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Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

In a judgement that might stir up another controversy, pitting the doctors against the consumer activists, negligent doctors in Kerala have been asked to pay three lakh rupees as compensation to the family of a pregnant woman who died due to aftershock of spinal anesthesia.Th...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...paracetamol. CERC says that the commonly use drug might cause potential liver damage and might lead on to liver failure. CERC Secretary Ashwini Kumar warns that consumers must be aware of the po...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

...abnormalities, alarm bells should go off, and they might want to explore some of the newer treatments....

Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

...or improving the iron status of young children and might be an affordable way to combat iron deficiency in children of low-to-middle income groups. These candies are the end result of extensive research undertook by Mayang Sari of Helen Keller International in Jakarta, Indonesia and colleagues. The resul...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...ally available virus to kill the brain tumor cells might be a useful treatment in the future. So the next step in this venture is to uphold trust before injecting into the nonhuman primates such as monkeys to make sure that it is safe before using them in humans. And even though nearly everyone is immune ...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...arning about gastric cancer in these rare families might provide clues about how gastric cancer starts and therefore might help in the future, for example in screening and early treatment of gastric cancers in general," Cal...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...osis. Prescription antiperspirants and some pills might help to overcome this situation, but not all people are benefited from this situation. Hence for these people injecting purified botulinum toxin into the skin does a greater relief for such condition. Most sufferers "can find relief with prescriptio...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...he possibility that increase in headache frequency might be due to abuse of even paracetamol, which is harmless. Rachel Hering-Hanit, a neurologist at the Meir General Hospital in Kfar Saba and colleagues said "They should avoid advising children to take pain medications at liberty". "If your child is co...

Alcohol shrinks brain

"Heavy alcohol consumption might exaggerate brain shrinkage in social drinkers. Chronic heavy alcohol consumption should be avoided," according to Dr. Motoo Kubota and colleagues from Chiba University in Japan report in the July issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psyc...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...ville, North Carolina, in a suspicion that smoking might affect the left ventricle of the heart ( an important chamber that pumps the blood to all parts of the body),also called LV diastolic dysfunction.The patient presents with shortness of breath. The reasearchers made their observation in a group of 2...

Cats to protect children from asthma

...anliness hypothesis reasoned that exposure to cats might be protecting from asthma by strengthening the Th1 system. To prove this Thomas Platts-Mills and his colleagues from the University of Virginia looked at the immune reactions of 226 children to cat allergens in their hormones. They found that 1 in 5...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...erature in stroke patients with normal temperature might improve their odds of recovery. Eventhough the a difference of 0.4 degrees celcius may not seem impressive it is noted that the risk of stroke patients dying doubles for every increase of 1 degree celcius. "Though its effects may be modest in size,...

Blocked viens block eye sight

... bubbles in local body fluids, the pure saline jet might make even finer cuts without causing stress to the nearby tissue....

H2O - a cure for low blood pressure

... sugar solution did not elicit the effect. Water might be increasing blood pressure by interacting with osmoreceptors (which sense salt concentrations) or stretch receptors in the stomach or liver," added Jordan, the director of the Clinical Research Center at the Franz University in Germany....

New scalpel probes into cancer

...to the computer by optical fibre.This new recovery might prove a boon for the surgeons....

Prevention is better than cure

...r using the toilet and after touching objects that might carry cold viruses; stay in good general health (diet, rest and exercise); and maintain a social support system - seeing friends, relatives and others on a regular basis....

Big and Bright

... too small to have any practical significance they might be of importance at a population level. Resea...gence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal growth and brain development....

Early detection of prostate cancer

...and high levels of IGF-1, the researchers suggest, might therefore be used to design a more sensitive test ...ed through a PSA test alone. Low levels of IGFBP-3 might also identify men at high risk of developing prostate cancer in the future. <br...

Dark skin protects

...e for darker skin. Mackintosh suggests melanosomes might act like lysosomes in the immune system, which engulf invading microorganisms and use enzymes to kill them. "Melanin is a sticky molecule. The bacteria and fungi get tangled up, and it stops them from proliferating." Also, a protein called attracti...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...lsters the theory that the female hormone estrogen might protect women from colorectal cancer. Dr. Carlo La Vecchia, who led the study said "For a while now we have suspected that estrogen in the pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way to confirm this In the future, ...

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