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Kalam to Commission India's First Tele-Radiology Network

... Kalam will return to Hyderabad to dedicate to the nation a laboratory for conservation of endangered species and inaugurate the 65th annual meeting of the All India Ophthalmological Society before returning to New Delhi. Source-IANS...

President’s Address on the ‘Tele-Radiology’ Set Up of Krst

... reduction in cost. Reach the Unreached The nation at present has only less than 6000 radiologists. The introduction of tele-radiology will not only enable efficient utilization of this scarce expertise but also enable training and continuing education of radiologists throughout the country. This can...

Cancer Death Rates High in African-Americans

...rector of prostate and colorectal cancers. “As the nation celebrates Black History month this February, this report makes clear there is a need for more focus on improving socioeconomic factors and providing educational opportunities that can help further lessen cancer’s unequal burden on African Americans....

13,000 Cases of Dengue Found in Brazil in January

...zil while type three, the severest, arrived in the nation in 2000 and spread rapidly through Mato Grosso do Sul. A person who survives one type of dengue is not immune to the other two strains, and a second infection with dengue is usually much worse and can lead to hemorrhage and death. Source-Bio-B...

One More Bird Flu Victim in Indonesia

... the sixty fourth casualty due to bird flu in this nation which is the highest for any country in the world. According to the health ministry, this woman had contacted the H5N1 virus from a dead chicken in her yard. Investigations are currently going to confirm this. The human incidence of bird flu is al...

Pakistan: Authorities Plays Down Bird Flu Risk

...rcent of total meat consumption in the South Asian nation of 158 million. There are about 29,000 poultry farms across Pakistan. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Site Called Safe Two Years After Anthrax Death

... wave of anthrax attacks and hoaxes that shook the nation with bioterrorism fears shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The publisher later moved from the building, and the case remains unsolved. In a letter to the Palm Beach County Health Department, federal officials said the ...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

...ratory became one of the first laboratories in the nation to receive government approval for ophthalmic testing under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA). For each test described in the current study, scientists analyzed one or more of eight genes known to cause diseases of the retina. O...

PAHO Urges Readiness for Dengue Outbreaks in 2007

... affected a// number of communities throughout the nation and has raised concerns among neighboring countries in South America. PAHO officials warn that the entire Latin America region needs to take preventive measures to prepare for what promises to be a "difficult year" for dengue. In mid-January, Par...

Special Delivery Unit for Pregnant Moms With Birth Defects in Fetus

...ore and after birth and now babies from across the nation and around the world can be cared for in one place dedicated specifically to the care of these babies and their mothers,” said Lori Howell, RN, MSN, executive director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. “The SDU is located near the hosp...

US Health System Getting Worse, Says Expert

...The United States is the only major industrialized nation without universal health insurance, //writes Karen Davis, President of the Commonwealth Fund. Coverage varies widely between states and has deteriorated in recent years. The number of uninsured people has increased from 40 million in 2000 to nearly 4...

Indonesia En Route to HIV Epidemic, Experts Warn

...0 to 216,000 HIV cases in the most populous Muslim nation of the world, which has a head count of 220 million. Higher incidences are seen among a special group- drug addicts and sex workers. Though measures against the virus are satisfactory in more developed regions of the nation, it is woefully the...

Dummy Emergency Operation Launched

...ritain are wary of a bird flu epidemic hitting the nation and the exercise is meant to train medical and health professionals to handle the situation. Usually bird flu refers to the virus found chiefly in birds, but infections with these viruses have occurred in humans since 1997, in Asia, parts of Europe...

UAE Introduces Cervical Cancer Vaccine

...% of cases. In the Middle East, UAE is the first nation to have got sanctions for this vaccine from the ministry of health in November 2006. Gadasil can be administered to girls from nine years which would develop, toughen and augment resistance to cervical cancer. JYT...

Too Much of Salt in Bread..

...y appear unimportant but we eat so much bread as a nation that they can add up to major differences in the amount of salt we eat." In reply the baking industry said that salt levels had fallen considerably since 2005. Gordon Polson, the director of the Federation of Bakers, assured that the bakers had agr...

Japanese Turn to China for Organ Transplants

... in their homeland are turning to the neighbouring nation where surgeries are less costly and quicker. Kenichi Hokamura, 63, of the southern Japanese province of Miyazaki had to wait only a week to be invited to Shanghai for his kidney transplant after calling a broker. "I would have died had I waited her...

Indian Doctors Headed to Lahore to Take Part in Gynecology Conference

...pulation and healthy mothers can lead to a healthy nation and prosperous future," he added. "Farrukh Zaman and Rashid Latiff are the organising chairpersons of the conference and both are very happy that over 600 delegates will visit Lahore from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhu...

Medical Personnel Can Save More Lives by Screening for Oral Signs of Disease

...hy People 2010, a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. Particularly hard hit are the city's Black and Hispanic populations, which account for 81 percent of new HIV diagnoses, as reported this past September by the New York City Department of Health and...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

... acceptable that 9 million children in the richest nation on earth have no health insurance and therefore do not get all the health care they need.' Steele is seeking mothers, and fathers too, to stand as lobbyists from Washington and press Congress for more funds to flow in order to support the S-CHIP. ...

Chinese Health Ministry Okays KFC

After a food scare that swept the nation off KFC last week, the Chinese Ministry of Health has come out with a clarification expected// to be met with sighs of relief, from the fast food chain. There was public furor over reports of a chemical used in the filters to purify cooking oil. ...

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