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Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

...the surgery, Dr. Chow prepared the patient but was not present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the wrong side of the brain in the United States of America and the incident created a furore in medical circles both in India and the United Stat...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...reats were also reported. Even female doctors were not spared. But very few doctors, who were physically assaulted, actually reported the incident to the police.The report says hospitals should advice doctors on what causes aggression, how to deal with it, how to come out of such situations, how to preve...

Water - The silent killer!!!

...res a huge investment globally, but the funds have not kept pace with the need, according to Terrance Thompson, regional advisor for water, sanitation and health at the WHO in New Delhi. WHO is now advocating low-cost technological solutions, such as chlorination of water, solar water disinfection, an...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

...'s education, and the teen's own health status did not affect how often adolescents searched the Internet for answers.Results of the survey, which included more than 400 students, are being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine in San Diego, California.Though it...

South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

....While South Africa can feel that the situation is not as bad as that in Botswana or Zimbabwe, health experts warn that unless the government pulls its socks up, the situation might soon go out of control. ...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

... their roots, says salaries here becomingcloser if not identical to salaries elsewhere in the world, have made theseNRI dreams real in today's context....

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...tion or the abortion pill RU- 486, use of which is not legal in many countries. The scientists studied 300 women after they had unprotected sex and distributed the morning after pill to half the group within 3 days and to half the group after 3 days. The women were followed up and the pregnancy rate was...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

...message, the dentists said that all toothache need not have dental origins and that toothache should not be ignored because it may be the early warning for more important problems. Especially in the third ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...ble as the milk productiondrops and the animals do not gain weight and so are unfit for consumption.Their...or a vaccination programme." India has a policy of not destroying infected cattle and hence has chosen the vaccination option. The vaccine is a liquid pre...

Skinny people need to exercise too

...who headed the study, says that heart disease does not develop from a single factor. “Fitness and fatness...u are just slim. A healthy body is one that is fit not just slim. So the moral of the story is that exercising is mandatory for all- if one needs to live h...

The brain loves a surprise

...ation in the brain's pleasure centers in many, but not all, of the participants. Although this study could not delve into why a surprise dash of juice or water would stimulate the brain, Berns speculated that th...

Spirituality helps lessen arthritic pain

...nces patients reported using in their diaries were not “unusual phenomena, such as seeing visions or having out of body experiences, but rather spiritual experiences that ordinary people have in the context of daily life.” The study, Keefe said, suggests that understanding the daily spiritual and relig...

Ticks may cause more diseases

...that as many as 30% of human patients infected may not have been bitten or scratched by a cat, and anothe... to cause disease in humans. Though the study did not provide absolute proof, the authors say, these arthropods deserve a closer investigation....

Depression may cause delayed wound healing

...y, according to them, is that depressed people may not take care of themselves as well as non-depressed p...s of the immune system, the authors note. This is not the first research into the nexus between psychosomatic features and wound healing. Further research...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

... young children who develop fluid in the ears does not improve speech, hearing or psychological developme...ld. Doctors have been concerned that if surgery is not used in the second case, children could face long-term developmental impairment. "We were led to th...

Chinese paracetamol may be slapped with dumping duty

...n-injurious price, which the domestic market could not recover. Hence the anti dumping duties, the Directorate added....

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

... the post-2002 period. Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans to raise the number of beds to 8000 from the present capacity are already underway and will be completed by 2002. Reddy said Apollo Hospitals had also firmed up plans to enter health insurance and h...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...y Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) Epidemic did not arise from an oral polio vaccine used in Africa in...arch teams demonstrate that the Wistar vaccine did not contain chimp cells and that the virus that would become HIV likely jumped from chimps to humans jus...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

...ok blood samples from 24 men aged 16 to 28 who had not been exposed to DDT in their work. In these men the high DDE levels correlated to low levels of testosterone, low semen volume and low sperm count. However some health experts argue that the benefits of using DDT outweigh the potential health risks...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

...ndition is called thrombo embolism. But this need not occur only in passengers who travel long distance flights according to Dr. Scurr. “This is really about a change in our habits. There has been a general realization recently that people get on planes, drink far too much and just sleep - all bent up....

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