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Child Seeks Compensation for Medical Negligence

... a sensitive nerve came under pressure, leading to insufficient blood supply, alleged a preliminary report. When parents noticed boils peeping out of the plaster, they took the child to the hospital Jan 21. The report quoted Ram Babu as saying that senior doctors and the medical superintendent's office refus...

Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

... Other factors are the small size of the trial and insufficient data on the severity of infections. Any benefits of the operation must be balanced against potential disadvantages, he writes. The major disadvantage documented in the trial is the 13 days of sore throat after tonsillectomy, which can be severe in ...

High Court Warns Medical Staff Against Misuse of Ambulance

...ed the authorities to state the reasons behind the insufficient number of ambulances in hospitals and the Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS), a Delhi government unit. Goswami had alleged that CATS had only 100 ambulances and many of them were not functioning properly. The court directed CATS to p...

No Laptop Please for Children

...use wi-fi networks - but the PAT believes there is insufficient long-term evidence to demonstrate whether such networks are safe. GPL/L...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

... the bacterium C. difficile. It has been linked to insufficient disinfection procedures at provincial hospitals. Dr. Benoit Cousineau, of McGill University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology, says there is little chance of a pseudomonas outbreak similar to the virulent strains of C. difficile that have...

Execution by Lethal Injection Questioned

...rug is not working as intended. The anesthesia was insufficient to reduce suffering. In many cases the fated is still found to be breathing even after being administered the drug to stop breathing or paralyze them. In the case of the other drug to stop heart beat the heart was found to be beating up to nine minut...

NRI Brings to India Effective Pain Relief Therapy

...ts Hospital, said abnormal values of ABPI indicate insufficient blood flow that could cause slow degeneration of the tissues, ageing and disorders, or, in extreme cases, life threatening conditions such as gangrene leading to amputations. Arguing in favour of ABPI, Gupta said: "Blood pressure is measured only o...

British Doctor’s Pat for Indian Hospital

..." said Ziervogel. But he added: "There seems to be insufficient beds or facilities for dealing with head injury patients." Recalling the incident in Rajasthan, he said: "We were going down a hill doing about 25 mph. Toni skidded and came off onto the road and banged her head." With the help of army doctor Cla...

Method to Screen Prostate Cancer Less Effective

...he PSA value for the period after the diagnosis is insufficient as a method of distinguishing with any certainty the men who will develop a fatal cancer from those with a slower tumour growth." Men with localised prostate cancer have in general a good chance of survival even without treatment. However, many und...

MDR-TB Spreading in Slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Health Workers Say

...fficulties in diagnosing HIV in people with TB and insufficient follow-up among people taking TB treatment, Genevier said. The Kenyan government does not provide MDR-TB treatment, which costs roughly $6,000 for a full course, compared with roughly $20 for a course of regular TB treatment, IRIN News reports. ...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

...cope and location of the event. This could lead to insufficient resources responding to the scene or to providers not taking the appropriate precautions against a secondary device. In discussing incident command and triage, it was found that regions that had a pre-defined command structure and triage guidelines t...

Kickboxing Could Damage Your Brain

...hown to cause damage to the pituitary resulting in insufficient hormone production, said Professor Fahrettin Kelestimur, who led the research. Although more research was needed to understand how the pituitary gland is damaged and to develop more effective head protection gear for kickboxers, the researchers sa...

Obesity Does Not Auger Well for Prostate Cancer Patients

...e usual number of samples taken during a biopsy is insufficient to reveal the gland’s actual status. To help reduce the number of obese men whose prostate cancers are incorrectly classified, doctors should conduct biopsies on more areas of the prostate gland, Freedland said. "Performing more biopsy samples wil...

Biopsy may Underestimate Prostate Cancer in Obese and Overweight Men

...e usual number of samples taken during a biopsy is insufficient to reveal the gland’s actual status. To help reduce the number of obese men whose prostate cancers are incorrectly classified, doctors should conduct biopsies on more areas of the prostate gland, Freedland said. "Performing more biopsy samples...

Learning Disabilities If Undetected Early Proves Costly Later

...be averted. Slater also feels discouraged by the insufficient funds from the government to help such kids. According to him, many parents of learning disabled children are not able to afford learning aids or services intended for such children. The study also suggests training courses for teachers on detectin...

Epidural Steroid Injections Do Not Provide Long Term Relief

...ndividuals.” In addition, the authors also found insufficient evidence to use epidural steroid injections to treat radicular cervical pain, or neck pain. Armon says the review was limited by the small number of high-quality scientific studies on epidural steroid injections, and further well-designed studies a...

Sleep Problems of Women

...erns in American women found that most of them had insufficient sleep which in turn reflected on their mental and physical health// , personal lives, professional work and driving safety. The 2007 Sleep survey sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation, studied about 1,003 adult women in ages 18 t0 65 spread al...

Umbilical Cord Blood Banking of Negligible Value: Experts

...red doseage of preserved cord blood cells would be insufficient or unviable," she maintained. "Moreover, stem cells could be collected from the bone marrow or mobilized from the peripheral blood, as is the current practice. Thus, failure to collect cord blood cells at birth is unlikely to be detrimental," Seth ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy

...d 66.1 percent of white infants were found to have insufficient vitamin D at birth." A vitamin closely associated with bone health, vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with rickets – a disorder characterized by soft bones and thought to have been eradicated in the United States more than 50 years a...

Researchers Warn Against the Use Of Garlic To Treat Childhood Ailments

...shed recently in Pediatrics in Review. "Data are insufficient to recommend precise dosages when treating children," said Dr. Sunita Vohra, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Despite its longtime use in many cultures for its purported pharmacologic benefits, fu...

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