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British Funds 250 Million Pounds to Reduce Child Mortality

...cent in 2005-06. More than 25 percent of women are left to give birth without the support of a qualified medical professional. The announcement comes as the Department for International Development (DFID) launches a public debate on how British aid for India can be better spent. Britain's aid budget for...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

...que combines a laser beam that opens canals in the left ventricle of the heart with a special device with three needles to perforate the cardiac muscle and inject the cells. The medics who performed the surgery presented the results Tuesday at a press conference, in which they identified the patients as...

Radical Gastric Bypass Surgery Heightens the Effects of Alcohol

...n the end, many people suffer for years only to be left with one last and very expensive resort: surgery. According to the new study, bariatric surgery -- especially gastric bypass, which reduces the size of the stomach and adds a bypass around part of the small intestine -- is the most effective treatme...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...an IOM press release. The affected Acehnese, if left untreated, could possibly be triggers for further violence, the report's authors warned. "These memories are alive in the community, and they have the tremendous power to reproduce that violence," author Byron Good, from the Harvard's School of Socia...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

...the fare they punched and kicked the driver, whose left arm had been paralyzed by a stroke. The pair 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 “M...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...30 people worldwide each year. If the condition is left untreated, it could also cause mental retardation. This condition does not improve with medication. Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decision of operating upon the child. He di...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

...ialists say it could lead to chronic sinusitis, if left untreated. It could also negatively impact vision ...he treatment of sinusitis. Fungal sinusitis, if left untreated could affect the vision and brain in the chronic stages. In a study to evaluate the best p...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...I had a bleeding nipple on the right and fed on my left the whole time which then became really sore. "It was really unbearable and I was half way to giving up at six weeks, and that's a big thing for me to admit”, she recalls. Yet, luck was on her side. Through an online mothers support group, Nicol...

Defective Defibrillators

...re common in women, younger people and those whose left ventricle was healthier when the device was implanted. It is a simple case wear and tear after many years of usage. The most common complication, responsible for 56 percent of lead defects, rose from insulation problems. Others included fractured w...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

.... "Today, the universe is mostly matter and what's left over from the radiation is the famous microwave background, which is very dilute." So what is the future for life on earth?Matter may win out over radiation in the distant future thanks to dark energy, but the odd force, as-yet unobserved directly, ...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...Discovery News. "It was an enormous surge." And it left behind more than 2 million cubic miles (10 cubic km) of basalt. "This is almost perfect because you have that as a trigger," says paleo-oceanographer James Zachos of the University of California at Santa Cruz. "The (climate) system is just perched ...

Canadians Despair for Family Doctors

...idents of Hamilton in the province of Ontario feel left in the lurch without the services of a family doctor. Those who are fortunate enough to hear about doctors taking on new patients are regularly required to go through a screening process before being accepted. If a would-be patient has too many ...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...arlsen said on a visit to a tunnel through the ice left by last summer's melt water cascading through the heart of the fast-retreating 3 km long glacier above the village of Longyearbyen. In California environmentalists reported that toxic acid emanating from a type of ocean algae had sickened and kille...

Cancer – Flushes Flesh and Fund

...akes a stand on the issue, the cancer patients are left with little choice , either to take it or leave it. SA/V...

Addictive Drugs Harms the Brain

...as still low on inhibition even after the drug had left their system. The result of the research, conducted at the Brown University, would now help to understand the drug addiction in the humans and even find an antidote for it. Julie Kauer, a professor of molecular pharmacology, physiology and biotechn...

Botox at Your Own Risk?

...amount. If things go wrong, some patients could be left scarred physically or psychologically for life. As it stands now, almost anyone can set up shop in the local high street, don a white coat and start offering dermal fillers or arrange Botox parties. If we - the industry - don't step in, these procedu...

Fugitive Who Ditched His Ailing Son Arrested After a Year

...y of hospital tests, he failed to show up. Perkins left behind a letter promising he would 'come through' ...d down at night, just knowing that he ran away and left me up here to die like that,' Destin Perkins said after receiving news of his father's capture. 'Tha...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

If war is too serious a matter to be left in the hands of generals, so also the safety of workers cannot be left to the care of labour department officials. At least such// seems to be the case in the US. Latest...

Indonesia Struggles Against Bird Flu and the Drug Industry as Well

...s in Jakarta last month to ensure the poor are not left out as they have been historically - ranging from a lack of access to expensive AIDS drugs to seasonal flu vaccines available only to rich nations. At the end of the meeting, Indonesia said it would resume sending specimens, provided that drug comp...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...y health professionals, heartburn if overlooked or left untreated, can lead to ulcers, bleeding of the esophagus and also cancer of the food pipe. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, frequent ulceration which leads to cancer of the esophagus, is among the top three cancers in Mumbai,...

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