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New Orleans in the grip of a Depression Epidemic

...e hurricane Katrina struck, 10 months ago. To make matters worse the local mental health system has almost collapsed completely leaving the police department to deal with the large number of emotionally disturbed residents. Jeffrey Rouse, the deputy coroner in New Orleans who deals with psychiatric cases c...

'Humiliated' Dean Contemplates Leaving AIIMS

...s they have the right to know about administrative matters of the institute," Deka said. (Source: IANS News)...

Another Senior Doctor From AIIMS Contemplates Leaving Due to Infighting

...hey do have the right to know about administrative matters of the institute....

Irish Ministers Deny Any Rift Between Themselves

...ned that all PD party members should keep internal matters out of the media spotlight. Mr McDowell reiterated today: “Both of us are completely united in where our party is going and where we are going in Government. There is no division. There is no agenda between us except to do our respective jobs.” He ha...

Man Holds Own Skull in Bengal Medical Miracle

...ne to grow," Bandopadhayay told IANS. "His brain matters were visible. Luckily, the meninges (the inner covering) was not infected while another membrane called periosteum, which is responsible for producing bone, was unaffected too." Doctors thought he would die when the skull came off. "But a new cov...

Save the life of NHS, say Doctors

...the outcome of the NHS privatization plan may make matters worse for the deprived and under privileged sections of the society. Gross mis-management has led to low morale among Doctors and NHS staff. Quality of NHS service has deteriorated. Though plans of privatization are afoot, this is not seen as an ef...

National Transplant Week to Raise Need for Organ Donation

...nsitive, and Brits by nature don't like to discuss matters such as their own death hearing the stories of those who have been saved by others' generosity can shed a new light on this grim topic. Some Scots like Jeremy Cadd who had a heart transplant after being diagnosed with viral myocarditis, Cherry O'ne...

Regular Exercise Can Help From Recurrence of Colon Cancer

...osis doesn't affect the outcome of treatment. What matters is exercising after standard therapy has been completed." Scientists do not have a definite physiological explanation for the benefit of exercise for colon cancer survivors, but they speculate it may be tied to a reduction in the body's production ...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

...h a big hole or a little hole doesn't matter. What matters is survival, and survival is the standard survival that you expect for patients after a lobectomy done for cancer.' Several weeks after her lung cancer surgery in February, Wolfe underwent surgery and a radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid canc...

Boy Punished for being HIV positive

...He tested HIV positive only last week.// But the matters only worsened at the Medical College, which proved to be hopelessly inadequate to deal with his case. The boy arrived at the College ten days ago when a blood test confirmed he was HIV positive. He was brought in from juvenile jail only when his co...

Exercise Important in Reducing Size of Abdominal Fat Cells

..., but it is not known if the intensity of exercise matters during dietary weight loss. For the current study, all women had a deficit of 2,800 calories a week, either through dieting or a combination of dieting and exercise. One group cut their calorie levels through diet, but did not exercise. A second gr...

More and Better Management Is Key to Fixing the NHS

...” staff, but this assumes that the only thing that matters is how many doctors and nurses we have. This assumption is demonstrably untrue and pernicious – distracting the NHS from simple changes in working practice that could dramatically improve patient care, he says. He argues that changing how a hospita...

PM Stresses Need for More Awareness on Human Sexuality

...aboos which prevent the openness in discussions on matters relating to human sexuality," said Manmohan Singh. Releasing a report on "Person-to-person advocacy with parliamentarians on population issues", the prime minister warned: "If we don't wake up (to the gravity of the issue), this will leave a deep b...

Feedback Loop Governing Ovarian Development Unraveled

... of handling allows us to address even complicated matters like the development of an organ in a timely and less costly manner than if we used other model organisms such as the mouse, where similar studies would be quite difficult to carry out," says Dr. Lehmann. Genetics research is revealing commonaliti...

Damage Due to MS Might Extend Into Larger Portions Of The Normal Brain

...In PP disease, the normal-appearing white and gray matters affected were 11 percent and 8 percent, respectively. These changes were found throughout the brain, including areas remote from localized lesions that are typically associated with MS. 'These findings demonstrate that in MS, disease processes outs...

Families of the Dead no Longer Have the Last Say

...s point to the need for all of us to discuss these matters with our families. It also points to the need for incredibly skilled hospital staff.’ According to Elizabeth Ward, president of the British Kidney Patients Association, the new law does not go far enough. She said, ‘There is lots of tissue just l...

Nanotech Wipes for biohazard detection

...that detects bacteria, viruses and other hazardous matters in hospitals, aeroplanes and in food processing.// ‘It’s very inexpensive, it wouldn’t require that someone be highly trained to use it, and it could be activated for whatever you want to find,’ said Margaret Frey, the Lois and Mel Tukman Assistan...

Government Failed to Prevent Rising Teen Pregnancies

...ng the likely failure of the policy. To complicate matters further, it has also been found that the rates of sexually transmitted infections are soaring, with almost 700,000 new diagnoses last year in England alone. He added, "It is a blinkered view that complex human behaviour is easily fixed with a condo...

Critically Ill patients ill-equipped to handle end-of life matters

...equately prepared to deal with end-of-life issues- matters concerning resuscitation after a heart attack //or other life-threatening medical complication, says Queen's University professor of Medicine Daren Heyland. A national study has found that only a miniscule number of patients were prepared regarding t...

A million Pound Public consultation - declared a sham!!

...The ministers were condemned for not including the matters mentioned by the people in the project. Payment to participants had taken the form of "expenses", costing on the whole a whopping ￡151,300. The taxpayer also paid travel and hotel accommodation for the consultation’s “summit” in Birmingham, but the D...

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