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Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...uld not count the number of women who buy steroids meant for cattle. 'Some come and buy 20 boxes in one go,' he said. But if force-feeding creates problems for women in later life, the cattle steroids can be an instant killer. Side-effects include renal failure and heart attacks. Dr Maagouiya, the gene...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...en of the specific needs of these prisoners, which meant that they experienced daily discomfort, combined w...cialists, including hospital consultants, and that meant being denied certain types of medication. Long waits to see doctors, often following written appl...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

...that the jump in the number of arthritis sufferers meant that raw earnings losses due to arthritis among wo...ion. The important point is that population growth meant a substantial national impact, even though on a personal level, on average, there was a lower figure...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...what is fed to horses is genetically altered grass meant for food animals. "The paradigm is that we feed horses the same grasses we are feeding food animals," Johnson said. "The genetically designed grass we feed horses was designed to fatten food animals quicker." The genetics of horses, like many s...

Pfizer Awaits FDA Approval for New AIDS Drug, Maraviroc

...maraviroc may find a prominent place amongst drugs meant for AIDS with its power to impede the CCR5 co-receptor, the main route for the entry of the virus into the cells. This drug has certainly raised its manufacturer’s hopes with a projected sales forecast of $500 million in 2011. The CCR5 inhibitors h...

Infant Mortality Rising in Deep South in US

...usand from 6.1. The overall jump in Mississippi meant that 65 more babies died in 2005 than in the previous year, for a total of 481. The toll is visible in Hollandale, a tired town in the impoverished Delta region of northwest Mississippi. Jamekia Brown, 22 and two months pregnant with her third ...

Families Need Help to Deal With Aftermath of Suicide Attempts

...kicks in,” Dr. Hoover says. “She may say, ‘I never meant it,’ or ‘it was an accident,’ or denying she even made an attempt. Families do the same thing because of the intensity of the suicide issue.” Complicating matters, teenagers may attempt suicide while in treatment for mental illness, such as depress...

Californian Baby Creates History - Born from a Frozen Egg and Sperm

...n around for decades, but freezing an egg was only meant for women who suffered from illnesses which could leave them infertile . These days, women who want to have a baby after their 30’s prefer to freeze their eggs for use at a later stage. Statitistcs show that almost 200 children all over the world ow...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...ations. Using the Rega interpretation system, this meant an overall average loss of 1.25 active antiretroviral drugs per each six-month period that a patient remained on a failing regimen (this includes all ARVs available in January 2006). The authors note though that depending on the drug regimen followed...

J&J Mouthwash Gets a Stinker

...f Listerine Agent Cool Blue plaque-detecting rinse meant for children,// has been recalled after tests showed that it contained microorganisms. No health problems arising out of its use have been reported yet. Many outlets have stocked this brand. The company has begun communicating to Dental professiona...

Officials Indicted for Allowing a Fast Food Joint Teeming With Rats in New York to Function

...a more comprehensive report as doing so would have meant more responsibility for her. She would have had to take necessary follow-up action. She did not want to be burdened with such work, the investigating officials reasoned. Thomas resigned before the contents of the rat reports were made public. O...

Two-in-one Diabetic Drug Approved by FDA

...rug, metformin for type 2 diabetes. Janumet is meant to provide an additional treatment option for patients who need more than one oral agent to help control their blood sugar. Data supporting Janumet were previously disclosed earlier this year at the 66th annual meeting of the American Diabetes Ass...

‘Dirty’ and Dangerous Tools Put Full Stop to Operatin

...ced three sets of non-sterile surgical instruments meant for use during operation. The team of 30 professionals as well as the patient had to return without the job completed. Confirming that equipment in one tray and two back-up trays could not be used, as it was ‘marked’, NHS Grampian was reported to ...

Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

...dence properly in November last, it would not have meant much, they contend. More than five million Indians are HIV positive, some estimates say. And a vast proportion of the country’s population is poor and unlettered. In such a backdrop, the absence of a proper communication channel between doctors an...

Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

...ds from the ensuing year’s budget. All this has meant that some health trusts find it virtually impossible to balance accounts and have to resort to compromise in patient healthcare, to keep afloat. This system has been around for the last seven year as part of the Treasury’s Resource Accounting and ...

Want a Good Night’s Sleep- Maternity Nurses to the Rescu

... same time, community midwives who are NHS tools meant to teach young mothers baby tending -skills and who are now in shortage, speak in their defense. Says Mervi Jokinen, from the Royal College of Midwives: 'We agree there is pressure on the NHS and that this is impacting on maternity services. But t...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...s at the workplace and easy access to alcohol have meant more and more are hitting the bottle. And the infected father passes on the disease to his children. What is the way out then? Of course concrete measures to reduce poverty and illiteracy, most urgently in the BIMARU region (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, ...

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

...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 distribute the vaccine around the world. Since the 1960s, there have been reports of the declining efficacy of...

More Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the NHS

...zing Medical Careers.' The more able doctors are meant to indicate doctors who have qualified in the UK. The new form for applying for jobs is in a standardized format and is unable to discriminate between local and overseas graduates and this seems to be the cause of distress to the president of the Roy...

Paucity of Tetanus Vaccine

New Zealand: The supply of tetanus vaccine meant for children below seven is fast depleting, which has sent the Ministry of Health in a tizzy to manage replacements.// The Pharmaceutical Company CSL had stopped the production of the Tet-tox vaccine in July 2006, making the replenishment of stocks...

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