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Young Woman's Eyes Gouged Out By Her Partner

...edly attacked her with a cattle prod, and when she managed to escape and run, caught her again and gouged out...r 5 hours, in a bid to save her eyes. The police managed to nab the accused from his house, though he had fled the scene after a publican came to the rescue ...

Ex Pro-football Players Saddled With Depression After Retirement

...ar, the resources and personnel that organized and managed their lives away from the competition venue are lost, and the rewards, both emotional and financial, are diminished.” The player reported that they often found difficult to seek help for their problems. They would rather use the help of family and...

Wal-Mart – One Stop Shop for All Your Needs, Including Healthcar

...ed spaces of Wal- mart stores. The clinics will be managed by the local, regional hospitals or by independent organizations. Feedback from the public has been solicited in the form of surveys regarding the health clinics in operation since 2005. What came out of the survey was that more than half the visit...

Hospitals Make Positive Strides to Reduce Wait Times for Patients

...lly for priority procedures. Most hospitals have managed to keep up the target, which is good news. Nearly 80% of the patients who required bypass surgery received the treatment on time. But patients for ‘knee replacement surgeries’ had to face the brunt of long waiting times. Further, reporting practices ...

Method to Screen Prostate Cancer Less Effective

...ensive treatment from amongst those who would have managed just as well without," the study said. Source-IANS/V...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...mit a package because three different times the VA managed to lose it," Ramos said. "Even after I was medically retired, the VA had no idea that I was an amputee." In an interview, Ramos recalled how he informed his doctor at the VA that he had an artificial limb: "I knocked on my carbon-fiber arm and sa...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...g his community. The district administration has managed to convince only three more families to pursue gur-making. One reason for the failure of this project was the tribals' love for toddy. "No one wants to leave toddy," said Shankar of Khedut. But many people feel that if effective marketing strategi...

More Aggressive Breast Cancer in Hispanics Independent of Health Care Utilization

... An analysis of breast cancer cases diagnosed in a managed health care system found that in patients with equal access to healthcare, Hispanic women were at significantly higher risk for being diagnosed with more advanced and more aggressive tumors and at a younger age than non-Hispanic women. Previous stu...

Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk

...ts far exceed the risk of meningitis, which can be managed by education and vaccination efforts. Worldwide, 90 of the 60,000 people receiving cochlear implant have been stricken with meningitis, drawing deep concern within the international medical community. Previous research by the Centers for Disease Co...

Teens Get Needed Access to Care With State Health Insurance

...m, Child Health Plus, was created in 1991 and uses managed care plans. New York children are eligible for coverage between birth and 18 years of age, if they are at or below 230 percent of the federal poverty level, if they have no other insurance and are not eligible for Medicaid. The program was created to...

Welders Assist Surgeons in Andhra Pradesh

...move the rod from his throat. Some technicians had managed to chop off whatever was jutting out. But still nearly a foot-long metal piece was left stuck in Sukur's throat. He was then taken to the government hospital. It was a challenge for the doctors too. In the event welders and other technicians were...

Gene Test Shown to Measure Heart Function After Transplant

...r transplanted hearts and who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods such as the GEP test. Those patients may benefit from being more aggressively weaned off intensive immunosuppressive regimens. This new research suggests that the use of this test may have much greater potential than simply ...

Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid

...derground/covered drainage within slums; community managed toilets/ bathing and washing utilities; door to door collection of garbage in collaboration with SHGs; building people’s agency through civil society; the inclusion of slums in all bilateral projects/loans; and the mapping of slums on a priority basi...

Rest for Doctors to Ensure Patients’ Safet

... the only aspect of work patterns that needs to be managed to reduce sleepiness and fatigue-related clinical errors among junior doctors. "The findings support the view that a more comprehensive risk management approach is needed to reduce doctors' sleepiness and improve patient safety." Dr Masood Ahmed,...

Forsyth Scientists Wiping Out Tooth Decay Through School-based Cavities Prevention Program

...health promotion and disease prevention initiative managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the ForsythKids program has already met and exceeded those goals in a period of 3 years. Healthy People 2010 Goals Reduce cavities by 10% · Reduce untreated decay by 5% · Increase children w...

Child Struck With Mystery Illness Shows Signs of Recovering

...e amino acid l-serine tablets a day, Timothy has managed to lift up his head and walk a few steps with support. He has also begun to move his toes, raising hopes that he might be able to walk to school and play with friends. Says his mother Kate Bingham: "You need to hope that there may be somebody out t...

TB Vaccines: Ring Out the New, Bring in the Old

... been running for the last 90 years, in 1908. They managed to make a strain of tuberculosis (TB) less potent by growing it in a glycerin-potato mixture. This meant when used in a vaccine it would produce an immune response without causing the actual disease. Once they found it was safe, they began to distr...

Mothers in African Study Undereducated on Diarrhea

... considered a model for how diarrhea might best be managed in Ethiopia, too,” Mediratta said. Mediratta decided that the clinic in Gondar – a small, rural town in northwestern Ethiopia – was the ideal setting for his study, because “my research would have greater value in an area where diarrhea is a major ...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women’s Sleep Issue

...leep issues as they pertain to women, and how they managed sleep complaints from their female patients. The majority of respondents indicated that they regularly ask their female patients about their sleep patterns and the sleep habits of family members. Preferred Sleep Therapies The majority of re...

Nepal Gets Its First Graduate Goddess

...king, whose fortunes ebbed with her disappearance, managed to pacify her and she agreed to reappear as Kumari, an unblemished young virgin. Every eight years or so, a four-year-old girl from the Shakya community, the Buddhist clan from which Gautama Buddha came, is chosen to be Kumari on the basis of certai...

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