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$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

... cost of various operations, with the cost of each case depending on the specific disease. According to her the estimation runs into more than $546,000 for medical procedures, $58,000 for surgical, and just under $90,000 for maternity and gynecology, in the 13 months from January 1, 2006, to the end of ...

Hairy Boy Bets on Laser Treatment for Cure

...Prithviraj attains puberty or become hard in which case laser would be useful," Naik told IANS. "We will of course do a hormonal assay before deciding the course of action." Despite his unusual problem, Prithviraj has been doing consistently well in his studies. When the father saw that the lanugo hai...

Indian Dumping Duty on Chinese Paracetamol to Continue

...an Government with unfair commercial practices, in case no one contests the review, India can carry on the existing 3.26 dollar/kilogram duty for another five years, reports The China Daily. Chinese paracetamol are priced at 2.5 dollar per kilogram, said an industry insider who declined to be named. Apa...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

...ed, the authors write. Anecdotal evidence and some case series suggest that C. difficile colitis has becom...ed, the authors write. Anecdotal evidence and some case series suggest that C. difficile colitis has become more common and potentially more pathogenic.Rocc...

Sexual Abuse Payout Re-opens Old Wounds

...atter how horrendous or hideous the abuse is, your case is going to be valued differently." For the lawy... visceral sense of what a jury will see should the case get to trial. Attorney Katherine K. Freberg said videographers gathered childhood photographs, le...

Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

... days and weeks after tonsillectomy. A number of case reports and a few systematic investigations of patients experiencing taste disorders after tonsillectomy have been published, they conclude. However, based on the present results, taste loss after tonsillectomy seems to be a rare complication. For ...

Wonder Cow Produces Milk Despite Being a Virgin!

...he cow. In his report, he had admitted that such a case was possible due to increased hormones level, though for further investigation the case was referred to the Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University....

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

...tes. And although the country reported its first case over 20 years ago, many still face acute stigma due to a lack of awareness and misconceptions about the disease. "I mean they (AIDS and Cancer patients) have equal rights to get educated. A disease shouldn't stop anyone from getting educated," said...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...e checked for abnormal cells. Dr Harper used the case of Finland as an unfortunate illustration. Finland has long been the gold standard of effective cervical cancer screening programs -- they were close to 100% participation. But because the early screening and treatment were so effective and compre...

Seven Children Ordered Removed from Squalid Home in Texas

Yet another case of grossly mismanaged household in US has come to light . A Texas judge on Wednesday ordered seven young children removed from their home in Lubbock after authorities discovered it was infested with rats and filled with garbage, including stacks of...

Texan Battles Flesh-eating Bacteria Contracted While Swimming

...nch in Galveston. Herndon said he sees about one case of necrotizing fasciitis, which can be caused by several bacteria, each month. But Vibrio vulnificus infections are not as common, he said, noting that John Sealy Hospital receives only two or three cases in a year. The Texas Department of State He...

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

...ash K Jha said that he will go to court and file a case against the singer. After Sonus revelation many actors and models are coming to the fore with their experience of the said incident. I still remember how a model coordinator approached me and kept calling me till I told him I was not his cup of ...

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

A case of medical negligence has been registered against ...ion of the complainant was not proper. It is not a case of an error of judgment. It is a case of either negligence or incompetence of AIIMS doctors, as a re...

Doctors Puzzled Over Man's Normal Life With Unusually Tiny Brain

French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite n...-- but with an extraordinarily tiny brain . In a case history published in next Saturday's Lancet, doctors led by Lionel Feuillet of the Hopital de la Tim...

Police Raids Hospitals and Labs in Orissa

...inistration, and said police delayed registering a case against the suspects. Local residents said that three infants were found dumped a month ago at the same spot but the police took no action. "We observed there in Nayagarh that there are lot of nursing homes which have come up and they haven't g...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...ospital policies afterward. Jones said Swanson's case upset her. The two are members of Las Vegas-based Birth Year Network. The nonprofit organization provides support and education to future parents on various topics, including home birthing and herbal medicine. Selander said if she receives a placen...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...ard said with a broad grin. The success of this case means that patients needing blood and bone marrow transplants from unrelated donors have a new hope and a new destination for the cure. It is the first time that an unrelated transplant of stem cells and bone marrow for patients with advanced leuka...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...cy had closed two companies involved in the recent case of toxic dog and cat food that killed pets in the United States, and another firm blamed for exporting a toxin later used in toothpaste. The announcements come as China faces increasing foreign pressure over the quality of its exports, with US Pres...

Simple Chemical Reaction may Help Early Disease Diagnosis

...ctually is an easily identifiable isotope, in this case a carbon atom that is heavier than the standard carbon atom. Because we can easily detect this isotope, it causes these tagged metabolites to effectively pop out against the background of all of the others, Raftery said. The findings of the study w...

Mills Rejects Macca's 20m Divorce Settlement Offer

...icating that they may finally have to battle their case in the court. "It could well go to trial because...Online quoted one lawyer as saying. The couple's case is scheduled for a five-day hearing next February, to be presided over by family High Court Judge, J...

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