Physical Contact With Parents can Help Premature Babies
...ween the ages of 24 and 37 weeks and its weight is below 2,500 grams. Premature babies often have problems breathing or cannot breathe without outside assistance and have problems taking fluids or maintaining normal body temperature. There is no firm way of predicting the extent to which a baby will be...Nearly Half of Indian Children Below Three Underweight
New Delhi: Nearly half of India's children below the age of three are underweight and almost 200 million people in the country go to bed hungry every day, says new data.// The National Family Health Survey (NFHS 3) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) say 45.9 percent of Indian children under th...Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects
...ick to earn a livelihood, survivor families living below the poverty line and those above 60 years with no family to depend on. The campaign was launched Tuesday to push for the resolution of their long-pending demands, including healthcare, economic rehabilitation and social support for the survivors an...Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed
...losis diagnosed in Mozambican health units is well below the real number of infections, warned// Health Minister Ivo Garrido on Wednesday. Speaking in Maputo, at the opening of a national meeting on tuberculosis, Garrido said, "in our country, we only manage to detect about 50 per cent of people sufferin...Cyberkinetics Requests FDA to Sell Nerve Growth Stimulation System
...o the vertebrae at a distance of two disk-segments below the injury. By applying an oscillating, low-voltag...rect current of electricity to the areas above and below a spinal cord injury, the Andara? OFS? System creates an electrical field that surrounds the injury ...Married Women, Children Most Anemic in India
...sgarh (41 percent). "Nearly 40 percent of children below the age of three in Maharashtra are underweight too," said the expert. Source-IANS...FDA: Rotavirus Vaccine May Harm Infants
...ccine's co-inventor, said the 28 reports were well below the hundreds of cases one would expect naturally. He suggested the FDA wanted to "shake the tree" for more reports about the vaccine. "I am actually encouraged by those data: 28 cases, when you would have expected at least 500 cases, that is really...Toddlers Rejoice-Flu Jabs may Be a Thing of the Past
...ccinated with. For the study, about 8000 children below the age of 5 (between 6 to 59 months old) were chosen from 249 international sites. They were randomly assigned to receive either the live attenuated vaccine (FluMist) or the inactivated vaccine by injection. There was a reduced incidence of lab-...Cancer Research May Help Biofuels
...h: they currently cost more than gas. If oil stays below $55 a barrel, most alternative car fuel technologies stop making economic sense, according to Dan Arvizu, director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Oil has bounced between $50 and $60 a barrel recently. As a result, most biofuels are curr...Madhya Pradesh Gets Tough on Sex Determination Tests
...e state's ratio (920 girls per 1,000 boys) was far below the national ratio of 933 girls per 1,000 boys. Source-IANS...Flood Toll Rises, and Indonesia Braces for Disease
...g rivers in this city where some neighborhoods lie below sea level. Responding to sharp criticism in the press for lack or preparation, Jakarta’s governor, Sutiyoso, said that the flooding was part of a natural cycle and that there was nothing he could have done. “There is no point in throwing abuse ar...Early Detection of Artery Weakening Can Be a Life-Saver
...ision in the abdomen and clamp the aorta above and below the aneurysm, and replace it with a Dacron or Tefl...re-channeling the blood from above the aneurysm to below it. This method uses a tube graft that is threaded into the aorta from an artery in the groin, the s...On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale
...mber of donors and their family members who lived below the poverty line increased ? Six years after the surgery, during the survey, these donors continued to live in poverty ? 86% of donors complained of deterioration in their health conditions ? 79% pointed out that they would not recommend...Surgery Can Improve Vision for People With Drooping Eyelids
...In lower eyelid surgery, the incision is made just below the lashes in the skin’s natural crease. Blepharoplasty generally takes one to three hours and is usually done on an outpatient basis. Whether you undergo surgery to improve vision or appearance, eyelid drooping can recur over time. Source-Newswi...Increase of HIV Infections Among the Educated Class in South Africa
.... This study revealed that the age group of people below thirty is at a greater risk. On the racial front, AIDS appears to be the greatest leveler affecting both the blacks and the whites. JYT...HIV Tests to Be Made Mandatory for Karnataka Couples, Politicians
...e is 1.56 percent as against the national level of below 1 percent. Most cases are from 12 high-risk districts including Bagalkot and Belgaum. The prevalence rate in some districts is as high as 3.8 percent. According to Ashok, the government was planning to undertake an opinion poll on the proposed ma...Risk of Hemorrhage Increased in Vaginally Born Babies
...brain and the thick membrane that covers the brain below the skull—and a majority of them were located in t...ver the occipital lobe or the cerebellum, which is below the occipital lobe. Typically, small bleeds resolve over time without causing problems, though lar...Less of Omega- 3 in Obese Children
...ms. Their intake of calcium and iron was also much below the stipulated mark. Their main source of energy was from sweets, biscuits and ice creams. A salient feature of this study dealt with the insulin levels. Children with a higher degree of insulin were putting on weight faster. Girl children were pro...Karnataka's Free Health Insurance to the Poor
...de health insurance to around 1.2 million families below the poverty line (BPL), Chief Minister H.D. Kumara... said. Karnataka has around six million families below the poverty line. "All the families would be insured within the next 18 months," the health minister......staurants · Never store raw vegetables on shelves below uncooked meat, as infected blood from the meat can drip onto the produce · To prevent cross-contamination between meats and vegetables, use separate knives and cutting boards · Wash your hands before and after handling any type of food Since the ...