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AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...rominent figures have accused India of denying the scope of its AIDS problem, but Indian health officials dispute their conclusions. Richard Feacham, until recently the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said in early 2005, when South Africa was thought to have s...

Dire Future Predicted for Europe's 4 Seas

...n Europe. This combination of pressures limits the scope for short-term remedial action and in the case of the Baltic Sea; short-term prospects for reducing eutrophication are particularly bleak, said Prof. Laurence Mee, the project coordinator, and Director of the Marine Institute at the University of Ply...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...t the previous year, the results "clearly show the scope for improvement".Cases of MRSA fell slightly with 1,652 bloodstream infections in the last quarter of 2006 but the HPA said it was too soon to tell whether the fall would be sustained. A senior department of health official admitted in a leaked mem...

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

...e it existed, was found to be extremely limited in scope and either failed to address key concerns or did not take into account the full range of functions of mobile phones. Concerns relevant in other contexts were also not addressed. For example, with email communication in clinical care, there are clea...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...turning from the war is a significant problem, the scope is unknown. "The problem that we face right now is that there's no method to track veterans coming home," said Rieckhoff, who served in Iraq as a platoon leader in the first year of the war. "There's no system. There's no national registry." More t...

Capsule Endoscopy is Effective in Diagnosing GI Problems Children

...te what used to require an IV, sedation and a long scope in children, says Anthony Infantolino, M.D., clinical director of Endoscopic Ultrasound and Photodynamic Therapy and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Bleeding Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The study looked at the success of th...

Precancerous Blood Donors Do Not Pass on the Disease

...donors," the researchers conclude. Thanks to the scope and thoroughness of the study, experts say the results represent an important step forward in evaluating one of the potential long-term risks of blood transfusion. But much more is still unknown. "Blood is an immensely complex and biologically acti...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...ity, he cautioned, adding, however, that there was scope for good brands of wine in the niche market. The best way to come to India would be by entering into partnerships in trade and production. French, Italians, Australians and Germans were already making their presence felt in the country, Arora said....

New Laser Offers Alternative to Surgery in Treating Voice Disorders

...ds. Doctors then snake the flexible laser down the scope to treat the problem, all while the patient is awake. The pulsed laser was initially developed to treat port-wine stains on a baby's skin because it heated the blood causing the stain without stiffening the delicate baby skin around it. "The most...

A Serious Look at Mental Health Issues in Children

... evolve an act that seeks to improve and widen the scope of Behavioral Health Services for Children in the Commonwealth. The bill envisages making certain alterations in schools, preschool programs, and insurance coverage. The key motive of the bill is to uplift troubled children from wherever they are and...

Avicena to Advance Huntington's Disease Clinical Program into Phase III

...aximum efficacy, safety and tolerability. The full scope of the data will be disseminated upon the results being peer reviewed. Based on these findings, Avicena and its collaborators Dr. Hersch and the Huntington Study Group have developed a double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial antici...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...als you have to meet your abuser in -- there is no scope for not maintaining the relationship," said Gupta. In India, as in many countries, family ties are of paramount importance and get-togethers are large and frequent. Young women and men often live at home with their parents and other family members ...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...that directly target these problem areas. "There's scope there now to try to train these children to recognise new information or remember things differently to help overcome these learning disabilities," Keage said....

Milk Thistle Extract Effective in Cancer Treatment

...hite, and Elena Ladas, the issue covers the entire scope of milk thistle use in cancer treatment, as well as in fighting other diseases like hepatitis C, diabetes, and HIV, reporting on such subjects as: Recent advances in the use of milk thistle Clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of mi...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...d the applicant's criminal record. There is little scope for picking up radicalisation, militancy or revolutionary tendencies. The NHS Employers said in a statement that hospital management teams "carry out rigorous checks before they appoint any member of staff, including verification of identity, qual...

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