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It is Men, and Not Women, to Be Blamed for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

...sts who have developed new technology to study the quality of sperms. When a female faces miscarriage more ...atin de-condensation." The new findings on sperm quality are greatly expected to help women who suffer from recurrent pregnancy loss. "The revelation is st...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...life years (LY) gained but is attuned also for the quality of life gained. This combination is expressed as a quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The ratio of cost to QALY is designed to present a quantitative estimate of the cost-effectiveness of a therapy. A recent study showed that switching from tamoxif...

Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality

... The study also found that, for women, the largest quality gaps between the best-performing and poorest-perfo...s study provides women's health and maternity care quality ratings for 2,100 hospitals in the 19 states that publish hospital outcomes data. Today's HealthGr...

Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care

...tralized committee like the CPQE, which focuses on quality care in the emergency department is critical to de...rotocols, allowing us to provide care that is high quality and uniform at all three hospitals. The committee began developing and implementing guidelines wi...

SARS Patients Experience Mental Health Decline

... distance walked in six minutes and health-related quality of life, but a one-year followup study of 117 SARS survivors has found 51 of them needed mental health services. Catherine M. Tansey, M.Sc., University Health Network, Toronto, and colleagues, evaluated 117 SARS survivors from Toronto who were disc...

SKorean Scientists Develop Technology for Cheap Biosensor

...ew technology could be applied to healthcare, food quality appraisal or environmental monitoring. "I believe a cell phone equipped with a cheap biosensor can be produced in the near future," he said. One of the most widespread uses of biosensors is by people with diabetes who need to regularly monitor th...

Boutiques Flourish in Ludhiana

...ed suits, saris and lehengas. Her commitment to quality brought her an international award in 2005 at the International Arch of Europe Award Convention, Frankfurt. Fashion designers work according to trends and style as what fashion they are going to introduce for the future. But, it is not necessary ...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

...reas with ozone levels higher than recommended air quality standards. India is also emerging as a hotspot for ozone pollution. The latest study is the first to suggest that air pollutants have a significantly higher negative effect on females, compared to males. However, scientists have found in the past t...

UK Supermarket Chain Sainsbury's Rejects Charles' `rotten' Organic Carrots

...ot." Mr. Holden, however, said the issue of bad quality could partly be attributed to transport-related problems. He said that his objection was on supermarkets adopting a policy of centralisation of supply, which made both Prince Charles and him "casualties" of the system....

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...four recordings were eliminated for poor technical quality and 76 were excluded because the physician suspected the patient was not a true patient before the end of the visit. Self-disclosures were defined as physician statements about his or her own personal or professional experience. Each investigator i...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...y their equipment and medicines, even though their quality is often not the best. Kirill Danishevsky, a health researcher with the Russian Academy of Sciences' Open Health Institute, has estimated that up to 35 percent of money spent on health care consists of under-the-table payments. At the Dzhanelidze...

New Methods to Quit Smoking

...e importance of putting critical analysis and high quality research at the heart of good decision making. With changes in the law providing fresh impetus for smokers to quit, the catalogue of reviews in The Cochrane Library is a great source of the knowledge needed by people wanting to make well informed d...

Children With Chronic Illness Die in Hospitals

...elieving symptoms, improving comfort and enhancing quality of life when a cure is not possible. Feudtners s... said Feudtner, a prominent advocate for improving quality of care for children with life-limiting conditions. We want each family to be able to make care de...

China Uncovers Thousands of Dangerous Foods

...day. A nationwide investigation by China's food quality watchdog found products such as baby milk powder, ...aces unprecedented international scrutiny over the quality of its food imports and other goods that have caused harm to buyers overseas. Reports in the Unite...

Childhood Cancer can Lead to Chronic Health Problems Later in Life: Study

...- one that can take a heavy toll on the survivors' quality of life, and reduce their life expectancy. The results emphasise the need for ongoing monitoring of young cancer patients so subsequent problems can be diagnosed and treated early, the authors said. The study appears in the Journal of the America...

UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'

...ed accumulated lack of water supply, distribution, quality and discrimination. "The recent report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate change underlines that cities in drier regions such as Karachi and New Delhi will be particularly hard hit."...

Back to Basics in Health in Advanced Countries Now

...ealth of millions of Australians by reducing their quality of life, restricting their ability to participate in the workforce and diminishing their capacity to perform at their best when at work." Mr Rudd also linked health to long-term economic prosperity. If elected, he would ask Treasury to analyse th...

Labor's Preventive Health Care Policy Looks to Address Future Needs

...etter manage their time and resources in providing quality health care to the community. It is a policy that clearly has an eye on the future demands on the health system. Reforming the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) to allow a greater focus on preventative health care will allow doctors to spend more time...

Leading Hospital in Andhra Plans Expansion

...pital was working to release its mission of making quality medical care affordable and accessible," he said. The hospital also plans to double its bed strength to 2,000 in south and central India by the end of next year. It has a target of 5,000 beds by end of 2010 across the country, Raju said. Care Hos...

Cabinet Approves Bill to Regulate Clinics, Hospitals

... establishments," he said. "It would improve the quality of health care by prescribing minimum standards for such facilities." The legislation will enable the government to create and "set up a national registry of clinical establishments", said the minister. Once the regulatory authority was set up, a...

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