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Gynaecologist Faces Stiff Prison Sentence On Counts Of Sexual Abuse

...y with a vaginal ultrasound wand. Momah, 49, also faces civil lawsuits in which women claim that they were also sometimes deceived into being examined, operated on and sexually fondled by his twin, Dennis Momah, a general practitioner who is not certified in obstetrics and gynaecology. The women assert th...

Northeast To Get Mega Rural Health Mission

...leges in the northeast where the 39 million people faces the challenge of accessing primary healthcare facilities. "The government healthcare system was able to cater to just 20 percent of the demands and the rest 80 percent were left to be cared for by the private sector. But now things would change fo...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

... the Himalayas! In such a scenario, the Government faces an unenviable task of constituting a team to handle any outbreak. Till now, random testing of bird samples has been the way the government has kept a watch on the developing situation. Salim Habayeb, the WHO's representative in India is satisfied wit...

Judgment In Favor Of Merck For Vioxx Drug

...suffered by a man taking the painkiller, but still faces thousands more similar lawsuits and it is clear that the manufacturers clearly gave early adequate to doctors about the possible health risks of the drug. The Pharmaceutical giant Merck is facing 6,400 lawsuits in which most of the cases are pending...

Women With High Oestrogen Levels Have Prettier Faces

...aces. The team of psychologists photographed the faces of 59 young women aged between 18 and 25 and analy...ng more attractive. It was also found that these faces tended to have classically feminine features, such as larger eyes and lips and smaller noses and jaw...

Women can now gauge their own future fertility

...this year Professor Bill Ledger warned that the UK faces an "infertility time bomb" as career women leave it too late to conceive. The test is being developed for sale by Biofusion - a Sheffield firm specializing in commercializing medical developments, in collaboration with the Sheffield university - but...

Active Lifestyle Helps To Slowdown Illness In Alzheimer's Patients

...f the illness. After this, it is the caregiver who faces the agony of seeing a loved one gradually lose memories and become totally dependent for every need. Many among caretakers end up requiring treatment for depression and other stress-related problems. Each stage of the illness generally lasts for th...

Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.

...r obsession to be thin saying that this aged their faces prematurely. "Catherine Deneuve once said that a...t too skinny, like Teri Hatcher, it shows on their faces and ages them," said Hunter. Terri Hatcher is one of Hollywoods hottest actress and she first made ...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...o move, so they need to orient in the direction of faces that care for them--people who can feed and protec...ed more often toward, and longer at, the images of faces looking directly at them than those with averted eyes, the researchers report in the Proceedings of ...

Parents understand better the hearing loss problem in children if counseled

...promising on the quality of life for the child who faces the actual difficulty of being able to hear less. Reference: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, news release, July 2005...

New initiative launched to fight malaria by repelling mosquitoes

... nature of spreading, steps to control the disease faces enormous challenges in terms of infrastructure and human resource. The new research hopes to overcome these barriers in controlling the spread of the disease in a novel and sustainable way. Researchers hope to develop chemical compounds that will af...

New Treatment for Rosacea

...plied a new formulation of azelaic acid gel to the faces of rosacea sufferers. //The new product contains 1...ea and better at reducing the redness in patient’s faces than the metronidazole gel. Also, the metronidazole gel’s effectiveness plateaued after eight weeks,...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

... they had recovered. The De Silva family, however, faces serious problems in the housing society where they are staying. Neighbors have been demanding that they leave the area. The residents insists that these people are carriers of the disease and should not be allowed to stay there. This raises the quest...

Backpacks cause more than just back injuries

...avy backpacks cause more injuries to the heads and faces of children than they do to the back. The study was published in the January issue of Pediatrics. The study covered all children age 6 to 18 whose backpack-related// injuries were reported to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of th...

Sun burns treated with creams

...mparison purposes. All applied the creams on their faces once a day. Researchers then assessed each for various measures related to skin health. About 25 subjects in the tazarotene group dropped out due to skin irritation, compared to one in the placebo group. Blood levels of the medication, however, remai...

An insight about Schizophrenia

...ested schizophrenics may have problems recognizing faces and facial expressions, and this may be related to many of the social problems associated with the disease. These researchers used MRIs to assess the volume of gray matter in the fusiform gyrus areas of the brains of patients suffering from a first ...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...las) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researching s... using their right brain to recognise the familiar faces of colleagues and famous people - regardless of whether they remembered their name.They used the lan...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...ly so the head and face can't grow, leaving sunken faces and misaligned jaws. It's not just a problem of appearance. Often, the malformed head causes problems with eating, breathing, hearing and vision. Standard reconstruction involves multiple surgeries to cut apart most of the face bones, move them up, ...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...ric impulses. Researchers reported that tests show faces can be recognised and words in large type can be read. Human tests started recently. Dr. Mark Humayun, formerly of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is leading the research at the University of Southern...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...ric impulses. Researchers reported that tests show faces can be recognised and words in large type can be read. Human tests started recently.Dr. Mark Humayun, formerly of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is leading the research at the University of Southern Ca...

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