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Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...icy was against incentive-based population control measures and coercion of any control to achieve it would not be acceptable. Chairing the first meeting of the reconstituted National Commission on Population here, Manmohan Singh called for a three-pronged strategy focusing on the welfare of women and childr...

The Link Between Oxidized Phospholipids And Coronary Artery Disease

... strongly with Lp(a) lipoprotein levels, with both measures showing a strong and graded association with the presence and extent of CAD (p 0.047) to have CAD (41% vs 19%, odds ratio [OR]=3.12), and the same was true for Lp(a) lipoprotein levels ( 8.8 mg/dl, 61% vs 30%, OR=3.64, p Results indicated that in al...

British Authorities Seize Spurious Drugs

...ploit price differences. The company urged for new measures like outlawing the repackaging of original manufacturers' medicines and introduction of tamper-resistant medicine packaging and standardised European bar code for medicines. The head of the intelligence agency in UK has said that UK's supply chain ...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

... control. Rates of other key tests and preventive measures for CKD patients were low as well, including screening tests for various types of cancer. Just half of the CKD patients underwent recommended tests for anemia, while only 15 percent had testing of parathyroid hormone levels. Patients with CKD were ac...

Sleep pattern to lead to depression

...his information, a person can take some protective measures such as being more educative about depression and try preventing it....

A Mirror Miracle!

... infra red beam at the mirror through the skin and measures of the reflected light are taken. The team heads Roger and Leigh say," getting the optical properties of mirror rights is crucial, light only passes easily through the skin over a tight range of infrared wavelengths but slicon surfaces dont refl...

Blood Test May help Heart Prediction

...eek in a medical journal suggested the test, which measures levels of the protein part of cholesterol, may be a better predictor of heart trouble than traditional cholesterol tests and may one day lead to more tailored treatments.// High cholesterol is considered one of the strongest risk factors for develop...

SARS outbreaks contained

... hotspot. Since the introduction of tighter health measures the island has not had a single case since June 15-- the benchmark figure by which an outbreak can be judged contained. Announcing Saturday that the global outbreak had been contained, WHO Director General Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland warned countries ...

The Effects of Statins Questioned

...e their rate of atherosclerosis progression, which measures hardening of the arteries. Thus in conclusion researchers say patients with heart disease should undergo intensive statin therapy to reduce the rate of progression of atherosclerosis as intensive therapy lowered both LDL and C-reactive protein leve...

Simple Procedural Improvements Can Improve Care Of Stroke Patients

...e improvement. All hospitals were aware that these measures were being monitored, and there were many discussions about the treatments, the researchers commented. Source: Newswise ...

Physicians Lack Clinical Guidelines For Treating Elderly With Multiple Illnesses

...eases; a critical first step is research to define measures of the quality of care needed by this population, including care coordination, education, empowerment for self-management, and shared decision making based on the individual circumstances of older patients, said the authors. Source: Newswis...

Researchers Develop Device For Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaques

...ry rabbits, a device that stimulates, collects and measures light emissions from body tissues has been able to detect the presence of inflammatory cells that are associated with critical atherosclerotic plaques in humans – plaques that are vulnerable to rupture. The study is described in the August 2005 issue...

233 Dead in Mumbai and Thane due to Water Borne Diseases

...time has been no exception. However, precautionary measures are being taken to reduce the cases."....

In The Habit Of Taking Painkillers For Your Chronic Headache? Time To Switch Over

...gs triples the risk of kidney disease, and by some measures accounts for as much as 20 percent of all kidney disease requiring dialysis or transplants. Acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen are the three most commonly used drugs for chronic headaches and arthritis. Older women taking acetaminophen daily (>...

Promoting Medical Tourism In India

... The Government has also introduced various policy measures such as the National Health Policy recognizes the treatment of international patients as an export, which allows private hospitals treating such patients to enjoy benefits such as lower import duties, increase in the rate of depreciation (from 25 per...

Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh

...there is a total absence of any kind of preventive measures here". According to Kushwaha: "There is no system of immunisation against encephalitis, even though its vaccine is manufactured in India." However, according to sources in the state health headquarters here, poor demand for the vaccine had forced...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...and the state health department on Monday lay down measures to combat dengue. The disease has mainly been reported from Lake Gardens, Golf Green, Dhakuria, Jodhpur Park, Tollygunge, Santoshpur and Jadavpur, which have posh apartments as well as slums. The acting Chief Minister Mohammed Amin along with Urba...

Fat Consumption Could Play A Vital Role In Affecting A Child’s Memory

...all, total fat and saturated fat were unrelated to measures of cognitive and psychosocial functioning. But compared with equivalent energy intake from saturated fat or carbohydrate, each 5 per cent increase in energy intake was associated with lower risks of poor performance on the digit span test and for e...

New Blood Test To Detect Iron Level In Infants

...carrying molecule in red blood cells; the CHr test measures the hemoglobin content of reticulocytes, or immature red blood cells, whereas the standard hemoglobin test is based on the entire population of red blood cells. Because reticulocytes are present in the bloodstream for only 24 to 48 hours, as compar...

Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.

...he situation, had urged the administration to take measures against pigs. The disease had taken a toll of 228 people in 2004, but health officials say it could be much higher this time. "Unlike 2004 and many preceding years, when the disease remained confined only to eastern Uttar Pradesh, the virus has sp...

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