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Radiation for Bone Pain

...ncers that have spread to the bone. More than 160 hospitals and universities in the United States and Canada were involved in a study of about 900 men and women with breast or prostate cancer. Patients also had bone metastasis -- meaning the cancer had spread to the bones. All patients had moderate to severe ...

Radiation for Bone Pain

...ncers that have spread to the bone. More than 160 hospitals and universities in the United States and Canada were involved in a study of about 900 men and women with breast or prostate cancer. Patients also had bone metastasis -- meaning the cancer had spread to the bones. All patients had moderate to severe ...

Reducing TB With Ultraviolet Light

...ary barracks, schools, transportation systems, and hospitals in the future....

Angioplasty The Much Preferred Treatment Of Choice For Heart Attacks

...1,500 heart attack patients in their study from 24 hospitals without angioplasty services and five hospitals with such services. Patients at the 24 hospitals were randomly assigned to either treatment with fib...

Steroid Treatment after head injury may be fatal

...ury. However after studying 10,008 patients in 239 hospitals from 49 countries the trail found 21% mortality rate within 2 weeks for those treated with the 48-hour methylprednisolone infusion, versus 18% among those allocated placebo (relative risk 1.18, p = 0.0001). "The relative increase in deaths due to co...

Indian Treatment for Iraqi Babies

... dying in Iraq due to heart complications. We have hospitals treating only adults suffering from cardiac problems but nothing for kids. The blue babies in our country have to simply die," said Atheir Saleh Jasim, who has brought her three-year-old Karar Hyder, who looked very blue and weak. ...

Survival rate not improved by invasive procedures

...the condition of the heart. Patients admitted to hospitals with specialized facilities were more likely to un...h was 14 percent higher among patients admitted to hospitals with specialized facilities.This finding recommends the optimal and judicious use of invasive proced...

The Use Of Invasive Treatment For Life Threatening Heart Conditions Questioned

...999 and March 2003. Most patients were admitted to hospitals with cardiac catheterization facilities and underw...nvasive procedures than patients admitted first to hospitals without such facilities. According to researchers, the risk of death at six months was 14-percent h...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

... events injure or kill more than 770,000 people in hospitals each year. One way hospitals are trying to cut back on that number is with computerized physician-order entry systems. But accord...

Computer System To Predict Deep Vein Thrombosis

...rted. The computer program had helped in alerting hospitals to the risk of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in 41% of the cases. The researchers are of the opinion that such a computer aided program will help the medics to use more of prophylaxis or prevention of a disease like thrombosis and pulmon...

Depression medication can cause gastrointestinal bleedings

...nd compared the data with 939 patients admitted in hospitals during the same time. The researchers found the patients with gastrointestinal bleedings were been administerd at least one of the medications like SSRIs, NSAIDs, aspirin, Plavix, Coumadin and Lovenox (blood thinning medications used for preventing h...

Non ventilated patients in intensive care may suffer from delirium

...cation for the people, researchers advised all the hospitals to routinely monitor of all intensive care patients, ventilated or otherwise, to check for and prevent deliriums. The study was published in the new issue of the journal Critical Care....

Low dose Radiation Exposure May Cause Cancer

...de no one is really sure if the X-rays done in the hospitals can cause an increased risks to cancer. A lifetime radiation levels below 100 millisieverts maybe safe. This dose is a little more than the dose from natural background levels and about 1,000 times the dose one receives from a single chest X-ray, ...

London Emergency Services Receive Wide Appreciation

...alties. The workload was distributed to many major hospitals like Royal Free Hospital, University College Hospi...er the threat either of IRA or 9/11 or Alqeda. The hospitals have well rehearsed routine to deal with such emergencies. Special systems have been put in place at...

Doctors' decisions are affected by fear of lawsuits- says a study

...h have shown of the millions of people admitted to hospitals for emergency heart related care, have shown not to have acute coronary conditions like heart attack or unstable angina. The researchers have used a single clinical scenario and examined documented physicians' decisions to find out what are the treat...

Apollo Hospitals Collaborates With Histostem For Stem Cell Therapy

... various genetic treatments. The Apollo group of hospitals will train doctors and nurses with the help of Histostem to provide stem cell therapy to patients. The team will help in developing protocols and also help in developing new treatments. Research in the field of stem cell therapy will also be undertak...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

...ancet. 1477 patients with stage 1 seminoma from 70 hospitals in 14 countries were recruited in this study to compare the effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers randomly assigned 543 patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patient...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...ruited 1477 patients with stage 1 seminoma from 70 hospitals in 14 countries to compare radiotherapy with chemotherapy treatment. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers randomly assigned 543 patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patients to receive radiation therapy. ...

Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile

...d 180 women, pregnant for the first time, from two hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan. All participants had undergone FGM in childhood. Women were included in the infertile group if their infertility was not caused by hormonal factors, previous abdominal surgery, or the result of their partner’s infertility. The res...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

...e of charge. (IANS) Further Information about hospitals in India from Medindia Medindia.net Yellow Page..., State or by Pincode. MedIndia has around 5,700 hospitals listed , making it exhaustive. http://www.medindia.net/patients/ hospital_search/h_find.asp ...

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