Flying Eye Hospital Brings Hope for Eye Patients in Africa
... trained team and videos of surgical procedures to train in the use of surgical instruments. The Ghana Health Service has launched a five-year (2004-2008) National Eye Health Programme aimed at reducing the prevalence of avoidable blindness in Ghana by strengthening national, regional and local capacitie...fMRI Prior to surgery Could Help In Outcome Of Tumor Surgery
...he entire procedure, including the time it took to train patients and acquire the images, took less than one hour. The neurosurgeons who referred the patients for fMRI were given questionnaires to answer before and after fMRI to determine what effects, if any, the fMRI results had on their treatment plan...Songs Could Help to Overcome Flood Trauma
...gical rehabilitation of flood-hit children. "We train teachers for psycho-socio care of kids. We tell them how to identify flood-affected students and what can be done for them," said Dave, an associate professor at the government medical college. Ritambhara Mehta, another psychiatrist, has concentrat...Pharmacists to take over Treatment of Long-Term Illnesses
...ay’s announcement.// Proposals have been made to train some ''expert chemists" in order to take over the assessment of patients' medical conditions and management of their drugs, from GPs. Besides this some will also hold their own specialist clinics for patients with life-threatening conditions like ...Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS
...r 600 imams in the state. The JKSAPCS is hoping to train as many Sikh religious leaders and granthis. The increased presence of police, military, and paramilitary forces in the state has added to the risk factor. Concerned by the recent increase in HIV/AIDS cases among paramilitary forces deployed in ...MedRP International Signs MoU with Kochi Based Info Vision
...MoU enables InfoVision to commence recruitment and train the student nurses in English language willing to undertake services in medical institutions in the US. MedRP also has plans to introduce innovative Philipino GAPUZ training method for the first time in India to help Indian nurses pass the US nursi...Compulsory Rural Stint for Doctors: Ramadoss
... rural areas. The health ministry also plans to train medical students in carrying out safe deliveries and in neo natal care. Through providing doctors with multi skills, it hopes to meet the acute shortage of trained personnel in rural areas. "Of the 3,222 community health centres in the country, 98...Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience
...lts show that humans also have the same ability to train their brain to cope with the hearing loss and become better at the task the longer they're wearing the earplug. Irving said: "Understanding how this system works is fairly basic science, but will be vital in the future for engineering new ways of h...Lack of Equipment and Skilled Doctors Costing Civilian Lives in Iraq
...tablish a specialist unit in emergency medicine to train the medical students and doctors. But they desperately need international support. Iraqi doctors are doing their best in difficult circumstances, they say. But despite the daily violence that is crushing Iraq, the international medical community is...Agra Hospitals Modernise to Promote Medical Tourism
...ental Hospital is conducting several programmes to train personnel for this specialised sector. Even the 150-year-old S N Medical College now presents a new profile in a bid to attract patients from the rest of India and even abroad. Medical tourism has been catching on in India, thanks mainly to the boo...Ozone Treatment - A Good Alternative For Spinal Injury
...ountries like Spain, Italy and Germany are here to train doctors and share the finer nuances of the treatment,' Kumar said. 'In case of surgery, the chance of recurrence of pain is nearly 15 percent as against less than three percent in ozone treatment. In the new treatment, patients don't have to stay in...Customize Hospital Infrastructure to Suit the Obese
... designed wheelchairs." It is also imperative to train the staff adequately to take care of the needs of such patients, even during crucial surgery or during diagnostic intervention using hi-tech machines....Measures to Prevent HIV in Railway Employees
... medical education programme has been conducted to train medical officers in anti retroviral treatment, management and post exposure prophylaxis. Out of 268 employees in Central Railway Mumbai Division infected with HIV virus, following is the distribution amongst various categories of railway employees ...Sri Lanka Gold Hope Shadowed by Jayasinghe's Illness
... within a week, she will not have adequate time to train and catch her lost workouts to be fit for the women's 100m and 200m races,which may be her last chance to prove herself in the Asiad. Despite winning medals at the Olympic and World Championships,Jayasinghe is yet to win an Asian Games gold medal i...Johns Hopkins Computer Scientists Unravel 'Language Of Surgery'
...how we learn to operate will help more efficiently train future surgeons. With the significantly reduced number of hours surgical residents are permitted to be in the hospital, surgical training programs need to streamline their training methods now more than ever. This research work represents a strong ef...Robotic Model To Teach Surgical Skills
...how we learn to operate will help more efficiently train future surgeons. With the significantly reduced number of hours surgical residents are permitted to be in the hospital, surgical training programs need to streamline their training methods now more than ever. This research work represents a strong ef...US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam
...wo doctors and a counsellor. The AHF will not only train them and pay their salaries but will also provide them with CD-4 count machines." Source-IANS...Underground Air - Associated With - DNA Damages
...mprise iron, and are formed by the abrasion of the train wheels against the rails. The damage is caused when these particles enter the body and form free radicals in the body’s cells. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that can prove harmful to the cell’s DNA; although such damage can often be rep...Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?
...ts of the very foods that endanger them eventually train children's bodies to overcome severe food allergies?' Preliminary results suggest that it just may work. The study included a handful of youngsters allergic to peanuts or eggs. After two years of treatment they acquired a little immunity that gave ......rovide more opportunities for medical graduates to train in Britain. BMA president Praveen J. Kumar, who was here Friday to attend the 81st national conference of the IMA, said: "I had a fruitful discussion with the new IMA president Ajay Kumar and he was eager for a close and active collaboration with t...