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Diagnosing Prostate Cancer is Harder in Obese Individuals

...tephen Freedland, an assistant professor in Duke's department of surgery-urology. He added that doctors should be aware of this when returning a negative diagnosis of prostate cancer. Dr Freedland and his team examined the medical records of 1,400 men who had undergone prostatectomy after being diagnosed with c...

Conventional pap smears techniques to detect cervical cancer are here to stay

... older one. The Scottish Executive of the health department assured that he would probe inside the issue. But he said till now this technique had been very fruitful and reduced tremendously the occurrence of false results. This is especially very effective in giving accurate results to women. In the new t...

Northeast Governments Warn Against Andhra Fish

...ness of the problem and have instructed our health department inspectors to monitor the fish markets and destroy all rotten fish. We appeal to people to be careful while buying fish, especially the fish brought from outside," a senior Assam health official said. A vast majority of people in Assam and Tripura...

Pill splitting program of University of Michigan can save money

...y found to be beneficial; a study conducted in the department of Veterans Affairs in 3,787 patients who were taking simvastatin tablets found splitting their tablets had no difference in their health conditions and saved lot of money on drugs. A study funded by University of Michigan that was conducted by HaeMi...

Bihar Health Officials Worried As Polio Cases Soar

...EF official said here. According to state health department sources, most of the polio cases were being detected in Araria, Bhagalpur, Purnea, Siwan, East Champaran, Madhepura and Sitamarhi districts. Last year, Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had stated that India could save at least R...

Ofcom To Assess The Bedside Call Charges

...the call made to Australia. It demanded the health department to review the charges levied on the bedside phones...ional Health Services) NHS and their trusts. The department is already interacting with the various companies to reduce the cost of the calls and also reviewing...

US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

...– goes to Russel F. Doolittle, research professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry and division of biol...es Medical Institute, and Henry Ford II Professor, department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; and to Tina M....

Fire department stem cell donors felicitated with 'Honor Roll of Life'

...tients which helped to save their life. The fire department is very proud in helping human lives as the department offices have donated more than 72 bone marrow cells which have helped to treat patients with leukemi...

Girl Comes Out Of Irreversible Coma

...t happens to the girl, leaving the social services department her sole guardian. Edited DPA...

Medical College Construction At Raichur Makes Slow Progress

...crore is yet to be distributed. The public works department officials lack the authority to mobilize funds in ... and equipment of the medical college. The finance department governs this to a large extent, which limits the quick financial access. Moreover, the poor quality ...

Mothers Happy After Exchange Of Swapped Infants

.... Dr Shashibala Singh, in charge of the delivery department of RIMS, said, "It was the matron's fault that the children were exchanged. When the babies were handed to the mothers, nobody supervised it". For seven days the mothers had breast-fed the babies, considering them as their own. One mother even got ...

Britain Toddlers To Receive Flu-Jab In Addition To The 21 Shots

The UK health department officials have proposed the administration of flu vaccine to all children less than 2 years of age, // in an attempt to prevent the incidence of seasonal flu. The dreadful condition, which affects nearly 5 to 10% of the population during winter, had ...

Cervical cancer screening to be increased in Arkansas

...al cancer in its invasive state. Arkansas Health department as found from study reviews that cervical cancer as become one of the most important factor of deaths in women and in order to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in the state the Department of Health and Human services as introduced Cervical can...

Shortage of services forces delayed hospital treatment for patient.

.... "We're now weeks into the Queensland emergency department crisis and the Government has no answer to the doctor exodus," he said....

Cord Blood therapy for bone regeneration

...artment research project involves researchers from department of biology, sociology and Philosophy from York University is aimed at reviewing the benefits of using cord blood stem cells in the treatment of bone defects and fractures. Professor Paul Genever, Department of Biology would be heading the project w...

Blood Transfusion May Have Contributed Towards Hepatitis C

Officials belonging to the Scottish health department have admitted that blood transfusions may have resulted in fresh cases of hepatitis C among NHS patients. // As many as 3,000 people may have been affected by this, and it is not possible to trace all of them through the available records. Most of...

DNA damage and cancer risk, increased due to red meat diet

... Professor David Shuker, from the Open University, department of chemistry in Milton Keynes, said that this research would help us to develop a simple screening test so that we can spot DNA damage and advise people to change their diet. This study showed DNA damage in case of healthy individuals and so this wo...

Poor Health of Homeless in New York

...e Kerker, who spearheaded the study for the health department has expressed the importance of this multi dimensional study that looks at several health conditions, necessitating relevant focus on deficient areas. The plans for the homeless would primarily cater to treatment programs for drug and alcohol addicts...

No Cure for the New Mosquito-Borne Disease, Chikungunya

...ease would spread to Madagascar, a French overseas department with a population of 760 000 and hence has posted 400 extra troops to help fight the mosquitoes that have been spreading the disease. It has also $720 000 to fight the outbreak. ...

Connecticut Gears Itself For Pandemic

... gearing themselves for such a situation. The fire department everywhere has to be at the forefront while dealing with emergencies. Humanity has been witness to several epidemics in the past which had devastated whole civilizations. As many as 8,500 people in Connecticut had died in 1918 and 1919 as a result...

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