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Does Your Prescription Have An Inappropriate Medicine?

...iate medications for older people. Using data from national health // care surveys, researchers, looked at prescribing patterns in physicians’ offices and outpatient clinics in 1995 and 2000. The results showed nearly 8 percent of all the visits involved prescribing at least one drug on the “inappropriate” li...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...d," Dr. Lasky tells Ivanhoe. Gleevec has received national attention for its success in treating leukemia. Because fibrosis and cancer share some of the mechanisms of the development of the disease, Dr. Lasky says doctors thought it might be of some benefit for the patients who have fibrosis. In this diseas...

Reducing The Rate Of Hospital Acquired Infections

...urrent research, isolation measures recommended in national guidelines should continue until further research can be conducted....

Asthma Sufferers Lacking Physical Activity

...say it’s important for asthma patients to meet the national recommendations. They hope health care providers can help educate patients about the importance of being active and help patients find a way to achieve a higher level of physical activity....

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...S$ 10 million are needed to train decision-makers, national health planners and medical service providers. This will take place in 20 high-priority countries. Funds will also be used to measure progress. "Each time, such a gathering reminds us vividly of the loss of lives of those we cared for and our belove...

A way to a mans heart !

...and vegetables per day has been recommended in the national 5 A Day for Better Health Program for cancer prevention, but the protective effect of fruit and vegetable intake may have been overstated. Our findings for cardiovascular disease still support the recommendations of the American Heart Association of ...

Who Board To Discuss Asian Tsunami Related Health Issues

...eople after tsunami. WHO has worked together with national and local authorities, other international organizations and NGOs to get medical and logistic staff and supplies to areas where they were most urgently needed. For more information contact: Ms Fadéla Chaib Director-General’s Office/Media and Commu...

Research reports that c-section deliveries are rising

... for the year 2004. In an attempt to find out the national trend, the researchers had targeted 12 causes for ...earchers are of opinion that it is required that a national surveillance authority to look into the conditions that may lead to cesarean deliveries so that prim...

Education in women brings sounder sleep

... more than men. The researchers had carried out a national survey of 39,588 people of the age group pf 15 years and older in the city of Taiwan. The researchers considered several factors other than gender differences, like the social roles and socio economic status. The results of the study had shown that ...

Poll Finds Many Americans Misinformed About Cancer

...ncer Society researchers conducted in interesting national survey that was led by Ted Gansler, M.D., M.B.A to look at the prevailing myths about cancer //in the minds of the public. They did a phone survey of 957 adults with no history of cancer to assess their understanding of the disease and its managem...

Poll Finds Many Americans Misinformed About Cancer

...ncer Society researchers conducted in interesting national survey that was led by Ted Gansler, M.D., M.B.A to // look at the prevailing myths about cancer in the minds of the public. They did a phone survey of 957 adults with no history of cancer to assess their understanding of the disease and its manage...

Men tend to deny being overweight

A national survey of men by the Cancer Research UK suggests that about 25% of the participants// are in denial of their weight problem. The data, which was collected across the country of UK, suggest that 65 % of the men surveyed are either overweight or obese...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

... The Dutch Pediatric Society has plans of adopting national guidelines which is called as Groningen Protocol t... reporting of all cases of newborn euthanasia to a national committee of doctors, lawyers, and ethicists. Such euthanasia law board exists for adults, now a nee...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...culturally and economically productive person is a national asset," he said. The prime minister asked the commission to suggest practical policy options for the government, the private sector, educational institutions and other civil society organisations. (IANS) Further Information on Indian Population...

Clampdown On Fake Drugs Manufacturers In India – New Bill Enacte

...rug manufacturing, they would have ordered for the national survey which was recommended by the Mashelkar committee last year. They also feel that there is no need to mix trade-mark offences and spurious drug manufacturing when there is already sufficient law under trademark and copy rights to handle such cas...

"Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM

...nd prevention is the only cure, and to support the national resolve to defeat HIV/AIDS. Union Health Minister A. Ramadoss, minister of state P. Lakshmi and state ministers and legislators were present at the function that marked the culmination of a month-long awareness campaign by AASHA (AIDS awareness and ...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

...e Padma Shri in 1986. She has also won a number of national and international awards. On hearing about the awa...e on cancer, has to her credit, 95 publications in national and international journals. This annual awards is Asia's version of the Nobel Prize. It will be p...

New Bioinformatics Centre to open in Andhra

...rmance computing. The centre will also serve as a national node for Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBi...years ago in the US. The centre would also have a national telemedicine utility to network with hospitals and pharma companies to accelerate the process of dru...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

...ers most of the postmenopausal women enrolled in a national study had undetected low bone mineral density, some of them with osteoporosis.The research, found that these women are at increased risk of having a bone fracture within one year. //According to Dr. Ethil Siris, of Cleavland University College of Sur...

Arsenic in drinking water

...e Value"; and many countries have kept this as the national standard or as an interim target. According to the...intended for use as a basis for the development of national standards in the context of local or national environmental, social, economic, and cultural conditio...

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