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Three meals daily Keeps 'Kerala's elderly Healthy

...e former and 38.20 percent of the latter. When it came to aches, the elderly suffer the most from joint p...erala has traditionally led from the front when it came to the total aged population (above 60 years) in the country. It rose from a mere 5.9 percent of the...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

...d died. "We are over-burdened. When the hospital came up in 2001, the number of patients treated in the hospital that year was 25,000. In 2005, over 100,000 have been treated by us. But the number of staff in the hospital has not increased since 2001," said Arvind Dubey, another junior doctor. "The ju...

DAPIC Project to Prevent Amputations

...i village out of mere curiosity, the special shoes came as a boon. DAPIC seeks to prevent diabetic foot amputations in the State. Every year four million people across the globe get foot ulcer and one in every six people with diabetes develops a foot complication, according to doctors. People with diabe...

Feeling good is good enough for a man

...od enough to improve their body image. But when it came to the women, feeling thinner and stronger was only part of the story. The women who had the greatest improvements in body image were those who saw actual increases in the amount of weight they could lift at the gym." The study followed men and wo...

Urban Monkeys Source Of Virus Infections

...es barrier to humans when African bushmeat hunters came into contact with blood from infected animals. The Researchers found that about half of the macaques tested positive for simian foamy virus (SFV), a primate retrovirus that so far has not been shown to cause disease in humans, but that has been det...

Dummies Serve To Reduce Chances Of SIDS

... the ‘control’ parents who had healthy babies, and came to the conclusion that the babies who slept with dummies were less susceptible to SIDS. The dummies serve to prevent death from suffocation. The babies belonging to poor families and young single mothers run a higher risk of SIDS. Sources from the ...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

...ater date. Increasing supply The statement came after US Senator Charles Schumer said, "the purpose is not to break the patent on Tamiflu, but rather to meet an emergency need for quantities of this drug that Roche itself simply cannot do alone." "Roche has made the right decision," Schumer said...

Parents' Permission Required For Tattooing

...e Civic Government (Scotland) Act. The new rules came under criticism from the Tories who termed it impractical, while they were welcomed by health activists and experts. Scotland alone has over 200 skin piercing businesses and tattoo parlors. Andy Kerr, the Health Minister of the country justified t...

Face transplant woman has new graft

...ering surgeons then watched amazed as the new face came alive, turning pink as soon as Isabelle’s blood flowed into it. A 50-strong team of medics in Amiens, northern France, worked for 15 hours to perform the transplant. Now doctors must now wait to see if it is a long-term successThe divorcee, who had...

Overweight, smokers and drunks beware: treatment could be denied

...nt surgery on the NHS in East Suffolk. The ruling came as part of a series of measures to be taken by the three primary care trusts in the area in an attempt to save money locally for the NHS. The reason cited is that the risks of operating on obese patients are higher and the treatment may be less effe...

This MMS Educates, And Not Titillates

...his friends - Melvyn and Jinni - a married couple, came forward to act. "It was a disappointing situation...an the others," he said. "Soon my stubborn nature came in between and I quit," Chhabra laughed. He also worked with the AIDS control society for about a w...

Charlotte Church Warns kiss n tell girls not to flirt with Henson

...g Britain's Now magazine. There was one girl who came up to Gavin, smiling, flicking her hair and touching him I asked her, 'You do know we're together?' and she said, 'Yeah' Gave me a bitchy look and carried on flirting with him. I said, 'Well love, I really do strongly suggest you leave him alone beca...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...irds of it to be paid in cash. A local missionary came forward with Rs.25,000, but there was no way the r...ns on easy terms for income generating activities, came to her rescue following some persuasion by officials of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)...

Passive Smoking Makes Kids Prone To Respiratory Illness

...' genotype. The effect became pronounced when it came to respiratory illness. Children with the 'A' variation who lived with two or more smokers were twice as likely to miss school due a respiratory illness compared to 'GG' children who lived in smoke-free homes. And the effect was particularly strong f...

Assaults On Hospital Staff On The Rise

...ned to deal with such incidents. A new legislation came into force in May 2005 which punishes those who assault emergency workers. This legislation covers health workers only when they are working under emergency situations. The public services union, Unison is calling for stringent punishment to those...

Parents Encourage Stereotype Body Images

...underweight, but the opposite was the case when it came to sons. There appears to be no difference in perception between the mother and the father where this matter is concerned. This stereotype attitude of the parents adversely influences the eating habits of the children and contributes towards eating d...

Man Convicted For Spreading HIV

...nsel Andrew MacDonald. He added that the women who came to testify against Nduwayo were very courageous since they risked alienation in the society. Nduwayo had sexual relations with seven women between 2000 and 2003. Three of these women are now HIV positive. The case in Westminster was related to these ...

Yoga Cures Chronic Back Pain

... it was found that the use of pain relieving drugs came down drastically. The research was conducted by Dr Karen Sherman. Western medicine recommends pain relievers like muscle relaxants and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), in addition to exercise. The most common yoga poses appear to be ...

Children should eat well to do well in academics say experts!

...wly than other children's." Another result that came out of the study was that the social skills of girls suffer when families suffer from food insecurity after being secure while the child is in the early primary grades. "In addition, we found that kindergarten girls from food-insecure families tend...

Both Kidneys Robbed From A Poor Rickshaw Driver In Bihar

...assistants has been absconding ever since the case came to light early this week. A court in Hajipur town of Vaishali district has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Gupta and his assistants. "Surendra had undergone a painful round of dialysis for several days. There was scant hope of his surv...

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