Tag: "practising" at medical news

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...lified cardiothoracic surgeon Craig Jurisevic from practising heart surgery in Adelaide. The pair also admitted they attempted to enter into a "no-compete" arrangement with another heart surgeon, James Edwards, which meant they would not take private cases at his hospital if he agreed not to work at theirs. ...

Converting Left-hander to Right-hander also Changes the Brain

...les brains continue to retain characteristics of a practising lefty, other areas switch to the patterns of a righty. "The question now is, 'do converts suffer because of this extra attention that they exert?'" Nature magazine quoted Stefan Kloppel of University College London, who led the study, as saying. ...

Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...ome of the Badi community where families have been practising prostitution for generations as a matter of tradition. FPAN also focuses on Chitwan district in southern Nepal, a popular tourist destination, where health workers have reported the presence of a substantial number of commercial sex workers. "But t...

National Commission for Women to Investigate Unearthing of Female Fetuses in Pataudi

...rt in Gurgaon had recently convicted Dr. Singh for practising as a medical practitioner with a fake medical degree. In 1994, he had been fined for possession of spurious drugs. It was alleged that the fetuses had been aborted after conducting sex determination tests which is banned under the Pre-Natal Diagnos...

Questions Over Drugs to Prevent Heart Complications During Surgery

...s of the evidence currently available, what should practising clinicians do? They suggest that patients already receiving blockers or statins before surgery should continue with treatment. But no patient should start taking statins or blockers in the perioperative period specifically to reduce the likelihood ...

The Doctor Parents of a 15 Year Old surgeon Arrested

...Medical Council Act, 1956, (provisions relating to practising medicine without being enrolled in the State Medical Register). The case came to light last month when Dr. Murugesan, who runs a surgical clinic at Manapparai in Tiruchi district in central tamil nadu, proudly presented the video footage of the su...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

...r findings suggest that the ancient Egyptians were practising a credible form of pharmacy and medicine much earl...gnificant and show that the ancient Egyptians were practising a credible form of pharmacy long before the Greeks, added Prof. Rosalie David, Director of the KNH C...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

... situation was peaceful, says Dr Arshad Hussain, a practising psychiatrist. Now, about 15-20 percent of patients visiting the hospitals OPD suffer from PTSD. The figures available at the Psychiatric Hospital in Srinagar are just the tip of the iceberg. What about those who visit primary health centers and hos...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

... hospital in Chainama Hills. And there is only one practising psychiatrist for the whole country. The 560 bedded hospital, armed with a small force of trained personnel, do what they can to treat psychiatric patients from across the country. The situation is not different in the case of psychologists, occupatio...

Mozambique Set to Liberalise Abortion Law

... law is a hypocrite," says Rogerio Sitoi, a doctor practising at a private clinic in the capital. In a country where 54 percent of the population live on less than two dollars, "it's the poorest women who suffer, forced to go through abortions carried out by apprentice sorcerers and in dangerous conditions."...

Quack of Gurgaon Confesses of Aborting 250 Female Fetuses

...Police Anil Dhawan, the accused had been fined for practising as a medical practitioner with a bogus medical degree. "In 1994, he had been fined for possession of spurious drugs. Now a case has been registered against him under provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating, and the Medical Council ...

Qigong Help Chronically Ill People to Cope With Anxiety and Discrimination

...l problems, cancers and kidney disease – continued practising during the outbreak. None were infected. As well...he outbreak. They told us that they had considered practising Qigong because of their health problems and the SARS outbreak was the trigger that motivated them to...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

...ve the annual flu shots. Currently, people are not practising as we preach, and doctors need to work to change this." He urged the European Society of Cardiology to follow the lead set in the USA by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and recommend that all at-risk people should ...

Australian State Health Official Sacked Following Poisoning Outbreak in Nursing Home

...deliberately spread HIV among the gay community by practising unprotected sex. Officials have been accused of failing to move quickly enough to stop Neal in his tracks by detaining him early. The Australian federal Government's chief adviser on HIV, Michael Wooldridge, himself had called for the sacking of ...

Mumbai to Have Integrated Trauma Care Facility

...elated fatalities up to 90 percent, he stated. A practising neurologist, Shah said the emergency call that would be received through a dedicated single telephone number would immediately direct a fully equipped ambulance to the accident spot. On the way, the attending doctor would start consulting an expert...

Smoking is Injurious to Health, Says Saif

...to hospital when he complained of chest pain while practising for his performance at Stardust awards. The actor was discharged recently. He is out of danger, but Saif is bewildered by and yet resilient to the knocks of life. "There's bad news and good news. The bad news is that it was a blood clot in my hea...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...“Therefore, we think that some of the couples were practising conscious, intelligent risk-taking, and were having no unprotected sex during the few highly fertile days, but had unprotected intercourse on the days at the margins of the fertile time when the risk of pregnancy was lower.” Some studies have sugge...

Now Prisoners To Promote Awareness On Aids

...been housed in the Central Jail here and have been practising for the event. Kerala Governor R.L. Bhatia and Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan would attend the programme. This programme was devised after a study by the Project Support Unit (PSU) attached to the Kerala State Aids Control Society in prisons in...

Madhya Pradesh Begins Surya Namaskar Amid Muslim Opposition

...is called, envisages constitution of a council for practising yoga in the state, provision of facilities required for setting up yoga centres, selection and appointment of yoga teachers. The policy has been attacked by minorities, particularly Muslims, who say their children will not do surya namaskar as it i...

A Just Published Book Promises To Guide Women Regarding Their Frequent UTI’

...nary tract disorder. // The author, who is also a practising urologist, has said that many women are usually frequent visitors to the public toilet in their community, while many plan their outing with necessary visits to the toilets. She is of the opinion that many of the conditions that cause the women to su...

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