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Hospital Cuts Costs By Moving Cancer Patients To Hotels

...HS) trust will be moved out of wards and put up in nearby hotels under plans to save tens of millions of pounds on hospital beds in Britain.// According to a report in the Sunday Times, over 100 patients suffering from cancer or blood disorders at University College hospital (UCH) in London have already st...

British Grandmother has timely bypass surgery in India

...weeks and then had a week in a hotel so that I was nearby for when my stitches were cut." Mavis, a retired wages clerk, thinks that it is wrong for people to have to go so far as India for treatment. "From my experience I think the NHS is good in emergencies," she said. "But if you have to go on a waiting ...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...of a second chemical leak, said contamination of a nearby river was under control. The blast in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killed one worker and evacuated 6,000 people. About 800 residents and Communist Party members were helping clean the contaminated portion of the Guixi River using sc...

Oil Depot Fire Pollutes Air

...because of the low toxity smoke. The people living nearby have been called upon to remain indoors and keep their windows and doors closed. The British Lung Foundation’s Professor Warren Lenney has warned that the lungs and even the brain may be affected through inhaling the acidic smoke’s soot particles. T...

DNA Underwent Changes Due To Culture

...ed a particular variant of a gene causing the SNPs nearby to be selected as well. For their study, Robert Moyzis along with colleagues from the University of California, searched for instances of linkage disequilibrium in a collection of 1.6 million SNPs scattered across all the human chromosomes. Then, ...

Recanalization enables Tsunami mourners to parent again

...hopes also for Selvi, 25, and Geetha, 26, from the nearby Keechangkuppam village. They are among the 51 women in the district to have undergone through recanalization surgery in the post-tsunami period. "Recanalization involves joining the fallopian tube that is severed during sterilization surgery to pr...

Snippy haircuts, snappier AIDS lessons from barbers

...rough these barbers. "Every week we assemble in a nearby park where we give them basic information about the disease. These barbers are told about everything, right from the causes, prevention, to where to get blood tests done. "So many times they send people to us for counselling," said Pal. Right in f...

Being Active In Winter Despite That Inner Urge

...eople should consider signing up for a course in a nearby gym or arranging appointments with a home fitness trainer. Buchner also knows how difficult it is for some people to get out and exercise. Once they are home, the gym suddenly is kilometres away, even thought it is just around the corner. To over...

Foot and Mouth Disease strikes again in China

...ng to slaughtering of 89 cows and 110 sheep in the nearby area as a precautionary measure. The other outbrea... leading to slaughtering of all the animals in the nearby town. Tests from the National Food and Mouth Disease lab confirmed the infection of Asia I strain ...

Polluted Water Prevents Men From Getting Married

...nated drinking water from Bilaspur dam to Dudu and nearby villages, the BJP Government had not pursued the project. Edited ANS...

Gene for Schizophrenia identified

... done in mice to prove that similar changes in the nearby regions of the brain involving learning and memory resulted in an analogous cognitive problem. Also studies to prove that schizophrenic patients are affected with similar cognitive problems as that experienced with the mice. By this way we can be s...

Understanding the RNA binding protein and its functions inside the cell

...h is activated by light cross-links the PNA to the nearby protein. The researchers then isolate an array of proteins from the complex of the PNA, the targeted mRNAs, and associated RNA-binding proteins. The cells are then degraded and the proteins that interact with the mRNA are identified with a mass sp...

Tectonic Plates Colliding Can Cause Earthquakes

..., this basin fills with sediment that empties from nearby rivers. It appears that the most severe subduction zone earthquakes occur in areas where such sediment-filled basins are found. When sediment is deposited on top of the overriding plate, it reinforced the edge of the plate and caused it to stick d...

Mental Health Services at Wellington Hospital in Poor Shape

... said to have jumped into the tiger enclosure at a nearby zoo in February 2003. The two proposed care centers are likely to open by the beginning of next year, the locations of which has not been disclosed so far. With this being the situation, let’s hope that the shifted patients would receive better m...

Uganda Tackles The Meningitis Outbreak

...g of hands, avoiding overcrowding and rushing to a nearby health center if feeling ill. Ugandan officials reveal that the statistics show that about more than 300 cases of meningitis in Karamoja are recorded in the previous year. The rise in the number of cases is seen mainly in the districts of Kotido, ...

Measles Outbreak In Bihar Creates Panic

...id. Some villagers claimed they had informed the nearby government health centre but no officials or doctors had visited them. Edited IANS...

After Bird flu its anthrax that scares the wits out of people

...tration has urged people of Dedakiyali village and nearby villages to report any case of bleeding from eyes, ears or mouth of livestock to the nearest health department office. "In case of death of any animal, the carcass should be buried after spraying lime and salt on it," Vaghasia added. So it is c...

Beauty parlours Cause for Concern

...ve to submit no objection certificate (NOC) of the nearby residents. The proposed act categorizes the parlours in three categories. The annual fee for the first category will be Rs.5,000, Rs.2,000 for the second and Rs.1,000 for the third category.Source: IANS...

Thailand To Procure Botulism Antitoxin Internationally

...le since a Ministry of Public Health team was in a nearby area conducting research on chronic liver cancer....

10-Kilo Tumor Removed From Cancer Patient

... The woman, 66, was brought to the hospital from a nearby village after suffering severe stomach pain for several days. Doctors said they were shocked to find a tumour that had virtually filled most of her abdominal cavity. The tumour was of a huge size in relation to the slightly built patient, who had t...

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