Tag: "norm" at medical news

Spanking can Cause Adverse Effects Later In Life

...ng them, spanking is thought to be accepted as the norm in black families, which could mean black children and parents are relatively less likely to perceive spanking as harsh or unfair. In white communities, where spanking is used less frequently and is thought to be more stigmatizing, frequent spanking ...

Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery

...lowed by knee replacement surgery could become the norm //for many of the 78 million middle-aged Americans. Now a new technique offers hope for active years ahead. Michael Baroli is finally back on his feet, crouching and clicking, kneeling and directing. His glamour photography business depends on his k...

A way to a mans heart !

Yoga and healthy eating is becoming the norm of today’s stress related life styles. Many people are constantly changing their eating habits and turning towards fruits //and vegetables. As constant articles in newspapers and medical journals stress the importance of these two elements (Yoga and ...

Genes responsible for social behavior of us

...// that is responsible for behaving according to a norm in the social circumstances. In a revealing study, researchers from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have been able to establish the neural pathway that decides the social behavior in people. Researchers results came as they were trying to...

Top Pharmaceuticals Influence Doctors Prescriptions

...ting pharmaceutical industry. Currently it is the norm of publication of a scientific article in a peer reviewed journal to compulsorily declare any financial aid or link. The survey undertaken by Nature looked at the panels that write ‘clinical practice guidelines’ for doctors. The survey found that mor...

Land of Kebabs, also reaps enormous profit in fast food

... unthinkable a few years ago, and yet it's now the norm for many across the country. It's no surprise that, as the WHO report states, the non-insulin dependant variety of diabetes (type 2), with typical onset in late adulthood in most parts of the world, is now emerging in children right across Asia. ...

‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

...uce mandatory Chinese style 'one child per couple' norm to arrest the population growth of the country. // Mr.Ramadoss said India would lay emphasis on attaining "population stabilization" through a series of measures including awareness initiatives like 'ASHA'. The minister said: “we are trying to achie...

Effective family control measures and stem cell research focus of Indian Government

...tally against the mandatory ‘one child per couple’ norm currently practiced in China and hopes to achieve population stability through reducing infant mortality and maternity mortality. Massive immunization programs and a new innovative plan called ASHA have been launched recently. He said the government...

Organ Scandals Compensation And The Aftermath

...id about the developing world where poverty is the norm . The arguments and the counter arguments apart it puts a question mark on the issue of Ethical principles, of “legal Organ donaton “...

Serum Institute Launches New Tetanus-Diphtheria Vaccine

...sses the benefit of two vaccines in one, as is the norm in developed countries. It puts us on par with the...e benefit of two vaccines in one, and which is the norm in developed countries' he further added....

Need of the Hour: Viable Strategies against AIDS

...ch a scenario, testing for AIDS has to be made the norm rather than an exception. The world needs to come out of the social taboos associated and follow the example of African countries that are battling widespread AIDS in their own imitable ways. For example Lesotho has a KYS, or "Know Your Status," poli...

Five in Turkey infected with H5N1 virus: health official

... is a relatively well-off area where it is not the norm for humans and animals to live under one roof. The infected boys had contact with dead wild ducks, and the man with a dead chicken, said a ministry spokesman. In addition to the confirmed cases, some 50 other people suspected of having the disease h...

Uncontrolled Diabetes Spells Doom for Dental Implants

...p them clean. These implants are fast becoming the norm rather than the exception in the fast-paced world of today. But a new report appearing in the November/December issue of General Dentistry, the Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD) clinical, peer-reviewed journal, says that there are certain situat...

Eyeing Trouble! Doctor in a blind spot.

While it is the legal norm to take the consent of patients prior to medical trials, a famous eye surgeon has confessed to initiating// medical trials without obtaining approval from the patients. Dr Deepak Chitkara, 46, from Liverpool, found himself in a blind spot after he ...

Wide Discrepancies in Services to Victims of Sexual Assault

...ck of formal medical follow up arrangements is the norm The lack of health funding and facilities to address the health consequences of sexual crime is most extreme in the non-SARC services, with many areas relying on the good will of a small number of doctors to provide a comprehensive service under less...

Winning Formula For Mother and baby - Breast Feeding!

...and, said: 'Bottle-feeding is still considered the norm everywhere, whether it is in seeing the feeding of...ith dummies and bottles. But this shouldn't be the norm – it should be the exception.'...

Highly Pure Form Of heroin Proving To be lethal Killer

...drug, compared to the 100mg which was the standard norm in the past. This they say has resulted in the average strength of a street deal being almost twice that of the same period last year. They further explained that the high-purity heroin could be lethal to addicts, whose tolerance is based on normal...

UN Report Paints Alarming Picture Of Narcotics Scenario In NE

...yndrome as sharing of injection equipment became a norm of the drug users, it said. The report also mentioned about equally worrying scenario among non-injecting sexual partners getting infected with HIV/AIDS in the north east. Saying that the pattern of drug use has undergone a 'sea change' in the regi...

No Link between Scuba Diving and Impaired Lung Function

... divers and controls was greater than the expected norm at the start of the study. During the study period, no significant difference in the decline of FEV1 was observed between divers and controls. However 43% of divers and 33% of controls reported a history of smoking, and researchers found that FEV1 ...

Call For Better Funding Of Doctor-Nurse Teams

... doctor at the core of that team - is becoming the norm in this country. We're calling on the Government to recognise and support that shift with real dollars and cents."...

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