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'Humiliated' Dean Contemplates Leaving AIIMS

...hancellor of K.G. Medical University in Lucknow. I declined the offer then but might reconsider in view of the prevalent situation (in AIIMS)," said R.C. Deka, a leading ENT surgeon in the country and an expert in cochlear implant surgery. On June 15, some doctors and students surrounded his house and shout...

Rising Rates of Obesity and Diabetes Puts Pressure on the Australians

.... Statistics show that the death rates from cancer declined about 14 % and also from that of cardiovascular disease decreased drastically. Research said that that average life expectancy for Australians, at 78 years for males and 83 for females. But unhealthy lifestyle, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes h...

Incidence Of Smoking Less, Obesity More, in Canada: StatsCan

... 12 to 17 year olds. 'The youth smoking rate has declined because increasing numbers of young people never start to smoke,' StatsCan said in its brief. CTV's chief medical contributor Dr. Marla Shapiro said this finding is significant. 'Generally if you have not started smoking by 18, it is unusual that a...

Justice To Former Male Nurse In sex Discrimination Case

... who now makes a life selling financial services, declined the award to avoid divertion of resources from the NHS. NHS guidelines suggest all patients should have the choice of being treated by a nurse of the same sex.There was,however, no monitoring of the chaperoning policy, but it was clear that male...

Survival Rates of Heart Attack Improving

...to hospital for both heart attacks and strokes has declined with a fall of 19 per cent between 1999-2000 and 2004-2005for heart attacks while hospitalizations for strokes fell by about 23 per cent. ‘It is encouraging to see that the odds of surviving a heart attack are improving,’ CIHI president Glenda Yeat...

Panacea Biotec In-Licenses FMD Vaccine

...icensing agreement with another Indian company but declined to disclose citing a confidentiality clause. (Source:PTI News)...

Growth Of Maple Trees Affected By Acid Rain

...By year four and five, manganese in the leaves had declined to healthier levels. In addition, seed production and the density and size of sugar maple seedlings all increased in the few years following treatment, compared with the untreated neighboring plot. The researchers also found that the communities of...

Indians in Gulf to Get More Education Facilities

...iversities had offered him honorary doctorates, he declined them and chose to accept only the doctorate awarded by the AMU, which he values and cherishes most. The reception was attended by Indian Ambassador in Saudi Arabia M.O.H. Farook, former MP Waseem Ahmed and AMUOBA president Syed Misbahul Arifin amo...

How To Prevent A Stroke

....5 percent, but the actual number of stroke deaths declined only 0.7 percent, according to 2006 association statistics. "Stroke remains a major public health problem. Its human and economic toll is staggering," said Larry B. Goldstein, M.D., the guidelines' lead author and chair of the association's Stroke C...

HIV Scare at St Ives

...rosexual sex. The West Cornwall Primary Care Trust declined to confirm the exact number of cases or explain how they had come to light, to protect patient confidentiality. The outbreak is thought to have been triggered by a single HIV carrier who had sex with a number of people. The virus has since been tra...

Contraceptive Use on the Decline among the Poor

...te of unintended pregnancies, which had previously declined has now leveled off. The researchers blamed reductions in federally and state-financed family planning programs for declining contraceptive use. They called for public and private insurance to cover contraceptives, and for over-the-counter access to...

Nationwide Strike on May 2nd by Medicos on Reservation Issue

...he HRD Minister had met the students on Friday had declined to discuss the issue until after elections. Mr.Arjun Singh had told the representatives that any decision would be taken by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He added that the [protest on May 2nd against the proposal to provide 27...

Reliability of Pacemakers and Defibrillators to be Improved

...e in the number and rate of malfunctions, but then declined again down to the lowest levels in the past decade. Of course the possibility of complications during a replacement surgery is an important factor to be considered during malfunctioning of an implanted defibrillator acts up. Data on 533 patients wh...

Pakistan’s Public Health System On Downward Tren

...port said that the life expectancy in Pakistan has declined from 63 to 60 years. --Edited IANS...

India Can Become A Role Model In Combating HIV Infections

...m a prevalence rate of 1.7 percent in 2000, it has declined to 1.1 percent in 2004, said Jha. Overall, the HIV prevalence rate in India is 1.6 percent of the population, with a lower estimated prevalence of 0.3 percent in most other parts of the country barring the northeast, where the incidence of HIV tra...

Death by Smog in California

... soot pollution in some northeastern cities deaths declined as well. With advancements in technology the size of the fine particle keeps getting finer such that it can even cross the lung into the bloodstream creating heart problems. Results of the study, point to the need to strengthen national standards o...

Fewer Doctors Treating For Free

...rity care, and charity care among these physicians declined sharply. Dr.Hill says that charity is not the answer to the solution, and feels that a, more important solution should be developed. He says that the AMA supports the use of tax credits to make health insurance more affordable and changes in insuran...

Cancer Patient to Appeal to SC, Demanding Right to Use Marijuana

...fficials belonging to the Bush administration have declined the drug use, saying that the lawsuit is without merit. 'There is no fundamental right to distribute, cultivate or possess marijuana,' said Mark Quinlivan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, the government's lead medical marijuana attorney, wrote to the appeal...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...thwest district, for instance, where sex ratio has declined by 59 points in the 10 years between 1991 to 2001. Six of Delhi's nine districts recorded a decline of 50 or more points -- southwest (-59), northwest (-59), west (-55), northeast (-50), east (-50) and north (-50). Clearly, the girl child is a ca...

Threat from Chikungunya, No Longer a Fear

...e numbers of people infected with the disease have declined after heavy rains. Despite all this it has no impact on tourism....

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