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British Medical Association Plans Collaboration With India

...vide 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 th...

India to Specialize Doctors to Treat Infectious Diseases

...e country in 2006,// the government is planning to train doctors to specialize in such diseases. The National Board of Examinations (NBE), an autonomous body under the health ministry, is planning to start fellowship courses in infectious diseases. "There is a growing realisation of the need to have mo...

DVD Benefits Autistic Children

...toon films which had implanted human emotions to a train was helpful to autistic children to recognize huma...f cars, trams and trains and Professor Simon chose train as its movement is very predictable and there are no surprise elements. He observes that children ...

Pair Up-Prevent Melanoma

...earchers came to the conclusion that couples //who train together for skin examination sessions are bound to take the sessions more seriously and do the examination more often. This naturally translates to reduced risks of developing the dreaded melanoma or skin cancer. Persons who perform skin self-exa...

HIV Patients More Prone to Severe Dandruff

...single follicular hair transplant, was in India to train some of the specialists at Dr. Batra's Positive Health Clinics across the country. Referring to a Harvard Medical School study, he said hair loss particularly in the crown indicates a three-fold greater risk of heart diseases among men. Source-Ne...

New AMA Tool Empowers Doctors to Work Safer Hours

... health industry, Dr Haikerwal said. “Pilots and train drivers are not allowed to work long shifts or push through extreme fatigue, because they have other people’s lives in their hands when they’re at work,” he said. “Equally, hospitals have a responsibility to ensure patients receive the best possibl...

UN Sends Medicine to Afghanistan

..., develop textbooks for students in grades 7 to 9, train 11,500 newly-recruited female teachers, start literacy courses for 215,000 men and women, and de-worm almost 6 million children. Meanwhile, in the southern province of Helmand where there is heavy fighting, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is dis...

Mega Project to Revamp Karnataka’s Healthcar

...roject to revamp its healthcare infrastructure and train health professionals //at the grassroots - a schem...y us." "The main purpose of the initiative is to train thousands of healthcare professionals in the taluk (sub-district) and village level," Ganesh told IA...

France Bans Smoking in Public

...ops, hospitals and doctors' offices, sports halls, train stations, airports, all theatres and all public transport. In 11 months, on Jan 1, 2008, the ban will then affect those public places now exempt: cafes, restaurants, hotels, casinos and discotheques. The ban was enacted on Nov 15, 2006, by govern...

China Gearing Up for Bird Flu Season

... epidemic samples. The government has decided to train more village veterinarians and animal epidemic prevention technicians in order to cope with the shortage of epidemic prevention staff in the village and townships. China has reported just 10 bird flu cases among domestic poultry last year and there...

Surgeons Skilled in Playing Video Games are Good at Simulated Surgery

...deo games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons." Source-Eurekalert...

Dummy Emergency Operation Launched

...ic hitting the nation and the exercise is meant to train medical and health professionals to handle the situation. Usually bird flu refers to the virus found chiefly in birds, but infections with these viruses have occurred in humans since 1997, in Asia, parts of Europe, the Near East and Africa. Most ca...

Computer Programmers, need not fear Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

...t be a symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome, merely a train resulting from repetitive motions. So what does one do in the case of an 'overuse injury?' Surgery won't fix the problem, in fact. Instead some over-the-counter medicine to relieve the pain could be tried and one's hands must be given rest regular...

Wake Up to Sleeping Sickness Issue, Say Scientists

...health experts in efforts to trap tsetse flies and train farmers to cut down bushes where the flies live. The WHO has indicated that the two types of the sleeping sickness parasite — gambiese from West Africa and rhodesiense from Zimbabwe — are likely to overlap in Uganda, making it difficult to diagnose...

Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

...ndia is prone to such problems. Plans are afoot to train the MBBS doctors on this subject so that they can handle situations at the sub-division and district levels," he said. He said the proposal would cover 400 districts in the next three years and all the districts of India within five years' time. ...

Computer Based Therapy For Depression

...be suitable for everyone and needs more funding to train therapists. Department of Health issued guidelines which advocates local NHS trusts to provide computer therapies to people with mild depression and anxiety before prescribing medicines. These programs can be accessed either from home or from a loc...

Nandigram Killings Lead to Depression Among Many

...ely leads to stress among police personnel. But we train our officials by teaching them behavioural science and make them physically as well as mentally fit to tackle any situation," Kanojia told IANS. "At any point of time policemen are fit enough to handle such pressures," he said. Source-IANS...

Rajasthan to Sell Scented Drinking Water

...y. The GSM products would also be sold on luxury train Place on Wheels and both Rajasthan Tourism Development Corp and heritage hotels. Source-IANS...

Asian Smokers in Danger

.... The main objective of the CSCSP Program is to train health professionals, starting with pharmacists, to assist smokers to quit by using behavioral and pharmacological approaches. Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products are available, if it is felt that these will be of help, and many pharmacies...

Samjhauta Victims in Pakistan Feel Neglected

Victims of the train blasts on the Samjhauta link train in India, being treated for burn injuries at a hospital here, feel neglected by the government //and...

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