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A Soldier's Healing Touch

...h complications. He is now considering launching a mobile delivery lifeline. Lahore-born Khullar, who completed his masters in economics in 1958 and joined the Indian Air Force in 1960, retired in 1987. Normal retired life was not for him. It was the poverty and illness plaguing the region that set the ...

Robot Wheelchair Maybe Helpful for Wheelchair-dependent Patients

...er and patient injuries. The HLPR chair draws on mobile robotic technology developed at NIST for defense and manufacturing applications. It is built on an off-the-shelf forklift with a U-frame base on wheel-like casters and a rectangular vertical frame. The frame is small enough to pass through the typica...

Ukrainian Invents a Musical Condom

...ity, similar to tones produced by first-generation mobile phones. Testing has shown no danger of electric shock to users of the device, Chausovsky claimed. "We are working on ways to improve this (the quality of the condom's sound)," he said. An inventor in the east Ukrainian city Zaporizhia, Chausovsky...

Spurt in Malaria, Dengue Cases in Rajasthan

...the spread of these diseases. It has appointed 360 mobile teams to offer treatment in the affected areas. ...eing run on the basis of the special strategy. The mobile units were identifying malaria patients from door-to-door and providing speedy treatment on the spot...

Big Bus, the ￡1.5m Cancer Bus Hits the roa

... Ireland, ahead of many other countries. "The new mobile service will enable Action Cancer to provide a comprehensive, effective and accessible regional service. "It also offers cancer services for males and females of all ages right on their doorstep." The unit also featured a new support scheme called ...

Instantaneous Diagnostic Test for Lead Poisoning

...rs across the nation. Now, the healthcare clinics, mobile health units and schools will be armed with this valuable tool to screen children for abnormal lead levels. It is estimated that nearly 300,000 children aged 5 and below have unhealthy lead levels in their blood, a key indicator of lead poisoning....

Door-to-door Visits to Check Water-borne and Seasonal Diseases in Rajasthan

Nearly 360 mobile teams have been pressed into service in Rajasthan ...alth Secretary Sudhir Bhargava said Monday. "The mobile teams are treating patients in 2,469 villages of the 12 affected districts," he told IANS. The tea...

Chikungunya Outbreak Feared in Jaipur

...ate the anti-larva campaign. Across the state, 331 mobile teams have been constituted to tour 21 districts. Source-IANS...

Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding

...le switch" that allows them to convert into highly mobile cells// , which attack other tissues and nest in t...at the more mesenchymal the cancer cells, the more mobile and metastatic they would be," Garcia-Blanco said. "In reality, aggressive cancer cells are not homo...

Mobiles As Addictive As Smoking In Youngsters

New research finds that mobile phones are as addictive as cigarettes among young ...that the constant habit of being attached to their mobile phones was causing stress among youngsters. His study found that one in seven became restless if t...

British Addicted To Cell Phones

...nes. In his study on how students felt about their mobile phones, he observed that some of the behaviors displayed, closely resembled symptoms of ‘pathological gambling’. In the questionnaire that was passed around for the research, nearly 40% of the total 106 students claimed that they could not do witho...

Burnout imminent with round-the-clock stress

...he 24/7 society is getting to us. Blackberries and mobile phones mean that we are always on call. It is hard to slow down and people struggle to find the time to relax. This has obvious health implications." Not surprising that work-related anxiety and depression has simply doubled in a matter of ten year...

Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

...nium bug and bird flu, to the dangers to health of mobile phones and GM foods, have been blamed for making people more fearful of technological innovations and less trusting of scientists and government. Researchers Jenny Kitzinger and Emma Hughes, University of Cardiff, have analysed British media coverage...

Symptoms develop long before the 'Sudden' Cardiac Death

... 5,000 rescue missions carried out by doctors at a mobile intensive care unit in Berlin, 406 cardiac arrest cases were observed by the researchers in this study.According to the results, 72% of the cardiac arrest took place at home and 67% were witnessed by an onlooker. Information on symptoms before card...

Cell Operators Claim that Mobile Towers Pose no Health Hazards

...rators said Wednesday adding that the expansion of mobile services// in the country would be affected if suc... misconceptions were not cleared. The myths about mobile towers were coming in the way of installing more towers, especially in residential areas, to provide...

Striving to Make India Free from Tooth Decay

...at enhance awareness about oral hygiene and dental mobile vans to provide dental education and free dental check-ups in underprivileged areas in Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi. Colgate will distribute educational material which has tips for maintaining good oral hygiene. Announcing Oral Health Mo...

'Smart Beds' Could Help to Prevent Elderly Patients from Falling

...he corridor and an SMS is sent to the duty nurse's mobile phone, enabling her to arrive at the bedside in time to prevent a fall. Institutions in Japan, Germany and the Philippines had expressed interest in the smart bed system, the hospital said. Developed by Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Engineerin...

Songs Could Help to Overcome Flood Trauma

...M radio stations, the psychiatrists have convinced mobile telephone companies to offer it and similar jingles as caller tunes and ring tones. "Tata and Hutch have agreed to use the song as caller tune. They might introduce it soon," Surat psychiatrist Mukul Choksi told IANS. Choksi, along with 25 psych...

US Miners Still Prey to Black lung Disease

...ed in southwestern Virginia underwent screening at mobile examination units. They completed questionnaires concerning their work history and health as well as underwent spirometry to determine lung capacity, and chest X-rays.30 of them had evidence of rapidly progressive pneumoconiosis. 11 of the most advan...

Flood-ravaged Surat Issues Epidemic Warning

...k of distributing chikungunya medicines. Sixty-two mobile dispensaries have also been allocated for the purpose. The corporation has also set up a special round-the-clock control room, and around 1,000 municipal workers are carrying out a door-to-door survey and awareness campaign. (Source: IANS)...

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