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Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

...enerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the 74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent moul...

TB and Measles Scare in Canada Now

.... Dr. Howard Njoo, director of the health agency's centre for emergency preparedness and response, said officials don't know if the other students are incubating the disease and may be infectious, but precautions were necessary. "They were about to board a long-distance flight, which is a very unique circ...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...xperts claim that focusing on the brain's pleasure centre could also have some unpleasant consequences. "The nucleus accumbens has been modeled as an area of craving. Could you get habituated to the chronic stimulation? Sometimes side effects are worse than your primary symptoms, the Discovery News quoted...

Doctors Stress on Cardiac Emergency Units to Save Lives

...e development, Apollo Hospitals group. The heart centre will remain open round the clock and provide emergency ambulance service, treatment and follow-up plan for each patient. "Recent trends show that even 16 year olds are prone to heart attack. Blame it on the fast paced lifestyle or increased stress,...

Smallpox Alert in Northeast

...ashes - and requested them to report to the health centre immediately. The official said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka had informed the external affairs ministry about the spread of smallpox in Bangladesh and Myanmar last week. India shares a 4,095 km long border with Bangladesh, of which Tripura ...

Fortis to Inject Rs.300 Mn into Escorts Hospital

...h, Pusa and Gurgaon. The work of the Shalimar Bagh centre would start within six weeks," said Singh, who is also the chief executive officer of EHIRC. He, however, did not divulge the details of the investment in these three institutes. Talking to reporters later about the exodus of doctors from the hos...

EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India

...ce its launch in 2005. Its state-of-the-art call centre handles more than 15,000 calls each day. All ambulances and pre-hospital care is provided free of charge and a mix of private and government funding supports the programme. The non-profit organization has so far responded to roughly 250,000 emergen...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

...be possible for a patient to reach a tertiary care centre within the golden hour period. To overcome the bar...reatment and refer the patients to a tertiary care centre for definitive management if heart attack is confirmed,' said Maini. 'This will ensure that no mat...

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...o nearly 8,000 children over a 13-year period. The centre is a collaborative project run by the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Professor Wong and his colleagues found three drugs in particular - lamotrigine, topiramate a...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...on. In South Korea 90 percent of company outings centre on alcohol, he said. In a landmark case reported in May, the former boss of a South Korean woman was ordered to pay her 30 million won compensation for forcing her to go drinking with the rest of the staff after work....

Chikungunya Affects Kerala's Healthcare Status

... 1930 that the country's first primary health care centre started functioning in Kerala's Neyattinkara area and due to concerted efforts at all levels, Malaria was eradicated by 1970 from the state. We failed to carry on with the good work and hence the present situation is so bad," Soman said Monday. Iro...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

.... Padmavati Behera realised this recently. The centre is just in front of her home but she hardly visited it for any pregnancy related care because she believed in traditional health practices. It was only when her child died of cold and cough, an easily curable ailment, did she realise that the simple ...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...posed making the former fish market the main media centre for a potential 2016 Tokyo summer Olympics, the governor's pet project. "The site is narrow, dangerous, not really clean, and asbestos is used in various spots in the facilities, although they are sealed up," Ishihara said in a recent news conferen...

Paris' Sex Tape Comes Back to Haunt Her in the Slammer

...te greeted the frightened socialite at the Lynwood centre by saying 'Paris sure knows how to do hard time, we've seen the movie'. A jail inmate, Danita Daniel, said that prisoners were constantly taunting a sobbing Hilton by asking if the 'Simple Life' star will like the food in the prison, and making fun...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

...in, is set to be launched from Colombia, its first centre on foreign soil . The Colombian government has sa... M.K. Mathur of BMVSS told IANS: "The Jaipur Foot centre in Colombia is slated to start in August." According to him, experts would go to Colombia with the...

Gays Get Green Light for Jerusalem Rally

...ice decided to allow a march of homosexuals in the centre of Jerusalem which will finish with a party in a public park," Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. He said police have also authorised a counter-demonstration at the entrance to Jerusalem called for by members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community who consi...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

... of cannabis. Professor Mark Bellis, head of the centre for public health at Liverpool John Moores University, is quoted in the report. He describes the link between alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behavior as "fuel for a sexual health crisis". The study said alcohol consumption needs to be cut, both b...

Counseling For Medical And Dental Seats Allotment Through Videoconferencing

...ing Delhi, Puducherry and Kolkata (Main counseling centre at Central Health Education Bureau, New Delhi, 2nd centre at JIPMER, Puducherry & 3rd centre at All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Kolkata). The...

Cousins Recovering from His Substance Abuse Problem

... was under treatment at an overseas rehabilitation centre for the past months. He was being treated for a number of illnesses as a result of his drug abuse. He did not disclose the name of the drug that he had been using. Substance abuse is sometimes used as a synonym for drug abuse, drug addiction, and...

Cocaine at Daycare Centre in US

...the US following the discovery of cocaine bag at a centre in Texas//. Authorities are deliberating how to pr...led over reports that a two-year girl at a daycare centre in North Waco a small bag of cocaine. Investigators are trying to figure how in the first place she ...

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