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Junior Doctors Put An End To Strike

...ded patients were reported to have died during the course of the present agitation. Many other patients had to be shifted to other hospitals as senior faculty members were unable to run the wards in the absence of junior doctors. According to police, Singh was formally arrested 19 January in connection w...

Breast Cancer In India Rising Rapidly

...se that can be pinpointed as being the culprit. Of course screening for the presence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is available though it must be admitted of being of little use in the Indian context. It is here that the task of spreading the awareness of the prevalence of this cancer and advising women on u...

90 Million Americans Harbor Drug Resistant Bacteria Inside Their Nose

...atal. Antibiotics can be prescribed and the full course of the treatment must be completed to prevent development of antibiotic resistance. Simple measures such as washing of hands, appropriate care of wound can restrict the transmission of the bacteria....

Risk Of AIDS Rises With Vaginal Washes

...any as 1,270 Kenyan women were examined during the course of the study. The researchers also found that women who reported that they washed with soap were four times more likely to be infected with HIV, reports science portal SciDev.Net. It has long been thought the practice would increase women's suscep...

Blood Clotting Protein Discovered

... is normally inactive becomes activated during the course of clotting. New therapeutic approaches may result from the knowledge with regard to the functions of the CIB1. The GPIIb/IIIa was seen to become more responsive with the decrease of CIB1 in the cells, while GPIIb/IIIa activation is prevented with th...

Superbug Claims More Lives In Scotland

...ents who have succumbed to the superbug during the course of the last eight years. // During the year 2004 alone, the Clostridium difficile claimed as many as 98 lives in Scotland alone, when compared to the 1997 figure of 10 causalities. The stomach bug is a purely a hospital-acquired killer. The opposi...

African American smokers are more prone to developing Lung cancer

... which 1,979 recruits developed lung cancer in the course of the study and the study showed an increased of lung cancer incidence in African American Smokers. Though the study did not take into account the diet and economic status of the study recruits, the researchers feel that smoking is a single most i...

Tracking the spread of disease with the help of money

...n each bill is given a unique diary and its travel course is recorded. For example one bill passed through eight different states, assorted restaurants, a racetrack and a strip club completing a journey of at least 4,191 miles. Brockmann and colleagues scrutinized the locations of 464,670 Dollar bills. Th...

Crohn's Patient Robert Hill’s greatest achievemen

...Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. During the course of the disease he lost 80 pounds and his large intestine through an ostomy procedure. He initiated the campaign No Guts - Know Glory, as he had a strong inclination for sports and other outdoor activities. ConvaTec, who specializes in the manufact...

Migraine Patients Suffer From Gastric Stasis

... who suffer from migraine were observed during the course of the study, and gastric emptying was measured with the help of gastric scintigraphy. The levels of migraine suffered by the patients matched with the criteria of the International Headache Society (IHS). Visual triggers were used in the case of mig...

Blood Transfusion May Have Contributed Towards Hepatitis C

...e been infected with contaminated blood during the course of the 1980s and in the early period of the 1990s. Many of the files with regard to the infection due to the NHS blood products no longer exist as they have been destroyed, making tractability all the more difficult. A public enquiry may also not ser...

Pregnancy Not An Antidote To Depression

...n were studied. They were not depressed during the course of the study. According to the observations, only 26% of pregnant women who were on antidepressants suffered a relapse compared to a whopping 68% who had stopped taking anti depressants. Depression, very common during pregnancy, can occur any time d...

Sri Lanka Gets The Help Of Healthcare Professionals

... The five prosthetist-orthotists who completed the course are already at work at partner centers in Kandy, Tangalle and Galle. They include H.R Prasanga, Chathuranga Munasinghe, Darshani Pragnarathna, Nadeera Samasekara and Hiranthi Nirosha De Silva. A key technology the graduates bring to Sri Lanka is t...

Married Life Can Be Affected By Snoring

...rch. As many as 10 couples were studied during the course of the research. A tense relationship develops between the couple when one of them is deprived of sleep on a continuous basis. After completing surveys about sleepiness, marriage satisfaction, and quality of life, the couple spends the night in a s...

WHO Forecasts Bird Flu Pandemic Among Birds

...e bird flu virus is expected in poultry during the course of 2006, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This is not expected to take place // among human beings on a large scale, in spite of the human infections in Iraq and Turkey. Governments have however been called upon to be prepared to fa...

Australia's Mentally ill, ill at ease with Quality of Care

...ervice is on the anvil. The Prime minister, in the course of a meeting with the Federal, state and Territory Ministers, will take serious measures to upgrade mental health care in Australia. The importance of family support and support for the family required to handle a mentally afflicted patient, ass...

Link between Old Cells and Ageing probed

... as 4% compared to a high of 20% in 30 yr olds. Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg; further studies are required to probe deep into the subject. Utz Herbig ,Brown post-doctoral research fellow is the lead author of the article. Mark Ferreira, Brown undergraduate, Laura Condel and Dee Carey from ...

Different Parts Of The Brain Are Involved In Memory Retention

...results. Rats were experimented upon during the course of the research that proved that processing memory...memory processing activity goes wrong. During the course of the experiment, rats were familiarized with the insides of a box, and later administered a foot s...

Breastfeeding Provides Added Protection To Babies

...up of 6 years to 24 months were studied during the course of the research. // They identified five groups, formula-fed only, full breastfeeding for less than one month, full breastfeeding from one to four months, full breastfeeding from four to less than six months, and full breastfeeding for six months or...

Cancer Aid And Research Foundation: Offering Endless Hope To Cancer Patients

... to cancer patients and families during the entire course of treatment. The travel and ticket expense is also taken care of by the foundation. Free ambulance service is also being provided to Mumbai-based patients. Once a patient approaches the foundation, an interview is conducted following which the pat...

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