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Kylie generates awareness about mammography

... screening is credited with lowering the number of deaths by 30per cent. Mrs Batt said the research was encouraging because it showed there was not just an immediate spike in mammogram bookings. "Six weeks later those bookings were still up by a third," she said. Professor Chapman said such publicity ...

Drug Delivery Made More Patient Friendly And Safe

... mistakes and could be responsible for hundreds of deaths a year. Drug errors can occur if medicines have similar packaging, handwriting on the hospital drugs chart is illegible or the wrong patient is identified and given the incorrect drugs. The new system, if adopted by hospitals in the future, could pr...

Mumbai Alert: Possibility Of An Epidemic Outbreak

Six deaths of suspected leptospirosis and dengue in the densely populated areas of Kalyan and Dombivli, 60-odd km from Mumbai over the pat three days has raised panic among the residents. The Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has been kept on high alert and has bee...

Anxiety Can Increase The Risk Of Attempting Suicide In Men

...terviewees, by checking the national registers for deaths and hospital admissions. During the five-year monitoring period, 1025 people died. Those who reported severe problems were twice as likely to die, and between three and four times as likely to be admitted to hospital with mental health problems as t...

233 Dead in Mumbai and Thane due to Water Borne Diseases

...e receding in Mumbai and Thane. There were 91 more deaths in the Mumbai and Thane district and now the death toll stands at 233// from leptospirosis and other water-borne diseases according to the Maharashtra Directorate of Health services sources on Monday. In the last 24 hours 958 persons were ad...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...a major health calamity in Mumbai with another 14 deaths were reported from Mumbai taking the toll in this ...o cause about 500 million infections and 2 million deaths annually worldwide. The danger of malaria is more during the monsoon season due to breeding of mosqu...

Chicken Pox Hospitalizations Are Becoming Less

... with about 13,000 hospitalizations and 100 to 150 deaths annually. Varicella vaccine coverage has increased steadily, reaching 81 percent in 2002 among children aged 19 to 35 months nationally, while varicella disease incidence has declined in all age groups. However, data documenting the impact of vaccina...

Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh

...halitis is slowly spreading in UP and causing more deaths especially in children. 11 more deaths were reported from Gorakhpur. The toll caused by the rapidly spreading killer virus // in the state...

Encephalitis Spreads to Nepal

...ording to Kathmandu radio - encephalitis caused 10 deaths each in the townships of Tikapur and Dhangadi unti...km west of the capital, alone could rise as all 20 deaths occurred in hospitals and most people in the district live far from hospitals. The disease transmit...

Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.

... Medical University (KGMU) here Thursday, while 17 deaths were reported from Gorakhpur and about half a doze...r than 200, as there is no system of recording the deaths in villages and smaller towns where the disease is believed to have taken a heavy toll. "At this st...

WHO declares Tuberculosis – ‘An Emergency’ in Afrca

...berculosis an emergency in the African region. The deaths have quadrupled in the last few years. A resolut...ne million cases of active disease and two million deaths every year. Africa has only 11% of the world's population but it accounts for more than a quarter o...

Dengue in Delhi – 26 Cases reported and 3 dea

... affecting Calcutta has arrived in Delhi and three deaths have been reported with 26 people affected in the last two weeks. // In 2003 there were more than 30 people who died and around 1,000 cases of dengue were reported. N.K. Yadav, deputy health officer, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), claims th...

Encephalitis Deaths Cross 220 in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Aug 26 . Japanese encephalitis deaths continue to rise in Uttar Pradesh and the latest t... health directorate of 1,500 Japanese encephalitis deaths in 27 years, Dhole said their survey had revealed that 7,874 people had died of the disease during t...

Zinc Supplements Once A Week Can Fight Illness In Children

...o 2003, pneumonia caused 2 million of 10·6 million deaths among children younger than 5 years worldwide. Diarrhea causes a further 1·9 million deaths in this group annually. Daily regimens of zinc have been reported to prevent acute lower respiratory...

Encephalitis Deaths in Maybe higher than Reported

...of Uttar Pradesh. The officials have reported 240 deaths but this maybe even higher according to reports fr...e actual toll "is bound to be much higher" as many deaths may not have been reported at all. So far over 900 patients have been admitted to different governm...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

...a city of Punjab state. This year, In Kolkata, 13 deaths and more than 71 people were infected due to dengu...as alarmed the West Bengal and Kolkata. Of the 13 deaths two of the deaths were reported from Dum Dum and the rest, from the Prince Anwar Shah Road, Ghulam H...

Low Cost Tissue Culture Vaccine For Encephalitis

.... So far the Gorakhpur Government has reported 200 deaths and 700 patients with infection. // Hundreds of people are infected and die every year due to the endemic infection of Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh. This year the death toll touched 228 in Gorakhpur, with 67 patients were admitted in the Government ...

New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria

...ive than quinine. There are more than two million deaths around the world due to malaria and most of the de...s. Each year there is an increase in the number of deaths from mosquito borne diseases as the patients develop drug resistance to the existing treatment. Re...

Encephalitis Has Claimed 400 Lives In Uttar Pradesh

...sons had died in state capital Lucknow, while five deaths were reported from districts in eastern and centra...had succumbed to the killer virus till now. And 25 deaths were reported from the Basti division in the neighbourhood. "Currently, we have 367 patients. We ar...

Blood Test To Detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease/Mad Cow Disease

...ted meat. Scientists warn there could be many more deaths in the coming decades because the disease has an incubation period of up to 40 years. There is currently no reliable way to detect vCJD in blood, with the diseases only confirmed after dearth. Professor said, “We believe in six months or so we shou...

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