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‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

...hieve population stability through reducing infant mortality and maternity mortality. For that, we have launched massive immunization programmes and a new innovative plan called ASHA," he said. Plans were there to train around 2.5 lakh 'Accredited Social Health Activists' (ASHA) in all villages to work with ru...

Meta Analysis Links Diabetes And Colorectal Cancer

...between diabetes and the prevalence and associated mortality from colorectal cancer. //The analysis was conduct...abetes was found to be associated with significant mortality from colorectal cancer, although the nature varied from case to case. Diabetes has emerged as the ...

Effective family control measures and stem cell research focus of Indian Government

...hieve population stability through reducing infant mortality and maternity mortality. Massive immunization programs and a new innovative plan called ASHA have been launched recently. He said the government would train around 2.5 lakh 'Accredited Social Health Activists' (ASHA) in all villages to work with rur...

Radiation Risk of Pelvic Fracture in Elderly Women

... in the elderly. Falls are the leading cause for mortality and morbidity worldwide, second only to road traff...fically women have significantly high fall related mortality rates in comparison to young adults. Pelvic fractures also pose a serious threat to the health of ol...

Steady decline in Cancer Mortality in UK

...t decade. The survey, which included incidence and mortality data of patients of the age group of 35 - 69, found that between 1993 and 2003, while the cancers of the lung, breast, bowel and prostate are still the most common types, the incidence of some less common cancers is increasing. However, the survey f...

Disparity In Survival Rates In US and Canadian heart Patients

... of care and 30-day and one-year risk-standardized mortality rates among 28,521 U.S. Medicare beneficiaries and... risk characteristics on admission and lower crude mortality rates at 30 days and 1 year. The death rate at 30 days was 8.9 % for U.S. patients, which was signif...

India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer

... gained in terms of reduction in the incidence and mortality due to oral, cervix and breast cancer, will be transferred to the National Cancer Control Program (NCCP). 'The outreach programme will provide the basis for utilizing low cost technology tools for down staging cervix and breast cancers in societies ...

Surgeons Not Happy With Treatment Offered To Their Patients

...s was found only in a quarter of the postoperative mortality cases. Out of the total death toll of 4,091, under surgical care in 2004, nearly 50% of all cases (2,255) were found to occur following emergency admissions. Following these reports, perhaps it is time for doctors to take care of their mental hea...

U.S. Hospitals may help Spread Bird Flu Pandemic

...three pandemics. The report assumed a 2.5 percent mortality rate, that the pandemic would last for three months and that 30 percent of the workforce would become ill and miss three weeks of work. The report predicted that people would stay home and reduce turnout at restaurants, shopping malls, sporting eve...

US life expectancy climbs to a new high

...acial, ethnic and insurance-status groups. Overall mortality was 30 percent higher for black Americans than for... percent of women were smoking in 2003. ·Infant mortality continued to decline in 2003, to 6.9 deaths per 1,000 live irths....

$35 billion needed globally for immunization

...AVI partners envisage reducing by two-thirds child mortality caused due to vaccine preventable diseases like malaria, rotavirus, Hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B (HIB). Many of the vaccines against these diseases have been in use in the developed countries for the last 15 years, but have failed t...

Health bonds to immunize the poor

... flows to finance the investments needed to reduce mortality related to poverty. If countries achieve the health goals set for 2015, more than 70 million children who live in the world's poorest countries will receive each year life-saving vaccines against the following diseases: tuberculosis, diphtheria, te...

Prostate Cancer Test Is Influenced By Age and Nutrition Factors

...hat there has been a sharp drop in prostate cancer mortality since 1992. Researchers attribute this fall to an increase in screening for the cancer using the PSA test. However, many of the researchers maintain that this test alone leads to dodgy results and necessitates undergoing biopsies and transrectal ultr...

A cost effective heart failure drug hits the market!

...ts treated with ISDN/HYD had a significantly lower mortality 6.2 percent compared to 10.2 percent. This study was aimed at the African –American community only....

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...oor regenerative capacity, accounting for the high mortality and functional disability following traumatic brain injury. More that 15 to 25% of children suffering severe traumatic brain injury die. Those who survive face a life long disability even in case of a moderate injury. The I phase of the clinical tr...

India extends National TB Control Program

...ewed as a major health problem because of its high mortality and morbidity. RNTCP was introduced in India through a series of pilot projects beginning in 1993. Over the years it has been gradually stepped up to cover a larger population. In 1997, the World Bank assisted RNTCP was launched at a project cost o...

Serum Institute Launches New Tetanus-Diphtheria Vaccine

...iphtheria has doubled in the last one year and the mortality rate of 20 per cent in India is also very high," he said. There were other reasons also for the company to launch the vaccine. "The Indian Academy of Pediatrics has recommended the use of Td vaccine in all individuals over the age of seven years," ...

New tetanus-diphtheria combination vaccine launched by Serum Institute of India

...s most common in areas with poor sanitation, has a mortality rate of nearly 20%. Tetanus, a vaccine preventable disease is caused by infection with Clostridium tetanii, a bacteria that gains access to the human body through an open wound. Approximately one-half of all individuals between 21-30 years of age a...

Lifespan And Height Interlinked With Juvenile Diseases.

...ping cardiovascular diseases // . They collected mortality data of individuals from four European countries- ...he childhood infection were shorter and had a high mortality rate when compared to individuals who did not suffer from childhood infections. Childhood infect...

Milk Thistle Not An Effective Cure For Liver Disease

...histle milk could be found with respect to rate of mortality or complications associated with liver disease. Infact, it was nothing more than a placebo. When the adverse effect factor was analyzed, no significant increase in the adverse effect was evident. However, this alone cannot mean that milk thistle is...

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