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Pakistani Gays Land Themselves In Trouble

...l's only gay rights organization functions, and to lay down a framework for an international conference of such marginalized people scheduled in March. However, Vision says the trip turned sour when the three zenanas were presented at a press conference here without their lawyer and without the NGO's ...

Drug Combinations Could Be Dangerous

...teractions and side effects. Patients also need to lay all their cards on the table, said Haefeli. Edited IANS...

Autism: Symposium to Discuss Myths and Misconceptions

...tistic people suffer cognitive impairment. He will lay the to statistics on the table to prove that there...at autistic people receive. The symposium should lay to rest all the unfounded theories surrounding autism and establish valid ones.Source: Eureka Alert ...

Patients Should Be Entitled to "Humane Compensation" if Drug Trials Go Wrong

...observed, patients would be told frankly, in words lay people could readily understand, that they might be seriously injured but with merely discretionary compensation," Professor Laurence wrote in a letter to the BMJ. He said that the wording of most contracts was dubious at most and was not convincing ...

New Breast Cancer Dictionary To Be Brought Out By French League Against Cancer

...ry of the terms that could be easily understood in lay language. The researchers followed health websites and breast cancer discussion forums on the Internet in order to understand how people talked about their disease. It was found that patients used 3,000 different words to talk about the cancer. "We r...

Pranab Mukherjee Urged Military Doctors To Remain On The Cutting Edge

...the armed forces and the civilian authority and to lay down guidelines for public health authorities to follow. You are the healers and path breakers in laying down standards for others to follow, he said. Some 250 delegates from 19 Asian and Pacific countries, including from the US, Australia, Israe...

Thailand to Explore Stem Cell Technology for Treatment of Heart Disease

...nt’s efforts in drawing a legal framework that can lay emphasis on strict control and safety in the imports and exports of stem cells. The study on the efficacy of stem cells, will a go a long way in not only providing succor for people suffering from heart disease but will also serve as regenerative...

Centralization of Hospital Services Inconveniencing Patients

...e did not go as far as saying [the executive would lay on buses], but the suggestion was that it could be something extra. I was encouraged.’However George Venters, the former chairman of the Network, was not impressed saying that extra transport was about coping with centralisation, when what many peo...

Women Read Men’s Faces Quite Accuratel

...f Newcastle claim that a man's sex appeal probably lay in his cheeks. They came to this conclusion based on a study of 90 women, who were asked to study 76 men's faces and then rank them in order of attractiveness. When the women were then shown only a small square of each man's face and again asked to...

Ultimate Destination of anti-depressant, Prozac

...elatively lesser side effects. The findings also lay the foundation for many studies of the factors that control how, when, and where new neurons are generated from stem cells in the brain. Such work could eventually lead to cell replacement therapies for neurodegenerative and other brain disorders inc...

Misleading Health Claims On Food Labels No Longer Allowed in EU

...ill be displayed on the labels. The new rules also lay down the maximum requirements of vitamins and minerals in food. EU member countries have until the end of summer to give their nod to these new rules....

Indian And Chinese Doctors Join Together To Prove The Efficacy Of Herbal Drugs

...shorter three-month to six-month clinical trial to lay down the methodology of how the herbal drugs are to be tested, the toxicology and its efficacy. "As these drugs have been used for hundreds of years, we do not see any reason to expect any adverse reaction. If required we will go in for a detailed ...

Japanese Scientists Develop Thought-Controlled Robotic Hands

... thinking about. In the new discovery, subjects lay inside an MRI scanner and were asked to make "rock, paper, scissor" shapes with their right hand. As they did this, the MRI scanner recorded brain activity during the formation of each shape and fed this data to a connected computer. After a short...

Scientists Develop Thought-Controlled Robotic Hands

...d thinking about. In the new discovery, subjects lay inside an MRI scanner and were asked to make 'rock, paper, scissor' shapes with their right hand. As they did this, the MRI scanner recorded brain activity during the formation of each shape and fed this data to a connected computer. After a short ...

Uganda Faces Crisis in the Field Of HIV/AIDS Due To Budget Cuts

...nistry of Health said that the affected people all lay in the age group of 15-to-40 years old....

Lakhs of Indians Exposed to High Levels of Poisonous Gases

...s had asked the Central Pollution Control Board to lay down standards for Volatile Organic Compounds and sulphur gases,' Shweta Narayan of Community Environment Monitoring said. She alleged that nothing has been done in this regard even after six years. (Source: PTI News)...

Pneumonia Effectively Treated with Short-Term Antibiotic Course

...for those treated for eight days.’ The advantage lay in the fact that patients do not have to take in more medication than necessary. ‘In addition, there is a relation between how many antibiotics are used in a community and the rate of resistance among bacteria,’ he said. ‘If you can reduce the use of...

Neurologists Call For National Stroke Prevention Policy

...ed in the place of stroke to avoid confusion among lay people, he adds. The prevalence of strokes in India is estimated to range between 90 to 200 per one lakh population. A multi-centric study conducted by Indian Stroke Association has found that barely 10 per cent of patients with acute stroke reac...

Sound Separated into Sound Frequencies

... the topography could be best observed when sounds lay four octaves apart from one another. Petkov explains that "this is due to the conditions necessary for the imaging technique." In order to see clear signals at all with fMRI, the scientists presented tones that were louder than the soft test tones th...

Harney Seeks Approval for New Medical Practitioners Bill

...acted before the end of the year. Provision for a lay majority on the Medical Council is predicted in the new law to end self-regulation by the medical profession in its current form. Compulsory monitoring processes and competence assessments for doctors are expected to be included in the new legislati...

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