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Infections in UK Hospitals Drive British Patients to India

...worries about hospital infections such as MRSA are driving people abroad." Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said: "Hospital infections are the number one concern from callers to our helpline. It comes as no surprise that some people are going abroad because they're frightened of NHS infection...

Pump Design Could Give Heart Patients New Hope

...nors and high rates of cardiovascular disease were driving scientists across the globe to develop the technology for a replacement heart. "Each year in Australia, 44 per cent of all deaths are related to heart disease," Professor Tan said. "In fact heart failure, stroke and vascular disease kill more Aus...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

...f malpractice insurance, which has been blamed for driving doctors out of business. Doctors' often-paternalistic relationship with patients is giving way to an understanding that "it's OK to tell the patient the whole story," said Dr. Paul Barach, an anesthesiologist and patient safety researcher at the U...

Denim Lovers Beware, Fertility Could Be in Danger, Says a New Study

...eratures. French researchers reported in 2000 that driving a car for two hours raised the temperature by more than 2 degrees Celsius. A report from doctors in Kiel, Germany, that same year warned about the possible danger of plastic-lined disposable diapers, which were found to raise temperatures more than c...

Controlling C Difficile in the Community Could Cut Infection Rates in Hospitals

...isk, warns Dr John Starr. One factor that may be driving infection rates is the community reservoir, he says. He suggests one way to control C difficile would be to screen people before they are admitted electively to hospital to see if they carry the bacterium. Approximately 5% of the population carry C...

You Cannot Smoke While Driving in India’s Capita

...y mulling over the introduction of such bans while driving - activities like smoking, drinking, eating, reading, and writing while driving may soon be frowned upon. SAV...

Losing Sleep Over Sleep Inducing Drugs

... weird behavior like cooking food, eating and even driving while asleep were noted. The patients were not abl...iness. Though the FDA had not reported any sleep driving incident, the New York Times had reported bizarre sleep incidents where people took the drug Ambien....

Rest for Doctors to Ensure Patients’ Safet

...5 % of them said that they had fallen asleep while driving their car home from work. Two thirds admitted committing mistakes due to fatigue at some point during work. For four out of 10 of them, this had happened during the past six months. The study found that sleepiness and errors occurred more because...

Head Injury Awareness Day

...lay, obeying traffic rules, not mixing drinks with driving and wearing seat belts. Helmets are arguably the best means of preventing head injuries. Motorcyclists are more prone to crash-related head injuries as the vehicles are unenclosed leaving the rider vulnerable to contact hard road surfaces. Hel...

FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products

... behaviors, which may include sleep-driving. Sleep driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of the event. ...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

... number of mutations that appear to be involved in driving the growth of cancerous tumors was larger than expected, but ultimately the technique will allow scientists to acquire a complete catalogue of all the mutations involved in each class of cancer. "The human genome is a vast place and this, our first...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...and thousands of muscle fibers. 'Muscles are the driving force behind our movements,' Knight said. 'Every time they get a command from the neurons, the muscle fibers contract. In the generation of muscular force, the smallest controllable unit consists of an individual neuron and the muscle fibers it stimu...

Dry Eye Syndrome Affects Visual Functions

... such as reading, computer use, professional work, driving and TV watching are all negatively impacted by DES." Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Scientists Identify 120 New Cancer Genes

... number of mutations that appear to be involved in driving the growth of cancerous tumors was larger than expected, but ultimately the technique will allow scientists to acquire a complete catalogue of all the mutations involved in each class of cancer, according to Stratton. "We have found a much larger nu...

Sleep Problems of Women

...l health// , personal lives, professional work and driving safety. The 2007 Sleep survey sponsored by the N...ness during the day ? Lack of sleep resulted in driving drowsy ? Women are late to work or sometimes even have to miss work due to sleep problems. Few t...

Ticking Time Bomb of Scotland-diabetes

... too many hours in front of the TV or PC and even driving short distances in favor of walking,all these, have played their part in bringing diabetes to a status of being an epidemic. According to Dr. Sarah Wild, a senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health, who carried out the study:"The bad ne...

Dizziness Linked To Anxiety Disorders

...ness are generally sensitive to a few motions like driving in a rain or moving in a crowded store. As per the scientists involved in this study, this finding could provide an insight into the causative factors of dizziness. JYT...

X-ray System to Show Moving Bones in 3-D

... for shoulder, wrist, knee and back injuries; · driving innovations in computer graphics and scientific visualization. Source-Bio-Bio Technology<BRSRM...

Stem Cells Use in the Future

...re is no doubt from the levels of research funding driving stem cell research that this is a fast growing and potentially widespread branch of therapeutic medicine. Ideally a properly funded national stem cell depository would allow unfettered access for parents to a stem cell transplant if needed now or ...

Doctors –you’ve Got Mal

...to them. IT is a supporting element; it is not the driving element. What the clinicians want to do, what the doctors want to do must be the main objective .” Source-Medidia ANN...

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