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Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

...ed sex occur, and easier access to EC eliminates a medically unwarranted barrier to taking emergency contraception within the recommended timeframe,” she said. “So steps like making EC available over the counter are still incredibly important.” When advanced access to emergency contraception was first propos...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...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 said, I'm missing an arm, buddy." Or take the case ...

Nandigram Killings Lead to Depression Among Many

...Nandigram, he fell psychologically ill. We term it medically as shell shock," he said. Explaining the symptoms, Roy said psychological problems generally lead to hypertension, diabetes, headache, physical weakness, gastro intestinal problems and loss of appetite in the human body. Other city-based ps...

Obstetrical Anesthesia Equally Safe When Provided by CRNAs or Anesthesiologists

...ps, particularly those in rural areas and those in medically underserved urban areas with large Medicaid populations, now have a possible long-term solution to their OB anesthesia staffing needs: greater use of CRNAs working without anesthesiologist supervision," Simonson said. He added that further studies ar...

Barking Up the Right Tree to Cure Retinoblastoma

...ld even trigger the tumor cells to commit suicide, medically termed as apoptosis. To infer, the scientists are extremely optimistic about the effectiveness of the extract. They intend to carry experiments on mice suffering the disease. 'The nice thing about the agent is that it kills at very low doses and it...

Stress Could Kill Brain Cells, Says a Recent Study

...hat means in that one week it could be possible to medically intervene and save the nerve cells. Dr. Peterson plans to examine what role antidepressants might play in rescuing the cells. However other experts believe there is evidence to suggest that mild stress could be protective. The rule of thumb seem...

Viagra Helps Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

...lf of the patients treated with Viagra, also known medically as Sildenafil, improved their walking distance by at least 20 percent during a standard test to measure lung function. "Over five million worldwide suffer from this devastating disease, so we are hopeful that this drug may prove an effective therap...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...he poor Dalit community of Mushahars. Kala Azar, medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis and locally called black fever, is also known as the poor man's disease because it affects the poorest of the poor. It has affected mostly the Mushahar community since they are easy prey due to their socio-economic com...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

...r who has collapsed near an anti-theft device when medically advisable, says J. Rod Gimbel, M.D, of East Tennessee Heart Consultants, and an author of the report. If they aren’t moved, they could experience recurring life-threatening malfunction to their implantable device, as did one patient who was described...

HIV Cases at Tihar Jail Soar

...ng other inmates. "All prisoners in the jail are medically screened and strict vigilance is being kept on the HIV-infected people," the minister added. He informed the members that 14 cases were reported in 2005, followed by 20 in 2004 and 14 in 2003. Source-IANS...

Fired HIV-infected Soldiers to Get Back Their Jobs

... could be discharged only if they were found to be medically unsuitable for work. Senior officials in the army and navy have gone through all 11 cases presented before the Court; the defense ministry will re-admit the living claimants. "We will re-enlist any persons the court determines should be reinstate...

Lard, Have Mercy

... as America- the fat capital, where 30 percent are medically obese, Australia, Briton etc., are finding themselves in. The WHO defines overweight as a body mass index greater than or equal to 25 and obese greater than or equal to 30.It has compiled a list of the heaviest nations. Of the top 10 countries on...

Race May Play a Role in Children’s Asthma Car

...a including case management services, provision of medically necessary equipment and supplies and referrals to asthma specialists when needed.” Barbara Tilley, Ph.D., chair of the department of biometry and epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, said the authors’ results wer...

Study to Explore Using Magnets to Correct 'sunken Chest'

...ally realign teeth. Sunken chest, which is known medically as pectus excavatum, is a deformity of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the breastbone. The deformed cartilage pulls the breastbone inward, making the chest look caved in or sunken. The condition occurs in about one in 800 children born in the...

Remicade Therapy Effective in Treating Severe Psoriasis

...emic therapy and when other systemic therapies are medically less appropriate. The recommended dose is an infusion of 5 mg/kg followed by additional doses at two and six weeks after the first infusion and then every eight weeks thereafter. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

... on numerous diet and exercise regimens, including medically supervised weight loss, according to the study. All of the adolescents were screened by a psychologist to ensure that they would comply with the study protocol. “This study suggests that the lap band provides a safer and equally effective weight ...

Ontario Supports OHIP’s Rejection of Claim by North York Ma

...iew the whole standard of who should be able to be medically covered in situations like that," he said. SRI...

Bihar to Wipe Out Kalaazar by 2010

...s,’ Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said. Kalaazar - medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis - is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria. Bihar faced a kalaazar epidemic in 1991 when 250,000 cases were reported. Around 90 percent of kalaazar cases are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal...

Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...e a differentiation within the carotenoid class of medically promising antioxidants and provided, in part, the impetus for Cardax Pharmaceuticals to advance an astaxanthin-based derivative into an IND development program,” according to Fredric Pashkow, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the ...

Tihar Jail Gets De-Addiction Centre

...t every new prisoner coming into the jail would be medically examined on the very first day, so that those with a history of addiction could receive treatment from day one. The drug addicts will be segregated from others and treatment plans for them would include detoxification and rehabilitation therapies ...

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