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New Rebate a Win For Intellectually Disabled

...on enjoy better access to quality health services, thanks to a new Medicare rebate created// at the AMA’s urging, AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said. “As a group, people with an intellectual disability have some of the worst health outcomes of any Australians, mostly because they can find it difficu...

Singapore Reports Fewer Dengue Cases in 2006

...pared to 53 in 2005, the report said. These was thanks to the dengue prevention campaign launched by the government, it said. The National Environment Agency (NEA) carried out 1.5 million inspections on homes to find out mosquitoes breeding places last year, up 60 percent from 2005. Furthermore, du...

Arsenic Compound Effective in Treating Rare Leukemia

...phy said study participants got through the ordeal thanks to the support of each other and staff at NSUH and LIJ. “I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t have been able to endure the treatments if it wasn’t for their support and encouragement,” said Ms. Murphy, a grandmother, journalist, musician and activist. “The...

QUT Scientists on the Way to Sifting Out a Cure for HIV

...an blood saving the lives of millions of people,// thanks to a world-first innovation by Queensland University// of Technology scientists. QUT scientists have developed specially designed ceramic membranes for nanofiltration, which are so advanced they have the potential to remove viruses from water, air...

No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...he market, but the decrease in drug approval times thanks to the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA), and undue influence from the pharmaceutical industry that these acts may have invited have also played a role. Yet the scientific basis that too many unsafe drugs enter the market is lacking. The IOM ...

A Combination of Botox and Surgery Cures Migraines

...ipation in her children's daily activities. Now, thanks to an innovative surgical technique performed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeon who helped pioneer the procedure, the frequency and intensity of Mrs. Bennett's migraines have diminished dramatically – from two to three per week to a...

Inner-ear Volume Study Leads to Higher Surgery Success Rates

...could have better success rates following surgery, thanks to findings from doctors at West Virginia University. // The study was published in the February, 2007 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. ...

Science Builds Behind Pomegranate Extracts for Health

... the UK where sales have rocketed in the last year thanks to media coverage of the antioxidant-rich fruit that has commonly been linked to improved heart health, as well as claims that pomegranate could protect against prostate cancer and slows cartilage loss in arthritis. While there is a growing number ...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women's Sleep Issues

...e NSF Board of Directors and ACCP member. "The NSF thanks the ACCP for this collaboration; by working together, we may be able to improve the experience of people with sleep problems." Surce-Newswise SRM...

Nepal Gets Its First Graduate Goddess

...fated to an equally fruitless existence. Rashmila thanks her parents for deciding she would go to school and learn to stand on her own feet, and her siblings, who when she returned home from her palace, treated her as a fellow human being and not a goddess. 'When I went to school, I was 12 and doing Grade...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women’s Sleep Issue

...e NSF Board of Directors and ACCP member. "The NSF thanks the ACCP for this collaboration; by working together, we may be able to improve the experience of people with sleep problems." ource-Newswise SRM...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...ected by Kala Azar, will soon have a decent house, thanks to the government's plan// to check the spread of the deadly disease. Dream of a pucca house made of brick and mortar is all set to become a reality for these landless labourers of Naubatpur village near Patna, affected badly by Kala Azar, a parasi...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

Brain drain is being reversed it seems, thanks to the boom in the Indian// economy. Many foreign and Indian doctors settled abroad are now seeking to relocate to India. The Artemis Health Science (AHS), a premier medical institution in Gurgaon, near India’s capital, New Delhi, says it is get...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

... A vast majority of them were also cured, he said, thanks to the active co-operation of governments and other partners in the project to stop TB. But for all his brave words the Millennium Development Goal of achieving a decrease in the number of tuberculosis cases per year by 2015 will still remain a d...

UN Secretary Emphasize Action Against Tuberculosis

...es may have peaked and death rates were declining, thanks to years of campaigns to fight the diseases. WHO said health campaigns helped to detect 60 percent of all cases and most of them have been cured. It said 26 million patients were put under effective tuberculosis treatments in the past decade. So...

Children Receiving MMR Vaccine Still Below Target

...fic basis. However, the situation is improving now thanks to the measures taken by the health professionals and parents. Dr Nanette Milne also added that they will work with NHS to make sure that the target of 95% is reached soon. JYT...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive methods, the United Nations health agency reported today. “This is the culmination of years of effort by local and international groups to see this disease eradicated,” UN World Health Organization (WHO) Dir...

Foot Deformity Could Be Corrected With Minimal Surgery

...he foot move and work together," Dobbs says. "Now, thanks to the work of Ignacio Ponseti, we do have a better understanding of the mechanics of the foot and ankle which has made it possible to figure out how best to gradually correct the deformity in CVT." The treatment is based on principles developed in...

Denim Lovers Beware, Fertility Could Be in Danger, Says a New Study

Fertility declining among men of north India. And thanks to tight jeans. So says a study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences// (AIIMS), New Delhi. A ten-year study by the premier medical institution actually reveals a dramatic fall in fertility, reports say. The sperm count of a no...

Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

...rain takes up lactate after traumatic injury. Now, thanks to a $275,000 grant from the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, the investigators will determine why the brain does this. Is it actually using lactate to help it recover after injury? “The ...

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