Non-availability of Anti-rabies Vaccines Put Jackal Bitten Patients in a Fix
Nearly 100 people have been bitten and injured by a jackal in Bihar's Gopalganj district, but the... In the last two days, the jackal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of th...Nearly 100 People Injured by Jackal
...e 27 (IANS) Nearly 100 people have been bitten and injured by a jackal in Bihar's Gopalganj district, but the... In the last two days, the jackal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of th...British Scientists Develop Artificial Skin
..., as it creates an extra wound on an already badly injured patient. But the sections of artificial skin - the same thickness as that on the body are grown in square trays in the lab. Each tray contains millions of fibroblasts, the cells responsible for the production of collagen - the protein that gives s...NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions
...nauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured at the international space station - something that has never happened - can leave the orbiting outpost 220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle. Yet, that wouldn't be possible if a life-and-death sit...Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie
...air fled in Mr. Hormozi's stolen taxi and left the injured father of two in a Canley Heights street, where he died. Justice McClellan declared Mr. Hormozi had coronary disease and the attack was "sufficient to traumatize him and trigger the heart attack from which he died. And he added alcohol and drugs ar...Portable Splint When Injured Far Away from Medical Help
...ope it will be of particular use for those who are injured taking part in snow sports. It is estimated that 4...ing and swelling, which will be exacerbated if the injured area is moved or left untreated. "Therefore a splint of this nature should be a positive aid to t...Hemangioblasts Aiding Eye Damage Repair
...tes or other eye injury. The cells migrated to the injured eye, and incorporated and lit-up the entire damaged vasculature. The cells are really smart, and amazingly, knew not to do anything in uninjured eyes."The cells also showed remarkable reparative capacity in animals with heart attacks and ischemic (bl...Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently
...that could provide relief services to the soldiers injured in the first world war 1914. Sadly, most of them were Indians and they had no medical attention,' says B. Chandrashekar, a 80-year-old-volunteer. 'There was just a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. And it could not cope with the huge casu...Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling
...estions are raised across the US over the way the injured veterans are treated. And now commentators are ch... lucky. What happened at Walter Reed to soldiers injured in war is not shocking at all if one ponders what happens at Army posts to soldiers injured in basic...Scientists in Britain Create Artificial Blood
...wounds when they are trapped in an accident or are injured in the battlefield and can't get blood before they get to hospital. "This product can be stored a lot more easily than blood, meaning large quantities could be carried easily by ambulances and the armed forces." A sample of the artificial blood p...Film Festival on Gender Sexuality Draws Crowds
... a period of three months after they were severely injured in different terrorist attacks. While their physical wounds start healing, the scars remain, both physical as well as mental. "My crinkled skin scares people. I feel different from the rest now and very lonely," said one of the characters. But t...Patients Affected by Parkinsons may Be Benefited from Treadmill Exercise
...pamine neurotransmission that are different in the injured subjects compared to the non-injured. "Studies i...r patients with Parkinson's. Exercise may help the injured brain to work more efficiently by allowing the remaining dopamine producing neurons to work harder a...Risk of Traumatic Workplace Injury Increased by Obesity
...690 workers included in the study, 29 percent were injured at least once between January 2, 2002, and December 31, 2004. Approximately 85 percent of the injured workers were classified as overweight or obese. More than 28 percent of injuries occurred among empl...Car Airbags Most Suited To Medium-Built Individuals
...ry determinant as to whether an individual will be injured by a deploying air bag is the distance from which the individual is seated from the air bag." The NHTSA notes that there is also no precise distance guaranteed to avoid air bag injury since all air bags are unique and deploy with different forces. ...30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'
30-year-old Shannon Malloy, critically injured in a car accident, skull separating from her spine, has survived to tell her story. Doctors call her recovery a miracle. A car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other inter...Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care
...re Peninsula bushfires that killed nine people and injured 110 in South Australia in January 2005. The Roya...ered burns and other injuries. Many of the victims injured in the suicide bombings at Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club in Kuta were taken to the Royal Darwin Hosp...Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration
...x where nerve cells can regrow. It is known that injured neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) do not regenerate, but it is not clear why. Adult CNS neurons may lack an intrinsic capacity for rapid regeneration, and CNS glia create an inhibitory environment for growth after injury. Can these challeng...Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China
... Kong's Ming Pao Daily News said. One person was injured as villagers and government officials hurled stones at each other, the newspaper reported. The demonstrators also knocked down a wall and damaged offices at the building, it said. Lu Wenhua, a town resident, did not participate in Saturday's demonstr...Army Hospital Conducts First Multiple Organ Retrieval and Transplantation
...two sons serve in the armed forces, was critically injured in a hit-and-run road accident at neighboring Faridabad town May 14. He was operated upon at the hospital but breathed his last late Wednesday evening. Chand's wife Hemlata wanted to donate her husband's organs but being a road accident case, an au......ce officers and recovery workers who say they were injured by breathing the dust during the 10-month cleanup. A report published this month in a medical journal showed a sharp increase in the number of cases of sarcoidosis among New York City firefighters in the first two years after Sept. 11. Sarcoidosi...