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Ayurvedic Therapies Cashing In On Medical Tourism

... Well it’s believed strongly that the best time to undergo natural Ayurveda healing therapy is in the rainy months of June, July and August. A statement made by Mr. M. Narayanan, head of the premier Poovar Island Resort, said, compared to the previous year monsoon tourism had gone up by 20 percent in India....

Fragile X-Associated Tremor /Ataxia Syndrome Need Guidelines For Diagnostic Tests

...50 and older who develop unexplained ataxia should undergo testing to check if they have the FMR1 gene, said co-author Maureen A. Leehey, MD, of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. ?Also men 50 and older who have tremor, Parkinson?s disease, or dementia, along with a family history o...

Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile

... current edition of The Lancet said that girls who undergo genital mutilation might be at high risk from becoming infertile.// Female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced in more than 30 countries. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 132 million women and girls in Africa have undergone F...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...ion rate following a caesarean is due to women who undergo the experience being less likely to try to conceive again, or whether they have more difficulty conceiving again, say the researchers. -(IANS) Medindia on Pregnancy: Pregnancy is the state of union between a sperm and an ovum in the uterus, the f...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

...ecked. One-fourth of diabetic CKD patients did not undergo hemoglobin A1C testing to assess long-term diabetes control. Rates of other key tests and preventive measures for CKD patients were low as well, including screening tests for various types of cancer. Just half of the CKD patients underwent recommend...

A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts

...f CHD can be treated if only the affected children undergo surgery and medication in time As responsible citizens, it is left to our capability to ensure that all the suffering children gain access to modern tertiary care which would not happen until a vigorous awareness programmes are conducted through out...

Bypassing open heart bypass surgery...

...arrowing of arteries with no heart attack) can now undergo this procedure without having to bear recurrent episodes of pain,'' Kaul says. Surgeons, however, temper this excitement with caution. Indian arteries are narrower than the western population. The number of diabetics are much more as well, who face ...

Blood test for diagnosis of heart attacks

...lieving they have had a heart attack often have to undergo many tests only to find they have indigestion, the researchers say. The first-line tests currently in use only allow an accurate diagnosis in 4% of cases, they claim. They say that if doctors used the blood test earlier in the diagnosis of cases of...

Pause as you please

...cessive bleeding is one of the major reasons women undergo hysterectomy, the treatment may also reduce the need for this surgical procedure. Most existing ways of blocking periods depend on synthetic versions of the naturally-occurring hormones oestrogen and progesterone, but these are not tolerated by all...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

...d of in medicine.// More than 1 million Americans undergo angioplasty annually, and the new approach is likely to be used on most of them if these promising early results hold up in further testing. They could be on the market as early as next year.// During angioplasty, doctors fish tiny balloons through c...

Handheld ECG: stethoscope of the future

...mmended that patients with suspected heart disease undergo hour-long standard echocardiography exams which us...on patinets who hadjust undergone or were about to undergo a standard echocardiography exam. The researchers then compared the results of the POCE studies to...

Tonsillectomy improves quality of life

...e Medical Center examined 50 children scheduled to undergo tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Most of the children suffered from sleep apnea while a small percentage suffered from periodic tonsillitis. Researchers used a series of standardized tests to determine the impact of the surgery on children's emotiona...

Lasik surgery effective in correcting vision

...drome etc. Before the lasik procedure you have to undergo eye examination including refraction of your eyes, corneal topography, pachymetry and retinal evaluation, to make sure that you will be a suitable candidate for lasik. On the day of lasik procedure do not wear eye make up, jewellery, cologne or hair...

A Likely Breakthrough For Prostate Cancer Patients

...rticular man. Hence men with higher levels have to undergo repeated biopsies to determine whether they have cancer or not. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh hopes to make the PSA test a thing of the past with a new test called EPCA. The protein shows up at the very earliest stages of cancer. Th...

Decreasing Multiple Births By Single Embryo Transfers

Researchers say women opting to undergo a single embryo transfer instead of a double embryo transfer during in vitro fertilization can decrease the chance of multiple births without substantially lowering live births, // according to a new study. Researchers studied 661 women younger than...

The Effects of Statins Questioned

...researchers say patients with heart disease should undergo intensive statin therapy to reduce the rate of progression of atherosclerosis as intensive therapy lowered both LDL and C-reactive protein levels more than the moderate therapy....

Kylie generates awareness about mammography

...ollowing the singer's announcement that she was to undergo surgery to have a lump removed, there were double the usual number of bookings from women aged 40-69 who had not previously been screened. The study reported by the Australian Medical Association, has named this as the "Kylie effect". The report a...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

... had seen or heard celebrity encouraging people to undergo cancer screening and they reported that the celebr...es’ involvement in the campaign encouraged them to undergo the screening test. Results of a telephonic interview conducted in American adults reported that al...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

...he findings reported that the first 10 patients to undergo a totally robotic laproscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (during March and April 2004) using a technique developed to minimize robot repositioning. The results were compared with a sample of 10 patients who had undergone standard laproscopic Ro...

Internet Helps Patients In Finding Info About Their Children's' Health Conditions

...d & Neck Surgery, parents of children scheduled to undergo outpatient otolaryngology procedures turned to the Internet to learn more about their child's medical conditions. Although the Internet has become an increasingly important source of health and medical information, how Internet information may influ...

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