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Judicial Probe Ordered for Botched Eye Surgery Camp

...sanctioned by the central government to make RIO a centre of excellence. In about a month's time we hope to resume normal surgeries," Sarma said. Meanwhile, the government has decided to make a massive administrative reshuffle at the RIO for better performance. "We shall not allow any vested interest to...

New human H5N1 bird flu case in Indonesia

... fowl," the official from the bird flu information centre over telephone. "The woman was admitted to the hospital on Oct. 7 and was still alive, " the official added."The woman tested positive to the H5N1 virus after a test at a health ministry laboratory and one conducted by NAMRU, the U.S. Naval Medical R...

Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience

...le, which is a part of the brain that we know is a centre of feedback information being transmitted from the brain back to the ear. We're now trying to work out if the OCB is responsible for spatial hearing in ferrets." The Pauline Ashley Prize will allow Irving to work with a team led by Professor Charle...

Scientists Make World Breakthrough

... weekly scientific journal. “The ER is a command centre of the cells of higher organisms, second only to the nucleus in its influence on other cellular functions,” Dr Paton says. “The molecule targeted by the toxin is a chaperone protein called BiP, which is a master regulator of ER function. Disrupting t...

India registers 3,000 dengue patients, toll crosses 40

...ar government decided to set up a dengue detection centre at the Patna airport as well as at all railway stations in the state capital. "Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is monitoring the situation and has asked top officials to take urgent steps to prevent the spread of the disease," an official said. The stat...

Unscientific Depression Drugs aplenty in Health Stores

...health food shops within three miles of Leeds city centre for their recommendations on treating mild to moderate depression. The symptoms reported by the customers included lethargy, disturbed sleep, lack of concentration, poor appetite, and not feeling oneself. Five health stores were visited and five ...

Cuba Introduces New Device for Detecting Vascular Diseases

...al Centre headquartered in Santiago de Cuba. The centre is also working to widen the diagnostic possibilities of ANGIODIN PD-3000 so as to increase its usefulness. Source-IANS...

Kids are More Prone to Tonsillitis Relapse

...ebMD. The kids were treated at a private medical centre and each received one of nine different antibiotics to cure the infection. However, symptoms of the infection returned in 17 percent of the children within 20 days of completing antibiotic treatment. The relapse rate varied among the antibiotics,...

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

...o tourists seeking holistic rejuvenation. At the centre of all these proposals are Indians who form the major bulk of tourist flow to Nepal, which is striving to raise the inflow from the current level of 375,000. Source-IANS...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

..." said Shyam Sunder, who runs a kala azar research centre and a clinic in Muzaffarpur. However, he was optimistic about a new drug developed by the Institute of One World Health, a non-profit pharmaceutical company in the US. "The drug has already got a nod from the WHO and the Drug Controller General o...

NHS Inconvenienced by 110 major computer failures

... access certain systems for four days after a data centre in Maidstone crashed. These incidents have caused concern about the Government's plans, and whether it would undermine doctors' and nurses' confidence in the system. mainly because the system is still in its infancy. It has been pledged that within...

Ministry Cites Negligence as Cause of Kazakh baby HIV cases

...try alleges that negligence in a blood transfusion centre led to the death of four babies in Kazakhstan as well as the infection// of at least 55 children and one adult with the HIV virus. In a hospital in the south of the Central Asian state the children, and a mother, have been infected in the past few m...

Sex Determination Test Informers to be Rewarded

...entre, Apollo diagnostic centre, Modern diagnostic centre and Sanjay ultrasound centre have been served notices. The charge against these centres is they did not maintain a record of pr...

Aussie Doctors Claim Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Treatment

...or Rod Hicks, chairman of molecular imaging at the centre the use of PET scans to monitor the success of treatments was a breakthrough. He said that the use of PET scan revealed success of treatments within weeks whereas conventional scans took months to deliver their verdict on a treatment. Prof Hicks sa...

Health Minister Happy With Work Done In Vizhinjam

... P.K. Sreemathy today visited the community health centre at Vizhinjam and expressed satisfaction with the work done to prevent the spread of viral fever//. "In Tamil Nadu, the number of Chikungunya cases has crossed 2.5 lakhs, while we have managed to prevent the fever spreading further along the coast,"...

Vaccine Quality 'blamed' for Polio Menace in UP

...o the union health ministry. "We have urged the centre to henceforth only send imported vaccines to our state and not the ones that are manufactured in a factory in New Delhi and in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh itself," Hasan said. Over a span of one year, the number of identified cases in Uttar Prades...

Myanmar Declares Herself As A Country Free of Bird flu

...tion. Laurence Gleeson, head of the FAO's bird flu centre in Bangkok, said, “FAO will continue to manage international donor support to strengthen the surveillance and response system in Myanmar both to confirm and preserve this freedom from bird flu.” The FAO has however cautioned that fresh outbreaks of...

A New Drug That Could Revolutionize Management Of Heart Disease

...sic science colleagues, is creating a new research centre at Monash with the aim of challenging orthodox thinking on heart disease and stroke. "Vascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide. Yet we don't know enough about the causes to reliably identify and treat cases, let alone prevent t...

President Launches Madras University's 150th Year Celebrations

... a grant for a super-speciality nanotechnology R&D centre under the university. Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Sing promised central government's support for a Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Contemporary Studies. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said a Centre for Dravidian Movement studies wil...

Madras Medical College to have a Centre for preventive cardiology

...e upgradation, there are strategies to establish a centre for preventive cardiology// and another for ageing... Ganguly. Kings Institute, Guindy, is to have a centre of excellence in virology due to the efforts of Union Minister of Health Anbumani Ramadoss and State...

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