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Internet Searches Fail To Give Useful Information To Cancer Patients

...g to a new study from the. Patients and families visiting the Cancer Center's Patient Education Resource Center were surveyed about the information they received in response to a search request. For 65 percent of visitors, the professional search returned information they had not obtained from other sources...

U.S. Doctors Order Unwanted Medical Tests

...ve expectations of receiving particular tests when visiting physicians. It is possible that physicians are ordering these tests defensively, to guard against potential lawsuits. Physicians may not be aware of USPSTF recommendations. There may be a financial incentive to ordering these tests, especially ...

Bangladesh Progressing But Must Yet Face Challenges In Health Sector

The visiting Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Thoraya A Obaid said that Bangladesh has attained progress //in some sectors, but it still has many challenges to address in the health sector to become an advanced country. She said that...

Fat People Claim That They Would Give Their Limb Or Life Rather Than Being Fat

...in which one of the authors was interviewed, or by visiting the Rudd Center website. Of those who responded, three percent were underweight, 41 percent were normal weight, 21 percent were overweight, 21 percent were obese and 14 percent were extremely obese. Implicit attitudes were measured with a timed wor...

Joint Research by IIT-K and GSVM

...Sharma , S Ganesh, Asima Pradhan, Ashok Kumar and visiting Fulbright scholar from University of Texas medical branch, United States, Sanjiv Sur. Representing the GSVM were Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi M Medical College, dean and principal Dr SS Katiyar, Dr SN Singh, Dr Asha Agarwal, Dr BD Mangal, Dr Suschil C...

Movies Represent Coma In A Wrong Way

.... A neurologist’s review of the script or an actor visiting a NeuroIntensive Care Unit may be helpful to screenwriters. The public has become more sophisticated in their medical knowledge and we presume they would appreciate a more accurate display of devastating neurologic injury.’ Source: Newswise...

At Least 25 Women Die Of Maternity Complications In MP Everyday

...ess. Inability to meet the costs incurred while visiting a health facility was another reason behind women avoiding antenatal check-ups. Thus, a majority of women opt for delivery at home, often under dangerously unhygienic conditions. This results in several women dying during childbirth for want of pos...

Malaria kills 75 in Assam

...ssam is facing the maximum deaths since people are visiting quacks and sorcerers to treat the disease. "We are at a loss to find a large number of people still going to quacks and sorcerers to treat a sick person rather than bringing them straight away to a doctor," the health minister said. "The delay in b...

India To Set Up A Faculty In Namibia

...ad of technology. This was announced Thursday by visiting Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma in the Namibian capital Windhoek. Sharma is in Windhoek to attend the South African Development Community (SADC) Consultative Conference where India has been invited to attend as one of its intern...

Assam’s Malaria Death Toll Rises To 75, More People Affecte

...talities are high in Assam because many people are visiting quacks and sorcerers to treat the parasitic disease caused by the bite of the anopheles mosquito. Ratneswar Payeng, an elderly Assamese, was suffering from high fever for the past 12 days and was shifted to a hospital Wednesday in Lakhimpur, about ...

Hi-tech Walking Stick Developed For Visually Impaired

... The project team is hopeful that industry people visiting their technological festival would help them in making the stick available in Indian markets. --Edited IANS...

Its High Time the Australian Government Takes Steps against Diabetes

...ing diabetes among the rural and regional areas. A visiting US endocrinologist, Francine Kaufman, warned that many people mistakenly saw diabetes as a low-level illness. Instead, it could lead to significant, long-term complications such as blindness, the need for amputation, heart attack, stroke, kidney fail...

Overweight Briton Underwent Successful Surgery In India Being Denied By NHS

...ebsite put the couple on to one Dr Nagaraj who was visiting London. Rogers said: "I couldn't believe it - a surgeon actually came to my house, all the way from India. He put me at ease straight away and asked when I could go over for the operations." Two weeks later, Rogers flew out to the Deepak Hospit...

Rates of HIV infection shows a sharp decline in south India

...tributed to the increased use of protection by men visiting sex-workers. The study monitored the HIV prevalence among 294,050 young women attending pregnancy or antenatal clinics in the Southern and Northern part of India. The basis of current HIV prevalence was compared with the HIV trends between the year...

Satyam Stops Conducting HIV Tests On Employees To Prevent Discrimination

...rk with the foundation in various areas. It may be visiting healthcare centres run by the foundation or schools adopted by it, said Murthy. Every month each Satyam associate donates Rs.20 for the foundation, which gets a matching contribution from the management. On an average, the foundation gets Rs.400,00...

Refugee Clinic In Delhi To Receive Donation From Australia

...ian dollars, was announced Thursday by Australia's visiting Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone. "The donation again demonstrates the Australian government's global commitment to helping vulnerable refugee women," she said. "By funding this clinic, the Australian government will be providing these women ...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

... In "Leela" again, the woman (Dimple Kapadia) is a visiting professor in the US who sleeps with her Indian student (Amol Mhatre) in a moment of rage against her philanderer husband. The experience changes Leela's life and she embarks on a much-belated journey of self-discovery, minus husband or young suitor. ...

Physicians Get To Choose Their Patients

...n the United States more than half of the patients visiting a doctor were older than 45. In 2005, according to Statistics Canada's Community Health Survey only about 76.7 % of people in the 20-34 age groups had a family doctor.According to Kathryn Clarke, senior communications co-ordinator of the regulatory...

Masking A Flu? – Wearing Masks, Only Way to Contain It’s Spred

...commended for people already down with flu and are visiting other crowded places. "Wearing a face mask is something we haven't talked about in the past although it has been talked about in reference to how we might combat the flu," said Dr McAnulty . Though, he did confess that wearing a mask in Australia wa...

Suspected Bird Flu Death Creates Panic In Hong Kong

...man is believed to have contracted the virus while visiting markets in Guangzhou, a busy city in China's Guangdong province, bordering Hong Kong. He developed fever and pneumonia on Feb 22 and died within nine days of hospitalisation. Many people travel between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, heightening the ris...

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