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Laborious efforts of NHS Trust to confine labor to homes

... the federal treasury’s funds. This decision was reached by the board only after discussions with midwives who opined that majority of mothers have voiced a desire to have home deliveries. However many patients and other individuals have raised their voice against this move criticizing that this could nega...

TB Returns , Sharp Rise In Cases In UK

... incidence started rising from then on and has now reached alarming levels, further complicated by the advent of drug resistant strains which accounted for over 600 cases in London. The issue is also delicate on the political level , as the disease has attacked mostly immigrants of Indian, Pakistani, and B...

Mystery Killer Disease In Nepal Diagnosed As Cerebral Malaria

... Health Ministry Mahesh Maskey said a medical team reached the affected villages with essential equipment and medicines Wednesday to examine the patients. "The disease was diagnosed as cerebral malaria (a severe type of malaria), after examining blood samples of some patients," Maskey said.Fifteen of the p...

Fast food giant KFC to switch to trans fat free menus

... 5,500 outlets globally, has announced that it has reached a firm decision to switch// over to cooking oils which have no trans fats in it. Spokespersons for KFC have announced that all the outlets of KFC will use low linolenic soybean oil by April 2007.In a statement issued by KFC it was announced that chan...

Older Mothers Pass on Infertility Risk to their Daughters

...they were born and the ages at which their mothers reached the menopause. Following this the women were divided into two groups, one group of those who had successful pregnancies, and the other of those who failed to become pregnant. The study revealed that women who became pregnant had on average comparat...

Canada Confronts Obesity Head-on, Anti-obesity Campaign on Fast Track

...ife//. This is especially opportune as obesity has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. The Health Minister, Philippe Couillard, while inaugurating a 10-year plan to improve the health of people and reduce weight-related illnesses, blamed improper dietary choices as well as inactive lifestyles , that is...

Higher Risk of Premature Menopause in Twins

...ning programme. In the control group, most of them reached menopause in their early 50s. Professor Roger Gosden, of Cornell University, New York, who led the investigation, said: "Our study validates the hypothesis that twins have a statistically significantly higher prevalence of POF than women generally....

Orissa Confirms First Dengue Case

... the New Delhi-based Dr. Lal Path Labs. The report reached us on Sunday and confirmed that he is suffering from dengue," he added. Jena said this was the first case of dengue reported in the Kalinga hospital this year. Two dengue cases were reported in 2005. Dengue, caused by the bite of a female aedes a...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

...ve taken the other trials into account as well and reached a compromise of 15 percent. We don’t find it likely that it’s higher than this.” According to Stephen Taplin, M.D., senior scientist at the National Cancer Institute, evaluating the quality of these trials — some of which began 30 or 40 years ago —...

45% of Indians Affected by Chikungunya Fever

...b site, 'In some areas, reported attack rates have reached 45 percent. After an interval of more than 20 years, chikungunya fever has been reported in India, Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles.’ To complicate matters further Chikungunya infection is misleading doctors in the diagnosis of dengue fe...

One More Victim Succumbs to Dengue in Delhi

...ed dengue cases were reported while the death toll reached 102. "We are monitoring the situation and additional services are in place," said D.S. Negi, Delhi's health secretary. Among other states, Kerala reported 794 dengue cases, followed by Rajasthan (697), Gujarat (443), West Bengal (429), Uttar Prad...

Mounting Pressure of Dengue in Delhi Hospitals

...rred to AIIMS and the Red Cross. The situation has reached a stage wherein many patients are given platelets only on the condition of their relatives or friends willing to donate blood in exchange for the required platelets. Dr Santosh at the Dengue Ward said, “Many patients have left because they could not ...

NHS Food Slowing Patient Recovery

...ay they liked sometimes ran out before the trolley reached their bedside. Patient forums conducted the research. These are official bodies set up by the government to represent the interests of NHS users. On interviewing a sample of 2,240 patients in hospitals across England they discovered widespread dis...

Emerging from the shadows of Breast Cancer

... eighties the risk of dying from breast cancer had reached an all time high of 1:43 from where it has steadi...rvival rates after the first year of diagnosis has reached 96.7% which literally seems to take away the sting of death from an illness which was notorious for ...

India To Launch Sex Education And Drug Awareness In Schools Soon

...ic sources, India’s National Examination Board has reached a decision to add to its existing syllabus, a new program which will include subjects like ‘drugs’,’sexual abuse’,’HIV/AIDS, ‘hygiene ‘and ‘nutrition’ for students in schools and kindergartens as well. . Very often discussions fringing on sexual hea...

New human H5N1 bird flu case in Egypt

... total number of human bird flu cases in Egypt has reached 15 ever since the first case was reported in February. Of them, 6 died and 8 recovered after treatment with Tamiflu. Poultry is a major source of food and income for the Egyptians. They fail to adhere to safety measures in spite of the widespread g...

Meeting to tackle Chikungunya

...3 people across the country and the death toll has reached 52 of which, 20 have been reported from Delhi. The number of dengue cases in the capital has crossed 1,029. 713 cases of dengue in Kerala are undergoing treatment and 4 deaths have been reported here. In Tamil Nadu, 368 cases and 1 death have been re...

US Firm Launches Early Dengue Detection Kit in India

...ecent weeks while the number of those infected has reached over 3,000. Source-IANS...

Drug Company Reports Should be Read with Caution, Warn Doctors

... whilst none of the corresponding Cochrane reviews reached the same conclusion. Six of the eight Cochrane reviews analysed had reservations about the quality or relevance of the trials or their findings and two of them noted that the effect decreased with increasing number of patients in the trial. Seven men...

Pharmaceutical Industry Supported Review of Drugs – Tainted Truths

... the independent corresponding independent reviews reached the same conclusion. Six of them had quality related reservations and two of them noted diminishing effect with increase in number of clinical trial subjects. Seven emphasized on the higher cost of the experimental drug as a problem. In comparison, a...

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