Patients Can Report Statins' Adverse Effects on New Web Site
...beneficial and adverse,” said Golomb. “Our work is geared toward expanding knowledge of the impact of statins in order to better inform the public and the medical community. By filling out the web site survey, statin patients can help us to help others with the same concerns.” Source-Newwise SRM...NBA To Usher In Standardized Heart Testing
New York: NBA has geared up to institute mandatory heart testing that will follow a standardized screening procedure, for every person in the league.// After the death of Atlanta Hawks center Jason Collier, NBA has got its act together to prevent such incidents in the future...Computer Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation Devices Way of the Future
...tically-enhanced treadmill called AutoAmbulator is geared for patients who suffered strokes, brain injuries and spinal cord injuries, as well as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. This advanced neuro-rehabilitation device offers robotic arms to move patients’ legs. Another device is an upper extrem...Anti-Retroviral Therapies Associated with Reduced Infections in HIV-Infected Children
...ntiretroviral, immune, and vaccine-based therapies geared to block transmission, prevent disease progression, and prolong the survival of individuals who are HIV positive, according to background information in the article. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically decreased rates of AID...India: Chicken and Eggs Safe for Consumption
...aid. According to him, the nation had adequately geared up to face up to any crisis ...Signature Campaign: Striking doctors take to the streets
... Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) appeared geared up to handle the problems faced by patients at OPDs in several of the city’s hospitals. BMC has utilized the services of d doctors from other medical units, which includes private hospitals and especially Navy hospitals, in the event of an indefinite...Bill Gates Takes Personal Interest in AIDS Program
...e customized solutions for the Indian market - all geared towards creating a digitally inclusive society. --Indo-Asian News Service...Bird flu threat ruled out: Karnataka Forest Department
...a Forest Department today said that it was totally geared up to meet the threat from migratory birds. // Th...side. "The forest department is, however, totally geared up to meet the threat of bird flu from migratory birds like the bar-headed geese from China which ar...Simple Eye Movement Test For Early Detection Of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
...ioural tests used to assess children with FASD are geared to white, middle-class English-speaking people, notes Ms Green. "The biggest problem [in current tests] is cultural insensitivity," she says. "By measuring eye movement we can cut across cultural barriers and provide objectivity in identifying the di...Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases
...o complains that “the health systems are presently geared to provide prioritized care for communicable diseases and services related to maternal and child health. The agenda of health promotion and chronic disease prevention has not yet been adequately incorporated. Clinical services, too, are not currently...Sleep pattern to lead to depression
...irst four stages and in the REM stage the brain is geared up and looks like a person is awake with muscle movements inhibited, this is also known as paradoxical sleep.// Giles states that this is the first physiological marker that predicts the onset of depression in someone who had never had the illness. ......nowledge, psychologists can develop therapies more geared towards the problem areas....