Tag: "documentary" at medical news

Russian Miss HIV Positive Says Victims Are Treated Like Prostitutes

...des the beauty contest, Russian television aired a documentary called HIV: Myths and Realities in order to spread awareness....

Face transplant woman has new graft

...at Isabelle Dinoire, 38, had agreed to let British documentary maker Michael Hughes film the graft at Amiens University Hospital in northern France. The deal was signed by Hughes, the patient and the medical team in August - three months before the operation and before a donor had been found. Ms Dinoire told...

Cardinal Calls For Legal Response Against 'Da Vinci Code'

...essed his rage and criticism against the book in a documentary called 'The Da Vinci Code-A Masterful Deception.' His appeal is said to have been voiced 10 days after a demand for boycotting of film was voiced by yet another Vatican cardinal. Expressing that other religions would not remain passive when their b...

China Launches Probe Into Breast Enhancement Drug

...n the form of a drink, was accused in a television documentary of causing gynaecological problems and doing nothing that it promised. Gao Xuemin, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine, was quoted by Central China Television on Sunday as saying that claims the product could enlarge breasts were "groundless."...

Isotretinoin Drug May Cause Severe Birth Defects

...sure that the drug is dispensed only when there is documentary proof that the patient is not pregnant and is using two forms of birth control. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Medical Care Lacking In LA Jail

...oned monitor spent three years for the making of a documentary for the American Civil Liberties Union, reports seeing many inmates with raw wounds untreated for infections, fractured bones and bulging hernias. "I basically saw grown men crying because they were in such pain," Kent said. Sheriff's Lt. Stephen...

Down Syndrome Dolls in Brazil After Child Actor's Success

...lmmaker Evaldo Mocarzel, who produced and directed documentary "Do Luto a Luta" (From Mourning to Fighting), released in Brazil last year. The film's main plot centres on the disorder. Mocarzel said he had not allowed his daughter to participate in other types of commercial advertising since she began starring...

Fatty Acid Supplements may Help Develop Child's Brain

...fects of junk food on young brains for a Channel 5 documentary "Mind the Fat: Does Fast Food Slow Kids?" The participants were asked to be more active and cut down on unhealthy snacks and fizzy drinks. At the same time, they were given two capsules a day of the VegEPA - a diet supplement, which contains an ome...

Doctor's AIDS Documentary Focus on Stigma and Discrimination

...or-filmmaker Jorge Guillermo Caravotta, whose AIDS documentary "Second Life" was released recently, says people a...s Caravotta's film. "I never thought of making a documentary film about HIV/AIDS before. But after listening to her during a trip to Delhi, I found in her story ...

Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital

...and whose story featured in the Pitt firm-produced documentary "God Grew Tired Of Us". "Words cannot express my gratitude and the gratitude of the people of Duk County," said Dau, who fled to the city when he was a boy during Sudan's civil war in the late 1980s. His statement added: "Jolie and Pitt demonstra...

Shrinking of Mt. Kilimanjaros Ice Cap Not Due to Global Warming: Study

... cited in forums such as the Academy Award-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth. "There is no evidence to support that assertion. It's not that it is impossible, but rather the decline is most likely associated with processes dominated by sublimation and with an energy balance dominated by solar rad...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...tem is indeed stupendous. The recent Michael Moore documentary pouring scorn on healthcare in US as opposed to what is going on in a small country like Cuba has once again turned the attention of many commentators on the strides made in that small nation. Cubas people manage to be as healthy as those of the wo...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... de Graaf, producer of the groundbreaking 1997 PBS documentary "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, says, "It's staggering. The USA has declined relative to all other industrial countries in virtually every quality of life measured -- health, equality, savings, sustainability -- though that's not so with the ...

Yoga Should Not Be Patented: Ramdev

...ing brought out by Patanjali Yogapeet shortly as a documentary proof," he claimed. Ramdev is here to conduct a yoga camp from May 17 to 22. "Later this year I plan to go to New York, New Jersey and Chicago in America besides other places in Europe, the Gulf and Africa," he said....

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...resented by Gore, as featured in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. 'Over the course of the 90 minutes my wife and I were very emotionally moved by the climate crisis,' said Wall, 54, a father of three. 'We understood for the first time it was about us, our children and our children's childre...

Back to Basics in Health in Advanced Countries Now

...ajor concern in US, making Michael Moores stinging documentary Sicko a runaway hit. It features memorable testimony from a conscience-stricken physician employed by a health insurance company. She refused to authorize a client's life-or-death operation to save her employer the expense. No one ever called her t...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...onomic sense, said Gail Reed, producer of a recent documentary on Cuban health care called "Salud!" Dr. David Hickey, a transplant surgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, said Cuba is a world leader in primary health care based on preventive medicine. "It's a very sobering experience for someone coming from ...

Becks Confesses Being Homesick, Craves for Pie and Mash

...owing his move to the United States. In an ITV1 documentary to be shown on Tuesday at 9 p.m., Becks admits: "Obviously, I will miss my family and my friends, but I will also miss things like English pubs. I will also miss pie and mash. It's something I love eating when I come back to London. "Someone told ...

Paris at Her Self-obsessive Best

...s present at a screening of Michael Moore's latest documentary Sicko. Hilton showed up at the event wearing a figure hugging green dress and high Christian Louboutin shoes, reports the Daily Mail. Late last week, Hilton got back to the club scene, just two weeks after she finished serving time. The social...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

...s 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth and in the 2006 documentary of the same name. Gore sustained an ankle injury while playing lacrosse in 2000. In order to accompany him during his treatment, his mother was forced to miss a campaign trip through Tennessee. Her daughter Karenna Gore Schiff replaced her during p...

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