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Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

... said Franz Zaver Rieser, a manager at the medical centre based at the opening of the mine. "We receive 10,000 patients a year, and over 55 years in operation about three million patients have passed through the various mine areas," he said. The beneficial properties were discovered around 1946, when mi...

The Hospital Superbugs

...nched in December last year as a national research centre to lead the way in the fight against killer super bugs. Its patron is Actress and TV personality Leslie Ash, who almost died and was left virtually paralysed after contracting MSSA, a strain related to MRSA, in a London hospital. The work carried ...

Sleep Disorder Leads to Road Accidents

...problem and help determine if a night at the sleep centre is needed. Sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnoea, periodic limb movement disorder and associated conditions will be identified by the software. The software will enable patients to enter their information at home, allowing specialists to...

Designer Bag Launch Causes Shopping Chaos in Hong Kong

A Hong Kong shopping centre was Friday forced to call in police when huge crow...were waiting outside Hong Kong's upmarket Landmark centre to buy the creation of British designer Anya Hindmarch. The shopper, which carries the slogan "I a...

Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa

...ster Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a tele-education centre at the Addis Ababa University here. The project...ce. Mukherjee also inaugurated the tele-medicine centre at the Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia. The network provides connectivity of a tele -medicine set up...

Researchers Say Brain Region Responsible for Pain's Ability to Seek Attention

...ns indicated that the region was indeed, the brain centre through which pain influences the LOC. By contrast, they found that a working memory load affects the LOC through a different region, the inferior parietal cortex. The findings of the study were published in the July issue of the journal Neuron,...

Violence at Croatian Gay Pride March

...fter violence marred a Gay Pride march through the centre of the Croatian capital Zagreb . Organisers said more than 20 marchers had been the target of homophobic attacks. "Around 10 people were hurt, with two needing medical treatment," Marko Jurcic, one of the organisers, told AFP. Italian senator Gia...

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

.... The first treatment was a major step for a small centre introducing complex treatment technologies such as... radiotherapy in the region and our Port Macquarie centre also will start soon, offering the same impressive treatment capabilities. It is not surprising that...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...karta's Sulianti Saroso hospital, Indonesia's main centre for treating victims of the virus. He showed symptoms on July 1 but was only admitted to hospital four days later and immediately transferred to Jakarta. Ningrum said it was unclear whether the victim had come into contact with dead or infected p...

Indian Boffins to Fight Wrinkles With Camels' Milk

...o study it on 20 people for at least four months," centre director K.M.L. Pathak told the United News of India agency. "Only after laboratory experiments and tests would the cream be produced commercially," said the chief scientist of the unit, which is based in the desert state of Rajasthan and has bred ...

Two Week Wait Rule Not Working With Breast Cancer Patients

...999 and 2005. There were 24,999 referrals to the centre during this period, with GPs classifying each pati...999 and 2005 the number of annual referrals to the centre increased by 9%. Routine referrals decreased by 24% but 2-week wait referrals increased by 42%. De...

Plants Respond to Changing Environment

A team of John Innes centre scientists lead by Professor Nick Harberd have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment. Plants adapt their growth, including key steps in their life cycle such as germination and flowering, to take ...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...ed," at two farms near the village of Norin in the centre of the country where the virus was confirmed on Wednesday, he told AFP. The two farms are within an exclusion zone thrown up after the first cases of H5N1 were detected in domestic Czech poultry last month. "We are doing this preventively. It is ...

Rounding Up Rodeo Injuries Helps in Prevention

...mation to support the creation of an international centre for rodeo research excellence. The centre would pull together education of cowboys, healthcare professionals and clinicians to service cowboys...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

... a social worker at the Prostitution Group, a help centre for sex workers in Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city. "We can focus solely on indoor prostitution, which covers most prostitution, whereas before all our resources were focused on street prostitution," he told AFP. He disagrees that violen...

Haneefs Visa Revoked by Australia

...e held in Sydney's Villawood immigration detention centre until his trial on the terrorism charges is finalized. And even if Haneef is eventually acquitted by the Australian courts, Andrews decision would allow the Government to then deport him. Civil libertarians attacked the minister's decision as a w...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...frequent and extensive contact with two men at the centre of Britain's car-bomb plot on the eve of their failed terror attacks. The online communication between Haneef and the bomb plotters was prolific and that authorities have gathered significantly more evidence against him than that has been disclosed...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...our job," Davies said. "The whole world does not centre round Oscar Pistorious. We have all our other work to do but we want to be fair to him and give him a chance." In March the IAAF introduced a rule outlawing technical aids, although it allowed Pistorius to continue running while further investigati...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...opment Services (ICDS) programme also provides the centre with additional rice and dal. Mothers with undernourished children follow this regime for 12 days a month. For the rest of the month, caregivers monitor the feeding practices at home and record the progress. Every month the malnourished child is we...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...to attend along with 20 students from a specialist centre for the deaf. "Deaf people have a reputation for being isolated. This congress shows that, on the contrary, we are capable of coming out and sharing our experiences and communicating," Hoareau said. The raft of different versions of sign language...

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