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Doctors Advised: Don’t Ignore Deat

...rst reason is that it is simply a decent, tangible thing to convey … sympathies in writing to the next of kin and show that the patient was not just a ‘file’ or a Medicare item number,' he says. 'The second reason is for myself as a sort of closure on what may have been a long and pleasant relationship ...

Chinese Food- a Global Risk?

...s enough to raise the hackles of the people. The thing that brought the incident to the forefront was the contaminated wheat gluten. Number of cats and dogs died in America due to kidney failure. This is being attributed to the fact that the pet food contained gluten from China. This gluten is contaminat...

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

...bed the plans as "barking mad", and said: "The one thing there needs to be in any good hospital is a close connection between the administrative and the clerical staff. "If you have them in two different places, on different continents then it's going to be very hard to achieve." A spokesperson for the...

AMA Urges COAG To Put Patients First

...f the State and Territory Governments do the right thing and sign up to the Federal Government’s move to establish nine national health professional boards to run registration and training accreditation for each of the nine health professions. He said the nine boards would be a major achievement, deliver...

Canadians Consuming Too Much Salt

...s its own share of sodium stocks. So, the best thing to do say scientists, is to go cold turkey. Cut out all foods that contain more than 20 percent of the recommended daily intake of sodium and you may well be able to put your sodium intake under rein. ANN/B...

Household Guns Associated With Higher Rates of Suicide in US

...ome. Short of removing all firearms, the next best thing is to make sure that all guns in homes are very securely locked up and stored separately from secured ammunition. In a nation where more than half of all suicides are gun suicides and where more than one in three homes have firearms, one cannot talk ...

Acupuncture Points Way to Relief from Many Ailments

... find the right acupuncturist. "The most important thing is how much experience the therapist has," Ruedinger said. If a physician has the additional title of acupuncturist, it means that he or she has had at least 200 hours of recognised training. Source-IANS...

COAG Must Make Combating Severe Allergies A National Priority

...'Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has done the right thing – now COAG has the opportunity to implement a quick, easy, inexpensive national policy that will save lives,' Dr Haikerwal said. Automatic adrenaline injection devices – known as Epipens – are available on the PBS. 'These are significant medica...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...how doctors look at pain drugs. “The whole Vioxx thing was based on 64 heart events among 21,000 patients studied," Farkouh recalls. "Here we are talking about potentially a higher magnitude of impact. The interaction of ibuprofen with aspirin is a bigger public health concern than Vioxx was." Rofecoxi...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...e field is an expensive hoax. "There is no such thing as anti-aging medicine," huffs Jay Olshansky, a sociologist at the University of Illinois who studies medicine and longevity. "As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of cou...

Gels, Wax or Paste: New Styling Products for Men's Hair

...eople use way too much," says Dalichow. The best thing to do is experiment and find out how much paste is suitable for your own hair, according to Abromeit. Rub the paste between the palms of your hands and then work it into the hair from the inside to the outside. "Body and hold come from the roots,...

Koirala's Temptation and Gamble

... stint as Nepal's prime minister. "This is a new thing for Nepal," said the 84-year-old Koirala who arrived here Sunday after the formation of an interim government in his country comprising former Maoist rebels. "Doctors told me not to go for the SAARC summit. But I couldn't resist the temptation of c...

British Doctors on Everest Mission Get Bitter Dose

...announced its plans in 2005.However, there was one thing the doctors forgot - to take the permission of the host country. According to Nirbhay Kumar Sharma, administrative officer of the Nepal Health Research Council, the apex body overseeing all research conducted in the country:...

Asians in US Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White

...lthy people in Saigon and Hanoi. They would do any thing to look like Americans. In Korea, one in 10 adults have had some sort of cosmetic surgery procedure. In China the ban on cosmetic surgery was lifted in 2001. Since then the country is experiencing a boom in the cosmetic surgery industry. There are ...

Asia Pacific Region Officials Agree to Curb Aviation Pollution

.... But an Australian critic had warned, 'The very thing that brought the world to our doorstep could be killing us. Aviation is the world's most polluting form of travel.'Terry Leahy, the chief executive of the British supermarket chain Tesco, said recently that he wanted to devise a system of labelling t...

MEG Scanners Are Mega Powerful

...sequence becomes more clear," Knowlton said. One thing they can't do is analyze the physical parts of the brain, so MEGs become even more powerful when combined with other technologies. When combined with fMRI scans, in particular, "you get the best of everything," Knowlton said. In a recent experime...

The ‘depressed’ Protest Against ‘Delusional Calgara’

...lth advocate. “Making an issue over every little thing doesn’t serve us well,” said Fay Herrick of the Calgary chapter of the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta. “But I think that it’s important we are all careful about the language we use, whether we’re talking about religion, culture, health issues or ...

Recurring Chlamydia Infections Common in Teenage Girls

...artner gets treated, which can be a very difficult thing for a young woman to do in the context of a sexual relationship.” Niccolai states that a major reason for chlamydia infection and re-infection is the lack of consistent and correct use of condoms, which may result from the misperception of risk in ...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...actor or GDNF, Lund explains. 'It's not a sensible thing to inject the eyes many times over years. The idea...fore the cells can be tested in humans: 'The first thing is to show that something works, which we have done,' says Lund. 'Now we need to find out why, but t...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...actor or GDNF, Lund explains. "It's not a sensible thing to inject the eyes many times over years. The idea...fore the cells can be tested in humans: "The first thing is to show that something works, which we have done," says Lund. "Now we need to find out why, but t...

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