Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever
...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 of India (DCGI...Risks involved in Procedural Sedation
...d lying lifeless. Diamond had visited the dental clinic on Saturday to get 2 cavities fixed and 4 lower teeth capped. On Monday night the girl was reported to be brain dead with severely damaged vital organs. Diamond’s family has been asked to decide as to when to take her off the life support. This is ......ir unborn baby in intricate detail. Terry Brown, clinic manager and sonographer of Healthcare Now, the first to offer the 4D scan says, "The technology used is extraordinary. Pregnancy is obviously a very special time for a woman, and quite often the excitement of having a memento of your baby moving befo...Sexually transmitted diseases among teens on the rise
...artment of Sexually Transmitted Infections Control clinic have had an average of four sex partners," said assistant manager Theresa Soon. "The bulk of them live for the present and some view abortion lightly. Increasing numbers of these teens first get to know each other online and then meet specifically fo...Lower Fetal Weight Linked to High Distress in Mothers
...anuary 2003. They were recruited from the prenatal clinic of the University of Miami Hospital and were predominantly of lower to lower-middle socioeconomic status. The mothers completed questionnaires that measured overall levels of distress from daily hassles, depression and anxiety. Researchers used cli...AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival
... ability to replicate. "I managed to start this clinic and run it with support from groups in six nations. I am leaving for Spain soon to collect funds," says Preger, who arrived in Kolkata from Bangladesh in 1979 as a Commonwealth citizen. He started his work with the destitute living on the streets, a ...Indian Australian Doctor not to Contest the Allegations
...s about 23 weeks pregnant, an abortion drug at her clinic in Fairfeld, southwest of Sydney, in May 2002. Source-Newswise...800 Patients to be Dumped from Hospital Waiting Lists
...rgery lists as well as another 400 from outpatient clinic lists before September 30. According to Mrs Roy the health board faced an effective penalty of $3 million if there was any failure towards compliance. That was primarily because the Health Ministry has planned to move it on to its intensive mon...Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds
...d. The incident took place Sunday, when Sharma's clinic was vandalised and set on fire by furious crowds. .... This enraged the villagers, who arrived at the clinic in large numbers and destroyed his office. The crowd then chased the doctor and snatched his license...Estrens For Osteoporosis Might Have Adverse effects
...he wisdom behind developing estrens for use in the clinic is questioned by Roland Baron and colleagues from Yale University. They showed that although mice with osteoporosis treated with estrens showed some improvement in bone strength, their reproductive organs increased in size. Furthermore, estrens induc...Overdose of Chemotherapy Drug kills a woman
...sent home after chemotherapy medication from a day clinic at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton. Unfortunately, the drug-administering pump was wrongly set to give the dosage in a period of 4 hours instead of 4 days. The woman had received 5,000 mg of the drug 5-fluorouracil within the short period of...... investigator of MASS II, a randomized, controlled clinic trial looking for new ways to determine the most effective treatments for people with coronary artery disease. For the study, 611 patients met with their individual cardiologists for evaluation. The physicians examined them and then, after conferri...... Prakash is hopes to open his "aesthetic medicine" clinic next year where he could administer the drug as an anti-ageing treatment. However, other doctors have warned about the fatal side effects of the drug. Mr. Prakash says that HGH had had a “brilliant” effect on his wife. “People are convinced I’ve...John Hopkins Develops An Online Tool To Help In Research Of Certain Rare Diseases
... in this and other syndromes,' says Katsanis. 'The clinic informing the science got us where we are today. Now we have the tool to enable the science to go back and inform the clinic.' Source: EurekAlert. VIK...Flying Eye Hospital Brings Hope for Eye Patients in Africa
...ircraft, converted into a teaching facility with a clinic for laser treatment and an operating theatre, travels to developing countries, where the ORBIS team performs surgeries with a view to training doctors in the country visited. Tissue was taken from the patient's leg and used to give the patient impr...Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion
...s about 23 weeks pregnant, an abortion drug at her clinic in Fairfeld, southwest of Sydney, in May 2002. The doctor then asked the patient to come back the next day. But the latter didn't make it, delivering a baby boy in a toilet. The baby survived for about four hours. Under NSW laws, abortions are i...American War Veterans Not Receiving Enough Care For PTSD
...Harkness said the community-based VA mental health clinic she directs in West Haven, Conn, has no waiting period, “We get people in right away.” Larry Scott, editor of http://vawatchdog.org , said mental health clinics in Portland, Ore, are just not up to the mark with fewer staff members to treat a growing...Indo-American Doctor Fired By Cleveland Clinic
...ovations Foundation. A statement released by the clinic said the institution would not be commenting publi... of the procedures, the Plain Dealer notes. "The clinic said the results were reported but may have been inadvertently omitted on publication," Plain Dealer...Abducted Health Workers Freed By Taliban
...ists in Kandahar. The vehicle was on the way to a clinic in Ziari district when armed Taliban militants intercepted it. "They freed us after realizing all of us are health workers." Meanwhile, Qari Muhammad Yousuf, a purported Taliban spokesman, told the press that the Taliban took away the vehicle and fr......55, who were patients at the Kaiser Permanente TMD clinic in Portland, OR. Each person was randomly assigned to one of the three study arms: (1) continuing specialty dental care (SDC, n=60); (2) naturopathic medicine (NM, n=45); or (3) traditional Chinese medicine (TCM, n=50). Women in the naturopathic ar...