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Measures Needed to Avert Another Bloodbath

...reach out to disturbed children through counseling centre within their campus health program. Many school campuses are reviewing their mental health program. We've got to put more effort into counseling and preventing depression,' said Michael Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council State Unive...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...emia. It was also observed that a hospital-based centre administered an average dose of 16,188 units per week of epoetin, as against ‘for-profit chain centers’ that administered an average dose of 20,838 units a week.The researchers inferred, "Dialysis facility organizational status and ownership are asso...

Fluids Could Aid in Weight Loss

... the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.// The centre said that many overweight people drank too little ...Control), a how-to manual promoted by the consumer centre and recently reprinted, fluids spur metabolism and also improve skin tone. The body frequently has...

Indian Army Join to Add Strength to the Cadaver Programme

...nts. Gangaram Hospital had emerged as a leading centre for liver transplants in India. Col.Seth the organizing secretary of the conference gave credit to Dr.Pradi the transplant co-ordinator who counseled the family for organ donation and made it possible for this kind of transplant to take place in t...

Yoga Helping Fight Autism Down Under

...dio in this eastern Australian city and commercial centre is filled with candles, flowers and incense. "Ever... like, 'We'll find someone'," the founders of this centre were quoted as saying. Source-IANS...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...unt Sinai Heart, a premier New York cardiovascular centre has said. “Ibuprofen is relatively safe except when we give it with aspirin to people at high risk of heart attack," Farkouh says. "But when given with aspirin, we do we see an excess of heart attacks." This is a controversial conclusion. The stu...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...climate change. Environmental worries have moved centre stage and they will be key issues in a federal election due later this year. Sydney Morning Herald, a prominent newspaper, hailed the Earth Hour programme as a symbolic gesture that would raise the public awareness of the problem. Bushfires, drough...

‘Drunk’ Doctors Misdiagnosis Proves Fatl

...g as “.... bitterly ironic this should happen at a centre for excellence for this very type of condition”, J...ee Hospitals NHS Trust - a specialist neurological centre in Liverpool, on the eighteenth of November, for what was mistook as a serious case of hangover. ...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

...hould be at least one well-equipped child eye care centre for every 10 million population, it stresses. The study revealed that another area of concern was the supply of pure drinking water and sanitation. If only these areas were improved along with an increase of awareness of parents, 48.94 percentage ...

Hospital Projects to Take the Weight Off Overcrowded Ones

...ic health stations will also be upgraded to health centre standard. Accordingly, doctors and nurses will be stationed at the centres around the clock, and the places will also have their own mobile x-ray units and electrocardiogram machines. Also available at the centres will be ambulances to transport s...

Patrons Of A Brisbane Restaurant Warned Of Hepatitis A

A Brisbane restaurant is reported to be in the centre of a health controversy involving hepatitis A virus. Queensland Health department had requested people //who ate at Wagamama restaurant at Chermside in the first week of March to seek the help of a doctor if they develop fever, stomach ache or loss o...

Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots

...tions. Though at present young children are at the centre of such programs//, it is becoming increasingly important for adolescents to be given such shots, the professor notes. Agreeing that the topic was controversial- more for the teenagers, given their rebellious streak, Professor Adam Finn of the Uni...

Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers

...tiated by TAI. They take their hundis to the TAI centre and deposit their savings in their respective bank accounts when they go for their monthly health checkups. There are community members who have saved to the tune of Rs.20,000 in three months. But banks do not want to have the marginalised as accou...

Poison Control Training and Research Centre at Chennai

...n room are among the other special features of the centre commissioned Sunday last. State Health Secretary...e would be offered to village health nurses at the centre and that in course of time similar centres would be set up in all district headquarters. He also r...

40 People in Orissa Taken Ill After Consuming Poisoned Fish

...e ill were admitted to the local government health centre and conditions of at least six was stated to be serious. A medical team from the district headquarters of Kendrapada rushed to the spot to test the remaining fish and check the condition of people who ate the fish curry. The villagers have lodged...

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...itute will enable the treatment and rehabilitation centre to approach them and persuade them to undergo the treatment. "NCW can also seek the assistance of police department, scouts and guides, volunteers of National Service Scheme, NCC cadets and members of the Red Cross Society of India of different Sta...

Five Million Indian Women Suffer Mental Illness

...our demand on this issue. We will recommend to the centre to emphasise on four issues - stringent law, broadening the scope of mental health definition, rehabilitation of mentally ill women and providing free legal aid," Vyas told IANS. She said that sensitisation of both men and the police was very essen...

Partners of Alcoholics May Need to Seek help

...diction,' said Christa Merfert-Diete of the German centre for addiction questions in Hamm. When there's no...nsellors, said Marita Voelker-Albers of the German centre for health education in Cologne. 'You have to make this clear: 'I am ready to support you,'' said ...

Pilates-new Age Gimmick or More?

...e lower ribs and hips. The theory is that a strong centre supports and decompresses the spine, so posture improves. The emphasis is on stretching. The range of movement determines the intensity of the exercise. So you may do small circles with your legs for the first few months and wider circles once you ar...

China Confirms New Human Bird Flu Case

...s by the provincial disease control and prevention centre showed that the patient was infected with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. The patient is said to be receiving treatment at a local hospital and is in a critical condition. She was confirmed to have made contact with dead fowls. Li is the c...

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