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A Visually Impaired Patient Pioneers The 'Seeing Machine'

...dually lost her eyesight to juvenile diabetes, has managed to urge scientists and device makers to create// a "seeing machine" that will enable her and thousands like herself to see despite failing visual acuity. The idea was born when Ms Goldring was examined with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, when she...

Gastric Bypass And Laparoscopic Reflux Surgery Gaining Popularity

...e symptoms. Results demonstrated that patients who managed symptoms with a class of medicines called proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (LNF) experienced a significant reduction in symptoms associated with GERD. Proton pump inhibitors, such as omeprazole and lansopr...

Prime Minister Asks Medicos to End Strike

...cluding emergencies, OTs and ICUs, continued to be managed by consultants at various state-run hospitals in the region, including the Post Graduate Institute for Medical Education and Research here. A six-member committee has been constituted comprising representatives of elite medical colleges of Punjab, ...

Head Of The Church Of England Asks NHS To Respect Patient Needs

...atients to die. He said: "A target-obsessed NHS, managed with an eye to brisk traffic through its beds and reduction of expense, doesn't feel a very good place in which to have a reasoned and balanced discussion of assisted dying." He continued by stating that “Once we let go of the principle that everyone...

Researchers Purify Protein That Could Regulate Male Hormones

...t University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have managed to purify a protein and have shown that it can affect gene activity by modifying a molecular pathway// that was previously thought to be permanent. The findings, published today (May 5) in the journal Cell, also show that the new protein plays a rol...

Coffee Bars: A Boon For China's Jobless Youths

...r, roaster and brand of specialty coffee, has even managed to set up a cafe in the Forbidden City. The company has been known as a modern lifestyle for teenagers. To meet the demands of the labour market, the ministry of labour and social security has officially recognised barista as a new profession. A ...

Provisional Fees For Medical Courses Fixed By Punjab Government

...e basis of actual expenditure and would have to be managed by the students themselves. Electricity and water charges, however are not included in the above mentioned fee structure, said KS Pannu, special secretary of the medical education and research department. The fee fixation for private medical instit...

Soldier of Revenge

...has a disaster story to relate. And even those who managed to escape say they can never forget the Sunday night....

Drug Approved to Curb Alcohol Dependency

...ll. Besides this most subjects were also medically managed by encouraging them to abstain from alcohol and consistently take their medication. In addition some participants underwent specialized behavioral therapy. The research evaluated relapses of consumption of several drinks in a day for up to a year. ...

Nursing Home Residents Receive Appropriate Emergency Care Despite Poor Funds

...wo thirds of the cases could have been effectively managed by GP. Additionally, training of nursing home staff regarding management of indwelling urinary catheters or gastrotomy tubes could have avoided a visit to the ED in nearly 24% of the cases. The relatively low availability of funds prevented provision...

Hormone - A Shot in the Arm for Weight Loss

...r of calories burned during rest. The participants managed to lose a pound of weight after using the hormone shots for four days, though it is not clear if they lost body mass or fluids. The results of the study have been published online in the International Journal of Obesity....

Gene Therapy For Bubble Baby Syndrome May Lead To Blood Cancer

...Disorder (CGD) using gene transplant, both of whom managed to clear infections that had not responded to treatment previously. However it is not known about the long-term side effects associated with form of treatment. Concerns of the scientific community on one side, nothing seems to deter the hope of pat...

Beware Of A Silent Killer Called Haemophilia

...ted that the disease is not curable, but it can be managed with proper knowledge and treatment. Explaining that the best way to reduce the threat of haemophilia is through awareness and provision of a life saving drug AHF (Anti Haemophilic Factor), Ranjit Mukerje, the Executive Director Haemophilia Federatio...

Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive

...netRead to take SLS to other countries. "We also managed to spin off SLS into a social venture around children's animated 'books' at bookbox.com," he adds. Three to five years of the SLS exposure, without any other educational inputs, can move a person from alphabet recognition to functional literacy, w...

Hemophilia Can Be Reduced Through Awareness And Proper Treatment

...hosh. The disease is not curable, but it can be managed with proper knowledge and treatment, Ghosh told the IANS. "The only way to reduce hemophilia is through awareness and provision of a life saving drug AHF (Anti Hemophilic Factor)," said Ghosh. "However AHF is not manufactured in India and has to...

Hospital Booked For Negligence

...me. The hospital admitted that it had not properly managed the senior house officers. At a sentencing hearing at Winchester Crown Court on Monday Hywel Jenkins, prosecuting, said that there is an urgent need of a proper system of supervision and evaluation of junior staff at the hospital. Mr Jenkins also ...

Scientists Explain Complex Darwinian Evolution

Scientists have managed to reconstruct a complex molecular system of Darwinian evolution for the first time by using new techniques for resurrecting// ancient genes. The research was led by Joe Thornton, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon's Cente...

India Needs To Get Its Act Together To Curb the Rise of HIV/AIDS

...st take cues from Australia, where the country had managed to bring down the number of AIDS/HIV cases to less than 10,000, by just education, creating awareness both amongst urban and rural people. It is imperative that India pull up its socks quickly to halt the rise of AIDS/HIV cases in its tracks....

Work Permit Required For Indian Doctors in Britain

... The new rules will adversely affect those who had managed to find work in the NHS. He said for even minor jobs, applications from highly qualified doctors were received in thousands. Health Minister Lord Warner said: "We now have more than 117,000 doctors working in the NHS, 27,400 more than in 1997, as we...

Solution For Controlling The Raising Health Costs

... not insisting on knowing the price. Hubbard has managed to push health care to the top of the president's domestic agenda and is "aggressively pressing health industry groups and Congress for changes he says would make consumers more responsible for their spending. His proposals however have raised criti...

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