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Medical Ethics Violated By Prison Officials In Guantanamo Bay

...ysicians for Human Rights. The US officials have declined the use of any coercive attempts while have acknowledged the use of violent interrogation techniques. In addition, they have insisted that the detainees are not subjected to any torture, as claimed. About 500 individuals suspected in terrorist atta...

'Inflatable-pants' heart failure therapy suffers due to lack of evidence.

... The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services declined to expand its policy on external counterpulsation to cover heart failure or other cardiac conditions. The finding of the review is in conjunction with the government opinion, “The evidence supporting the role of ECP as an effective treatment for h...

Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges

...hem have conflicts of interest. The judge though declined to throw out the suits, ruled out all the challenges that have blocked the progress of the research as unconstitutional....

Race Was Used To Determine Safety Of Blood

...ople accounted for 10% of the donated blood, which declined to 4.2% in 2001 to 2002. The study seeks to ensure safe blood to all recipients. Individual blood samples are being tested according to a new policy adopted by SANBS since February 2005, which serves to eliminate the race of a person as a risk factor...

Risk Of Stroke Can Be Lessened By Proper Diet

... diseases. The deaths due to strokes in Scotland declined to 74.2 in 2004 for every 100,000 people compared to the 2003 figure of 79.1 in 2003 as a result of these positive changes in dietary habits. It has also been found that there is a lesser incidence of smoking in the case of people who eat a better di...

Typhoid May Have Resulted In The Fall Of Athens

... The Golden Age of Athens is also reported to have declined as a result of this // epidemic, which is said to have wiped out a third of the city-state’s population. The origins of the epidemic was in Ethiopia, between 430-426 BC, which later spread to Athens. Thucydides, the Greek historian, who also suffer...

Breaks In The HIV Treatment Resulted In Devastating Results.

...nd told them to resume the therapy once the count declined to a lower threshold. As such the study was to continue for a period of five years but it was discontinued when it showed devasting results. Now the study patients were being informed by their doctors to resume their medication and continue with it...

Diet Can Influence Your Mental Health As Well

...h as vegetables and fish (omega-3 fatty acids) has declined considerably over the past 50 years. This kind of an unhealthy diet system could be attributed to an increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and depression. "The good news is that the...

Gujarat Records Fall In AIDS Cases

... 2003.// Where the low risk group is concerned, it declined to 0.13% in 2004 from 0.38% in 2003. The 2005 figures are expected to be even lower. Says Laxman Malodia of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run AIDS Control Society: "We have 5,636 HIV positive cases registered in the state, of which 779 are i...

Thailand had Fewer AIDS-Related Deaths, New HIV Cases In 2005

...t the number of AIDS-related deaths in the country declined from 5,020 in 2004 to 1,640 in 2005, reports Thailand's The Nation//. The health ministry's Disease Control Department (DCD) also said there was a 10 per cent decline in the number of new HIV cases in to about 18,000 in 2005. The number of peop...

Meat firm 'won't go down without a fight'

... sell-off gave the company a financial buffer, but declined to speculate how long the company could go on. Conroy said he wouldn’t let a 50-year-old company go down without the best fight they can mount. The Health Department yesterday ruled out a return to full production in the next few days, despite Conr...

Guidant sold defective defibrillators with full knowledge

...Contak Renewal. Company officials have repeatedly declined to describe the steps they took, if any, at that time to determine if the Contak Renewal might also short-circuit. The Texas lawsuit, which is scheduled to begin in late February, could be the first Guidant case in the current wave of lawsuits to go...

Health Canada Gave Access To Unapproved Drugs To AIDS/HIV Patients.

...he usage in AIDS patient and hence their access is declined by the government. The usage of this new unapproved AIDS drug started nine months earlier and a patient died. So the clinicians were not interested in getting themselves enmeshed in a bureaucratic delay. The two unapproved drugs for AIDS were TMC...

IT Raids Target Chennai Doctors And Hospitals

...he city were making huge investments. He, however, declined to give any names, only saying that "all kinds of doctors were put under the IT scanner". The operation was codenamed Operation Crush, involving about 300 IT department officials. "The cash, bank balance and jewellery totalled about Rs.2 crore (Rs...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...n one rupee, netting a total of Rs.61,100. Nobody declined to chip in, despite their own grinding poverty. "The women were surprised by what they achieved and when they realised what they were capable of," said C. Ranga Rao, an additional project director of DRDA, the agency that implements central and stat...

Study Says Vitamin D Is Good For Lungs

..., was inversely related to body mass index, and it declined with age. Vitamin D also was lower in non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican-Americans, compared with non-Hispanic whites, and it was lower in participants smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day compared with non-smokers. "Chronic lung conditions compromis...

US life expectancy climbs to a new high

... And deaths from heart disease, stroke and cancer declined between 2 percent and 5 percent. But along with that longevity comes a greater prevalence of chronic diseases. And while gains in health care and well being continue to be made, they're happening more slowly than in the past. Among the report's f...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

...h Teva Pharmaceuticals and Mylan Laboratories, but declined to provide the names of any other companies. "Roche is in advanced discussions with potential partners that can help enhance its supply chain and add capacity for certain specialized steps in the manufacturing of Tamiflu," the company said in a sta...

Exercise keeps ‘Alzheimer’s Awa’

...he research also showed that the levels of megalin declined with age in normal mice, thus suggesting that there may be a molecular link between ageing and the neurodegenerative disease. Ignacio Torres-Aleman said that the research had supported the idea that an active lifestyle helps to keep Alzheimer's at ...

Fewer People Die Due To Cancer

...cancer which was the largest killer among cancers, declined by 45% in the case of women and 39% where men are ...the case of bowel cancer, the number of casualties declined by 26% in the case of women and 22% where men are concerned. The number of breast cancer cases repor...

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