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Homosexuality, drug abuse increasing HIV in India: study

...e found to be HIV-infected. Another study of men seeking treatment for sexually transmitted infections in Mumbai clinics showed that among those patients who injected drugs, 12 percent were HIV positive, 80 percent of who had recently (in the past three months) paid for sex and 27 percent of whom had thems...

Radiographers Pay Parity Disputes Still Unresolved

... Tairawhiti for five days. The radiographers are seeking parity in pay and conditions with about 1000 colleagues from the Waitemata, Wanganui, Nelson-Marlborough, Auckland, Northland, Waikato, Capital and Coast, Hawke's Bay and MidCentral health boards. NLA...

As these women box on, do they risk becoming mothers?

...rried Indian pugilists - M.C. Mary Kom, 24, who is seeking a third successive gold medal in the 46 kg at the World Championships, and 26-year-old Aruna Mishra (66 kg) - are at the moment not thinking of motherhood. While Mary Com dreams of representing India at the Olympic Games and possibly win a medal, A...

Nanotechnology Used For Detecting Viruses

...ially viable, they’re developing a business model, seeking venture capital and exploring ways to mass-produce the silver nanorods. Next year, they plan on moving their enterprise to the Georgia BioBusiness Center, an UGA incubator for startup bio-science companies. Presently, viruses are first diagnosed wi...

A New Study To Examine ADHD's Role In Smoking

...n Program at Columbia University Medical Center is seeking participants aged 18- to 55-years-old to enroll in this study. The study, being run out of the New York State Psychiatric Institute located on the CUMC campus on the upper west side of Manhattan, is one of six sites funded by the National Institute o...

Patient Advised to visit Exorcist

A doctor alleged to have advised a patient seeking contraception advice to go and see an exorcist, faces a disciplinary hearing today. // Dr Joyce Pratt, from Birmingham, who works at several London family planning clinics, had allegedly told the woman she 'had something awful inside her' and was ...

Anorexia Nervosa – Uproot the Disease by Understanding Key Triggers and Motive

...s reassured with praises. The need to be cared and seeking attention through this disorder also showed up as an instigator for anorexia. When anorexics were driven by a desire to die, researchers consider this goal as extremely serious, for starvation was motivated by the urge to destroying oneself completel...

Hoosiers Live at the Mercy of Nursing Homes

...., a community mental health center in Fort Wayne, seeking a guardian. The response from the center’s court liaison, Peg Larson said, 'Unfortunately, Park Center does not have any service for persons who do not have a family member, friend or trained volunteer to become the guardian for persons without the m...

Fast food menu for 'Calorie Conscious'

...uldn't stop there. There might be more court cases seeking damages, laws seeking to tax food items rich in fats or calories, or maybe to limit just how many calories can be bought b...

Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims

...we will have no other option but to move the court seeking justice for this heinous crime," Saha told IANS over phone from Ohio Sunday. His organisation People for Better Treatment (PBT) has shot off a letter to state health minister Suryakanta Misra drawing attention to the crisis in West Bengal's healthc...

Massive expansion of Anti-AIDS programme in Southern Africa

...iate the bottle-neck created by people desperately seeking care at public health facilities already buckling under the pressure. More importantly, this appeal will help expand these life-prolonging interventions beyond urban centres to the all too often overlooked rural communities," Mandisa Kalako-Williams,...

Carefully Monitored Treatment Can Help Those Who Suffer from Depression

...er and more disabling periods of depression before seeking treatment. As for the one-third of individuals who didn’t reach remission, possible explanations include: · There may be some depressions for which medications don’t work. · Individual biological and genetic differences, as well as life circums...

Ramadoss Blames State Governments for High Dengue Toll

... health minister admitted that he is not averse to seeking a ban on manufacture of cigarettes and beedis and also ban tobacco growing. "I would be very happy (to press for a total ban on cigarettes). This ban is just a question of time," he said. The ban on smoking in films, Ramadoss states may be a firs...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome More Prevalent in Overweight Women

...increased in unselected overweight and obese women seeking medical advice for weight loss, independent of the degree of obesity or the presence or absence of the metabolic syndrome and related disorders,” the authors continue. “We conclude that physicians treating overweight and obese patients should be awar...

Scientists Seek Release Of Health Workers In Libya

...ion by the accused, they alleged. As Libya is now seeking closer ties with the Western world, the scientists urged their governments to reach out to the Libyan people and their political leadership to find a way out. "If Libya is truly willing to enter into meaningful dialogues with Western nations, it sho...

Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina

... more than 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 evacuees seeking shelter in the Complex. Clinic staff wrote nearly 17,000 prescriptions, performed nearly 600 x-rays and other radiologic studies, and gave more than 6,000 vaccinations. Common problems observed at the Katrina Clinic included uncontrolled high blood...

Encouraging a Lifetime of Healthy Skin Right from the Beginning

... sun-protective clothing, hats and sunglasses, and seeking shade whenever possible, is an important way to teach your children these skills." Pediatric Skin Infections Warts are non-cancerous skin growths caused by a viral infection in the top layer of the skin. Warts occur more easily if the skin has been...

Escalation of Nursing industrial dispute

...north-west and that in spite of the demand, nurses seeking work were being knocked back. She said, "What the nurses are asking for is to staff to accepted national standards which should be safe staffing ... it's been a long time since they've worked to those levels and they have been working overtime and t...

HIV/AIDS Vaccine Tests on Animals shows Promise

...oing to work or not." Researchers are currently seeking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's permission of starting the test on humans. NLA...

Bush Administration Proposes End of Funding of Anti-AIDS Program in Swaziland

...gram fewer options appear to be left for Swazi men seeking circumcisions. Adam Groeneveld, a urologist who has trained several doctors in circumcision techniques for the program, said, "That's not going to help. I don't understand why that has happened." NLA...

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