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Joslin Diabetes Center Launches Veraxa Health

...egular, recommended eye care they require. Lack of ready access to eye care specialists, the need for pupil dilation and the frequent lack of symptoms when retinopathy is initially present are among the factors contributing to poor rates of annual eye examination for people with diabetes. With JVN, Joslin ...

Holiday Season Could Ring in “Heartburn Season

...o now you have more material in the stomach that’s ready to reflux. It also further weakens that leaky valve.” Food myths Eating or drinking certain types of foods, such as milk, in an attempt to reduce stomach acid generally doesn’t work, said Dr. Spechler, who is a member of the American Gastroentero...

Skewed Sex Ratio! No Problem, We Will Buy Tribes - Says Patel Community In Gujarat

...rary to the above practices, the community is even ready for female foeticide.The skewed male-female ratio (fall in the female ratio) availing in the community is the main cause. It is believed that an amount of anything between Rs.50,000 to 1 lakh is given to the tribal family for buying girls from areas...

Surgeons Gear Up To Carry Out First Womb Transplant

Doctors are getting ready to commence the first ever womb transplant, which they hope will be a successful one. //Giuseppe Del Priore, from Downtown Hospital in New York, has been allowed to go ahead with the transplant which has apparently received ample prospective donors. ...

India sounds bird flu alert as migration season begins

... Four regional laboratories in the country will be ready in a year's time to deal with the situation, Chowdhry said. Added H.K. Pradhan, joint director of the Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal: "India needs to improve its capacity in terms of emergency arrangements to deal with avian influenza. We have...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

...But if a virus does materialise, getting a vaccine ready will take several months. The vaccine available at present is not produced in large enough quantities, in fact only 9% of the world's population can be vaccinated with a six month supply produced globally. Another measure which could be used is a dr...

Doctors, Nurses Face Sexual Harassment At Work Place

...ome quite common nowadays and many of them are not ready to come out openly against it.// A recent study conducted in Kolkata, West Bengal, with 135 in-depth interviews of women employees in two government and two private hospitals over a period of 11 months, has brought out this news in which several do...

Crib deaths revisit Kolkata hospital, 22 infants die

...But a new 110-bed building that was supposed to be ready has yet to start functioning. Cricketer Sourav Ganguly had donated Rs.7.2 million in 2003 to the hospital and it had received Rs.10.8 million two years ago by the government. Source-IANS...

Researchers explore medicine in space

Researchers want doctors to be ready to handle medical problems and surgeries in space before astronauts start moving further into it. //In the present state, what happens when a person develops a problem say, in Mars? He or she can't get back to normal conditions for treatment in time ...

Health Insurance Needs Overhauling: Experts

...ty and coverage as the service providers// are not ready to risk the cost of delivery of products at the doorstep of the poor, according to experts. These issues pertaining to the health insurance industry were extensively discussed at the International Conference on Micro Health Insurance: Developing Pro...

Iron intake reduces risk of infertility

...n.""But even such a simple solution may not yet be ready for widespread use," she said. "This is just one study," Wu said. "We need more studies with larger numbers to indicate what exact level of iron supplement is ideal for women attempting conception." "You assume that you need certain building bloc...

Faster Approval Procedures Urged For New TB Drugs

...st of the drugs in the pipeline is not going to be ready before 2010 at the current speed of operations, and others will be even more delayed. Three other medicines are now in clinical trials -- Johnson & Johnson's Diarylquinoline, Otsuka's Nitroimidazo, and Pyrrole by Lupin Ltd and Tido von Schoen-Ange...

Fears of Pandemic Flu makes Americans Ready for Change

Most Americans are ready to make major changes in their lives and cooperate with public health officials' recommendations when faced with serious outbreak of pandemic flu according to the latest national survey // conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Proje...

How to Prevent Bedsores from Becoming Deadly

...es, as with any other type of open wound, create a ready opportunity for infections that may spread to the surrounding skin, deeper tissue, bone, and the blood. They can also cause loss of fluid and protein, leaving patients dehydrated and malnourished. The cost of treating a bedsore is extremely high. Acc...

Mysterious Illness on Riverboat not Caused by Bacteria

...s. The company stated that the boat would be soon ready for its next trip, which begins on Wednesday as a seven-day cruise from St. Louis to Minneapolis. NLA...

Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina

...eaving its extensive health care system intact and ready to respond. A wide range of academic, governmental, and private organizations came together to make and implement plans for the Katrina Clinic. A key first step was the creation of a unified command and control system to direct and coordinate service...

Tooth-Whitening Products Work for Brightening Smiles in Short Term

...f some people using them every Friday night to get ready for the weekend." Whall said the Cochrane review is "very reasonable," but he cautioned that many products probably weren’t included because only a small number of studies were deemed worthy of review. "We don't know anything about those other prod...

Review Opens Bag of Tricks for Reducing Pain from Children’s Shot

...a good idea for health professionals to have a few ready to use, geared toward different age groups, Uman said. "Ideally, we would recommend that health care professionals have various psychological interventions available, in order to have a variety of developmentally appropriate options for both children...

Computer-Driven System Reduces Patient Mechanical Ventilation Time Significantly

...doctor and technicians when the patient was deemed ready to breathe spontaneously. “The computer-driven weaning protocol does not depend on the willingness or availability of the staff, and full compliance with the weaning protocol is therefore ensured,” said Dr. Brochard. The investigators said that t...

Eating Disorders may be diagnosed by Hair analysis

...he test needs further validation before it will be ready for routine clinical use, but we believe that the current work shows that the method is already quite robust. While some objective measures, such as low weight for age and height, aid in diagnosis of eating disorders, up until now doctors and researc...

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