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Tag: "exorbitant" at medical news

Monday malady

...now called for more probing into the nexus between exorbitant drinking and coronary heart disease.//They suggested the stresses of returning to work after a weekend's socialising could also be to blame for the number of Monday heart attacks. Nearly about 64,000 men and women who died of heart disease in Brisban...

Crisis Time In Wales NHS Dentistry

...g thousands of poor patients who cannot afford the exorbitant fees charges by private dentists. A NHS website, NHS Direct, has revealed that there are only four practices that accept NHS patients in Wales and this number could go down if dentists choose to go private The website also reveals that there are 500 ...

Female Condoms In The Offing

...peting product was made out of latex. 'Given the exorbitant cost of production we have decided to price a packet of two pieces at Rs.100. 'Female condoms have now been accepted in several countries and are considered by both men and women as the best contraceptive. We have now begun work on the second gener...

Patients Indignant at Exorbitant Phone Bills from Hospital

...of Communications (Ofcom) have revealed that these exorbitant charges for incoming calls had resulted from ‘a complex web of Government policy and agreements between the providers and the NHS’. Following this both sides were requested to negotiate for a fairer pricing scheme. In addition Ofcom has also found ...

Neither Management Nor Students Happy With New Fee Structure

...ical Students Rajesh Jain said, "It's not just the exorbitant fees, it's also the poor quality of infrastructure," while explaining that the association has been fighting several legal battles over this issue from the past few years....

New Screening System For Early Detection Of Dental Caries in Toddlers

...ing program would be successful without generating exorbitant labor costs. "Unfortunately, early childhood dental caries tends to occur in children who are not yet under the care of dentists, so there is no existing system of care that we can simply insert a screening exam into," Kopycka-Kedzierawski said. "W...

Fighting AIDS – a joint venture of the rich and the poor

...ountries who were infected with HIV because of the exorbitant rates of the antiretroviral drugs. According to them, persuading poor people to adhere to a complex medical routine was also impossible and they insisted limited HIV budgets should be aimed at preventing new infections. However, in 2003, the expert...

Estimated cost of lifetime AIDS treatment assessed to be $618,900

... expectancy by almost 24 years comes tagged with a exorbitant cost. A recent study conducted by a Cornell/Johns Hopkins/Harvard/Boston University research team analyzed the costs and benefits offered by HIV treatment today. When anti retroviral medicines were first introduced in 1996 life expectancy of Ai...

Interrupted Treatment Dangerous to HIV Management

...d metabolic functions. The treatment is also quite exorbitant and difficult to abide by. Resistant viral strains may also develop as a result of anti retroviral treatment. However, in spite of all the odds tossed against it, it’s safer for a HIV infected person any day to be continuously on ARV treatment than...

New Test Kits for Dengue, Hepatitis Developed

...er said the antigens had to be earlier imported at exorbitant rates and were of unsure quality. The technology for the synthetic antigens had been developed with financial support from the Department of Biotechnology and transferred to Tulip Group of Companies, based in Goa. Source-IANS...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...s hydrogen cars have been acquired for HyNor at an exorbitant rate of 60,000 each. These are the only hydrogen cars in Norway, and are leased out to Statoil and local government groups, which are also partners in the project. The cars are powered by a regular engine that has been adapted to run on hydrogen, wit...

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