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A Soldier's Healing Touch

...ries. "The government didn't help," Khullar told a visiting IANS correspondent. The hospital has cardiology, gynaecology, paediatrics, radiology, dermatology, dentistry, physiotherapy, orthopaedics and surgical departments. The cost of surgeries ranges between Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 8,500 - depending on how comp...

‘Schizophrenia’ term ought to be abolishd

...a harmful concept," said Professor Marius Romme, a visiting professor of social psychiatry at the University of Central England in Birmingham.He added, "Symptoms such as delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations are not the results of the illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in li...

Sexual Attitudes Help Explain Narcissists’ Relationship Problem

...nt parts of a relationship, said Ilan Shrira, a UF visiting psychologist. “Narcissists have a heightened sense of sexuality, but they tend to view sex very differently than other people do,” said Shrira, whose study appears in the current issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. “They see ...

Migrant Bihar Labourers Bring Dengue Home

...als and students of the state returning home after visiting Delhi and other dengue-hit areas, have been detect...hawesh Jha and Laldev Sharma, both from Delhi, are visiting their native village in Darbhanga district. They were admitted with high fever and doctors have conf...

Antibiotic Inhibits Cancer Gene Activity

...f the project thus far. Senthil Radhakrishnan, a visiting bioinformatics expert at UIC, is first author of the paper. Uppoor Bhat, Douglas Hughes and I-Ching Wang also contributed to the study. The research was supported by the 2006 Penny Severns Award from the Illinois Department of Public Health, the UI...

Men Continue To Pay For Sex Despite Having Partners

...study. One in 10 men polled in Glasgow admitted to visiting prostitutes recently while 27 percent admitted that it was a regular habit. // "Approximately half of all men paying for sex were in a concurrent relationship," said Dr Tamsin Groom, of the Sandyford Initiative in Glasgow. The men paid for sex whil...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

... doing almost nothing to improve them," Jha told a visiting IANS correspondent. Kala azar - medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis - is a vector-born disease and is characterised by fever, weight loss, swelling of spleen and liver and anaemia that could lead to cardiovascular complications. The parasit...

Malayali Nurses - Lifeline of Keralites Abroad

...rm, district chairman of Vienna's district-23 told visiting Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi at a function. "The health sector of this country is blessed with dedicated people from your state," he told the minister, who belongs to Kerala. "I am proud of my people. They serve this nation as devo...

Ex-drug Addict has set up Support System for Drug Victims

... of all IDUs are HIV positive," Gouchinkhup told a visiting IANS correspondent. The network provides orientation programme on HIV transmission, prevention, condom promotion, needles and syringe promotion, personal hygiene and other "opportunistic infections". Members of NGOs working with addicts in the nor...

Chikungunya Outbreak Feared in Jaipur

...s and viral fever for chikungunya, many people are visiting local hospitals. Chikungunya is a relatively rare form of viral fever caused by an alphavirus that is spread by bites from the aedes aegypti mosquito. Its symptoms are fever and shivering, joint pain, headache, weakness and nausea. In Sirohi area...

A.Q. Khan Discharged from Hospital after Successful Prostate Surgery

... Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani had indicated after visiting Khan soon after the surgery that he would be shifted to his sister's house in Karachi. Khan was reported to be improving after the operation. Doctors who carried out the surgery wanted him to remain in Karachi for post-operation care. His sister ...

Salad Contains Nutrients In Optimum Level

...being well-absorbed from salad," said Lenore Arab, visiting professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and co-author of the study with L. Joseph Su, assistant professor at the LSU School of Public Health. "The findings endorse consumption of salad and raw vegetables as an effective strate...

Screening of bird flu patients by pharmacies in Thailand

...kers used to buying drugs at pharmacies instead of visiting doctors, may be left out from the ministry's bird ... self-prescribing drugs for their own treatment to visiting a doctor or hospital. In such a situation, the country’s pharmacies are places that can most easily ...

Study finds Babies In America Getting Fatter

...rchers explained that they had collected data from visiting more than 120,000 children under the age of six between the years 1980 and 2001. They reported that all the children were from Massachusetts and had enrolled in a health maintenance organization, which provided the medical records that contained the ...

High-altitude Illness Affects Pilgrims of Mansarovar

... Manju Agarwal died of respiratory problems while visiting Mansarovar Lake with her husband, Suresh Agarwal, a businessman who had paid their tour operator over Rs 200,000 for the trip. The Kolkata couple was part of a large group of pilgrims taken by a Kolkata-based travel agency that subsequently came un...

Murky Relationships between Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies Exposed

...ough conducting seminars, delivering speeches, and visiting fellow doctors in their offices to promote the narcolepsy drug Xyrem. However what makes Dr Gleason’s case so peculiar is that he had been promoting Xyrem as a drug to be prescribed for depression and as a pain reliever. This case has only called a...

Stress Therapy can Restore Fertility: Study

... may prevent many women from getting pregnant, but visiting a behavioural therapist for a few months can restore fertility, a US researcher concluded.// Emory University gynaecologist Sarah Berga examined the value of psychological treatment for women of child-bearing age, who had stopped ovulating. When ...

China's Insurance Companies Offer Policy for Altitude Sickness

...-Tibet Railway, which has resulted in more tourist visiting the high-altitude region and an increase in altitude sickness cases. According to a research, 30 percent of all visitors to Tibet suffer from headaches, vomiting or breathing problems. (Source: IANS/Xinhua)...

NHS Charges Needs To Be Reviewed

... necessary services and also not to deter patients visiting their doctor mainly due to the high fee structure. It said that a small charge would be levied on non-emergency patients going to accident and emergency departments. This is done to encourage people to register with a GP. The Department of Health sai...

Japanese Chemicals, Pharma Industry Keen to Invest in India

...ected to take part in the exhibition with about 65 visiting countries," he said. Source:PTI News...

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