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Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

...process of finding survivors of the Gujarat quake, from below the rubble, are fast giving up hope of findi...usand crore rupees and upwards. Meanwhile people from all over the country are still pooling money, clothes, footwear, bedding, provisions and medicines t...

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

The latest word from Gujarat is that doctors are being stretched to their limits working on cases for hours together without a break. At times they work in candlelight when the power fails, but the work goes on. Many caesarean sections to deliver babies were conducted in...

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...tirred up a controversy. Now it is being withdrawn from televisions all over the United States. Levis Stra... might not be used again. This followed complaints from many who felt that they did not enjoy the advertisement poking fun at organ donation. The ad shows ...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.

...hers. Based on early studies in rats, researchers from the Stroke Lab and Alzheimer's Research Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, reported that “a direct path from the nose to the brain” could breach the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from foreign s...

Now umbilical cord helps in stroke treatment.

...United States of America which says the stem cells from the cord blood could heal strokes almost 80% faste...y excited about this prospect. Dr. Paul R. Sanberg from the university of South Florida conducted the study. He hopes to start these studies on humans soon,...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

...during the surgery doctors recycled the blood lost from the infant’s body back to his circulation. Also the infant was given drugs to stimulate the production of red blood cells. Recycling ones own blood is permissible amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of its kind in an infant but with the s...

How do babies understand language?

...colleagues have shown that babies do in fact learn from isolated words. The researchers analyzed hours of recorded speech from eight mothers to their babies. They put a tape recorder in a fanny pack that the women wore in aroun...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

...fessional mistakes. However an official communiqué from the hospital said that both the doctors were suspe...unfortunate mother of the superstar didn’t recover from the blotched surgeryand the subsequent corrective surgeries that followed. While it isn’t proper to...

Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

A Canadian toddler, aged 13 months from Edmonton, Alberta, wandered into a neighbor’s back... the baby and added that the mother was recovering from the mental trauma of the ordeal. The baby’s heart which appeared to have stopped for a couple of hou...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

... of such situations, how to prevent such incidents from recurring and how to report such incidents. Ultima... differences, such ugly incidents can be prevented from happening in future.In India, in the city of Lucknow, doctors went on a days strike on the issue of ...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...her caregivers to access patients' medical records from anywhere, inside or outside the hospital.The hospital will come up at Birmingham, Alabama and will cost around 120 to 125 million U.S. dollars.The project will be fast tracked and hopefully completed by 2003. From the moment a patient registers at th...

Water - The silent killer!!!

...n, and more than 1 billion people draw their water from unsafe sources," according to the WHO. Improving drinking water supplies requires a huge investment globally, but the funds have not kept pace with the need, according to Terrance Thompson, regional advisor for water, sanitation and health at the ...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

... disease in the next 20 years. The report released from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, United Kingdom, says smoking and other tobacco related deaths would surpass 10 million a year. The short term and long term side effects of smoking are well known and a recent study says that smoking ha...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

... have nine doctors on board so far, of which 5 are from the US,'' saysdirector, corporate marketing, Forti...a. At Max, five out of the 35 doctors on board are from the US. Max recentlyopened up a diagnostic centre and two Dr Max clinics in the capital. The totalpl...

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...t the morning after pill, which rescues many women from unwanted pregnancies can be effective up to five days after having unprotected sex. These findings were released after a study conducted by Dr. Isabel Rodrigues, a professor of family medicine at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and coll...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

...ts in New Orleans, Louisiana, began with a warning from the scientific community. In a terse message, the ... and hygiene has never received its due importance from the masses. So much so that patients visit dentists only with terminal problems or when the pain bec...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

... compounds for the treatment of variouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardradiation and chemotherapy. For lung cancer, the leading cause ofcancer-related death in the United States, there are 68 drugs in the pipelinesof various companies.Experimental drugs for the ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...in India. But it is wrong to say thedisease spread from here," he says. India produces 25 million doses of the FMD vaccine annually, of which IVRIproduces 4 million doses. The rest is manufactured by two companies in theprivate sector, Indian Immunological, Hyderabad and Intervet Baiaf, Pune.But the vacc...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...f Biotechnology (DBT), which received the proposal from Chiron Corp, invited four Indian biotech/pharma companies for discussions towards January-end. These were Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Serum Institute of India, Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E. ``We are closely examining the proposal made by C...

Drug saves heroin addicts

The drug naloxone saves heroin addicts from overdose and it is advisable for these addicts to have naloxone with them for life saving emergencies, according to doctors at the National Addiction center at London. Naloxone, is routinely given by doctors, during emergency resuscitation following...

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(Date:12/3/2009)...eart is stopped and restarted, the patient,s life ...damaged. Therapeutic hypothermia, a treatment in w... maintained several degrees below normal for a per...ful effects and improve survival in adults. , No...ts kind, physician-scientists are evaluating the e...
(Date:12/3/2009)...is still too many - stalled momentum puts millions... Atlanta, GA, Geneva, New York, NY and Washington,...tive announced today that measles deaths worldwide...ted 733 000 in 2000 to 164 000 in 2008. However, g... measles deaths if vaccination efforts are not sus...
(Date:12/3/2009)... to smoke are at risk of lung cancer , ,...al cancer to the list of malignancies caused by sm...ween the two. , And other studies are providing...uit: Two papers published in the December issue of...emed issue on tobacco, strengthen the case for the...
(Date:12/3/2009)...wire/ -- To help children better understand the fl...ntracting all forms of influenza, a new animated h...y and the Flu . ,, The DVD was created by the E... which is part of the Area Health Education Center...he U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
(Date:12/3/2009)... -- This holiday season, families tired of watchin...ain are putting a different kind of gift under the...h minimally-invasive endoscopic surgery is now pos...ne Institute (LSI). With surgical facilities in T...onizing spinal procedures using a signature proces...
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(Date:12/2/2009)...urance of a cancer-free status did not prompt peop...raphy (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick u...tudy published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers...ion for Cancer Research. The December issue contai...should negate widespread concern in the lung scree...
(Date:12/2/2009)...e University Medical Center researchers have figur...r glioma may be better able to resist radiation th...aling pathway in these cancer stem cells, they wer...on in a laboratory experiment. , The work build...em cells resist the effects of radiation much bett...
(Date:12/2/2009)...reporting the first identification of substances i... changes harmless marine bacteria into killers tha...ACS, Environmental Science & Technology , a semi-...te that bleaching already has destroyed up to 30 p...are searching for ways to slow or stop the damage....
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