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Pain in the Back? Try Acupuncture

...it was found that the acupuncture method of fixing needles at certain points produced relief from pain. This treatment was also found to be easy on cost, unlike other pain relieving methods. The efficacy of acupuncture came to light after a study was conducted, where half of the patients were treated wi...

Different Techniques Can Help Ease Chronic Pain, Return Patients’ Smile

...ined therapists aim to ease pain by inserting thin needles into specific points on the body. ? Anesthetics – Medications that can numb or block nerves that signal pain. ? Electrical stimulation – A technique to lessen pain by stimulating nerve fibers through the skin. People in chronic pain should visit ...

Scottish Prisons May Get Needle Exchange Programs

...look at prisoner surveys some say they have shared needles in prison. There will always be people who continue to take drugs in prison," a SPS spokesman told BBC. "If you're not going to change that behaviour and have people who are going to do this, we have a responsibility to them and to make sure that our...

Ex-drug Addict has set up Support System for Drug Victims

...on HIV transmission, prevention, condom promotion, needles and syringe promotion, personal hygiene and other "opportunistic infections". Members of NGOs working with addicts in the northeast state of Manipur were in Rajahmundry for a meet on community-led intervention to prevent AIDS organised by Care India...

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

...his country." During acupuncture, extremely thin needles are inserted into different locations on the body. Some theories on acupuncture suggest that the needles stimulate endorphins to reduce pain; other theories guess that the treatment somehow blocks pain sig...

Elderly People May Have Vitamin B12 Deficiency, Not Mental Deterioration

...s as depression, sleeplessness, numbness, pins and needles and other nervous// disorders, which are taken as signs of mental decline. In elderly people these problems are often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease. Vegetarians are particularly at risk of developing the deficiency, as the vitamin is found in me...

Indian company charged with fraud in supply of Aids test kit

...fray who get the infection probably from discarded needles and such other lapses in hygiene by hospital health workers. The news of this fraudulent practice can in the open following information leaked from the company by an anonymous informer. More than one lakh obsolete blood-test kits in blood banks acr...

Reinfection with Hepatitis C Stopped in drug users

... hepatitis C mainly through their habit of sharing needles during injection drug use. WebMD.com said that further testing on the 658 hepatitis C-positive drug users showed that 506 had persistent infection and 152 had rid themselves of active virus. According to the researchers if treatment-related clear...

Pain Tracked By 3D Computer Map

... their pain as burning, aching, stabbing, pins and needles or numbness, each of which is represented by a different color. The PDA will store the data and future entries can be added so that doctors can see the changing of a patient's condition. Dr George Ghinea, a senior lecturer at Brunel University wh...

Government Initiates A Program To Curb HIV

...now working out the legal issues of providing safe needles to drug users. The Ministry has also planned on introducing a law against discrimination of HIV positives in the Parliament during the next budget session and also any discrimination against the HIV infected, at the work place, educational institutio...

Alarming Rise in HIV Cases in China: Report

...out half of the drug abusers surveyed still shared needles while taking intravenous drugs. Statistics showed that in some areas the infection rate among gay men was 1 to 4 percent. The report did not give further details. Among the total reported cases this year, 5.1 percent were caused by people selling...

Kerala: God’s Own Country Prevails Against AID

...s programme aims to provide drug users, with fresh needles and syringes to dissuade them from re using old ones. There is increasing evidence of HIV outbreaks in India, among men who have sex with men. Sadly, the needs of this group of people are less addressed by National AIDS Programmes. KSACS intends t...

Best HIV-Prevention Programs Help People Build Skills

...ude needle-exchange programs — which provide clean needles to IV-drug addicts — or substance-abuse programs. Nor do the programs examined include those aimed specifically at kids in school (because they’re funded separately) or those that rely solely on HIV testing or counseling of sexual partners of HIV p...

Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

...d through peer education. The supply of disposable needles and syringes should also be enhanced further so that the spread of HIV can be controlled," Reddy said. Source-IANS...

A Nurse’s Job Is Nerve Breakin

...jured while on duty in the previous year, stuck by needles or sometimes even physically assaulted by patients. The survey associates work stress and lack of respect to health problems among nurses. About 12 % of nurses said they were dissatisfied with their job as compared with 8% of all employed women a...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

...seeds are inserted into the prostate through small needles during a brief outpatient procedure. External beam radiation therapy involves a series of 25 short daily outpatient treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. ‘This study is exciting...

Long Term Combo Cure for Prostate Cancer Using Radiation

...seeds are inserted into the prostate through small needles during a brief outpatient procedure. External beam radiation therapy involves a series of 25 short daily outpatient treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. "This study is exciting...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

...seeds are inserted into the prostate through small needles during a brief outpatient procedure. External beam radiation therapy involves a series of 25 short daily outpatient treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. “This study is exciting...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...rom analog polygraphs of the past, which had small needles scripting on a single sheet of scrolling paper, the ‘lie detector’ has, in time, evolved into a sophisticated, state- of -the art digital instrument. The scrolling paper has found a substitute in the algorithms and computerized monitor. Recent techn...

Prison Tattoo Project Should Be Restored: AIDS Activist

...ing. This being the scenario, the usage of sterile needles is of utmost importance in checking the spread of infectious disease like AIDS. Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, had expressed in an article that the federal government did not wait enough to ascertain the effectiveness...

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