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'Alarming Rise in Caesarean Births a Cause of Concern'

...common in private hospitals in India. Doctors were driven by commercial reasons as the procedure cost more as compared to natural birth, he felt. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Caesarean Section should be only 15 per cent of all deliveries. "But there is a dramatic increase in ab...

MRI-safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible

...entirely out of plastics, ceramics and rubber, and driven by light and air, was published in the February issue of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechanotronics. The challenge for his engineering team was to overcome MRI’s dependence on strong magnetic interference. Metals are unsafe in MRIs because the m...

MRI Robotic Biopsies Simplified by PneuStep

...entirely out of plastics, ceramics and rubber, and driven by light and air, was published in the February issue of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechanotronics. The challenge for his engineering team was to overcome MRI’s dependence on strong magnetic interference. Metals are unsafe in MRIs because the ma...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

...s usually an economic rather than an ideologically driven decision. With the global market for organic food growing at a runaway 35 percent, new suppliers are being urgently sought, particularly in Europe and the US. In these markets, high labour costs act as a deterrent to a shift to organic farming. S...

Travelers’ Hazard- Antihistamines Make Drowsy Driver

...er or other allergies and almost half of these had driven after taking medication. Many of those question...es included those like 45 per cent of these having driven while taking medication and nearly 18 per cent admitting that their driving was negatively affe...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims Another Set Of Victims

...scope for ventilation. Experts say that petrol driven vehicles usually emit up to 25 percent carbon monoxide out of the total exhaust. Carbon monoxide is produced whenever fuel such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood or charcoal is burned. The amount of CO produced while using fuel-burning appliances is usu...

Costlier Health Care Weigh Downs the Women

...ers are confronting researchers about the consumer driven policies. Robert Hurley, vice president of stra...llment for state run plan came down by 8% consumer driven plans rose by 50%. Sara Collins, assistant vice president for the Commonwealth Fund's Program on th...

Abbott Offers Aluvia to Thailand in Return for Compulsory Licensing Halt

...sion to withdraw Aluvia from registration had been driven by “concern that compulsory licensing would be abused ever-more widely, using HIV as an excuse." But last month Abbott public affairs staff insisted that the company’s action was not related to HIV drugs, but to a lack of respect for `numerous` pa...

Canadians Despair for Family Doctors

...y member in another city to find a doctor. "I have driven miles out of town for medical appointments," she said. Time and time again the issue of timely access has plagued the Canadian public health-care system. Public opinion polls put the length of waiting times for hospital care, access to specialists ...

Maverick Gay Ex-governor Turns a New Leaf - Accepted at the Episcopalian Seminary

...ions. People are still speculating if this move is driven by a desire to become a priest. McGreevy, 49, had created a stir in 2004, when he announced his gay status; at that time he had gone public about his extramarital affair with a male aide. Following this admission, he had also offered to relinquish...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...rd time a family from Orissa has made such a plea, driven to desperation by poverty. Earlier, a family in Keonjhar and another in Nayagarh had sought the president's nod for mercy death. Source-IANS/M...

Different Causes for Childhood Brain Aneurysm was Revealed

...unlike the adult diseasechildhood aneurysms may be driven by unique predisposing factors that we have not yet identified. It could have much less to do with underlying conditions commonly thought to contribute to their development, he explains. Abruzzo will present this research, believed to be one of the...

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

... in the summer, the ice loss on Mt. Kilimanjaro is driven strictly by solar radiation. Since air near the mountain's ice almost always is well below freezing, there typically is no melting. Instead ice loss is mainly through a process called sublimation, which requires more than eight times as much energy a...

Are Physicians Hesitant to Diagnose Depression?

... past five years, and believe this increase may be driven by greater disease awareness, and ultimately more patients seeking help. However, clinicians reported that many more patients may be experiencing symptoms that are going undiagnosed. More than half of survey respondents felt that physicians are hes...

Robotic Surgery A Cutting Edge in Medical Field

Robots that perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the operation from a computer console . The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery reports Now a team of surgeons and scientists have shown that the surgeon a...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...e only for the subset of patients whose tumors are driven by the targeted pathways. The drawbacks of treating every patient with a targeted therapy include the expense of these drugs, the delay for those who do not respond in initiation of effective therapy, and the possibility that some patients will b...

Marriage Could Lift One Out of Depression, New Study

... already married? Possibly it is marriage that has driven you to depression! Divorcing and marrying someone else, will that be an option? wonders a wag....

Moon, the Best Place to Assess the Earths Climate Changes

... concludes that night temperatures on the Moon are driven by radiation from the Earth. Opining that the Earth's radiation should decrease as rising levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere retain more and more of the sun's energy, Huang says that 'if the Earth reflects less energy back into space, th...

Researchers Find How the Brain Hears Shapes

...s people previously assumed. The LOtv is clearly driven by the presence of shape, but it doesn't care whether the input is visual, tactile or auditory, said Amedi. Amedi is now hoping that the vOICe device might one day help blind people "see". "It was a huge activation. I think they're seeing, New Sc...

Gene Discovery Lays Groundwork for Targeted Therapies for Endometrial Cancer

...nalized medicine for women with endometrial cancer driven by an altered FGFR2 gene." Pollock spent several years studying the FGFR2 gene in melanoma. Pollock and Paul Goodfellow, Ph.D., an endometrial cancer expert and professor of surgery, genetics and obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University S...

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