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Doctors' decisions are affected by fear of lawsuits- says a study

... the emergency room. The practice of being on the defensive by the attending physicians can increase the cost of healthcare by crores each year, not to mention the financial crunch borne by the common man in coughing up the medical bills, as a huge number of population in the world remains without a medical i...

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...alled phagocytosis. The researchers detailed these defensive maneuvers in fruitflies in an advance online publication of the British journal Nature. "The basic templates of how organisms protect themselves against infection go back millions of years in evolution, so we can learn lessons from flies that apply ...

Health Authorities Claim Some Relief likely from Post floods diseases in Mumbai

...equate handling of the Mumbai floods are now under defensive and are controlling the damage already done to their image//. The health authorities have reported fewer admissions of new patients Monday as the outbreak of deadly post-floods diseases such as leptospirosis and dengue showed signs of abating. Th...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...th authorities however are maintaining a brave and defensive stance and claim that the number of serious cases had dropped drastically. Director General of Health Prakash B Doke, today said that experts from Defence Research Laboratories were to join the authorities in combating the outbreak of diseases in ...

"Defensive Pessimism" Before Exam Results Not a Good Strategy

...off in the long run and individuals who adopt such defensive pessimism are not better off than their normal counterparts. Reporting in the latest issue of the journal Cognition and Emotion, the excretes of which appear in the online edition of the journal Nature, the reserachers said a person's reaction to d...

Boy Infected with AIDS at AIIMS

...sion at the hospital in 2001. Aggrieved with the defensive attitude of AIIMS, Justice Vikramjit Sen has asked... cases where AIIMS was involved, the hospital gets defensive and refuses to admit the fault. "I agree that the hospital is of repute and has the best facilitie...

A Boy Undergoing Treatment For Cancer Gets AIDS At AIIMS

...s where AIIMS was involved, the hospital would get defensive and refuses to admit the fault. While asking as to why the hospital's counsel were they trying to shield the donor, he remarked, "I agreethat the hospital is of repute and has the best facilities. But it can go wrong somewhere”. He further brushed as...

AIIMS Counsel Claims Cancer Patient Got HIV Through Needle

...ities, but the judge said that AIIMS seemed to get defensive each time questions were asked about its practices. "I agree that the hospital is of repute and has the best facilities. But it can go wrong somewhere," he said. He also wanted to know why the identity of the donor was being kept a secret. He was ...

Fresh bird flu vaccines made in China

...vaccines. The ministry is hopeful of the powerful defensive mechanism embodied in the vaccines when used together, which is capable of fighting the lethal H5N1 strain of bird-flu. Though the vaccines are yet to go into complete production, the Lab director Chen Hualan said that the vaccines have been very ef...

Antidepressants affect and cause REM sleep disorder

.... RBD patients generally act out their dreams in a defensive posture, as if fending off an attacker, says R. Robert Auger, M.D., Mayo Clinic sleep medicine specialist, psychiatrist and primary investigator. The disorder is often recognized by a bed partner. Although previously published case reports and a m...

PGLYRP Proteins Prevent Bacterial Infections

...entists report that various organs mount different defensive responses with PGLYRP when exposed to bacteria. The skin produces these proteins only when exposed to virulent or high numbers of bacteria. In contrast, the liver, whose function is to continuously monitor the blood and fight acute infection, produce...

Contemporary Therapeutic Guidelines For HIV Patients

...e white blood cells in the human body, which has a defensive role against invading infection-causing agents. When these cells come under the attack of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, their numbers decline. Following this the symptoms associated with AIDS become more pronounced. The study conducted elucidates tha...

Tidbits on Tarantula bites and fiery Pepper sensations!

...s experiment throws interestingly proves that the defensive mechanism of some animals and plants are quite similar in warding off a predator by triggering pain. The research aids understanding of the pathway of pain and expounds that new drugs to treat persistent pain can be evolved based on these new intrigu...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

...nput seems to improve the functioning of important defensive cells in the immune system. Rhesus monkeys are sai...rably affect the susceptibility to infections. The defensive T-cells that play a prime role in increasing the resistance to illnesses are severely affected by th...

Clues Found On How Deadly Bacterium Gains Foothold

...ibit the ability of the neutrophils to perform two defensive functions that otherwise would kill the bacteria," Allen said. One of the defensive functions is dependent on oxygen, and the other is oxygen-independent. Ideally, the two functions wi...

Taking Drugs for Heartburn may Cause Fractured Hip

... The manufacturers of the drugs of this type were defensive following the publishing of this study. They opined that the study does not offer concrete proof that these drugs have a direct bearing on hip fractures. MST...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...tion with specific networks controlling feeding or defensive reflexes in the sea slug. To their surprise, they identified more than 100 genes similar to those associated with all major human neurological diseases and more than 600 genes controlling development, confirming that molecular and genomic events unde...

Got AIDS – Try Pranayam

... white blood cells in the human body, which have a defensive role against invading infection-causing agents. When these cells come under the attack of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a person affected with AIDS, their numbers decline. Swami Ramadev reemphasizes his claims that yoga and ayurvedic treatment ca...

Fast-Multiplying Lawsuits Can Stymie Medical Science, Authors Warn

...a suspected toxin to a disease. Industries on the defensive have also attempted to impugn the credibility of researchers. As an example, the authors cite the case of Herbert Needleman, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and the first scientist to link lead exposure to...

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

...erman Cancer Aid. A suntan, she explained, was a defensive skin reaction to produce more of the pigment melanin to protect itself from too much harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Large amounts of UV radiation damage the DNA in skin cells and can even lead to skin cancer. Sunscreen protection should begin ...

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