Unsafe Injections and Unclean Hand hygiene major cause of hospital infections in India
...e of serious hazards with an estimated 4.2 billion injections are administered in India and the results show that two out of three injections given in India are non-sterile or unsafe and pose serious health hazards//. World Health Organizat...HIIP- A Novel Inhaled Insulin Delivery System As An Alternative To Injectable Insulin Therapy
...rnative to insulin injections. Because the fear of injections is a frequent cause for delaying appropriate care in patients with type 2 diabetes, inhaled insulin may provide a treatment that delivers effective doses of insulin in a less threatening, more satisfying manner, potentially resulting in improved pati...MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism
...l journal The Lancet published a study linking the injections with the onset of autism and Crohn’s disease — an inflammation of the gastrointestinal system — in 12 children. The new comprehensive review of studies adds to the weight of evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of MMR. “MMR remains an importa...A New Approach In Treatment Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity In Children
... the outcome of botulinum-a toxin (BTX-A) detrusor injections in patients with neurogenic or nonneurogenic detrusor overactivity. BTX-A detrusor injections have been described in adult// patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity due to spinal cord inj...Distressing Side-Effects Of Hormone Pills In Breast Cancer
... treatments such as tamoxifen would prefer to take injections rather than tablets since injections //were thought o significantly curb the occurrence of hot flushes. UK researchers surveyed nearly ...Viagra Halves Effect Of Hormonal Stress On Heart
...ith no overt heart disease were given two separate injections of dobutamine in three hours. This drug increases the heart rate as well as pumping strength. In between the injections, the participants were given either Viagra or a placebo. After the first injection there was a 150 percent increase in heart rate,...Oral Edible vaccine for Allergy Vaccines
...ergen which is an antigen. Conventional antibody injections against allergy diseases such as hay fever, cat an... part of the allergen in comparison to traditional injections and therefore it reduces the risk of anaphylactic reactions caused by injection vaccines. Professor...Scientists Discover Hormone That Controls Hunger
... - the opposite effect to ghrelin. When they gave injections of obestatin in the abdomens and brains of rats they found that the rats ate about half as much as those who were not given the hormone. They also put on less weight, the online edition of BBC News reported. The researchers found that obestatin also...One Third Of All Cancers Preventable!
... domestic use of coal and contaminated health-care injections are the other preventable factors in the worldwide incidence of cancer. Nearly 2.43 million of the 7 million cancer deaths that occurred worldwide in 2001 were due to these nine factors. Furthermore, 760,000 deaths occurred in high-income countries...Chennai AIDS Campaign Highlights The Social Neglect Faced By Victims
...nt about the use of needles for tattooing, steroid injections or ear piercing. The participants were provided adequate knowledge regarding the modes of transmission of the deadly virus. Adolescents were categorized into the high-risk group for contraction of the virus than adults. The health care workers were...Dengue Fever Claims Five Lives In Pakistan
...ministered in such cases and supplies of Ribavirin injections were being imported on an urgent basis. The staff of the provincial malaria control program has been directed to immediately carry out spraying in the city to kill mosquitoes. The National Institute of Health in collaboration with the World Health O...Fat Patients Require Longer Needles
... required to inject fat people with intra-muscular injections due to the fatty tissues which prevent people from... missed the mark. Overall, the failure rate of the injections was 68%. The message for clinicians is that a longer needle may be needed, Dr. Chan said, especiall...Fear Of Dengue Epidemic Looms Large: Fever Kills Five in Pakistan
...ministered in such cases and supplies of Ribavirin injections were being imported on an urgent basis. The provincial health authorities in Sindh have also been requested to spray chemicals to destroy vector-born diseases, and asked to run a campaign to educate people about the risk of CCHF, with a special foc...Leptin Hormone Plays Key Role In Losing Weight
...ysical activity helps in losing body weight. Daily injections of the hormone leptin serves to help people mainta... naturally changing the metabolism, and the leptin injections show promise of this being attained. Leptin contributes towards regulating appetite and weight....Leptin Injections Maintain Loss In Body Weight
In Washington it was reported that hormone injections (Leptin) taken twice daily by dieters help to main...lorie (800 calories/ day) and then received Leptin injections for the following five weeks. The results were reported in the journal of Clinical Investigation tha...British Doctor cleared of murder
...s jailed in 2000 for killing 15 patients by lethal injections of diamorphine. An inquiry later ruled he had probably murdered more than 250. Shipman hanged himself in his prison cell in January 2004. Dr Martin was alleged to have made a deliberate and unlawful decision to end the lives of his three patients "...High Pollution Levels Lead To Heart Problems
...l engine or filtered air, after which vasodilators injections were administered to them, and clotting levels were measured using their blood samples. After the exposure to the diesel fumes, there was a reduced level of response by the subjects to the vasodilators, while normal clotting ability was also altered....Parental Knowledge Of RSV Infections Is Vital
... vaccination progamme includes a series of monthly injections (Synagis) in the beginning of the viral season and continue for five months, till the season wanes. But the vaccine dos not provide long-term immunity o the child. Adults also can contract the disease leading to hoarseness. In case of older patien...Georgia Institute of Technology develops doppler Vein finder
...ccurately would avoid unnecessary punctures during injections which causes inflammation and infection. // The new technology gives a 3-D dimensional structure using doppler effect which uses an alternating wavelength and frequency which transmits acoustical waves which detects the moving blood between the stat...SPECT Can Help Predict Treatment Outcome In Patients With Low Back Pain
... lead to chronic back pain. Steroid and anesthetic injections are commonly given to the facet joints of the spin..., who had positive SPECT results were given lumbar injections based on the level of abnormality reported in the scan and the rest were given injection based on th...