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Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

... this conclave is to bring Traditional Medicine on centre stage and to have a meaningful interaction between the participants from various countries and Internationally recognized experts, to deliberate on issues relating to quality control, safety, regulatory and clinical aspects, status of TM, access and ...

Diabetes mela draws Thousands

...ed by employees of information technology and call centre units. Several kinds of diabetes-related check-ups are being offered free of cost to the patients at the mela. People are being counseled by senior doctors on steps to living a healthy life, overcoming the disease as well as its many side effects. ...

Underground Water Contamination In Tripura

... added. The Tripura government has informed the centre about the matter and urged it to suggest corrective steps. The North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) in a report said arsenic levels in the states of Assam, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh was above 300 pa...

Breast Cancer Screening in Meghalaya

... state government has established cancer treatment centre at the Shillong civil hospital. She said, "Cancer treatment centre set up by the state government at Shillong civil hospital is treating 40 patients daily and this arr...

Fury over Backing of Health Shake-up

... addition Burnley General Hospital will become the centre for gynecology, inpatient obstetrics and neonatal ...ces. Burnley General is proposed to become the centre for most planned inpatient services, while Blackburn will handle most emergency inpatient care. N...

35 dead in suicide attack on Pakistan army base

...bomber blew himself up in a Pakistan Army training centre Wednesday, killing 35 recruits and injuring about ...k occurred on the elite Punjab Regiment's training centre in the Dargai area of the Malakand district. The district, which borders the tribal territory of B...

First Paediatric AIDS clinic in Malawi

...ical part of the national treatment programme. The centre in Lilongwe will not be a stand-alone island but will be the focal point of a national plan to scale up paediatric and family HIV/AIDS care and treatment throughout the country.” Abbott Fund’s Global AIDS care programme has provided a grant of US$2...

Bihar family to spend Rs.43,000 on rabies vaccines

... problem deepened when the local government health centre told them that the rabies vaccine was not available and that they would have to purchase it from the market. Each member has to be administered five vaccinations and each vaccine costs Rs.320. In all, the family will have to spend Rs.43,000 to purc...

Southern states join hands to protect biodiversity

...rs is convened. Moreover, we will also request the centre to allocate more funds for our departments," said Kerala Forest Minister Binoy Viswom. Among the other areas where there would be cooperation between the forests departments of the four states and Pondicherry would be to conduct surveys to demarcat...

China's First Gay Health Clinic Commences Operations

...ered jointly by the Disease Prevention and Control centre and an HIV/AIDS volunteer group. This move by China is a response to the growing body of concern among HIV/AIDS organizations regarding the alarming growth of HIV cases in China. According to the organizations, though China has spent ￡20 million on A...

Majority Chinese Men Lack Testosterone: Report

... quality of life, said Guo Yinglu, director of the centre and an academic from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Chronic diseases, bad living habits and environmental factors also contribute to low testosterone levels, said Guo. Guo called for spreading awareness about the problem and early diagnosis, p...

Probe Ordered into Children’s Death in Chhattisgar

...er receiving an injection at a government health// centre in Korba district of Chhattisgarh. Two brothers, ...sible act of a medical staff of the primary health centre and the guilty must be booked," Korba District Collector Sanjay Garg said over telephone Saturday. ...

Green Signal given to Full-Face Transplants

...s.He said, "You need to be a recognised transplant centre and a recognised plastic surgery centre. We have in addition our own psychological department. It is right that, initially, face transplantation should be limited to centres of excellence." Isabelle Dinoire, 38, who had been savaged by a dog, receiv...

Its in your ‘hands’ to fight fatal nosocomial infectios

...icked up during a course of treatment at a health centre are termed ‘nosocomial infections’ in medical jargon some of which are often life threatening. At a conference held in Canada last week it was pointed out by Phil Hassen, head of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute that one sure shot way of curbi...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...re, he claimed that doctors never visit the health centre at Gudugudia Gram Panchayat headquarters. Debabr...rom our funds we provide. But the Gudugudia health centre has been of no help to the people as doctors don't visit." "The issue here, however, is not the f...

Gastroenteritis attacks the newborn ward

...to reduce the spread of virus. The new born care centre ensured that the area was absolutely disinfected to ensure transfer of babies from within the hospital did not jeopardize he health of the babies. The care of the infected babies' has been spruced up to aid their speedy recovery as well as check the ...

Agra Hospitals Modernise to Promote Medical Tourism

...British and Mughal empires also, Agra was the main centre of health services. Now embassies and corporate houses are referring patients to hospitals here which have a fairly competent base of manpower and facilities." An American company Mefcom Agro Ind has acquired stakes in Kamayani Patients Care India,...

Tooth Decay affects 3-in-4 Irish kids

...en Whelton, director oral health services research centre in University College Cork, said, "Irish people eat more sugary sweets than almost all other European countries and fail to brush their teeth as often. " In spite of the drop in the levels of tooth decay in Ireland since 1980s, it is lagging when c...

Cancer patient Dies of Massive Radiation Overdose

... an investigation into the overdose at the Beatson centre that is run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. A spokeswoman said yesterday that although the findings were in the "final stages of preparation" she was unable to indicate when they would be issued. Health officials have disclosed 46 incidents sinc...

Breast cancer screening :Benefits vs Harm

...che, said that another study which was done at the centre involved the analysis of letters and leaflets,? including ones from the NHS where women were invited to undergo a breast cancer screening. He alleged that they tended to be biased and that the negative effects, such as overtreatment and overdiagno...

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