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Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...nths' free supply of steroid inhalers. A person needing two doses spends Rs. 8 a day on inhaler drugs. They last 45 days. Though the cost appears to be high, by denying treatment, asthma could turn into chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Asthma is reversible, but COPD is not, he warned. Ste...

Alli- a New Weapon for War Against the Bulges

...including gastrointestinal issues such as urgently needing to go to the bathroom. The pharmaceutical company has been up-front about this, even recommending that people wear dark pants or bring a change of clothes to work until they adjust to the drug. Glaxo is also preparing 250 pages of educational materi...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...dedicated, 24-hour anesthesia coverage for a woman needing an emergency caesarean section can make the difference between a live, but struggling, premature infant and a baby who dies before delivery. Attending physicians available around the clock can also respond at a moment's notice to any signs of trouble...

Coverage for Childrens Mental Illness Reduces Out-of-Pocket Spending

... health care spending among families with children needing mental health care living in parity states compared with those in states without parity laws. Forty percent fewer families in parity states report their childs health care has caused financial problems....

Anemia Drug Overused and Could Hasten Death in Some, Say Experts

...es hemoglobin levels and reduces the likelihood of needing a blood transfusion. In all, about 450,000 cancer patients get the drug each year, said Craig Tendler, a physician and vice president of Ortho Biotech, which sells it under the Procrit name. The two other brand names are Epogen and Aranesp, a modif...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

... of the 67 patients had their pump removed without needing a heart transplant. Six others (9 percent) had died by May 2004, when data collection ended. Yet, after 30 days on the pump, one third of the patients had a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 40 percent (measured when the pump flow wa...

Feeding Premature Babies by Cup may Not Be of Much Help

...eveloped countries as well, especially for infants needing supplemental nourishment. The researchers said that cup feeding "cannot be recommended over bottle-feeding as a supplement to breastfeeding because it confers no significant benefit in maintaining breastfeeding beyond hospital discharge and carries...

Bobby Robson Diagnosed With Cancer for Fifth Time

... for that involved complex surgery, which left him needing a rubber plug in his mouth. Three years before that he overcame bowel cancer. Robson played for Fulham and West Bromwich Albion during a successful career. He won 20 England caps and played in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups. He made his name as a man...

New Cervical Cancer Test Increases the Detection Rate of Abnormal Cells

...bmj.com today. It could also lead to fewer women needing to be re-tested and might allow for longer intervals in-between testing, says Elizabeth Davey and her colleagues. The manual screening of conventional pap smears for cervical cancer has been around for decades but liquid-based cytology (LBC) is now ...

Heart Care for Disadvantaged Children With American Help

...ldren in India. There are an estimated 40,000 kids needing such heart correction procedures. The Lifeline multi-speciality hospital here has set up a foundation with the University of Missouri and the Gift of Life International (GOLI) which "will facilitate complex paediatric cardio-vascular operations for...

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...are starting to rise. The UN lists 34 countries as needing food aid. Since feeding programmes tend to have fixed budgets, a doubling in the price of grain halves food aid. Anger boiled over this week as Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, accused the US and EU of "total hypocrisy"...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...r-related injuries and illness, dropping those not needing air transport to a military hospital from the bott...edical issues: general symptoms like fever or pain needing tests or evaluation; back problems; psychological problems adjusting to being in a war zone; "affect...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...mited medical resources when the number of injured needing care exceeds the resources available to perform care so as to treat those patients in most need of treatment who are able to benefit first. The report provides the greatest detail to date on the death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, in the early h...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

...news for patients with rare blood groups and badly needing transfusions. Just click the mouse . Log on to indianblood donors.com, and donors for any group will reach you in 30 minutes for free. So says a social service group that has been catering to the needy for seven years. Concerned about the shortag...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...n. The success of this case means that patients needing blood and bone marrow transplants from unrelated donors have a new hope and a new destination for the cure. It is the first time that an unrelated transplant of stem cells and bone marrow for patients with advanced leukaemia and bone marrow failure...

Violence at Croatian Gay Pride March

...bic attacks. "Around 10 people were hurt, with two needing medical treatment," Marko Jurcic, one of the organisers, told AFP. Italian senator Gianpaolo Silvestri was in one of the groups attacked, but was unhurt, Jurcic said. Police said the eight arrests were for threatening behaviour towards the marche...

BMA Scotland Calls for Public Debate on How Best to Increase Organ Donation Rates

...umber of organs available and the number of people needing a transplant showing no sign of narrowing, doctors believe that the time is right to consider a review of the current organ donation system and look at new ways to improve donation rates. Dr George Fernie, a member of the BMAs Scottish Council, sa...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...ericans had MS for an average of nine years before needing a cane, walker, or wheelchair, compared to an average of 17 years for Caucasians. However, Rinker says the higher values of antibodies in African Americans did not predict an earlier need for help walking. Media Contacts:Angela Babb, ababb@aan.com,...

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