scheme ever reaches these places and the ...

Listeria reduction goal unachievable by USA

...organization. As a responsible action the Clinton administration in May 2000 established a series of public health initiatives to reduce the incidence of the bacteria to 2.5 cases per million people by 2005. Critics said several of the measures, including enhanced labeling, have not been put in place by USDA. This...

GlaxoSmithKline's Zofran Helps In Treatment Of Dehydration In Children

...ldren treated with Zofran needed intravenous fluid administration for treatment of dehydration, while 31% of those who received a placebo needed fluid replacement in the form of IV therapy. 'Children who received ondansetron had fewer episodes of vomiting, greater oral intake of fluids and a shorter stay in the e...

Cancer wonder drug will not be a slip between the cup and the lip!

Therapeutic goods administration has approved the miracle drug-Herceptin after declaring it safe and effective for the treatment of early stage HER-2 Breast cancer. // The approval binds Roche, the drug manufacturer to ensure that sufficient warnings are available on the packaging a...

B-Cell Biologic Therapy Could Revolutionize Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...ntional DMARDs. The effect, independent of steroid administration is seen despite the variability in the dosage of the drug. Drugs aimed at suppressing inflammation-provoking cytokines--specifically those linked to T-cells--have improved the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Still, the frequency of remissi...

Nursing Home Residents Receive Appropriate Emergency Care Despite Poor Funds

...e such as plaster application, X-rays, intravenous administration of antibiotics, suspicion of a stroke were some conditions that necessitated transfer of aged home residents. One reason behind the low ED presentation could be explained by enhanced involvement of nursing home staff and GPs. It was also found that...

Nurses Are Furious but the Exact Reason Is Not Clear

...tients. Nurses are being pressurized with a lot of administration work and too many patients are rushed through the hospitals without staff having the time to sit with them and explain what is happening. But Alan Rogers, the medical director of Les Miles's hospital painted a very different picture of the neonatal...

Long Term Mediation Not Advisable To Treat Hot Flashes

...drugs or extracts is approved by the food and drug administration to treat hot flashes. Among the antidepressants, Paxil seemed to have the strongest evidence of benefit but it had side effects such as headache, nausea, insomnia or drowsiness. The side effects were more likely to occur with higher doses. Dr. Heid...

Heparin Based Nanoscale Materials Developed For Dialysis Treatment

... could potentially eliminate the need for systemic administration of heparin to the patient during kidney dialysis, the researchers say. The heparin-coated membranes are described in a paper titled ‘Ionic Liquid-Derived Blood Compatible Membranes for Kidney Dialysis,’ published online Apr. 24 in advance of print ...

British Varsities To Outsource Admin And Research To India

...s, British universities are proposing to outsource administration and research to Indian companies and institutions in order to reduce the costs. // According to a report by the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE), that is the future of higher education in Britain. Outsourcing to India and elsewhere ...

The Department of Health Gears Up To The Arrival Of JE Vaccines

...ines doses had been received there. He claimed the administration was focusing on awareness and he said that patient handouts were being circulated to create awareness about the drive. He also pointed out that posters had been pasted in rural areas, too....

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