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Ebola Virus - 'Outbreak' Claims More Lives In Uganda.

...eported successful vaccine tests on monkeys. Most victims die of shock after days of high fever, chest pains, vomiting and extensive internal bleeding. Doctors can do little except provide supportive rehydration therapy...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...most difficult decision for the relatives of these victims is to give consent to the medical staff attending on these brain dead patients to stop life support- thereby accepting the fact that the person in question is actually dead. Families often find it difficult to accept that a relative who is still wa...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

...er immune-disorder related conditions claming many victims every day, the new buzzword is immunity and how we can live healthy without compromising on our own inbuilt lines of defence. Especially when HIV and other immune suppressing conditions (generally following viral infections) already compromise the i...

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

... been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it has increased the survival rates in many. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way of preventing disease. In cancer, however, they are used along with other therapies to fight the disease, says expert Tony Hollingsworth, PhD. All vaccines a...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...ure during these festivals where unfortunately the victims themselves give history of lighting fireworks and inhaling a lot of smoke in the process. The death rate is appalling during these festive times going up nearly thrice in some belts. Breathlessness was the common feature in all cases. Some presen...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

...hical issues aside, it is very difficult for these victims to travel because of, many reasons. Primarily the ... HIV positive. These incidents not only scar these victims emotionally but also make them bitter and defensive. However it is now being accepted that HIV aff...

Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

...l arriving at Gujarat to help ease the pain of the victims of India’s worst quake ever. The prime minister ...footwear, bedding, provisions and medicines to the victims of the quake. It is only in such situations that we rally behind each and help unknown faces come ou...

Gay capital reeling with rising HIV infection

... ghost is back and it is vigorously claiming fresh victims at an alarming pace. Health workers say the lackluster attitude of high-risk gay men is the main cause of this sudden spurt. There is very poor willingness to use condoms and the false sense of having outsmarted the AIDS virus has led to general fe...

Now umbilical cord helps in stroke treatment.

...kthrough is sure to change the treatment of stroke victims in a big way....

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...ll only a dream. But for the hapless HIV positive victims this news will surely bring some cheer that there is still some chance left. There still is some light at the end of the tunnel....

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...ainst it. Recent studies have revealed that cancer victims suffer the most when it comes to drug testing when...c new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in the name of conducting a study.A new Harris interactive study report says that an alarming number...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...ecent study shows that doctors are amongst the top victims of workplace crime. They are often threatened and abused by relatives of patients who die during treatment. Without going into who is right and who is wrong the report says doctors are targeted and sometimes made to pay a very heavy price if things g...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...could be injected into the lungs of cardiac arrest victims to rapidly cool their hearts and brains. Types of this material, a liquid-solid mixture called "slurry," are already being used to cool buildings. They have eight times the cooling ability of water, according to Becker. If things go according to the...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

... chest pain, vomiting and extensive bleeding. Most victims die after several days....

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...tries is a threeat to the globe as 95% of the AIDS victims dwell in here. In the United Nations General Asse... anti retroviral therapy that would cater the AIDS victims in developing countries. Dr. Anne-Valerie Kaninda, medical advisor for Doctors without borders (com...

Prevention is better than cure

...ople can catch cold from the coughs and sneezes of victims or from virus contaminated objects. Symptoms of a cold include one or more of the following: running or stuffy nose, sore throat, hoarseness, 'dry' cough, tiredness, headache, bouts of sneezing and fever. Children are six times more prone to colds...

The big brain in suicides

... adrenal glands. The researchers said all suicide victims should have a routine post-mortem examination to check for oedema (fluid collection in the brain),a thorough brain chemistry and the state of brain receptors at death so as tofocus further light on this puzzle. ...

Pollution could be a risk

...st a team of researchers. Almost 1300 heart attack victims from Asia were interviewed and asked when they first started feeling the symptoms. The risk of heart attack was higher among those who had experienced a higher level of small pollution particles called PM2.5s in the two hours before the attack. The...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...s has been dubbed as the Silent Killer because its victims are mostly from rural populations where medical screening is rare and cause of death often goes unrecorded. The meeting in Burkina Faso, which over 300 scientists and other delegates are expected to attend, will launch an Africa-wide campaign to er...

Sequencing of the Plague

...fected flea bites a human, however, up to half the victims die, unless treated with antibiotics. If the bacteria invade the lungs of such patients, and they cough them out, nearby people may catch "pneumonic" plague. This is always fatal without treatment. Pneumonic plague is the form feared as a latent bio...

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