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Consumer Court Dismisses India’s Biggest Ever Medical Error Clai

... the AIDS researcher. 'This judgement is utterly shocking not just for myself, but also for the millions of ordinary Indian citizens who seek justice against the hitherto 'untouchable' Indian doctors,' Saha told IANS from Ohio. He vowed to see the end by moving the Supreme Court immediately against the ju...

More Benzene In Soft Drinks Pack Carcinogenic Hazard

...pb after exposure to heat and light. Thus it was shocking to knew that many quality bottled drinks used by people all over the world provides low quality products....

Mount Everest to be Site of Research into Hypoxia

...ons will spend time in an intensive care unit and, shocking as it may sound, up to three in 10 do not pull through. We know that mountaineers survive on low oxygen levels that would take the lives of intensive care patients in minutes. ‘Our ascent will involve creating the world's highest medical laboratory...

Public Service in South Africa at a High Risk of Contracting AIDS

...cted by the Public Service Commission (PSC) it was shocking to find that a large number of public servants believe HIV/AIDS is curable//. More than 40% of public service respondents who ere surveyed fall in to the category of very high risk in contracting the disease. If they are measured on a scale from on...

Increased Breast Cancer Cases among Fijians

...mitted by the Ministry of Health statistics it was shocking to find that Fijians topped the number of patients who suffered from breast cancer //. Out of the total number of 68 cases 62 were females and 6 were men. 39 cases were Fijians, 22 were Indians and the rest belonged to other races. Hence to create aw...

Parking is a worse pain than disease in hospitals

...ee or subsidized. "These regional variations are shocking and grossly unfair - cancer patients in Scotland and the South West can pay almost double the costs. Missing an appointment is not an option for cancer patients - they have no choice but to pay for travel and parking, which amounts to a stealth tax o...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

...teve Webb, said at Westminster, said: "These are shocking statistics. Women have to wait an inhuman amount of time for the results. The drastic measures some women are taking show the extent of distress, which is being caused. It seems illogical that it should take so much time to get the results from tests...

Ireland’s Gay Men Have a Forum for Their Grievance

...in sexual activity against their will. It was also shocking to find that men in the age group of 20 to 40 were tested positive for HIV. The result of the study was disclosed at the 4th Annual All Ireland Gay Health Forum which was staged by the Gay Men’s Health Project. Topics that are related to gay men suc...

Government Accused Of Yielding NHS To Outside Interests

...companies is quite clearly privatisation. The most shocking thing is that what is clearly a fundamental re-organisation of the NHS has not been discussed outside a circle of ministers and civil servants. Now they have withdrawn the advert, making this what appears to be a double U-turn.” Miss Hewitt clarifi...

‘Adverse events’ eat into NZ health budgt

...ue Kedgley, the committee chairwoman said. "It's a shocking figure but what horrified me is there is no new money to do anything about it. This is a huge, preventable expense; we could do something about it." Kedgley wanted hospitals to be open about their adverse-event rates as an incentive to reduce them....

Location Influences Mortality Rate of Cardiovascular Diseases

... Canadians across the country. Tu said that it was shocking to find that cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in Canada contributing to about 37 % of all deaths in the country. Another important issue is that there is significant variation in the rates of cardiac procedures and cardia...

Dust mites use Duvets as their Haven

...n comparison to 51 per cent of women. Still more shocking was the analysis of about ten pillows in Manchester by scientists from North West Lung Centre, who discovered that each contained over a million spores of about 16 different types of fungi. Doctors from the University College London Hospitals NHS T...

Fast Food Intake Cause of Increased Death Rate

... study conducted by LaSalle Bank in Chicago it was shocking to find that city residents living near fast-food restaurants and few grocery stores// are at an increased risk of dying due to heart problems, diabetes and cancer. There is found to be a rise in the number of premature deaths lately in these area...

COPD A Little Known Killer Disease

... survey conducted by a charity organization it was shocking to find that about three-quarters of the people in UK are ignorant about the existence// of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The general public said that they have never heard of the disease. COPD is UK’s fifth-biggest killer disease ...

Cheese Saltier Than Sea Water

... different cheese varieties were tested and it was shocking to find that only 23 % of the brands had the salt content mentioned on their labels....

Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...eons in Delhi and the state of Uttar Pradesh. In a shocking revelation the network has captured the ‘doctors on camera’ being interviewed and accepting money to perform amputation surgeries on limbs of perfectly healthy children and adults - so that they can be made a cripple and become a high earning beggar...

Madhya Pradesh Doctors Remove 15-yr-old Dead Foetus

In a bizarre and medically shocking incident, a 35-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh survived carrying a dead foetus for over 15 years.// She was however operated upon Friday at the government hospital at Khargone, 348 km from here, and the dead foetus weighing a kilo-and-half was fina...

Eye Stolen from Body Kept in Bhilai Hospital Mortuary

...d submit the report at the earliest. It's really a shocking incident," said Bhilai Steel Plant spokesman Ashok Singhai. (Source: IANS)...

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

...oned pleasure and desire at any HIV conference - a shocking omission for a disease spread through often pleasurable sexual contact," the organisation says. Their Global Mapping of Pleasure initiative is a rich resource of projects and organisations that put pleasure first in AIDS prevention, and includes gr...

Strange Burial Practice Followed for People Affected by HIV/AIDS

...raged people living with the virus. "It is indeed shocking to find people in some parts of the state packing the dead body of a person who has died of HIV/AIDS with polythene sheets or bags during burials," Sawmtea, president of the Mizoram People Living with HIV/AIDS Society, told IANS. With a little und...

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