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Death Toll Over Fake Drug Rises To Nine In China

... saying by Xinhua news agency. Five patients who fell ill after consuming the fake drug are recovering in the hospital. According to a briefing by the State Food and Drug Administration last week, the pharmaceutical company purchased one tonne of ‘propylene glycol’ from a drug dealer named Wang Guipin...

Quality Of NHS Hospitals Getting Dirtier Despite Promises

...ries were ‘very clean’ in 2002 the figures sharply fell to less than half, about 46% in the current statistics. The survey further showed that almost 40% of patients who needed help with eating meals did not get it and nearly one in five said they never received any help. The polls showed that only 60% ...

Shortfall In Hospitals’ Pa

...ws that payment margins from Medicare to hospitals fell to a 15.4 percent loss in 2004 from a 3 percent gain in 1997. Bob Perna, director of health care economics for the Washington State Medical Association, said: The problem is that the government-set fees paid to doctors and hospitals through Medica...

AIDS Meet Ends Without Firm Commitments From Donors Dharam Shourie United Nations

A high-level United Nations meet on AIDS fell short of getting firm commitments from donors to contribute USD 20 to 23 billion by 2010 //to contain and reverse the deadly pandemic, drawing flak from the non-governmental organisations. The NGOs and activists blasted the rich nations' reluctance...

Breathing Exercises A Boon To Asthma Patients

...ercises did not work. Use of reliever medication fell by 86% in both groups, a process which began withi...sed around three puffs of reliever each day, which fell to approximately one puff every third day by study end. Preventer dose requirements were also halved...

Survival Rates of Heart Attack Improving

...death rate for people suffering a new heart attack fell to 11.1 per cent in 2004-2005, from 13.4 per cent ...r heart attacks while hospitalizations for strokes fell by about 23 per cent. ‘It is encouraging to see that the odds of surviving a heart attack are impr...

Tuberculosis Claims Three Victims

... of tuberculosis after the three elderly residents fell prey to the disease. While two of the victims died in ‘early May’ the third succumbed to the disease in ‘early June’. A fourth resident has been reported to be recovering after being diagnosed with TB last October. This person is not considered to ...

Cleanliness and Personal Hygiene –The Mantra to Prevent Food Poisonin

...er incident of food poisoning about 136 passengers fell ill in the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines (Black Prince). Rehis has urged the Scots to improve their kitchen hygiene standards as it is seen as the only way to prevent food poisoning incidents. John Stirling, Rehis president, said that food poisoning lead t...

31 Year Old Man Critical And Is Suspected To Have Contracted Bird Flu Virus In Shenzhen

...inlander or a Hong Konger residing in Shenzhen. He fell ill after he visited a wet market in the city where live chickens were on sale. Both the Health Department of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Health were informed about the scenario. Though this could be very serious the Chinese media has n...

45 Dead, 5000 Affected By Malaria

...mar Seel told PTI that till June 14, seven persons fell victims to malaria. Some 1500 people have also tested positive for malaria. Meanwhile, political leaders of the two districts claimed that acutal malaria death toll was much higher than the government figure. Yesterday RSP MLA, Nirmal Das had told t...

A brief Intervention Might Help To Deal With Depression

...tion dropped 31 percent, while those emotions only fell 7 percent for the other students. Brief interventions have been utilized effectively in alcohol treatment for a number of years, and the concept transferred to depression, said Irene Markman Geisner, lead author of a study appearing in the current ...

Surveillance Program for Haemodialysis Reduces Infection

...vels of bacteraemia (bacteria in the blood stream) fell from a rate of 6.2 percent of patients a month to 2.0 percent of patients a month over a two year period, a fall of almost 70 percent. Dr Alison Holmes from Imperial College London, who led the research said: "The results from this study show we c...

Impoverished Parents sell their Daughter to Treat their Ailing Kids

...treatment of the ailing kids. The deal, however, fell apart after Robina too was diagnosed with hepatitis C. "I have 10 children and six of them including three girls, between 9 and 16 years of age, are now hepatitis C patients," Sakeena said. Sakeena, who lives in remote town of Dir, said her childre...

Cherry Juice Could Reduce Muscle Damage Pain

...e blend and those taking the placebo juice. This fell by 22 percentage points in those drinking the placebo juice, but only by four percentage points in those drinking cherry juice. Muscle strength had slightly improved after 96 hours in those drinking cherry juice. The degree of soreness differed li...

UN Sounds Alarm Over Rising Cocaine Consumption In Europe

...it Trafficking, shows that global opium production fell 5 per cent in 2005 while cocaine production was broadly stable. Seizures of both drugs, especially cocaine, reached record highs. Consumption of cannabis, the most widely used illicit drug, continued to increase while the market for amphetamine -typ...

Prevalence Of AIDS Goes Down In Illinois

...linois Department of Public Health AIDS prevelance fell slightly//. But experts were worried because blacks are still disproportionately affected by AIDS. They also feel that the low numbers could be due to the fact that not enough people are being tested thoroughly. David Ernesto Munar, associate direc...

Sexually Transmitted Infections Boom In UK

...ased significantly. However new cases of gonorrhea fell by 13 percent. The highest increase again was seen in the 16 to 24 age group. HPA infections expert Professor Peter Borriello said the report had a mixed message. "However, it is disappointing to see that there was a further rise in new diagnoses of...

Man Holds Own Skull in Bengal Medical Miracle

...om a high-voltage wire, holding his own skull that fell of Sunday last. The electrician had suffered sev...of blood supply like in a burn case and finally it fell off. The skull's inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffecte...

Malaria Claimes 60 Lives In Terai, Dooars Areas

...rea. In the Terai region at Naxalbari, 12 persons fell victim of the disease till July 11, the deputy CMOH(2) of Siliguri, Dr. Partha Sarathi Bhattacharjee said. The unofficial toll was almost double as many patients died of fever without blood test and confirmation of the desese. However, Health Minis...

Queensland Government to Meet its Medical Targets

...new national mental health plan, expenditure still fell short because only 40 percent of mental illness was being treated. He said,"There is no one arguing that there is not an enormous gap between the provision of services as compared with the prevalence of mental illness." According to the president...

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