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The Publication Of Surgeon Specific Death Rates Raises Controversy

... that the act is misleading and meaningless. The name of the surgeon, list of hospitals in which the surgeon has operated, the total number of patients who underwent surgery and the associated mortality rate are amongst the details published. The request of two journalists for publication of the above i...

New Mexico Debates Over Forcing Mentally Ill People To Seek Treatment

...shot dead five people in August. The law takes its name from Kendra Webdale, who was pushed in front of a train by a schizophrenic in 1999. State Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez said that the bill would help hopeless mental cases as well, "A lot of families have been keeping this under wraps and tryin...

Anti-Retrovirals in Africa, not a distant dream

...n charge of marketing the products under the brand name 'Sonke'. Governments, retail pharmacists, HIV/AIDS disease management companies, nongovernmental organizations and independent community treatment organizations in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, will be the contact points for sales of the antire...

Art Attack: Doodling For a Cause!

...ticed to rub shoulders with the Who’s Who clan, to name a few- Rula Lenska, Ricky Gervais, and Helen Mirren, and contribute their mite for the third National Doodle Day on March 3. // This event is a fund raiser for the Epilepsy Action and The Neurofibromatosis Association, and is growing popular each y...

Setting Standards: Benchmark Medical Tests to Gauge Accuracy of Medical Tests

Medical tests have become a household name as a guide or reference for remedial treatment measures. Is there a standard that gauges the accuracy level of these medical tests. // Researchers use a Gold standard, a bench mark test against which is compared the medical test in question, to gau...

Medicare Drug Plans Are Onerous and Restrictive

...gs for Coventry Medicare plans, marketed under the name AdvantraRx. At the top of each form is a logo saying AdvantraRx: Medicare prescription drug plans made easy. But then he said that each drug has a unique clinical criterion that must be met. Hence these forms serve as a checklist of necessary informa...

Mental Health Court Established

...ible people. In fact, in probation, we even have a name for these people. These are the `under-the-bridge-crowd.' They live and they function in our community, but we hope they stay invisible," James further went on to say "With both federal and local help we can address a problem in our community and pr...

Bone Density Can Be Beefed Up With Twice-a-year shots

...or a placebo or the drug Fosamax, known by another name as alendronate. It was observed that after a year of treatment, denosumab strengthened the bone density in the lumbar portion of the spine by 3.0 % to 6.7%, also marked by overall improvement in density of other bones. After 2 years of treatment, th...

Doctoral communication gets wired badge: wireless communication.

...th anyone in the hospital simply by speaking their name or department into the device. "We've only really been experimenting with it so far," the spokesperson told Government Computing News on February 22, 2006. "We hope that it will save time for staff and also it will help increase staff safety becaus...

Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links

...connection appears pretty uncomplicated, linking a name and a Y chromosome, under the umbrella of a family..., due to exceptional cases cropping up - adoption, name changes, non paternities etc, that weakens the link. Turi King, Stéphane Ballereau, and Mark Jo...

Lost 8 M pounds and blames his medication!!!

...Further more he is suing for his money back. The name of this great man is Max Wells, 55, and he is claiming drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline had failed to warn patients its medicine Requip can cause compulsive behaviour. In addition he is also suing seven casinos he alleges encouraged him to blow his mill...

French Minister To Visit La Reunion Island To Monitor Chikungunya Epidemic

...ed in East Africa as early as 1952 and derives its name from Swahili that means ‘stooped walk’. It refers to the characteristic posture of those afflicted with the disease. The island attracts lot of travelers form Europe and yields a good amount of revenue. Despite the high incidence of the disease, t...

Chikungunya Fever: French Government struggling to Tackle the Mosquito Menace

...read by bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The name has its origin from the Swahili word meaning...

Vitamin E: good, bad or ugly???

...-tocopherol did not. (Tocopherol is the scientific name for vitamin E.) “In the United States we tend to eat a diet rich in corn and soybean oil, so we consume much greater amounts of gamma-tocopherol than alpha-tocopherol. But most of the vitamin E coursing through out veins is alpha-tocopherol – the b...

Genes And Environmental Factors Determine Stress Response

...ction of the chemical. Neurotransmitters, as the name suggests are substances that communicate information to the brain. Therefore any change in level of these chemical substances can have a profound impact on brain function and other physiological functions, mediated by the brain such as glucose metabo...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug Trial Criteria to Be Redefined

.... The drug natalizumab, marketed under the brand name was granted fast track status by the FDA in 2004. Soon after the approval, the drug use was found to be associated with a potentially fatal infection, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The observation of infection in a patient who was...

Pfizer Launches Viagra For Lung Disease In UK

... August. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, as the name suggests is a disorder characterized by elevated blood pressure levels in the pulmonary artery that carries blood to the lungs. The blood vessel disorder is frequently seen in women between the age of 20 to 40 years. More than 100,000 people worldwid...

Thai Doctors Removed 421 Kidney Stones From A Single Person

...an, said Thai Rath newspaper. The patient, whose name was not disclosed, had sought treatment at several clinics for severe stomach pains and urinary complaints but had been wrongly diagnosed as suffering from ulcers prior to being subject to an ultrasound test at the hospital, Wattana told the Thai Rat...

Lung cancer molecular profile discovered by researchers.

... of Health have collaborated in the study. As the name suggests, micro or miRNAs are small segments of genetic material called ribonucleic acid, or RNA, and are thought to control gene ex-pression. Two miRNAs — has-mir-155 and has-let-7a-2 — have been identified that could be used as prognostic indicat...

Chip of a Woman: A 'Human Dairy', Who Has Scientists’ Eating Out Of Her Hands

Call it a human memory chip or whatever fancy name you could possibly conjure to articulate this 'memory feat'. This wonder woman can instantly recall dates and events, with such detail, that has caught the scientists’ //curiosity! She is portraying almost a perfect 10 ability to remember big events,...

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