Tag: "doubted" at medical news

Exposure to Chill can result in common cold symptoms

...wet hair. Since the early 1960s, doctors generally doubted this wisdom, says a report in the online edition of ABC News. Ron Eccles, a professor at Cardiff School of Biosciences' Common Cold Centre, asked 180 healthy volunteers to remove their shoes and socks. Half of them put their feet in a bowl of ice...

WHO Says Travelers Could Spread Avian Flu in NZ

...k of the deadly H5N1 bird flu in New Zealand. He doubted any human pandemic of the disease would begin in New Zealand and that its arrival in the South Pacific country from migratory birds was not so likely. At a news conference in Wellington he said that the avian flu would most likely to be carried by ...

Hospitals Health Insurance Scam Uncovered

...l of 11,139 complaints last year from patients who doubted their medical fees were right. Following this they analyzed medical institutions' requests for insurance coverage submitted to the agency affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. It was found that in about 29.2 % or 3248 cases the hospit...

Can Men Gauge Biological Paternity Accurately

...ing that more than 70 percent of the time, men who doubted their paternity were wrong. Anderson also organized the data geographically, by breaking down non-paternity rates in different countries according to high and low paternity confidence. He found that among those for who paternity confidence was rela...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

...d also help reassure those who may have previously doubted its effectiveness and safety," said Chief executive Jeremy Hughes. "We hope that in light of today's decision, any PCT still wavering about prescribing Herceptin, should now have the confidence to make it available to all for whom it is recommended."...

Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

...s and consumers. However, Lustig’s hypothesis is doubted by obesity experts who are hesitating to label overweight people as victims of their food supply with not a lot of hope to lose weight without major changes in America's food culture. Definitely, there is a link between obesity, people’s diet and ...

A slum in Mumbai – breeding ground for disease

...t an officer with the BMC’s insecticide department doubted the efficacy of the renewed cleanliness drive. “The dingy, congested lanes and closely constructed houses make it difficult for staff to move with the shoulder-mounted fogging and anti-larvae machines,” he said. The officer said, “The area receive...

AIDS –spreading like wildfire in Chin

... with almost one percent of all pregnant women are doubted to be AIDS positive. It is alarming to note that like Africa, which has the largest number of AIDS/HIV infections where the mode of infection is now common through even heterosexual contact China too has more number of infections being spread through...

Fear Over Maple Leaf Meat Being Contaminated

...cided to recall its ham and turkey products, as it doubted tampering of its meat // products with an unknown contaminant. The incident took place on Sunday night when Maple Leaf Employees found syringe casings at the company's plant in Kitchener, Ontario., after which Maple Leaf notified the Federal agen...

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ‘authority’, Sir Roy was Not Off the Mak

...eport in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has now doubted these inferences. Sir Roy, who provided evidence during many court cases, has always sworn by the ‘Meadow’s Law’ – that 'one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, unless proven otherwise'. Contrary to this, studies...

Drug Coated Stents Under the Scanner

...eople in the world. Drug coated stents were not doubted for their safety till news regarding the development of potentially harmful clots did the rounds. Doctors opine, that if a patient discontinues Plavix, an anti-clotting medication, then he carries an enhanced risk of developing these life threatening...

Ebola-Outbreak Kills 5000 Gorillas

...ffs first circulated widely in 2003, sceptics have doubted how large these die-offs were and whether Ebola was even the cause. The new study, led by Magdalena Bermejo of the University of Barcelona, allays these doubts because it was conducted in a closely monitored gorilla population where genetic tests con...

Panic Gripped Young Man After Wrong Diagnosis With HIV

...s asked him to send it for testing elsewhere. They doubted the test report since Sharma, who is in his early 30s, is a healthy man. He had been admitted to the nursing home with high fever and symptoms of cerebral malaria. He was cleared of HIV by the State AIDS Control Society at the Patna Medical College...

Pioneer Heart Surgeon Faced the Scalpel at 98

...vived the very complicated surgery, which many had doubted would be helpful for him. But he pulled through th...vived the very complicated surgery, which many had doubted would be helpful for him. But he pulled through the stormy days .He was discharged from hospital thr...

New Zealand’s Medical Lab Workers On Strik

...ational president Stewart Smith was quoted that he doubted today's negotiations would avoid the planned industrial action, yet he hoped that some issues would be resolved. Aside from the pay dispute, the union and DHBs were also at loggerheads on issues such as contracted services being outside the collec...

Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

... of partners than non-Muslim men, so people always doubted it." Cooper said the only way to ensure the link between lower HIV rates and circumcision was not due to cultural factors was to carry out random trials, the results of which will be presented at the Sydney conference. He said three trials were c...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...olitical considerations," he said. Barns said he doubted Andrews' decision to cancel the visa could be cons...d have a case to appeal against the decision. He doubted the government was basing its decision on any extra information, saying police would have used all t...

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