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Probable Health Monitor Sends SMS of Emergency Alerts and ECG

...S, in the modified cell phone, so that the medical centre can more quickly pinpoint the patient. They also hope to improve the level of detail that can be sent from the cell phone to the emergency room using the Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) as opposed to the SMS text messaging system....

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

... a serious analysis of the Indian diet. The new centre will analyze some of the most common foods for the... informed choices about the food they eat. This centre will contribute critical inputs to the national nutrition policy, similar to what is now happening o...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...ung woman, who eventually sought help at a support centre for victims of incest and agreed to talk anonymously to AFP. She was eight, her abuser -- a male cousin -- was twice her age and the abuse happened when they met at family gatherings. "The people you like the most and trust the most can abuse you...

Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Patient-friendly

...ss hospitalization time. The primary focus of this centre is to offer to patients new generation joints thro...chnique that offers numerous patient benefits. The centre has dedicated pain-relief therapists who work with all joint-replacement patients as a part of post ...

Lohans Boozing Stint in Rehab Exposed

...a source, as saying. When the staff at the rehab centre who have been working so hard to help her recover found out they were furious. They demanded she go back to the clinic and suggested the only way she could control her drinking was to wear the ankle bracelet, the source said. "Lindsay did not want...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

... key to motor function, and in the hypothalamus, a centre for appetite, arousal and addictive behaviours. Three months after the rats had stopped receiving Ritalin, the animals' neurochemistry largely resolved back to the pre-treatment state. "That's encouraging, and supports the notion that this drug t...

Traditional Tibetan Medicine Gaining Acceptance in Himachal Pradesh

...c. Damdul, a researcher in the clinical research centre says that efforts are being made to promote the system. "Over the last five to ten years, we've been really trying to see if we can do some extended systematic clinical studies to authenticate and evaluate the effectiveness of the Tibetan medical s...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...ions, car manufacturer Toyota will launch a health centre January 2008 incorporating the latest diagnostic equipment, the newspaper said. Despite the phenomenon of obesity among older Japanese citizens, many young females have the problem of weighing too little. An estimated 20 percent of Japanese femal...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...they could consider closing down a hospital at the centre of national outrage over a woman who was left to die on the floor of the emergency room. The Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital, operated by the Los Angeles County department of Health Services, is located near crime hotspots, and serves p...

Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

...e children have now reportedly been dropped at the centre although details about the latest two are not known. Officials at the hospital were not Sunday immediately available for comment. Sunday's reports could reignite debate about the service which has advocates calling it a last resort to save lives and ...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...o that which would be expected in any major trauma centre in Europe and the United States," the Surgeon General, Lieutenant General Louis Lillywhite, said in a statement. "Helicopters are always available to the medical services when required and are manned by highly qualified medical teams. "It is damagi...

Diana Could Have Been Saved Had She Been Rushed to Hospital

... leading cardiologist at the Ochsner Health System centre in New Orleans, also concurs with the same: "We be...hem as fast as possible, often by helicopter, to a centre where you can perform surgery. Some people call it 'scoop and run'." Dr Colthurst, was a close frie...

Gazas Basic Food Storage Will Last Only for a Few Days

... in the south, the Karni commercial passage in the centre and the Erez crossing in the north with Israel. Gaza's 1.5 million residents need 450 tonnes of food each day and have enough in stock to last nine days, senior Fatah official Saeb Erekat told a news conference in Ramallah. Abbas has placed Erekat ...

Kerala to Set Up Holistic Tourism Centre to Promote Medical Tourism

Kerala is soon to set up a holistic tourism centre that will promote medical tourism besides other at...diyeri Balakrishnan said here Wednesday . "This centre would combine various segments of tourism like ayurveda, farm tourism and medical tourism," Balakris...

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

...ird flu strain in poultry, at a turkey farm in the centre of the country. "It is confirmed, it is H5N1," the spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration, Zbynek Semerad, told AFP. Around 1,800 turkeys have already died at the farm at Tisova, near the central town of Usti-nad-Orlici, which has a flo...

6,000 Turkeys Slaughtered at Czech Bird Flu Farm

...s confirmed on Thursday at the Tisova farm, in the centre of the country, the first time it has been detected in Czech domestic poultry. Previous cases of bird flu in the Czech Republic have only affected wild swans. Czech authorities have imposed a security cordon around the affected farm where disinfect...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

According to scientists at a new global research centre launched today, the warning comes from the STEPS C...tion, also speaking at the launch, said: The STEPS centre will help us understand how we can make technology development work in the interests of people livin...

New Research Centre at Sydney to Lead Cancer Fight

Sydney-The $100 million research centre will be dedicated to finding a cure and developing...e in New South Wales each year. The new research centre is being credited with attracting leading scientists home to undertake crucial research in cancer. ...

Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

...sage in English on the walls of the Foyetes health centre at the tourist trap of Benidorm explains to would-be customers: "If you don't speak Spanish come with someone who does. You'll get better service." At Benidorm-Villajoyosa hospital "health tourism" is a taboo subject. At the entrance stands Beth W...

Norwegians Take in the Sun in Spain on Doctors' Orders

...a to get Oslo-funded treatment at a rehabilitation centre for problems ranging from rheumatism to fractured ...old AFP under bright sunshine. The rehabilitation centre was set up and is run by three Norwegian towns -- Baerum, Stavanger and Oslo -- to treat mostly reti...

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