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Postnatal Care Is The Need Of The Hour

...h. It was also found that these issues were more prominent in Asian women, older women and in women who had larger babies and longer deliveries. Painful intercourse was reported by 19% of women who had a Caesarean, 34% who had a normal birth and 36% of women who had an instrument-assisted birth. When sex rel...

Computer Imaging Assists With Facial Reconstructive Surgery

...analyze the face before surgery so that afterward, prominent facial features such as the chin and nose are bala... canal) to the pupil and to the pogonion (the most prominent point on the chin) was measured. These measurements were used to develop a standard scale so that pa...

AMSA Hosts International Health Conference

... medical student numbers, as well as maintaining a prominent position internationally. The IFMSA General Assembly is being held in Mandurah, one hour south of Perth, from the 7th to the 13th of March. Source-AM SRM...

Cancer Risk Pronounced in Women With an Ample Waist

...isk of endometrial cancer. Scientists also found a prominent connection between post menopausal women and women who had not undergone hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information for Cancer Research UK, said “According to the National Sizing Survey conducted in 2004 th...

Norwalk Virus Outbreak in a Toronto Hospital

Bridgepoint Health, a prominent hospital in Toronto for people with chronic diseases was shut down on Valentine's Day following an outbreak of the Norwalk virus.// Diane Whidden, a spokesperson for the hospital, said about 50 people including staff have been affected. The hospi...

Statutory Warnings on Cigarette Packs- Make It Bigger and Brighter, Say Researchers

...search funded by Cancer Research UK has found that prominent warnings were more likely to be read but they must also be updated regularly or smokers became resistant to them. NN...

Parasomnias are Common in Children: Study

...to a sleep specialist is necessary. "Persistent, prominent and complex cases require physician management, aided by the appropriate use of diagnostic studies (polysomnogtaphy, expanded EEG recordings) and possible pharmacotherapy. The further study of parasomnias in children may help elucidate the multifacto...

Less of Omega- 3 in Obese Children

... were putting on weight faster. Girl children were prominent in this category. The rate of insulin production in these girls was higher when they consumed less unsaturated fat. Child obesity is an issue that is plaguing most of the nations and it is on the rise especially in UK and many of the western countr...

Vasan Group to Open Eight Specialty Eye Hospitals

...as been set up in collaboration with K. Premraj, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and managing director of Prems' Eye Clinic. The first facility would have 70 specialists. The Vasan Eye Care Group has earmarked a Rs.450 million investment for the eight hospitals. Fifty percent of the funds will be generated t...

Offenders Unlikely to Seek Help

...system. Overall, lack of trust emerged as the most prominent factor. Many of the participants did not feel that health professionals genuinely cared about them or had the ability to help with mental health problems. Others were reluctant to seek helped because they feared a formal diagnosis of mental illness. ...

Excessive Male Hormones can Cause Bulimia in Women

...ered for this disorder, especially for those with prominent signs of excessive male hormonal effect. MST...

A Study Finds VENs Devastated in FTD

...bjects who were not demented. All FTD patients had prominent changes in social behavior and emotion, sometimes accompanied by deficits in cognitive function. In contrast, AD patients had an array of cognitive symptoms, including memory and language impairment, with little change in social behavior. The rese...

Hospital Performance Measures May Not Make Much Difference When It Comes to Mortality

...roving care, quality measures have an increasingly prominent role in quality improvement, according to background information in the article. These measures can provide an incentive to improve quality of the care delivered and to influence consumer choice of hospitals and health care plans. While some research...

Testosterone Decline in Men Linked to Lifestyle, Increases in Obese Girls

...l girls. This difference appeared to be especially prominent during the earlier pubertal stages. In addition to elevated testosterone concentrations, obese girls also had insulin concentrations that were up to three times higher than for normal weight girls. Increased insulin levels suggest insulin resistance,...

Are You Health-Conscious or Tongue- Conscious?

... over the latter." Food and beverage manager of a prominent restaurant located in Kanpur, Puneet Bhalla said, "It's not practically possible for a chef to have the calorie count of everything on his finger tips, but most of them know what is good for health and what's not." Shibani Ahuja, an entrepreneur sa...

Depression After Heart Attack Means More Heart Problems

...d be integrated into cardiac after-care and made a prominent part of the rehabilitation program.” Standard antidepressive treatment, which frequently includes medications to affect mood, may be insufficient, Dr. de Jonge explained, because incident post-heart attack depression is different than typical depre...

Effect Of Growth Factor Signals On Cancer Development

...the University of Pennsylvania, is internationally prominent for his studies of the p53 protein. 'This work provides a novel and important insight into the regulation of growth by the major tumor suppressor p53,' Dr El-Deiry said. He added, 'For years we've known that p53 regulates another binding protein, IGB...

Fruit Yogurt Could Play An Important Role In Diabetes Management

... tea their heart-healthy boosts and are especially prominent in dark-colored fruits and vegetables. The benefits of these compounds seem to come from their antioxidant powers—polyphenols scavenge cells for nasty free radicals such as reactive forms of oxygen. Free radicals can damage cellular machinery much th...

Lesser Calories for Longer Life

...population, up from just 12 percent in 2003. Four prominent gerontologists, among them Dr. Miller, published a paper earlier this year calling for the government to spend $3 billion annually in pursuit of a modest goal: delaying the onset of age-related diseases by seven years. They asserted that this would...

Gastroenteritis attacks the newborn ward

The Royal Hospital for Women, which is a prominent maternity hospital in Sydney, blocked transfers to its newborn ward from other hospitals, following five babies// getting sick with gastroenteritis, known to cause vomiting and diarrhea. The sick babies have been secluded to reduce the spread of viru...

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