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Kerala Health Minister Charged for Infant Deaths in a Hospital

...isation of the hospital. People from the lower and middle classes visit the hospital due to its low treatment charges. A normal delivery at the hospital costs around Rs.3,000 and in private hospitals over Rs.12,000. Source-IANS/V...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...irunal Hospital. People belonging to the lower and middle classes avail of the hospital's services due to the lower treatment charges there. A normal delivery here costs around Rs.3,000, while leading private hospitals charge over Rs.12,000. C.R. Soman, former professor at the Medical College and a publ...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...able to understand here in this random time in the middle of nowhere in the universe," Krauss said. ANN/...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

...p they need.” During a survey of 7,900 Taiwanese middle school students in the age group of 12 to 14, nearly 121 of them had chronic daily headaches. Headaches that occur for 15 or more days per month for two or more hours per days, lasting for more than three months is defined as chronic headache. The ...

Sugary Foods Turn Kids Teeth Rotten in US

...lies with driving down tooth decay starting in the middle of the 20th century. "One of the interesting paradoxes of this is that we've actually had expansion in community water fluoridation in the United States over this time period," Dye said in a telephone interview. "However, we've also had tremendou...

Texas Passes Bill To Halt Order Mandating HPV Vaccine for School Girls

... bill that would prevent mandatory vaccination for middle school girls in the state until 2011, the New York Times reports.// Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Feb. 2 issued an executive order that mandates that all girls entering the sixth grade beginning in September 2008 receive an HPV vaccine. Perry has said the...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

...onths of age. After that point -- which represents middle age for a mouse -- the segments expand and continue to do so as the animals age. Researchers also showed that the expansion of the tracts -- an inherited characteristic -- also caused toxicity in cells that cannot expand, such as nerve cells. The res...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...d that the official policy will be accepted by the middle of 2007. “We want to facilitate genuine ownership and collaboration on nutrition and food policy in Kenya,” Gleason concludes, “so that the many ministries with a hand in food and nutrition are actively working together to implement change.” Sourc...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

...d that 60 percent of boys classified as bullies in middle school were convicted of at least one crime by the age 24. Other research found that one-fourth of American students are bullied at school because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability. Unchecked, bullying can e...

School Playgrounds and Athletic Facilities Helps To Fight Childhood Obesity

... devices that measure intensity of movement. Since middle school girls aren't old enough to drive, the RAND study looked at locations within a half-mile of the girls' homes — a distance they might be expected to walk or ride their bikes. Researchers also examined data on the girls' weekend activity levels. ...

Childhood Obesity may Increase Ear Problems

...with effusion' - in which fluid builds up// in the middle ear without causing pain, fever or other ear infection symptoms. The study, described as the first one to investigate whether the two conditions might be connected, examined 273 South Korean children aged two to seven, including 155 kids who had tu...

Obesity may Be Linked to Middle Ear Effusions in Children

...ffusion, which consists// of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection,...ion, a condition in which fluid is retained in the middle ear space, but without earache, fever or other symptoms, has become increasingly frequent in childre...

Families Need Help to Deal With Aftermath of Suicide Attempts

... like this anymore.” Helping families reach that middle ground between protecting and smothering their children is a main goal for family therapy at the Menninger Adolescent Treatment Program, which treats adolescents age 12 to 17. Patients in the inpatient treatment program struggle with family, school a...

Sex Abstinence Programs Targeting School-goers may Not Produce Desired Effect , Study

...re not like vaccines. You can't expect one dose in middle school, or a small dose, to be protective all throughout the youth's high school career," said Harry Wilson, the commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families. SV...

US Confronted by a Major Healthcare Crisis, Say Critics

...rily. Witnessing this from the vantage point of middle age is frightening. Everyone should be covered, automatically, period. Let the wealthy buy more insurance for the spa-experience in medical care. The basics should be available seamlessly for everyone, she said....

Campaign Against Obesity Taken to Schools in US

...he US. A pilot program was started in one of the middle schools in Michigan three years ago in order to encourage healthy eating habits among school children. Today nearly five public schools in Ann Abhor are actively participating in this three year old program called ‘Healthy School.’ This is bein...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

... Rupees five hundred thousand, something the lower middle class parents of the boy cannot afford. Prevalence of the Parkinson's disease in India is considered lower. 60-100 per a population of one hundred thousand, while in the Western countries it is 116-197. The relatively low incidence notwithstandin...

Hormone Replacement Therapy- Not A Fallen Angel

.... Another reason for the increasing risk is that middle age is a time when women tend to develop other risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes and increased blood pressure. AN...

New Study in SLEEP Finds That Sleep Disturbance Increases Spontaneous Pain in Women

...sleep profiles, akin to individuals suffering from middle of the night insomnia, health care workers on call, and parents caring for infants, alter natural systems that regulate and control pain, and can lead to spontaneous painful symptoms," said Smith. "Our research shows that disrupted sleep, marked by m...

Two-in-one Diabetic Drug Approved by FDA

... The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes among middle aged Americans has doubled over the past three decades, fueled largely by increasing rates of obesity, the ADA says. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, the number of people worldwide with diabetes climbed from 30 mi...

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