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Researchers Feel The Need For Standards Of Practice In Immunoglobulin Therapy

...nistration has been widely adopted. Although SCIG must be given more frequently than IVIG, clinical trials have demonstrated that it can be self-administered at home without the assistance of a doctor or nurse. Source: Newswise...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

...ain this potential epidemic, prevention activities must include better management practices in farms, especially those that are small and open-air, where domestic poultry and waterfowl are allowed to intermingle with wild birds. Officials would also need to monitor wildlife markets-where wild and domestic...

Attitude Towards AIDS Patients – Time For A Change

... their illness - which any person with any illness must do - but also have to face the torment of discrimination and stigma // . Our attitude to the disease rests largely on ignorance regarding the disease inspite of the massive awareness campaigns that has been conducted so far. Infact, a hardened cultu...

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...t do if the body was functioning normally. Heparin must be used to prevent clotting of the blood in the dialysis machine in order to safely perform hemodialysis. At this time, there are no other widely used alternatives to heparin. The results of this analysis, if confirmed by others, might stimulate the ...

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

... presented suggest that environmental risks for MS must be accounted for by factors that do not affect birth-order position. Source: Newswise, The Lancet...

Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.

...told. "Vaccines will not be of any use now. But I must say that we have now learnt a lesson and we would be better equipped to deal with the disease next year." But Singh's word cannot be taken at face value as Japanese encephalitis has been striking the state for 27 consecutive years, claiming more tha...

Uganda Reports Failure To Contain Sleeping Sickness

...tes to tsetse. Similarly, effective tsetse control must reduce vector challenge sufficiently to effect transmission to human beings . . . As livestock movements results in the spread of T b rhodesiense, controlling such movements or treating livestock before movement is a matter of urgency . . . Outbreaks...

WHO declares Tuberculosis – ‘An Emergency’ in Afrca

...uis Gomes Sambo. “Urgent and extraordinary actions must be taken, or else the situation will only get worse and the TB targets in the Abuja Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved." TB is second only to HIV/AIDS as a cause of illness and death of adults in the world and is ...

Encephalitis Deaths in Maybe higher than Reported

...they are treating "so the actual number of deaths must be much higher." According to K.P. Kushwaha, the doctor in charge of the special Encephalitis Unit set up at Gorakhpur Medical College, "With more than 280 patients in our two paediatric wards that have barely 130 beds, the situation is well imagina...

Initiation Of New Study To Help Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia

...cells that are not sickled. This ongoing treatment must later be combined with nightly injections of a drug (Desferal ?) that eliminates excessive iron buildup caused by regular blood transfusions. Excessive iron damages internal organs--a condition called haemochromatosis. The nightly injections of Desf...

Mad Cow Disease Has Roots Traceable To Man

...n a sheep, which was probably imported. Scientists must proceed cautiously when hypothesizing about a disease that has such wide geographic, cultural and religious implications. We agree that the idea proposed by the researchers need to be probed further. Facts to support or refute their hypothesis now ne...

Incidence of breast cancer increasing in urban India

...d treatments for women with breast cancer. Women must avoid fatty food and exercise from an early age to reduce the risk of breast cancer, which has surpassed cervical cancer in metros. We need to bring about awareness among women about how to reduce the risk of breast cancer. It is no more a death se...

Obesity Surgery May Not Work All The Time

... the time.// Operations performed on patients who must lose weight rapidly in order to survive can certainly save lives. But poor patient selection and incompletely studied complications and results may fail to clearly draw conclusions about the efficacy and safety of these procedures, reports the invest...

Safe Driving Is Possible For Older People If They Are Prepared

...eir recommendations are the following: · You must work with your doctor to reduce your risk of falling ill and to detect and treat problems early. · Stay mentally and physically active to keep your mind and body sharp. · Consider a driving evaluation for seniors, and don't be too proud—or ...

Women’s Heart Conditions Are Often Ignore

...y this, the author suggests that participants’ sex must be considered in the design and analysis of cardiology studies. Better awareness and education, earlier and more aggressive control of risk factors, and appropriate access to diagnosis and treatment are desperately needed to tackle this potentially ...

Controversy over spread of Mad Cow disease from India

...as brought into Britain during the period when BSE must first have occurred and the largest source coming ...om the Himalayan Foothills. But still, "Scientists must proceed cautiously when hypothesising about a disease that has such wide geographic, cultural and re...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

... cells (the "givens"). Each row, column and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. This mental exercises increases logical thinking. Sudoku initially became popular in Japan in 1986 and attained international popularity in 2005. Aerobic exercise makes your heart breath harder, and their h...

Virus May Check Spread Of Bird Flu

...za, he said. Every time bird flu mutates, vaccines must be redesigned. An additional important advantage to using an adenovirus as a vector, or transporter of vaccine into cells, is that is could be mass-produced much more quickly than with current methods. Even with a recently developed vaccine based o...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...rapy on people," Guo said. "First and foremost, we must ensure that it is as safe as we think it is. Some RNA can be toxic to noncancerous cells as well, and though our nanoparticles appear to go straight to the cancer cells where we want them to go, we have to be sure they do not go anywhere else before ...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

...them. We live in a democratic country and everyone must have the freedom to earn his livelihood." But he added: "We are already in the process of undertaking large scale insecticide spraying and fogging in and around piggeries. Once mosquitoes are destroyed, the bulk of the problem would be over." A co...

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