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India’s First ‘condom Bar’ Inaugurated by AIDS Patint

...he use of condoms through a regular bar. "Those visiting the bar will not be under any compulsion to be part of this awareness campaign. But this is a positive beginning," Sonia said. Source-IANS/B...

Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease Found More Effective for Men Than Women

...esearchers randomly selected 100 patients who were visiting their cardiologist for a regularly scheduled appointment. All had coronary artery disease but only half had a history of heart attack. Researchers used a device called VerifyNow Aspirin Assay to test the percentage of platelet reactivity after blood ...

Pneumonia Strains Not Covered by Vaccines on the Rise

... the study's lead author, Dr. Rosalyn Singelton, a visiting researcher for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Anchorage, Alaska. "But, we've recently seen a significant increase in emerging non-vaccine serotypes." Pneumococcal disease (Pneumonia) is a serious disease that causes sickness...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

... the World Food Program, and Nevin Scrimshaw, PhD, visiting professor at the Friedman School and president of the International Nutrition Foundation, formed a team that facilitated two meetings in Nairobi on March 26 and March 27-29, 2007. The purpose of the first meeting, attended by senior policy makers, in...

NRI Brings to India Effective Pain Relief Therapy

...areness about the treatment. "Scores of people are visiting us for the therapy, but the word needs to be spread. We are now giving a free ABPI check up to tell patients about the benefit," he said. Neena Paul, a patient at the clinic, said: "I have tried many treatments and therapies for my shoulder pain, b...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

...tour of Malaysia, retired to Chester. He continued visiting the Himalayas until he was 85, often to visit Tibetan refugee settlements. In 2003 he was delighted to receive researchers from the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim, who interviewed him about his experiences in 1936. Of his travels, he con...

20-year Study Shows Significant Rise in Childhood Obesity, Especially Among Girls

...chool than before" says Dr Holmback, who is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Chicago, USA. "As societies become more technological, various aspects of everyday life demand less and less physical activity and this is bound to contribute to childhood obesity. "And as overweight and obese...

Hospital Infection Deaths Continue in UK

...diff. Visitors are also being asked to stick to visiting times with no more than two people at a bed at any time. When the disease broke out elsewhere in the UK, calls had been made for installation of more sinks at hospital entrance to ensure handwash and use of hydrogen peroxide and steam cleaning as ...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...cent knew about their status. This despite doctors visiting many of these homes. Worse, caretakers of elderly assume tremors, slowness and forgetfulness is all part of the aging process. Neurodegenerative diseases place significant finanancial burden on patients living in developing countries, the NIMHAN...

Satellites Set to Play Good Samaritans in India

...und 700 million people live," Krishnamurthy told a visiting team of mediapersons here. EDUSAT services commenced in March 2005 with the launching of a primary education project in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. It was a joint effort of the ISRO and the Karnataka government. "Under this project, 885 ...

Irish Dentists Wipe The Smiles Off Their Patients

...from their own pocket, all chargers incurred while visiting their local area dentist. According to Dr Maurice Quirke, Chairman of the General Dental Practitioner Group of the IDA, the actual facts are that many dentists can no longer afford to absorb the losses associated with the administration and provisi...

New Strain May Make a Common Bacterial Illness More Severe

... these steps: ? Wash your hands thoroughly after visiting a hospital. Use soap and water; alcohol-based hand gels do not kill C. difficile. ? If you’ve been taking antibiotics and you develop watery diarrhea and abdominal pain, see your clinician right away. ? Take antibiotics exactly as prescribed. They ...

MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

...ompanying the members of Citizen Alliance, who are visiting the villages in Madhya Pradesh to assess malnouris..." said Congress MP Sachin Pilot, who was part of a visiting team here last week that also included upcoming Bollywood artistes, young MPs and media persons. T...

Tumour Grown Human Body by Chinese Scientists

...tion of cancer treatments, they hope. Liu Hua, a visiting professor at the Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, pointed out scientists had for years been able to grow cancer cells in laboratories, but never reproduced a living cancer tumor. He said that doctors to whom he showed the tumour he had developed we...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

.... In the last five years, the number of patients visiting India for medical treatment rose from 10,000 to about 120,000, he noted. With an annual growth rate of 30 per cent, India is already inching closer to Singapore, an established medical-care hub that attracts 150,000 medical tourists a year, an offi...

C Diff Infection Reported In Hospital

...rs to the hospital have been asked to stick to the visiting hours only. Alcohol gel in combination with water and soap should be used to clean hands. C diff was first found out in 2002 after an outbreak at Quebec hospital in Canada. From then on, similar cases have been reported at hospitals in London and L...

Alzheimer’s Patients Plead for Greater Understanding and Suppor

...ad fall off. But he can maintain a busy schedule visiting assisted-living centers and nursing homes to exhibit his landscape photography. And sometimes his speech flows. “It feels like I’m working,” Mr. Hebert said. Regular bus trips to historical and cultural sites of their choosing like an African-Ameri...

British MP Stress the Need to Fight Against TB Jointly With India

...oint one by parliamentarians of Britain and India, visiting British MP Nick Herbert said here Monday//. "Even though TB is easily curable, over 1.5 million people die of the disease across the globe. We think parliamentarians of Britain and India must work together to curb the health menace," Herbert, a co-c...

Hospital Projects to Take the Weight Off Overcrowded Ones

... was quoted:"We've found that 50% of the patients visiting hospitals these days are just victims of common ai...he-counter medication. Just 2% take the trouble of visiting local public health stations.” The situation clearly indicates that state hospitals were unnecessa...

Easy Money-NHS Trusts Make Millions from Parking Fees

...fees were made mandatory to ensure that only those visiting the hospitals used the park. They also added that it was up to individual trusts to decide on these fees. Says a spokesman: "Ultimately, it is a matter for individual NHS bodies to decide whether or not to charge for car parking, and the level of c...

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