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Watch what your children eat!

...ill be removed from school canteens and they'll be offering healthy nutritious alternatives and we're working through at the moment how we can manage that." The health survey has also pointed out that adults are simply not leading by example, and make bad role models as far as healthy eating habits go. Pul...

Amgen introduces Autoinjector For Treating Anemia

...oinjector minimize potential needlestick injuries, offering dependable benefits for nurses, oncologists and nephrologists who administer Aranesp in clinics and hospitals." The Aranesp prefilled SureClick autoinjector has three important and unique safety features, including a safety cover that limits needle ...

Gamma Knife Offers Noninvasive Treatment for Vascular Disorders, Brain Tumors

...ent. The scans are entered into a computer program offering a three-dimensional image of the AVM in her brain and allowing her doctors, assisted by a radiation physicist, to chart the coordinates for the powerful Gamma Knife beams. “The Gamma Knife was the safest option for her,” said Dr. Tony Whitworth, as...

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

...has taken up the burden of treating AIDS patients, offering them second-line drugs under the ART (Anti-Retroviral Therapy), free of cost. ART refers to any of a range of treatments that include antiretroviral medications. These drugs are designed to destroy retroviruses such as HIV, or interfere with their...

Ear Infections Treated with “Let’s Wait and Se’

...rt of the child's health-care team. In addition, offering the wait-and-see prescriptions, doctors can help families save time and money by avoiding taking time off work to meet the doctor again if the child's condition worsens because they would already have a prescription in hand. The research has been p...

Oral Drug Rosiglitazone Could Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

...e risk of developing diabetes by about two-thirds, offering a novel preventive approach. "Balancing both the benefits and the risks suggests that for every 1,000 people treated with rosiglitazone for three years, about 144 cases of diabetes will be prevented, with an excess of four to five cases of congest...

Virtual Meeting Place Unites Patients with Brain Tumors and Neurosurgical Disorders

...s and information on neurosurgical disorders while offering patients and their caregivers an opportunity to share their hopes, anxieties and experiences. “The Internet Message Board is designed to be a meeting place and an educational forum for patients, family members, friends and caregivers, regardless of...

Envisaged Specialty Training Programme For Junior Doctors Encounters a Speed Breaker

...ng programme will fail." An executive spokesman offering a peek into what is in store, said that Doctors would certainly be enabled with a choice of location for training, and all other clarifications that have been sought would be addressed soon....

Fertility Clinics Allowing Parents To Select Gender

... while 28 per cent of the clinics surveyed are now offering PGD to detect a propensity for adult-onset diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, hereditary breast cancer, and many other cancers. PGD was originally intended to overcome infertility and to ensure that all children are born with a chance of a ...

Teen Smoking Cessation Programs Improve Quit Rates

... to adolescents and feel confident that what we’re offering is better than if they just try on their own, she said. But overall quit rates for teens are disappointingly low — substantially lower than what we see with adults. We need to start to understand who this works for and why. What are we missing here t...

India's Wockhardt Acquires Irish Firm

...r enlarged customer base in Britain and Ireland by offering them a wider range of products,' Khorakiwala said. Source-IANS...

Free Medicines, Health Insurance for Poor Soon: Paswan

...Another important step proposed by the ministry is offering free or subsidised medication for critical illnesses like cancer and HIV/AIDS. "The policy will address the need to provide subsidised drugs for critical or life-threatening diseases that require expensive treatment. In the case of BPL population, ...

Clinton’s Nutrition Deal Cuts Junk Food on School Menu

...chools across the country invited private vendors, offering a wider variety of foods causing many millions of students satisfy their hunger and thirst with chips and soda, rather than what was on the school lunch menu. Make healthy food alluring enough to win over those kids might be a tough task. NLA...

Exercise to be Prescribed for Robust Health in Elderly

...s. "Health care providers can play a major role in offering effective and inexpensive primary or adjunct therapies, encourage appropriate physical activity, and dispel myths that persist as barriers to exercise in the elderly." Among the useful resources McDermott and Mernitz reference is a book created by ...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

...y in the capital, Everest International Clinic, is offering free tests for dengue patients. There was no immediate official reaction to the reports Wednesday. Source-IANS...

Bush Administration Proposes End of Funding of Anti-AIDS Program in Swaziland

... supporting study of circumcision but not services offering the procedure. Over the past 12 months around 300 men have been circumcised at the Family Life Association of Swaziland clinic in Mbabane as part of a ground breaking research program which has shown that circumcised men are less likely to contract ...

Assam Government to Invest Rs. 60 bn to Improve Healthcare Industry

...owever, was not encouraging despite the government offering a lucrative pay packet. Poor healthcare facilities in rural areas have led to the mushrooming of quacks leading to a high mortality rate in Assam. Source-IANS...

Hemorrhoid Stapling Has More Long-Term Risks Than Surgical Removal

...y. The authors suggested that rather than simply offering stapling to all patients with hemorrhoids, there may be a subset of patients for whom it is more beneficial, and that identifying this subset will require further research. “If hemorrhoid recurrence and prolapse are the most important clinical outcom...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

...begin screening at age 50. To determine whether offering mammograms to women with no history or symptoms of breast cancer actually reduces breast cancer mortality, the reviewers pooled together findings from six randomized controlled trials involving half a million women. The researchers excluded a seventh...

Preaching Health and Wellness from the Altar

...practice what it preaches, the churches have begun offering fresh fruit instead of coffee and doughnuts, as a post-service bite. A healthy diet and active lifestyle will be the only way to bring about a decline in diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer,...

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