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Administration of Fish Drug for Asthma Patients Begins in Andhra

...centimetre-long 'murrel' fingerling and it is then slipped through the throat of the patient. Dozens of family members of Goud have mastered the art of administering the drug. If taken for three successive years, the medicine is believed to cure asthma. Despite demands from physicians to reveal the ingre...

Surgeon Buys a Retractor from eBay

..., Norfolk. A retractor, which was much needed, had slipped his mind when he placed the huge order. Since a retractor is critical equipment in an operation theater, the surgeon, with a motive to save time, placed the order without seeking official permission. The equipment was subsequently seized by the hos...

Safe Drinking Water To Be Made Available

...to habitations which are either uncovered, or have slipped back from full coverage, addressing problems of wa...al of the problem of 280,000 habitations that have slipped out of full coverage for a variety of reasons. In addition, there are over 200,000 habitations th...

Doubts Over China's HIV/AIDS Estimates

...s released on Wednesday reveal that the number has slipped to 650,000 with the number of full-blown cases at 75,000. The report also says that in the last year there were 70,000 new cases of AIDS with 25,000 deaths. But the Times says that many experts believe that the number of cases in China is at least 1....

More Severe Earthquakes May Hit Kashmir In Future

...d below the surface by the fact that the Himalayas slipped about three to four meters within about 15 seconds,” he said. He said that data showed that the mountains behind Muzaffarabad, around the epicenter, actually rose by about a meter, releasing an energy equivalent of a 30-megaton nuclear explosion. ...

Remote Robotic Surgery Using Miniature Robots

...out a cm wide and have wheels on them. They can be slipped through a small incision into a cavity and surgeons in different locations can operate a remotely controlled computer. The robots perform different functions – some have lights and camera on them while others have surgical instruments. Hence a set ...

Lady Doctor from Nepal to Help Katrina victims

...mally treats mountaineers caught in avalanches and slipped in crevasses. She heads the Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic in Nepal, has now offered to cope with a new emergency// - the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US. Freer left for Louisiana on Thursday, one of the worst-affected American coastal to...

SARS outbreaks contained

...uarters in Geneva. "It is possible that cases have slipped through the net." Although the virus has now been contained, the WHO said much remains unknown about it, including its origin and the most effective treatment methods. Its statement went on to call for continued research into the respiratory illnes...

Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness

...ct. They're so similar, he said, that he sometimes slipped images of rhesus monkey eyes into presentations for medical residents to see if anyone noticed the difference. (IANS)...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...rantine and a good chance that some cases may have slipped through the net, it is too soon to claim SARS has been beaten, health experts say. "It will be by no means a declaration that the world is SARS-free," said one. Nevertheless, health officials say the event will be an important milestone in the figh...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

...ow eight probable new cases and 26 suspected cases slipped through upgraded monitoring and reaction systems designed to catch SARS. The new cases included two deaths, and another death of a patient sick for months raised the overall toll in the Toronto area to 27 from more than 150 cases in the biggest SARS...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

...urdaspur, a man admitted as a suspected SARS case, slipped away from a local civil hospital. In Kolkata, about 30 per cent of doctors and para medics at the government Hospital did not report to work. In Pune, four patients who had been confirmed by laboratory tests to be suffering from SARS were discharged ...

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