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Not a Rotten Idea Anymore

...dvice NHS Trusts to consider the use of maggots to clean wounds, reduce treatment times and improve outcome...ions in the UK and across Europe. They are used to clean the wound, after which they are removed." AN...

Scientists Tout New Prostate Cancer Test

...es in an Oregon study, even though both groups had clean prostate biopsies. If it survives scientific rev...ors recommend second biopsies a few months after a clean test. To narrow the need for repeat tests, Garzotto and co-workers studied 511 patients at the Vet...

MRSA Threats Due to Overcrowding

...rowded, it becomes an uphill task to keep patients clean and isolate them. This also increases the rate of nosocomial infections. Countering this argument, spokesman from Department of Health said MRSA infections are under control. He also added that one million patients are being treated every 36 hours ...

Pacifier Use May Lower Risk of SIDS

...to secure the pacifier to the child, and regularly clean and replace pacifiers. Even though evidence is mounting that pacifiers help to prevent SIDS, no one knows why. 'Because SIDS happens so rarely, it is difficult to do large-scale controlled studies to determine why pacifiers might help,' says Damato...

Chicken Pox Rears Its Head in Tamil Nadu, Yet Again

...ght place for chicken pox treatment as it required clean surroundings and fresh air to control the spread of infection. Chicken pox vaccination is only 90 per cent effective, but it minimizes the complications that would arise later. So, the people should go for vaccination but unfortunately, the vaccine...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

... also possible to gradually pull out the worm, and clean the ulcer to prevent bacterial infection. JYT...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

... water fleas. To contain infection, health workers clean the ulcer, gradually pulling out the worm, disinfecting and bandaging the lesion to prevent secondary bacterial infection. Infected people should be prevented from wading into water sources, and health education and social mobilization should be inte...

C Diff Infection Reported In Hospital

... combination with water and soap should be used to clean hands. C diff was first found out in 2002 after an outbreak at Quebec hospital in Canada. From then on, similar cases have been reported at hospitals in London and Leicester. JT...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...Antioxidants help repair damaged DNA and also help clean up toxic byproducts of injured tissue. She discovered significant differences between the two groups. The male mice registered a weaker inflammatory response than did the females, as measured by the thickness of their skin and myeloperoxidase leve...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...Antioxidants help repair damaged DNA and also help clean up toxic byproducts of injured tissue. She discovered significant differences between the two groups. The male mice registered a weaker inflammatory response than did the females, as measured by the thickness of their skin and myeloperoxidase level...

Baby's First Toothbrush Should Be a Cotton Swab

...ine "Baby and Familie". It advises cotton swabs to clean a baby's first teeth. //Once a child has four or f...ge three. Most children of that age only manage to clean the surface of the teeth, meaning parents have to help out with the rest. Once children reach scho...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

...aration for weeks and have complained that no free clean water has been made available by the authorities. Parents with young families have also expressed real concerns and demanded action. "It's not right, we shouldn't have to pay for our water when the local supply is polluted," said Galway resident S...

Recovering Pranab Mukherjee Likely to Be Discharged Tomorrow

...l limits. He has a lacerated wound scalp, which is clean and has nine sutures. Apart from this, there are no other bony or soft tissue injuries," the bulletin added. Chief of Army Staff Gen J.J. Singh also met the minister in hospital and inquired about his health. The 72-year-old Congress leader, who...

Pranab Mukherjee was Back Home from Hospital

...l limits. He has a lacerated wound scalp, which is clean and has nine sutures. Apart from this, there are no other bone or soft tissue injuries," it added. The 72-year-old Congress leader, who heads a number of crucial inter-ministerial committees, sustained head injuries when a truck hit his car at Be...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

... Thus, for the Northeastern states to meet federal clean water standards, the other states would have to reduce the amount of mercury they put into the air. In such a situation, they hope, the federal government would be forced to step in and set national standards....

Global Momentum for Smoke-Free Indoor Environments at Tipping Point

...smoke. “In short, the world has begun to reclaim clean air as the social norm,” the authors write. “For too long, the tobacco industry has spent billions to normalize, market, and glamorize a behavior that is now recognized as a tragic drug addiction.” They point out that changing the social norm will be...

Come Summer, Lawnmower Injuries Increase in US

...ating a mower or when near one. * Before mowing, clean the lawn of debris such as sticks and stones, which may get caught in the blades and propelled out. * Buy mowers with a no-reverse safety feature that requires the operator to turn around (and see behind him) in order to shift into reverse....

Campaign for Safe Drinking Water in India, Nepal

...be set up in 10 schools to give children access to clean drinking water, said Kulwant Singh, chief technical advisor of the UN Habitat, Delhi. Other techniques that will help people store and conserve water will also be implemented. The project in West Bengal aims at supplying safe potable water to the...

Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly

...n is about affordability," Goetzeler said. Under a clean development mechanism programme, these countries will receive energy-savings lamps free in order to help them reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Source-IANS/L...

Peptide Found in Human Blood Inhibits 60 Strains of HIV, Study Says

...eft in filters used by kidney dialysis patients to clean their blood. According to Kirchhoff, by altering two amino acids, VIRIP's antiviral potency increased one hundredfold. VIRIP attacks a protein, called GP-41 and found on the surface of HIV, that the virus uses to penetrate the surface of human cells,...

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