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New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

...iversities of Nottingham, Bristol and Queen Marys, set out to derive a new cardiovascular risk score (QRISK) for the UK and test its performance against the established Framingham score and a new a score used in Scotland (ASSIGN), which includes a measure of social deprivation. The research has been co...

Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa

... network provides connectivity of a tele -medicine set up of CARE Hospital, Hyderabad with two tele-medicine centres in Ethiopia, which enables the Indian medical specialists to provide on-line medical consultation to the doctors in the tele-medicine centres in Ethiopia. In the present network, black ...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...in forcing youngsters to go on a diet. Instead she set out to take small steps to change lifestyle in the town. She looked at other societal developments that have had an impact on health - the anti-smoking movement in the US was an example - in the hope that these could be transferred to the area of n...

Rapid Response Teams Formed in Madhya Pradesh to Fight Diseases

...surveillance unit and places have been selected to set up other SITs at the district level....

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...g kits being distributed in India. Now he is all set to expose the scam after having obtained permission from the bank to go public with the findings about "the bogus HIV testing kits supplied by NACO and used by hospitals across India," Saha said. Saha and other members of the World Bank team discov...

Trade Unionists Join Polish Nurses' Protest

...e next round of negotiations with the authorities, set for Tuesday, will yield a result," Antoni Duda, deputy head of the FZZ union federation, told AFP. There has been no headway so far in negotiations after several failed rounds of talks. Conservative Prime Minister Jarolsaw Kaczynski has argued th...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

...d poisoning. They also covered a magnetic building set and plastic castles with small parts, which it said could choke children. Chaotic food and drug safety mechanisms, murky laws, corruption, and intense competition among government agencies are among the ills supposedly afflicting the country. B...

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...ly a complex electrical circuit, Deisseroth's team set out to test the theory of whether brain circuitry malfunction could be at the root of depression. To explore the idea in a precise, quantitative way, they needed to develop a visualization tool that was faster and sharper than brain imaging systems c...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...ted success could prove elusive . China plans to set up comprehensive food safety evaluation systems in 31 cities by the end of the year and to implement other measures, the State Food and Drug Administration official was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as saying. However, difficulties expe...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...GPs working in the same practice, to allow them to set the same prices for consultations and hospital services....

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

... the heart muscle where abnormal electrical pulses set off the irregular heartbeats. The technique aims to restore the ability of the two atria, situated at the top of the heart, to effectively gather blood and prime the ventricles, the hearts main pumps. The original form of atrial ablation, using sur...

The Chattier Gender

...at women use far more words each day than men. One set of numbers that is commonly tossed around is that women use 20,000 words per day compared to only 7,000 for men. These findings have been reported widely by national media and have entered the cultural mainstream, James W. Pennebaker, chair of the P...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...t, and the Universities of Bristol and Queen Mary, set out to derive a new cardiovascular risk score (QRISK) for the UK and test its performance against the established Framingham score and a new a score used in Scotland called ASSIGN, which includes a measure of social deprivation. The research has been...

Meet the 07/07/07 Baby

...earlier or after the date given. It's an amazing set of co-incidences. I hope she will have lots of good fortune. But she's so beautiful, we already feel like the luckiest parents in the world, Herbethe said....

Global Warming Threatens Tibet

...lic donations and help fund the research should be set up....

Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!

...rumoured that the two had a torrid sex romp on the set of "The Misfits", shortly after filming which Gable died of a heart attack. However, author David Bret in his biography on the actor titled "Clark Gable: Tormented Star" insists that the rumour was just not true. Bret writes that the reason why G...

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

With the demand for healthcare services set to more than double in the next five to ten years, the Indian healthcare industry appears ripe for investment. A robust economic reform process and inflated healthcare budgets have attracted big ticket foreign investments in several sectors, such as...

Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs

Malawi has set itself a target of supplying 150,000 HIV sufferers with free anti-retroviral drugs by the end of year, the head of the national AIDS commission (NAC) said on Monday . "We are close to 110,000 people on ARVs and we hope to hit 150,000 by the end of ...

Pennsylvania Government's Partial Shutdown Ends

...nprecedented action. Monday morning, the shutdown set in as the partisan battle of wills between the Democratic governor and Republicans who control the Senate entered the ninth day of the new fiscal year. Lacking an approved state budget, the state has lost the authority to spend money on nonessential ...

Radical Change in the Lifestyle Might Bring a Greener Future for Brits

... entering the atmosphere. The UK government has set a target of cutting 60 per cent of carbon emissions by 2050, which is higher than many other countries. But the CAT believes this is not enough. In its report, the CAT suggests creating a market for carbon that affects every individual, household ...

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