Deep Brain Stimulation May Help Depression
...ents who exhibit this condition may develop severe apathy towards their environment. Their physical activity may lessen considerably where they can spend hours in any single posture. Till date treatment was only done by routine prescription of antidepressants and psychotherapy, at times even electro-convuls...Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP
...tion. And poor sanitation combined with official apathy allows massive breeding of mosquitoes to complete the vicious circle. Even though pigs pose a serious threat to their own families, many Dalit families involved in maintaining piggeries defend their business. "After all, it is a major source of li...Rural India shows apathy towards dental problems: Survey
... be beneficial later in life. The survey noted the apathy in the rural areas towards oral problems. People here were found to blame teeth problems to their birth or bad food. ...MMR Triple Vaccine Caught In the Eye of a Storm
... for the wrong reasons. Blaming the government of apathy over the MMR vaccine, Dr Peter Fletcher, who // held the post of Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, has accused the government of not examining the risks of MMR triple vaccine adequately, despite a lurking fear of autism, as a pr...Measles Outbreak In Bihar Creates Panic
...ties available in the village and alleged that the apathy of the local health authorities had forced people to take shelter in superstitions. 'The state government is free to claim that they are providing health facilities to everyone, but our village that is not far away from Patna is one place where the...Love is blind and Seeing is not Believing – Parents Don’t Believe Their Children Are Overweight!!
...rhaps what is even more disturbing is the parents’ apathy to obesity amongst their children, which is akin to sitting on a ticking time bomb. During a latest study conducted among parents of 277 overweight children, only 25% of them recognized that their children were above normal weight limits. Possibly t......about, but the lack of awareness among the people, apathy of the government and the lack of financial aid. He says that though it is a rare disorder it is deadly and needs more research and calls for a drastic step to raise awareness about the disease. ...Bismillah Khan frets over government ignoring request
...private. What is agonising for him is the apparent apathy of all those who matter. He has begun to suspect that even top leaders of the country are only paying lip service to him.' Ahmed recalls how Bismillah Khan would often brood, 'Isn't it ironical that a gas agency can be released to any Tom, Dick or ...Handicapped healthcare to the disabled
...ared to the rest of the people. This is due to the apathy of the healthcare system that doesn’t screen such patients appropriately, to treat a disease or illness before the condition worsens. "The acid test of a national health service is not whether it works for those who are generally healthy, but whet...Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever
...r, as poverty, unhygienic lifestyle and government apathy make the disease endemic to the region. // Experts running kala azar research centres in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and working to develop affordable drugs said the entire Gangetic plains of the state are infected with k...Health Officials Investigating Plausible Chikungunya Outbreak in Bengal villages
...e during a visit to the affected areas, at alleged apathy on the part of the government to institute preventive measures. Presently, medical camps have been enabled in all the villages. SV...Hair-raising issues of hairdressers
...dressers are paying a price for the negligence and apathy on the part of employers who have flouted safety regulations like providing shielding gloves or lotions capable of offsetting harm to the skin. Now, LGA has stipulated that owners of beauty salons should comply with the safety and regulation norms, ...Are call centers turning a deaf ear to potential acoustic shocks?
... employees, and cause them to make noise about the apathy of nearly two-thirds of call // centers in UK, who are now in a tight spot for having done precious little to prevent hearing damage in their employees. This revelation is indeed a wake up call to the estimated 900,000 call centre employees, who are ...Increase of HIV Infections Among the Educated Class in South Africa
...ta of society too. The reasons cited are – a total apathy to safe sex, inadequate information from Government agencies, affluent life style and lot of leisure time. An increase of 19.2 % was observed among people with full time employment while there is not much of a steep rise in the unemployed populatio...Grossly Overweight Boy Likely to Be Sent into Care
...l workers. All this action is the result of near apathy on the part of the boy’s family to keep up the scheduled appointments with community and pediatric nutritionists, public health experts, school nurses and social workers to redress his faulty diet, with a view to knocking off the extra weight. The fa......e sense of well being which is quickly replaced by apathy and depression. Anti depressants may help to suppress negative emotions but they do not help to generate joy. Besides, some recent studies have warned that certain drugs are capable of unleashing suicidal tendencies in susceptible individuals. ...New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt
...wing gory mishaps. Apparently, there seems to be apathy towards conventional toad safety campaigns that carry images of blood curdling accidents due to increased watching of violent films and excessive video gaming among youngsters. "To me the gesture says 'speeding - no one thinks big of you. It will c...Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says
...al for doctors to be given such powers. They say apathy should not be interpreted as a desire to donate organs. Some patients oppose donation for religious and moral reasons. Critics point to the public outrage sparked by the organ retention investigations at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Alder Hey childr...