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Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients

...l fatal trauma cases. TBI may result from a direct blow to the brain or from the secondary effects of head trauma such as bleeding, swelling, decreased oxygen, or increased pressure on the brain. Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) or bleeding inside the head is the cause of death in 70-80 percent of patients p...

Cadbury Indicted on Salmonella Scare

...prosecution handed by the council has been a major blow to the company as it has been one of the most trusted brands for decades. The scare of the infection came to light last June when there was a rise in the cases of people, especially children infected with a rare Montevideo strain of salmonella. T...

New York Governor to Introduce Bill to Strengthen Abortion Rights

...ebate on abortion is polarizing the US. Striking a blow for the pro-choice sections, New York Eliot Spitzer has said that he would introduce// a bill that would strengthen abortion rights. Only last week a conservative-dominated Supreme Court upheld 5-4 the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, signed...

Smokers to Be Taxed to Fund Healthcare for Uninsured

In a double blow for health, Indiana legislators in the US have decided on raising tax on cigarettes and channelizing the additional earnings towards healthcare. // As per a deal agreed upon on Sunday, the state's cigarette tax would be hiked by 44 cents per pack an...

Chikungunya Affects Kerala's Healthcare Status

... healthcare systems in India has received a severe blow in the past one year due to the outbreak of chikungunya viral fever in the state. Last year, more than 100 people died during the outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral fever in the coastal districts of Alappuzha, Kollam and Ernakulam. The present...

Stress-Related Health Problems Haunts Sanjay Dutt

... out. We had to ask him to calm down. 'The worst blow was when a section of the media wrote about another bomb accused getting a sentence of rigorous imprisonment. Sanju felt these reports were unfairly comparing his case to the convicted man's case. He thought the media's implied contention that he too...

Bubbles may Pave Way for Producing Nanoscale Electronic Components

...the University of Hawaii, US, used nitrogen gas to blow bubbles of an epoxy polymer containing silicon nanowires and caught the resulting film on a surface. Then they examined the resulting film under both optical and electron microscopes, and found that the nanowires and nanotubes had become neatly lin...

Anemia Drug Overused and Could Hasten Death in Some, Say Experts

...er, the FDA developments are considered a serious blow to one of the first, and by far the most lucrative, of today's biotech-made "targeted" drugs. In 2006, it was the fifth-best-selling class of prescription drugs in the United States. Last year, $10 billion worth was sold, an amount about half the v...

Honey, I Shrunk The Abscess!

... therapy healed the infection and offset the final blow of amputation. Honey destroys bacteria due to its acidic nature. The therapy was experimented on a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had a severe abscess that was not responding to any of the conventional treatments. When all treatment measures had ...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

...orld. Illicit drugs without question have lent a blow to many peoples lives. Illicit drugs could fall under any of these categories - amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), sedative hypnotics, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, and opiates. To put a figure on the extent of penetration of narcotic drugs, t...

Cherie Blair to Challenge Hubbys Smoking Ban on Human Rights Ground

In what may be called a body blow to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his wife Cherie has reportedly been hired by a sex-themed nightclub to challenge the legislation that imposes ban on smoking from July 1 onwards. Cherie Blair will be giving expert advice as to how the smoking...

Half a Million Dollars Offered for GPs With Expertise in Anesthetics and Obstetrics

...ts out of our hospital and that would be a serious blow to our community. "Most patients would have to travel further south, down to Wagga Wagga, which is nearly 80 additional kilometres ... "Of the 135 births in Temora last year, many of those have come up to 150 kilometres north, north-west, north...

Listening to MP3s During Lightning Could Be Disastrous to Your Brains

Listening to MP3s in a storm can literally blow your brains out as one man in Vancouver, Canada, found it out the hard way . Most people who are struck by lightning are not hit directly, but get a "side flash" when the electric discharge jumps from the object that was hit. In 2006, the 37-year-...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...e sure that the response to AIDS leverages a fatal blow to the disempowerment of women," he said. "If it worked with gay rights, it must work with women's rights." World Health Organisation Director General Margaret Chan said cultural obstacles to the advancement of women needed to be overcome if the ...

Luciano Pavarotti Believes He is 'nearing His End'

...'I was a fortunate and happy man. After that, this blow arrived. And now I am paying the penalty for this fortune and happiness," he said. Pavarotti's agent Terri Robson said that Pavarotti has chosen to stay away from the public eye, and that he is quite 'positive' at the moment. "He is being very p...

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