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Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

...ses of painkillers to ease the agony of terminally ill patients does not shorten their lives.Some health professionals have criticized the practice, comparing it to euthanasia, but doctors at St Christopher's Hospice in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as l...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...epartment of public health, said: "This project is ill considered. It is intended for profiteering and has nothing to do with health. The hospital will cater for a super rich transnational population who will come to Indian for treatment instead of Europe." Source : BMJ, Vol.17 No. 3, Gavin Yamey...

Mechanical Heart

...atients considered for the implant were critically ill with fewer than 30 days to live and the life expectancy of the patient who got the new device is expected to be extended by about a month. Courtesy : The New Indian Express, July 5, 2001...

Folate and famiy planning

... be more severe.Folate supplements can reduce this ill effect says, Judith. Folate is needed for healthy cell growth and development of men, women and children and folate is recommended in their daily diet. However it is also very important for women before and during the early stage of pregnancy to ta...

Meditation relieves stress

...elps people improve both their physical and mental ill health. Researchers at West Virginia University in the US have been looking at how a meditation programme called 'mindfulness training' can help people who describe themselves as 'stressed out'. This training programme involved two and a half hou...

Surgery made simple

... of providing artificial respiration to critically ill and comatose patients almost risk-free. The ...volves giving artificial respiration to critically ill patients.// In the operation an opening is made in the wall of the trachea,the passage leading t...

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

...atients considered for the implant were critically ill with fewer than 30 days to live. The first patient...roval for testing of the device on five critically ill patients....

Fifth US Patient Receives Artificial Heart

...ents considered for the implant must be critically ill with fewer than 30 days to live. // "The operation went well and the artificial heart is performing flawlessly," Dr. Louis Samuels, director of the cardiac transplant team at MCP Hahnemann University, said in a statement. "However, despite restored...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...ish Hospital in Louisville. At the time, he was so ill he had been given little chance of living more than 30 days without it. Tools improved after the implant and had even been able to dine out at restaurants and go fishing. Last month, doctors were hoping he would be able to go home for Christmas. B...

Unnatural death common in mentally ill

...ound that one quarter of deaths among the mentally ill were from unnatural causes: one per cent from homi...egies for reducing suicide risk among the mentally ill continue to be important. But this study suggests that we also need to look at how to reduce other t...

Postpone intercourse after childbirth

...o soon after delivery. Researchers said they were ill fated due to air embolisms, traveling to the heart and brain.The blood vessels in a woman's// pelvic area expanded during pregnancy and takes upto 4 weeks to return to normal after birth. The researchers said it was more likely for women to have air ...

Smoking stripes longevity

...to die a more painful death and spend longer being ill while they are alive."...

Resurgence Of Botulism

...iration date. That same year several people became ill after eating twice-baked potatoes at a Texas restaurant. The botulism organism is destroyed only by heat, freezing or high levels of acidity. It grows quite normally in most people's refrigerators. The appearance in the U.S. of refrigerated ready-to...

Pig cloning for organs

...ns would save the lives of thousands of critically ill people who cannot get transplants because of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same cloning technique that created the sheep Dolly, scientists say they produced four piglets without one of two genes that lead to the massive rejections that h...

Spirituality relieves stress

...elps people improve both their physical and mental ill health. Researchers at West Virginia University in the US have been looking at how a meditation programme called 'mindfulness training' can help people who describe themselves as 'stressed out'. This training programme involved two and a half hou...

Measles Suppresses AIDS Virus

HIV-positive children ill with measles may get a temporary respite from the virus that causes AIDS. Levels of HIV are suppressed while measles infection rages, the team found. "We were surprised by these findings, because we expected to see HIV replication increase, not decre...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

... For example, more than half the people who became ill recalled eating precut cantaloupes. About 40 percent of the people who were ill remembered eating precut honeydew. In fact, she said, all the people who developed symptoms who reme...

Family planning with folate

... be more severe.Folate supplements can reduce this ill effect says, Judith. Folate is needed for healthy cell growth and development of men, women and children and folate is recommended in their daily diet. However it is also very important for women before and during the early stage of pregnancy to ta...

A simple way to do surgery

... of providing artificial respiration to critically ill and comatose patients almost risk-free. The device...volves giving artificial respiration to critically ill patients. In the operation an opening is made in the wall of the trachea,the passage leading to ...

Useful drug for stem cell transplant problem

...important for only 10 per cent of this desperately ill group would be able to survive this long with usual care. The standard treatment for VOD is clot-busting drugs, which have been linked with severe bleeding and are ineffective once the patient has multiple organ failure....

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