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Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

...of New Delhi, India’s capital, hailed from a lower middle class family. But she was dreaming big, studying hard to become a doctor. In November she was admitted to the AIIMS with dengue and Crohn's disease, a severe gastric disorder, often caused by lowered immunity. It was then that the hospital tested h...

Scientists Re-grow Dental Enamel from Cultured Cells

...llagen sponge scaffolds, along with cells from the middle of the tooth (dental mesenchymal cells). The scaffolds were then transferred into the abdominal cavities of rats, where conditions were favorable for the cells in the scaffolds to interact and develop. When removed after 4 weeks, the remnants of t...

Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

...irus enzymes to prevent them from getting a severe middle //ear infection, based on results of a study. Such...lled acute otitis media, is an inflammation of the middle ear space that can cause pain, fever, irritability, lack of appetite and vomiting. The middle ear is...

Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid

...nclude the urban poor along with the upper and the middle class, for the overall conditions in a city to improve. He also emphasized the role of community participation in making sanitation projects successful. Mr Depinder S Kapur, Country Representative, WAI, offered solutions to tackle the iniquitous ur...

Worlds first mobile light surgery

A hospital in Hanoi lost power in the middle of an operation forcing doctors to operated using the lights of their mobile phones. Doctors in the Vietnamese hospital// were trying to deliver a caesarean during the incident, which was reported by one of the doctors on Thursday. The surgeons we...

Neurological Recovery Aided by Manliness

...ain injuries. Good conducted his study on fifty middle aged rural white men. These men had suffered traumatic spinal and brain injuries. They were asked to give the details of their physical strength, sexual performance, independence and successful career achievement. These factors were analyzed later. ...

Researchers Study Health of New Zealand's Indian Community

...ange in diet. In India, diabetes has soared as the middle class has taken on more of the excesses of western lifestyle. The change of diet here is a factor but so too is the climate where there are fewer sunshine hours and it's harder for their darker skin to make Vitamin D," Pamela said. Massey Universit...

Asia- Facing a Health Doom After a Wealth Boom

...ng Kong –The new found affluence amongst the Asian middle class has ensured all round prosperity – fat pockets and fat bodies//. With growing prosperity, the palette has adapted to newer tastes, not necessarily healthier ones. As a result, many prosperous Asians are falling prey to lifestyle diseases of whi...

India’s Life Expectancy to Go Up to 75 Plu

...e from the current 64.7 years to 75.6 years by the middle of the century//. And that is close to the current US figure of 77.5 years. As per the ‘2006 World Population Prospects,’ a report of the population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the number of Indians over 65 years ...

Physical Activity Reduces Hypertension Risk in Young Adults

...gh blood pressure as we go from young adulthood to middle age,” said Michael Zemel, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition and medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. “To achieve levels of physical activity that are protective you don’t have to go from being a couch potato to a gym rat,” Zemel said...

Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...een years and progressing to complete blindness by middle age. Using a line of mutant zebrafish developed by Rockefeller University’s Jim Hudspeth, Perkins and Texas A&M biology graduate student Bryan Krock zeroed in on a specific protein, the Rab escort protein-1 (REP1), which helps regulate intracellula...

Diplomat’s Body To Be Exhumed For H5N1 Clue

...aris apparently after getting the infection in the middle east. Oxford’s team plans to analyze tissue samples from Sykes’s body organs and find out if the virus had spread to other organs from the lungs which were the initial seat of infection. They also want to study if there is a distribution of this vi...

Diabetes Threat Greater Than Feared

... The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes among middle aged Americans has doubled over the past three decades, fuelled largely by increasing rates of obesity, the ADA said. An estimated two-thirds of adult Americans are now overweight or obese. The world can now expect many more people to succumb to ...

Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains: Study

... stress. These kids feel like they're stuck in the middle of a street with a truck barreling down at them." Carrion, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the medical school and director of Stanford's early life stress research program, and his collaborators speculate that cognitive de...

Reasonable Quantities Of Wine May Increase Longevity

...ardiovascular deaths and increase the life span in middle aged men when compared to other types of alcohol. This is the first time that a specific genre of alcohol is attributed to positive effects on the human body. This research studied the pattern of alcohol consumption of 1373 men in varied age groups...

Can Giving More Homework Improve Test Scores For Children?

...hmarks for U.S. students. Five percent of the U.S. middle school students in the survey reported four or mor...ementary schools, and only a very small benefit in middle schools. At the middle school level, the students who did some homework, but not excessive amounts, ...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

... drug at cost price in developing countries and in middle income countries hardest hit by the epidemic. But Thai Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla says Merck lowered its prices too late and the compulsory licence issued will remain in force. He is having talks with other companies who he says can avoi...

Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science

...nce in San Francisco. Proctor claims that by the middle of the 1950s there was a scientific consensus that smoking caused lung cancer. But the tobacco industry fought that finding, both in the public eye and within the scientific community. Tobacco companies funded skeptics, started health reassurance cam...

Merck Announces Plans for Licensing Atripla Widely in Developing World

...or least developed countries and higher prevalence middle income countries (>1% HIV prevalence), and $1032 a year for other middle-income countries that qualify for a discounted price. Atripla will be sold in developing countries as a white tablet in order to differentiate it from the salmon-pink tab...

Newborns With Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease

...out of the respiratory tract, including the lungs, middle ear and paranasal sinuses, have abnormal or no motion. As a result, the airways become obstructed and infected, which incites a destructive inflammatory process in those organs. Cilia are also present in the female reproductive system, central nervou...

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