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More Doctors Suspended As Strike Enters Seventh Day

...rity while on the job after relatives of a patient beat up a doctor. The doctors are also demanding an increase in stipend and improvement in working conditions. Doctors of select municipal hospitals from several other cities in Maharashtra like Pune, Aurangabad, Sholapur and Nagpur have also joined th...

Hospitals In India Opt For High-tech Scanners

...ue to hypoxia (breath hold), which is why the five beat technology is so vital. It provides fast and accurate diagnosis while avoiding systematic recourse to invasive procedures," said R.K. Mathur, head of the department of imaging and radiology at Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre. On the cost...

Teenage Boy at Boot Camp, Booted To Death

Drill instructors at a Florida Boot Camp beat a black teenager to death. Disturbing images of this violent act were captured// by a surveillance camera. Initially the officials masked the truth, saying it was a natural death, but upon a second postmortem, the skeletons were out of the closet, ...

Doctors Insecure?

...emanding formation of a campus security council. A beat constable should be available round the clock on the campus.'' Not an unusual demand, considering that hospitals have witnessed such incidents in the recent past. <br...

AIDS Sufferers Protest against Proposed Patent for Tenofovir

...xil fumarate since last year. Some demonstrators beat drums and carried placards reading ‘Patients against Patents,’ and ‘Lives before Profits.’ Some wore T-shirts with the message: ‘We are HIV positive.’ The protestors were briefly detained by the police before being allowed to go home. According t...

Flu Kits Kick Up Unwholesome Flak

...ed to Health workers by the Ontario government, to beat a possible flu outbreak. This move has attracted a lot of flak from critics // , who see this is politically motivated rather than a sincere attempt at combating a flu pandemic. The opinion doing the rounds is that the kits are firstly insufficient ...

Hospital Services Still Paralysed Inspite Of The Withdrawal Of The Strike

... on the students. Students allege that the police beat them in operation theatres, and that even women students were not spared their brutality. The agitating students continued their dharna at the PMCH on Monday, appealing to their teachers to join them too. Meanwhile, in a relief to a large number of ...

Race For Life

...he day that women everywhere came together to help beat cancer .’ Craig Glenday, editor of the Guinness Book of World Records said that they were thrilled when Cancer Research UK came to them with this record attempt....

Simple Arm Exercises Could Help Relieving Leg Pain

Simple arm exercises could help beat peripheral vascular disease - a blood circulation ...he scientists said simple arm exercises could help beat a crippling leg condition that affects one in 20 people over the age of 55 in Britain. (Source: I...

Mild Intoxication Limit ‘Attention Span’ - Study Fins

...n the screen, walked directly through the players, beat its chest and then walked away.. Subjects who were mildly intoxicated were twice as likely to miss seeing the gorilla, even though it had screen time of over a third of the video. Although the research did not directly test driving aptitude, the im...

Inculcating Positive Thoughts Could Eliminate Depressive Mood

Next time you want to reach out for those pills to beat the blues, just think positive instead. A new book authored by an Indian American neurologist says the key// to contentment lies in the mind and people who have a positive outlook are less likely to suffer from depression. D.V. Pasupuleti, directo...

Heat Spells Trouble in South Carolina

...are being their creative best with many tactics to beat the heat - A cool dip in the pool or staying indoors and avoiding the hotter times in the day. Many schools have risen to the occasion by altering playtimes for children so that they can escape the exhaustion and discomfort of extreme heat....

Therapy Decided by Risk Factors

...ambers of the heart (the ventricles) they start to beat quickly and irregularly causing palpitations and decreased blood pumping leading to tiredness and breathlessness. Previous guidelines published in 2001 recommended using several patient characteristics – age, gender, heart disease risk and concurre...

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

...thanks to climatic changes, and what better way to beat the heat than to reach out for a carton of your favorite brand// of chilled soft drink. Indulging excessively on these fizzy fluids is a national past time among the ever-increasing band of the young, the not- so- young, the ‘couch-potatoes’ and the ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Afflict Those Battling Heart Disease

...ove, or doing other activities that make the heart beat faster. Some stop taking medications that remind them of the heart attack. Four questions can help identify PTSD: ? Do you think about the event when you don’t want to? ? Do you avoid situations, thoughts, or feelings that remind you of it? ? Do y...

Patient's relatives attack doctors

...arged into the office of chief medical officer and beat him up. The relatives of one Srinivas Rao alleged that he died as the doctors did not provide timely and proper medical care and even demanded bribe from them. They held a sit-in demonstration at the hospital. Rao, who was injured in an accident ...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

...traud Kremer who practises in Berlin. "You can't beat sport and a healthy, balanced diet," she says, dashing hopes that tablets could prove as effective in toning up the skin and firming the figure as an energetic jog around the block. Despite the reservations though, both experts believe oral cosmeti...

Safety In Healthcare , Need Of The Hour

...ve the safety aspect of healthcare. These figures beat the chances of dying in an aircrash hollow , where the odds are 1 in 10 million , according to Sir Liam , based on evidence from the scheduled airlines. Hospital aquired infections are responsible for at least 5000 deaths in England yearly , which m...

Scientists suggest a new ‘brain wave’ for sound sleep and improved memoy

...speare noted long ago seems to be the only way to beat a fevered brain. So to run down memory lane you need a shock and sound snooze! <B...

Fruit Yogurt Could Play An Important Role In Diabetes Management

... most antioxidant activity, the researchers found, beat out only by soy (even the plain soy yogurt had higher phenol content than any regular yogurt with fruit). The blueberry extracts also were the best at blocking the action of glucosidase, which was correlated with the amount of phenols. There was mu...

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