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Kolkata To Get World-Class Cancer Hospital Soon

...anies. The centre would have 150 beds as well as outpatient and ambulatory facility for patients suffering from cancer. Speaking on the occasion, Ratan Tata said that the centre would benefit the ill-served eastern part of the country. He said a world-class research facility would be built within TMC to c...

37 times unlucky – Failure to Diagnose Cancer, Takes the Life of a 31 year old fathe

... this time, many to accident and emergency and the outpatient departments, but not once was a correct diagnosis made. He had various appointments for scans and physical examinations but not once was kidney cancer raised as a possible cause. ...

Trans-radial Angiograms: A Boon For Cardiac Patients

...od is safer, economical, and a "walk-in, walk-out" outpatient process compared to other procedures. "In this procedure, an angiogram is performed through the small (radial) artery in the wrist rather than the femoral artery," says Chugh, who has performed 3,500 such cases in India and abroad. "Patients are ...

Proper Diagnosis Could Augment Speedy Recovery Of Haglund’s Syndrom

...go surgery,” he said. “Ultrasound is a nonsurgical outpatient procedure that does not require sedation and, when used in conjunction with modifications in footwear and activity, is an appropriate initial treatment for relief of the pain associated with this condition.” Source: Neswise...

Pop a pill once a month and free yourself from alcoholism

...tients who are able to abstain from drinking in an outpatient setting and are not actively drinking when initiating treatment. This was told by the companies. <br...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

...ents should be able to abstain from drinking in an outpatient setting when initiating the treatment. Also, the drug should be used in coordination with psychosocial support such as counseling or group therapy, according to the companies. "Vivitrol is the first once-a-month medication for alcohol dependence th...

Concerns About Popular Anti-Ulcer Pill Used For Inducing Labor

...egimen of oral misoprostol can be prescribed on an outpatient basis around a woman’s due date. 'What woman wouldn’t want to be able to take a pill to control when she went into labor?' she asks. 'But we’re a long way away from that.' The review itself noted that 'most studies … did not assess women’s views or...

The Price Of Autism

...nclude direct medical costs, such as physician and outpatient services, prescription medication, and behavioral therapies (estimated to cost, on average, more than $29,000 per person per year) and direct non-medical costs, such as special education, camps, and child care (estimated to annually cost more than $3...

Doctors In Victoria Plan A Hour long Walkout For Pay Rise

... would be some disruptions to elective surgery and outpatient care between 12.30pm and 1.30pm (AEST). But, he said that there wouldn’t be any interference with patient care. He also said that hospitals will be manned and that there would be no compromise in case of an emergency. He explained that the disruptio...

B-Cell Biologic Therapy Could Revolutionize Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...2006 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. Drawn from outpatient populations in California, Texas, Arizona, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, and England, the subjects were randomly divided into nine treatment groups. Three groups received a 1,000-mg. dose of rituximab--two infusions two weeks apart--with either intrav...

Most Women Have Unrealistic Expectations From Screening Mammography

... A survey was administered to women who came to an outpatient clinic for screening mammography. The participants were 397 women ranging from 40-83 years old. The responses to the survey questions showed that 16% thought that their personal risk of breast cancer was 50% or higher. These numbers compare to Americ...

Surgery or IUD for Heavy Periods

... serious complications and can often be done on an outpatient basis. “I think we are very lucky that we have a huge range of options,” said Duleba. “Physicians should be aware of these options and review them with patients in a stepwise fashion of degree of aggressiveness because the patient’s attitude, toler...

Introduction of Microbial Organisms: A Possible Treatment for Asthma

...follow-up visits at UCSF Children's Hospital or an outpatient center starting at one month old. Researchers will analyze the data from the visits to see if the active supplements prevented or delayed the appearance of the early signs of asthma. Cabana said a similar study conducted in Finland found that adminis...

Link Established Between FSD and High Blood Pressure

...esearchers who evaluated more than 400 women at an outpatient clinic in Greece found sexual dysfunction in more than twice as many of those with essential hypertension as those with normal blood pressure. They also found that sexual dysfunction rates gradually increased in older versus younger hypertensive w...

Hypertension linked to Female Sexual Dysfunction

...esearchers who evaluated more than 400 women at an outpatient clinic in Greece found sexual dysfunction in more than twice as many of those with essential hypertension as those with normal blood pressure. They also found that sexual dysfunction rates gradually increased in older versus younger hypertensive wo...

Hospitalized patients better of with help from Pharmacists

...patients helped the team design a study looking at outpatient care and pharmacist-physician team interventions. Those results will be available at a later date. Source: Eureka Alert...

Agitating students condemn introduction of quota from 2007

...nd house-staff, said that despite the boycott, the outpatient and emergency departments functioned normally. Technical and non-technical students would participate in an anti-quota rally here on May 27. The rally, with representation from all state-run medical colleges in West Bengal, IIT, Kharagpur, IIM, Jok...

Health Minister Praises Efforts By NHS In Reducing Patient Waiting Time

...o as to cut the maximum wait to 18 weeks for first outpatient appointment or inpatient or as a day case treatmen...ients have waited longer than that for their first outpatient appointment. This discrepancy seems to be appearing as the executive judge the performance on how lo...

Agitating Doctors Call For Two Day Shut Down Of OPD’

...ege// and Hospitals have decided to not to run the outpatient departments (OPD’S) on Monday and Tuesday. The protesting doctors have however promised not to cause any inconvenience to the patients, and explained that they would run a ‘parallel OPD’s’ for the benefit of patents. A final year student at the Med...

Health Services Returning To Normal

... housestaff attended to emergency cases as well as outpatient departments in all seven medical colleges, state Health Department sources said. They said normal services in the hospitals, which were almost paralysed owing to the agitation were expected to resume in a day or two. Source:PTI News...

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