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Brain death – How to cope with it

... is when the decision on his or her life and death hangs on a thin thread. Most patients of road traffic accidents, severe stokes, head injuries or cerebral hemorrhage are all confined to a situation where they live technically only on life support systems. The most difficult decision for the relatives of ...

SARS (Bird Flu) spreading in the Asian continent

...an international epidemic. The SARS virus still hangs like a sword, its outbreak could once again lead to an international disaster, and this time perhaps with far greater consequences. The UN at a three-day conference on the “Bird Flu Virus” announced that it’s high time to undertake mass vaccinations ...

Lovers Latest Hang Outs – Railway Platform

... to express their romance. Ranjit Narayanan, 27, hangs around with his girlfriend at the Andheri railway station//. He meets her three times in a week and is happy about the venue. As both work, it is the most easily accessible place with lot of crowd moving up and down it is the safest place too. Initi...

China Unwilling To Share Bird Flu Samples, says WHO

...ts. "It means that there is a question mark that hangs over the progress of the virus in China. It's perhaps more significant to get animal viruses, because this virus is still something that is primarily in the animal sector. It's certainly a situation where the viruses need to be shared and not only sh...

Two year old to receive a kidney from each parent

A two year old, Stephen Carr’s life hangs between life and death, suffering an extremely rare condition called renal tubular acidosis, that requires //a double kidney transplant, which will give him a new lease of life. The kid’s parents fortunately have the perfect match, so they will be do...

Scientists Review Loeys-Dietz Syndrome in the Largest Ever Study to date

...es, a cleft palate or split uvula (the tissue that hangs down in the back of the throat), and a convoluted arrangement of the body's blood vessels, in addition to aggressive swelling of the aorta. In these patients, the aorta breaks at a much smaller size than it does in people with Marfan syndrome or most...

Ad Campaign Targeting Republicans On Medicare Prescription Drug Program

...c in the midterm election when control of Congress hangs in the balance. However, the efforts of trial lawyers targeting congressional Republicans on prescription drug votes seems to be having no effect as the polls show broad satisfaction with the plan, dulling its potency as a political issue. SAR...

Slow Fight Against Childhood Obesity

...eased yesterday. "The very health of the country hangs in the balance until we reverse the childhood obesity epidemic," Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the report, said at a press conference. "Leaders in Washington, in our hom...

Smoke-Filled Cars: New Fodder for the Next Clean Air Fight

...oke,” Rees said. “In other words, the smoke really hangs around.” The Harvard team observed much lower levels of tobacco smoke pollution when the car windows were fully opened, but Rees cautions that this difference should not be interpreted as an effective way to clear secondhand smoke to harmless level...

Once a Lawn Mower, a Self-made Billionaire Makes a Lasting Gift to Virginia Tech

...hair in Engineering. One of the pieces of art that hangs in the College is a reprint from Virginia Business magazine, dated 1990. The title is 'The House that Torgersen Built.' The article credits Paul's 20-year tenure as Virginia Tech's Dean of Engineering as 'elevating the college to the upper echelons o...

When the Cup of Wine (alcohol) Revives the Spirit to Live…

... idea. When somebody is gravely injured and life// hangs in a delicate balance, alcohol levels in the blood could numb the brain and offset acute brain damage, saving life. Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences elaborated that, patients who portrayed even low levels of alcohol in their blood, had a great...

UK’s Junior Doctors Losing Hop

A pall of gloom and associated pessimism hangs thickly over Britain’s junior doctors,// reports show. It has just been a month since UK’s young doctors took the street in protest of the lack of suitable jobs. This was in spite of most of them having dished out thousands of pounds to train fo...

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