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Indonesian boy with huge neck tumor was surgically removed

...peration was around €9,600 which was funded by the charity organization and Wahangara will return to Indonesia after he recovers from surgery. ...

Medical Legacy of Doctor Franklin

...ss and social connections he build the first major charity hospital and the first American Medical School. ...ciety were that he was the first person to start a charity hospital and medical school and was the one who started the small pox inoculation which saved agains...

NHS Honours Nurse From India

...oured in a national competition. Children's health charity WellChild launched the competition to recognize pe...l hepatitis nurse, was just the type of person the charity felt needs recognition. She was nominated by colleagues at Birmingham Children's Hospital, for her h...

Cancer Patients Forced To Wait For Over Two Months

...g faster cancer care. The CancerBACUP Scotland, a charity organization that gets many distress calls from cancer patients, considers the waiting times altogether unacceptable. The absence of well-designed services and staff shortage are being blamed for this. The Health Ministry of the UK has promised to ...

Child specific HIV drugs and laboratory tests should be developed

...HIV in children’s living in African countries. The charity has also urged the scientists to develop more sensitive and affordable laboratory tests for detecting the virus antibodies in the blood of babies affected with AIDS. There is a need to develop new laboratory tests for detecting HIV infection in chi...

Indian Doctor in World's 65 'caring' doctors

...ment camps under the National Health Foundation, a charity trust. He also spearheaded a movement against female feticide in India....

Alcohol: Liver's worst enemy

...nd long-term problems,' said a spokeswoman for the charity alcohol concern....

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

...,000 senior citizens could die due to severe cold, charity organizations have warned.//As the Meteorological Office has issued its second severe weather warning, parliament debated the rising price of gas - essential to warm homes - while some experts feared a breakdown in electricity supplies during the win...

HIV Positive People Touching 60,000 In UK

...ge, CEO of Terrence Higgins Trust, a sexual health charity trust, said Britain was in danger of having the worst sexual health record in Western Europe. "It will be the same story year after year unless the recent Government funding to improve sexual health services is spent wisely." "That's why we're calli...

Diagnostic Procedure For Tuberculosis Made Easy

...Penicillin," said Davies Paul Sommerfeld, of the charity TB Alert, said he was "very excited" by the test, but more finance was needed to develop it further. --IANS...

Extensive Campaigning To Warn Against Children’s Growing Affinity To Fast Food In Britai

...g up. The same fear has prompted a British heart charity to launch a poster campaign to shock children away...ng," said BHF Director General Peter Hollins. The charity surveyed one thousand children and found that one in three didn't know that chips were made from pot...

Herbal remedies to be tested by Zambia for AIDS treatment

...nts”, according to Genevieve Clark, of the British charity Terence Higgins Trust. More clinical trials with adequate sample size would be needed before the herbal remedies can be used for treatment. Anything that would serve to boost the immune system or anything that would improve the general health is to...

New Research To Study Brain Changes In Premature Births

...e this." <A spokeswoman for the premature baby charity Bliss said, "This is a very welcome piece of research which could have a significant impact on the quality of life of the 80,000 babies born prematurely or sick in the UK each year and finding new ways to identify brain damage earlier in these vulner...

Fungal spores in the pillows can trigger an asthma attack

...ients to avoid a trigger. A spokesperson for the charity Asthma UK said: "We are aware that patients at the severe end of the spectrum of asthma are more likely to be hypersensitive to fungi than others with asthma and if you think that fungi could be a trigger for you, you should consult your doctor and t...

Toxic chemicals found in domestic products poisoning newborn babies

...bstetrician and a spokesman for Tommy's - the baby charity - said: "It's not that surprising that we find in the blood things that are in the environment. Professor Andrew added that, “Mother and baby communicate directly, although the placenta does filter out some toxic substances without knowing that the...

Tomato Extract Found To Reduce The Risk Of Thrombosis

...healthy heart and benefits the circulation.' The charity will collaborate with Provexis in research and educational activities designed to increase awareness of family heart health issues. The move is expected to fit with the company's strategy to differentiate in the functional food industry by investing ...

Innovative yeast genome may handle Cancer Clues

...d by Nobel medicine laureate Sir Paul Nurse of the charity Cancer Research UK has sequenced the genome of fission yeast, a cousin of the brewer's yeast whose genome// was mapped. Fifty of the 4,000 genes in the fission yeast genome, which is reported in the science journal Nature, are similar to genes linke...

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

..., a spokesman for the London branch of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Courtesy Nature ...

Breast cancer ignorance revealed

...reening. It is hoped the survey, commissioned by charity Breast Cancer Care, will boost women's knowledge about the disease. The charity's chief executive Christine Fogg said: "It is crucial that all women - and especially women over 50 - understand that the strongest risk factor for breast cancer is age...

Some languages require more brain power

...anguage, scientists at the Wellcome Trust research charity in Britain discovered that both sides of the brain are used to interpret variations in sounds in Mandarin.// "We were very surprised to discover that people who speak different sorts of languages use their brains to decode speech in different ways; ...

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