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Suicidal Tendencies May Be Treated With Cognitive Therapy

...suicide and were evaluated at a hospital emergency department within 48 hours of the attempt. Sixty participants were randomized to receive 10 sessions of cognitive therapy and 60 to receive enhanced usual care with tracking and referral services. The central feature of cognitive therapy was the identification...

Drug used to treat hypertension effective in countering Migraines

...ecided to study Atacand after a colleague in their department noticed his migraines disappeared when he started taking the drug lisinopril for his high blood pressure. The researchers reasoned that if the anti-migraine effect was linked to the lisinopril, which reduces the amount of angiotensin II, a drug such ...

Researchers Bring New Insight To Asthma And SABA Fills

... the claims for SABA- and asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions for 31,140 adults. Study results show an average of 6.7 SABA fills per person per year, and 138 hospitalizations per 1,000 men and 116 per 1,000 women. The most significant association between SABA prescriptions ...

Outpatient Treatment Possible For Patients with Uterine Fibroid Tumors

...ed focused ultrasound to be used in the outpatient department in the hospital for treating women suffering from ...ure. Treatment starts in obstetrics and gynecology department where specialists determine if focused ultrasound for the patient is, in fact, her best option, and ...

Couples in Britain can have “designer” babis

...e public consultation document published by the UK department of health also raises the possibility of allowing research on human embryos such as the creation of animal human “chimeric” embryos. The ministers in the UK government want the British public to submit its views on whether couples should be able to u...

Sharp Increase Of The Deadly Diseases In Delhi

...mer professor of G B Pant Hospital and head of the department of gastroenterology at Action Medical Institute, adds: "Now that the rains seem to be back, Delhi will do well to take lessons from Mumbai's predicament. Cases of hepatitis E are at an all-time high. In a congested city like Delhi, where sanitation f...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

Scientists from US department of Agriculture had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. This is for the first time the disease of avian influenza had been detected in any strain of wild birds // that have no contact with the domestic poultr...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...a Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department on Monday lay down measures to combat dengue. The disease has mainly been reported from Lake Gardens, Golf Green, Dhakuria, Jodhpur Park, Tollygunge, Santoshpur and Jadavpur, which have posh apartments as well as slums. The acting Chief Minister M...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

.... Rao said. Dr. R.V. Parameshwaran, head of the department of nuclear medicine at Manipal Hospital, says, “Many brain tumors intensely absorb technetium 99m and a three dimensional image of the brain is obtained.” Using the new method the neurosurgeon makes a probe around a tumor and it displays counts on th...

Encephalitis Deaths in Maybe higher than Reported

...t to save as many lives as possible". The medicine department of the college had also accommodated about 67 patients, mostly adults. Doctors said that adult casualties were on the increase. The doctor confessed, "Despite that we have at least 10 to 12 children dying every day." Further Information on Enceph...

Active Lifestyle Helps To Slowdown Illness In Alzheimer's Patients

...rologists like K.S. Anand, who heads the neurology department at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here, is that there ...e number of patients he attends in the out-patient department of his hospital, Anand on an average comes across two to four new cases of Alzheimer's every week. ...

No link between type II diabetes and aggressive prostate cancer

...ase study and a resident in the radiation oncology department at Fox Chase. The study tracked 1,512 men with localized prostate cancer who had been treated with radiation therapy between April 1989 and October 2001. Of these 1,306 men had no history of type II diabetes, while 206 men had diabetes that was manag...

Indian Government warns Gujarat regarding possibility of bird flu

... government has alerted the state animal husbandry department to watch out for birds specially from Southeast Asia and China," said D.S. Narve, the conservator of forests. The health authorities have been asked to watch out for three main species of migratory birds, namely the Bar-headed Geese, the Large Cormo...

Cannabis exerts protective effect against cancer

...lished fact, says Robert Melamede, chairman of the department of biology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Current knowledge does not suggest that cannabis smoke will have a carcinogenic potential comparable to that resulting from exposure to tobacco smoke," he said adding that the same was tr...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

... bird flu virus, the Hungarian veterinary services department (ANTSZ) has said that a prototype //of a vaccine developed against the disease was proving effective against birds. 'The effectiveness of the prototype vaccine against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu is proved among poultry and so it can be used ...

Under-Recognition Of Mental Disorders As A Cause Of Deliberate Self-Harm

... out to examine national patterns in the emergency department assessment and treatment during visits by young pe...onally representative sample of hospital emergency department visits from the 1997-2002 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey focusing on visits by per...

Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell

...ed In Wild Birds Of Mongolia - Scientists from US department of Agriculture had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=4641 <br...

Delhi Government To Interlink All Major Hospitals Through e-Governance

...secretary of Delhi's IT and administrative reforms department said, 'Through computerization and then networking we are trying to interlink all the city hospitals under the Delhi government. The aim is to provide a citizen-centric single window information system and this integrated information system would def...

Gene Therapy Overcomes Heart Failure In Muscular Dystrophy

...Tong Zhu, M.D., Ph.D., a research associate in the department of orthopedic surgery and the first author of the study. 'In fact, if this study holds up in human clinical trials, it may have profound implications for the treatment of heart failure.'...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

...nistration to send a team of health and veterinary department officials to create awareness among people to dete...e meat to roadside hotels and eateries. The forest department has warned people not to partake of bird meat. Mr. Hemanth Sharma, District Collector, Said, The f...

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