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Bird flu threat ruled out: Karnataka Forest Department

...rking on bird conservation, hatcheries, veterinary hospitals and the media will be taken up, Verma said. Sanctuary Assistant Conservator of Forests Prasanna Kumar added that no case of bird flu had been reported so far in the sanctuary and this season had been completely safe. There ...

AIDS Threat Aggravated Due To Sale of Blood by Drug Addicts in Cambodia

...have adopted a new way of marketing their blood to hospitals to pay for their habits. Health experts warn that ...s $4.80 each time. Officially, all blood used by hospitals in Cambodia is supposed to be tested for the presence of infection at the state-run National Blood T...

Indian Government Keen On JE Vaccine Supply And Patenting Of Indian Medicine Formulations

...been proposed to make one-year internship in rural hospitals compulsory for medical students to cater to the health needs of the rural community. The possibility of introducing an orientation programme on Indian Medicine to MBBS students is also under consideration. Responding to the Government’s preparation...

Doctors attacked for complacency against pandemic threat

...ldson said he was dismayed after hearing that some hospitals were “full of dead parrot jokes and people (don’t) believe this is actually going to happen”. The first victim of bird flu in Britain was a parrot infected with the H5N1 strain that died in quarantine at Heathrow last month. This strain has devasta...

Caesareans In U.S. At All-Time High

...out 1 percent of such cases, worried doctors. Some hospitals have banned vaginal deliveries after C-section, or VBAC. The VBAC rate has dropped to 9.2 percent of births after a previous Caesarean in 2004, compared with 28.3 percent in 1996. The rate of Caesareans among women who have not previously had one ha...

India And China Discuss Import Of Encephalitis Vaccine

...seven new cases being reported in different public hospitals during the past 24 hours. Other important issues covered, included areas of cooperation, including indigenous systems of medicines (export and import), their processing technologies, quality control and export-processing zone for traditional medici...

India's Hospitals Among The Best, Says Renuka Chowdhury

...ifically promoting medical tourism in India. Major hospitals showcasing their strengths at the mart are Apollo Hospitals, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, Fortis Healthcare, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd. A total of 5,194 national tourist offices, industry organisations, tour op...

Time For Jodhpur Residents To Have A Health Check: New Hospital Coming Up

...ecided 4 years ago to construct six new AIIMS-like hospitals in different parts of the country, including Jodhpur by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. The plan was sanctioned by the central government due to the efforts of Congress chief minister in Rajasthan-Ashok Gehlot and Union finance min...

Apollo Hospitals to invest Rs 350 cr to add 1,800 beds

...s a plan for adding 800 beds through management of hospitals and another 1,000 beds from ownership,” says Apoll...n of green-field facilities. Ms Reddy said the new hospitals were planned nationwide. A study by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) had been commissioned o...

Hospital Cuts Costs By Moving Cancer Patients To Hotels

...pital-acquired infections such as MRSA. Two other hospitals in the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have transferred patients to local hotels. Patients at the Royal London Homeopathic hospital are being accommodated in the Bloomsbury Holiday Inn and patients from the National Hospital ...

Vaccine For Dengue Fever On Trial In Asia-Pacific

...er. Dengue leaves an average of 400,000 people in hospitals throughout Southeast Asia every year and causes about 3,000 deaths. There is currently no vaccine or medication against dengue, which is endemic in the region. Bock said Singapore could play a critical role in reviewing the vaccine and serving as ...

Men under 50 susceptible to suicide after discharge from emergency

...attending the emergency departments of seven Perth hospitals between June 2000 and July 2003 found nine men aged under 50 committed suicide within weeks of being discharged. The sample included terminally ill cancer patients. It was found that of those who were discharged and not admitted to hospital, 0.2 % d...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

High decibel levels in hospitals disturbs both patients and doctors, and increases medical error risks, according to a study.// Noise made by speakers, electronic devices, heating and cooling systems and by loud voices of employees and visitors can result in lapses in short-term m...

Tamil Nadu To Undertake Stem Cell Research

...or told the media Monday. CMC will work with five hospitals in the country - at Manali in Himachal Pradesh, Ra...tor said. There is also a plan to network 40 other hospitals in the country with the CMC, he added. (IANS)...

Organ Scandals Compensation And The Aftermath

... fought the cases involving organ-retention at 146 hospitals and trusts, but agreed 11 months ago to a total figure of around ￡3.6 million for the families, plus ￡1.7 million in costs. This has been rejected by the a small group of the These affected families and are holding out for more money or for a full he...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...s.5 billion ($110 million) in setting up the three hospitals while exploring opportunities in other cities. "Our target is to create community-centric hospitals which we hope would be acceptable and beneficial to the community," said Bali. "We have already pro...

Chinese City Suspends Water Supply Fearing Pollution

...the end of November. Health officials also put 15 hospitals on standby for handling possible cases of chemical poisoning, the newspaper said. (IANS)...

Raids Conducted In Hospitals And Pharmaceutical Companies

...CBI) of India on Monday conducted raids in various hospitals and pharmaceutical companies across the four Indian cities Delhi, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Goa. //The CBI officials feel that they have collected important information in connection with buying of sub-standard medical equipments from Pharmaceutical ...

Long wait for Chronic pain patients in Atlantic Canada

...l lots of emergency patients are referred to these hospitals and these patients have to wait for their treatmen...alth facilities and recruit more physicians in the hospitals and the situation will be normal within the end of this year....

Irritating Noise Increases Risk Of Heart Attacks

... conducted their study between 1998 and 2001 in 32 hospitals in Berlin. They compared 2,000 patients who suffered heart attacks during the period with a control group having a similar number. The study, called the NaRoMI (Noise and Risk of Myocardial Infarction) study, was carried out with the intention to fin...

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