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Whole-body hypothermia reduces risk of death in Encephalopathy in infants

...h severe encephalopathy die, and many, if not all, survivors are handicapped. Treatment is currently limited to supportive intensive care. Hypothermia has previously been found to be protective against brain injury after asphyxiation in animal models. With a background study on the feasibility of whole-body c...

Decline in Paternity Rates Following Treatment for Testicular Cancer

... assessed post-treatment paternity among long-term survivors of testicular cancer whose treatment had followed a modern management approach. A total of 1814 men who had been treated for unilateral testicular cancer in Norway during 1980 through 1994 were invited to participate in a national multi-center follow...

Pakistani Quake Survivors Face Outbreak Of Diarrhea

...us outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea among quake survivors in Pakistani Kashmir and urged the need to scale u...acute diarrhea have been recorded among earthquake survivors in the tent camps in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir and other areas devastated by th...

Are Women Not Hearty Enough Towards Seeking Heart Care?

...vious studies demonstrated that women heart attack survivors are less likely to return for a review or further treatment. In addition, they display a delayed tendency to seek help for cardiac symptoms compared to men, evident from the less number of women taking up diagnostic tests and therapeutic intervention...

Pneumonia Claims 30 Lives In Pakistan

... far flung areas. 'Given the vulnerability of the survivors in the freezing cold, such cases are bound to incr...rain in lower areas, adding to the miseries of the survivors and hampering relief operations. Relief operations resumed on Monday after the weather cleared and ...

Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Risk In Young Natural Disaster Survivors

...t-disaster. The study highlights the case of young survivors in the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia which claimed thousands of lives and destroyed the whole area. They found that adolescents who were not treated exhibited more symptoms of PTSD and depression. Around 125 adolescents were assessed for depressi...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

...a super specialty hospital in 2001. Apart from the survivors of the gas victims, it also treats private patients. The Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) has been imposed on the junior doctors, under which action can be initiated against them. "The question is not only about a hike in salaries. The pr...

Measles Break Out In Relief Camps

...r and diseases as they find it hard to reach quake survivors with relief goods and shelter in the face of lack ...y for more funding as it says around 400,000 quake survivors living at over 5,000 feet of altitude urgently need food and shelter. Last month, donor countries a...

Once affected by breast cancer it can strike back!

...ncer should not be a stimulation to be relieved as survivors have to be more cautious of secondary infection//. This arises due to its treatment and or shared genetic predisposition or environmental risks compared with the general population. According to the study the most likely cancers are stomach cancer...

Measles Vaccination Drive Intensified In Quake-Hit Pakistan

...construction of prefabricated shelters. Most quake survivors are now living in tent camps not designed to withstand the harsh winter. "Our immediate concern is the shelters: the water and sanitation situation and the winterisation of the tents," Mirza Imran Raza, who is responsible for UNICEF's measles campa...

UN Fears Earthquake Victims Could Turn To Drugs

...ce on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) fears that that the survivors of the massive October 8 South Asian earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan might turn to drugs to provide succor from their miseries. To avert this // possibility, the agency has launched a series of workshops in collaboration with the Pakistani Mi...

Breast Cancer Survivors Emotional Recovery Is Rapid After Treatment

...ity School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that survivors of breast cancer recover quite rapidly after treat...Previous studies had never looked at breast-cancer survivors so soon after treatment, and we were surprised that most improvement happened so quickly," said Wash...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Common In Post Tsunami Survivors

...ian Ocean countries. // One in five Thai tsunami survivors are still suffering effects of last year's disaste...terviews, an average of 20 percent of Thai tsunami survivors are still suffering the post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with some having symptoms of depressi...

Lifespan And Height Interlinked With Juvenile Diseases.

...hen there is a reduction in the infection rate the survivors grew taller and survived for a longer period of time and had reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Other factor such as nutrition and high standards of living does not contribute to the mortality data. The study also said that when there is impro...

Women call for health right to rural women

...Those present included senior policy makers, women survivors of poor maternal health care, grassroots women leaders, representatives of civil society, technical agencies, donors, officials of the health Ministry and technical agencies such as the UNFPA, WHO and the UNICEF. Speaking before the panel, rural w...

Cancer Cover Insurance “The Big V” Is Launched In U.

...al field many cancers have high rate of successful survivors and will be beneficial during the treatments. The company also tells that the policy is a complete package which is affordable by everyone. Due to their staged payments people need not worry about finance but rather concentrate on their recovery. ...

Breast Cancer Survivors Fail To Show Interest In Follow Up Mammogram

...remains in remission. Currently, 815 breast cancer survivors exist for every 100,000 women in the United States...nation of the data revealed that the breast cancer survivors on an average utilized health care services approximately 30 times on an average compared to the gen...

Radiation Therapy Raises Survival Rate

... suffer from the stage 1C cancer. Most such cancer survivors are also found to benefit from exercises, which serves to extend the survival period of the patients and also prevent the risk of the disease recurring....

Silicone Implants Make No Significant Difference To Breast Cancer Survivors

...(NRC) for Women & Families says that breast cancer survivors who undergo reconstructive surgery with silicone i...rs, and Silicone Implants, says that breast cancer survivors experience more complications than normal patients with these implants and need to be informed about...

New Drug Could Reduce Stroke Complications

...f the charity Chest said, About half of all stroke survivors have some significant disability, so anything which reduces this disability is potentially of great benefit, especially as this has the potential to be developed as a routine treatment in all stroke units....

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