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Maninder Singh Hospitalised After Suicide Attempt

...egedly tried to commit suicide, his family members maintained it was an accident. Police said they received call at around 1 a.m. that Maninder slashed his wrists and was brought to the hospital in a critical condition by his neighbour in Mausam Vihar locality of Preet Vihar. Police refused to say whether ...

Low Calorie Diet can Promote Healthy Weight Loss and Help Control Hunger

...unds compared to 14.7 pounds. Weight loss was well maintained by subjects in both groups during the second six months of the study. Records kept by the women showed that those who included more water-rich foods ate 25 percent more food by weight and felt less hungry than those who followed the reduced-fat di...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...l is circulated through the body as respiration is maintained by life support systems, preserving organs in a transplantable condition for up to several days. If the deceased was relatively young and didnt have any conditions affecting desired organs, the person is confirmed as a potential organ donor, and the ...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...ty troops use Tricare Prime, a managed-care option maintained by private contractors. Their mental health care is free. Guard and Reserve troops and their families frequently use Tricare Standard, a fee-for-service plan. They pay an annual deductible and 20 percent of the amount Tricare pays the therapist. Jo...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...he B.C. Cancer Agency reports. Health Canada has maintained the 800-becquerel guideline since 1988, but says new research showing a stronger link to lung cancer has prompted the change to 200, with support of the provinces and territories. Officials estimate that people spending 75 per cent of a lifetime (o...

Physical Activity Reduces Risk of Hypertension in Young Adults

...pertension. In addition, study participants who maintained or increased their total time participating in physical activity from the start of the study to the finish decreased their risk of high blood pressure by 11 percent for every 1,500 calories they burned weekly. "This study is the first of its kind ...

OBC Creamy Layer May Be Dropped from Reservations in Institutions

...id Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi maintained a stoic silence throughout the two-and-a-half-hour of animated discussions on the subject and so did Congress president's political secretary Ahmed Patel, the only functionary of the party present at the meeting. Dravidian leaders like Shipping, Ro...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

... pieces of gold. Even when stretched, the circuits maintained their ability to conduct electricity. Research on the flexible membranes also is likely to contribute to the longstanding challenge of connecting electronic devices to the human nervous system, Wagner said. Prosthetic devices, for example, could be...

Samjhauta Victims in Pakistan Feel Neglected

...assistant medical superintendent at Mayo Hospital, maintained that the patients were being given round-the-clock treatment. Asked why there was no doctor in the ward when the media team visited it, he said the doctors might have been in another ward at that time. As many as 68 people, mostly Pakistanis belong...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

...stinguished Hospitals have deliberately chosen and maintained patient safety as a top priority." SRM...

Estrogen Protects Liver After Traumatic Injury

... of enzymes released. Further, such treatment also maintained normal levels of cell-protective Bcl-2 and active protein kinase A, which were otherwise decreased by trauma-hemorrhage. The researchers then examined two possible receptors, G protein-coupled receptor 30 (GPR30) and estrogen receptor-alpha, for th...

Phone-based Therapy Eases Depression Long Term

...re surprised at how well the positive effects were maintained over time,” said Ludman. “As with weight control, maintaining improvement is the hardest part of treating depression.” As is usual in clinical practice, the patients’ primary care doctors diagnosed their depression and prescribed their antidepressa...

French 'euthanasia Doctor' Avoids Jail

...l vomiting, the doctor argued. But investigators maintained that the decision had been taken without proper consultation with the family of the patient. French law allows families to request that life-support equipment for a terminally-ill patient be switched off. But it does not allow a doctor to take acti...

Black-white Life Expectancy Gap Reduces, Yet Remains Significant

...ta from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, which collects information on all deaths occurring in the United States each year. The authors report that after widening during the late 1980s, the black-white life expectance gap has declined because...

Kerala Seeks Expatriates' Help for Its Hospitals

...tate to donate hospital equipment for its poorly// maintained primary health centers. "We require a lot of hospital equipment and look forward to help from the large number of Keralites settled abroad towards donating equipment for government hospitals, especially those at the village and block level," Healt...

Couple Therapists Plays Vital Role in Keeping Couples Bond Intact

...d whether the effects last. Improvement is usually maintained for six months, but often there is a relapse after a year or two. Therapists may try different treatment approaches, or they may emphasize features that all approaches have in common. “Emotional problems arise between people as well as within them...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

...here is the danger that the new projects cannot be maintained in the long term. According to Davis, even if extra measures were adopted to help developing nations meet the sanitation target, there would still be problems maintaining the facilities after the 2015 goal passes. She highlighted the urgent need ...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

...in the control group. Children's improvements were maintained six months after the end of treatment. “We interpret these findings to mean that help for mothers improved their pleasure and competence in raising their children, and was beneficial to their own mental health," Lieberman says. "Our results suppor...

Max Planck Researchers Incorporate Odorant Receptors into Artificial Membranes

...were also able to prove that the odorant receptors maintained their biological functions by demonstrating the binding of odorants to the receptors. "We now have something akin to an instruction manual on how membrane proteins that were previously difficult to access can be produced and analyzed in their active ...

Giant Healthcare Provider to Set Up Massive Gene Bank

...sure its members that such private records will be maintained in all confidentiality and kept separately from more accessible medical records. Other such biobanks exist and are increasingly being developed in the United States and outside, as scientists attempt to use the information from the recent decoding...

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