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New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

... to 40 per cent of high-risk mothers we see in our clinic experience placental damage,” says Dr. John Kingdom, Principal Investigator of the study and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital. The research is among the first to look at placenta health – a vital life line between mother and...

1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

...dure eliminates the need to call women back to the clinic for repeat testing and requires less infrastructure than other methods of detecting cervical cancer. In this study, the researchers recruited women in the Ghanaian city of Accra. They found that of the 3,665 women screened, 90 percent said they were...

Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

...years old and got a blood transfusion at a private clinic in Delhi. Even if the family had been taken into confidence properly in November last, it would not have meant much, they contend. More than five million Indians are HIV positive, some estimates say. And a vast proportion of the country’s populat...

Detection of Malignant Breast Tumors Made Simpler and More Effective

... will focus on translating the new compound to the clinic for human testing. It will likely be a few years before the compound is ready for use in human trials, according to Frangioni. Source-Eurkalert ANN...

Triple ARV Prophylaxis Reduces Viral Load in Breast Milk

...rvices and 40 HIV-positive women from an antenatal clinic (group B) where HIV testing is not done and ARV prophylaxis is not offered. Pregnant women in group A were enrolled into the study and began antiretroviral therapy at week 28 of pregnancy or as soon as possible after the first trimester. (If haemog...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

... without them having to be transferred to a health clinic or hospital – the monitoring being undertaken simply from their sitting-room sofa using the TV remote control. Moreover, for the over 60s who watch more than 4? hours of TV daily, the system has an application known as an "interactive dosifier" tha...

Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital

...lie-Pitt Foundation, reports www.hollywood.tv. The clinic will open in the spring and serve more than 150,000 people. The clinic was founded by John Dau, one of the "lost boys" of Sudan who is the director of non-profit group Dir...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...us. For how many can afford to trek to the nearest clinic that many times a week, who will pay them the transport fare and who will compensate them for the loss of the wages? he wonders. And any interruption in the administration of medicine could be fatal for the efficacy. But such is the way the entire re...

Real Life Jekyll and Hyde

... Hope came when Rogers was referred to the sleep clinic at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, after trying six different treatments for his dangerous disorder in other clinics. Doctors finally discovered a drug that worked by breaking the circuit between the sleeping brains and muscles in the body, effe...

Apollo Opens Blood Cancer Clinic in Kolkata

...al has opened their hemato-oncology (blood cancer) clinic in Kolkata to cope with the increasing number of cancer patients// pouring in from different parts of eastern India. This specialty unit, opened Tuesday, will have all the state-of-the-art facilities to provide treatment for different types of hema...

Stigma, Lack of Education, Prevent the Spread of HIV in Afghanistan

...e are no treatment centers in the country, and one clinic in Kabul monitors HIV/AIDS but does not provide access to antiretroviral drugs, the Times reports. According to the World Bank, which is providing $10 million to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, although several organizations are working to implemen...

Fire at Russian Nursing Home Kills 63

...ows. A blaze a day later killed nine patients at a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia. Russia records nearly 18,000 fire deaths a year, several times the per capita rate in the United States and other Western countries. GP...

A New Pain Killer With Less Side Effects

... will describe the current place of opioids in the clinic and development of UFP-101. Source-Eurekalert PI...

Children Infected With HIV at Birth Do Survive into Adolescence

... from the Wellcome Trust then took up a study at a clinic in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe and have now concluded that as many as one in four such children may survive into adolescence. The study also underlines that the surviving children’s growth has been stunted and hence they face some special disa...

HIV Children Live Longer Than Expected

... Wellcome Trust studied HIV affected children at a clinic in Harare. They inferred that at least one in four HIV kids survive into adolescence. These kids have been either infected at birth or during breast feeding. Dr Liz Corbett, one of the researchers of this study reveals that the long term survival...

Mothers in African Study Undereducated on Diarrhea

...rrhea for two weeks continuously. They came to the clinic with sunken eyes, poor skin turgor and poor thirst...too,” Mediratta said. Mediratta decided that the clinic in Gondar – a small, rural town in northwestern Ethiopia – was the ideal setting for his study, beca...

Medical Personnel Can Save More Lives by Screening for Oral Signs of Disease

...s see. Many patients in City Tech's dental hygiene clinic lack health insurance, and the clinic fee is only $10 for all treatments except x-rays, no matter how many visits are needed." The clinic'...

Generic Biologics – U.S Panel Hearing Draws Mixed Response

...follow-on biologics should be put up for extensive clinic studies and post approval studies before approval. Nicolas Rossignol, who oversees implementation of the European Commission’s legislation on biosimilars, told the panel some biologics like insulin and human growth hormones are fairly simple to pro...

Kerala Sees Medical Tourism Soaring

...gustine. Jancy Joseph, who runs a private dental clinic here, said tooth treatment for foreigners was a hit on account of the huge cost difference. "The biggest advantage that Kerala has on this front is the large number of non-resident Keralites settled in the US, Europe and Middle East. This movement ...

‘Mesothelioma’- Trouble Under the Asbestos Rof

...rs. Dr David Landau, in charge of a mesothelioma clinic at St Thomas's Hospital in London, says, 'The typical patient is male and in his 60s. Most are manual workers or engineers...but there is an increasing number of patients in their 40s or 50s have had no obvious asbestos exposure. This Baby Boomer gro...

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