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Women and Children Issues Should Get Priority in India

... Minister of State for Women and Child Development visits the mela every evening. Several programmes for children such as magic shows, puppet shows, on the spot competitions, bioscope, clowns and joyrides have also been arranged at Mela. Everyday more than 500 school children from disadvantage groups are ...

Children and Chronic Kidney Disease

...e measured in children on three consecutive office visits is by definition evidence of hypertension. In the Hopkins study, researchers examined 141 children seen at three medical centers from 1997 to 2005. All of the subjects, between the ages of 3 and 21, had primary hypertension, or high blood pressure ...

Universal Early Intervention a Must

... them from soon after birth, for example with home visits from a qualified nurse, we can stop the problems from happening in the first place.” Source-AMA SRM...

Patients' Requests for Antidepressants can Influence Physician Evaluation of Depression

...sant, or not ask for medication. A total of 298 visits to 152 internists and family physicians in four he...ion to be part of the study and were told that the visits were audio recorded and would be examined for content following each interaction. The researchers...

Gene-Altered Foods ? Still Not Sure

...hurch every Sunday, while those who pay occasional visits to their local church and do not mind eating such food constitute thirty percent. <B...

Gene-Altered Foods -Still Not Sure

...hurch every Sunday, while those who pay occasional visits to their local church and do not mind eating such food constitute thirty percent. <B...

Telemedicine Offers New Possibilities in Health Care

...n leave the hospital earlier and avoid unnecessary visits to the doctor, which also saves money. Christian Weigand, a computer scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany, said telemedicine could help people with sleep apnea, a breathing disorder. Weigand is a memb...

Biomarkers Ability to Predict Heart Disease and Stroke is Limited

...scular disease. During participants’ regular study visits between 1995 and 1998, they were tested for 10 potential biomarkers of cardiovascular risk, along with the usual history, physical examination and other assessments taken as part of the overall Offspring Study. Those known to have a prior heart attac...

Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?

...lergies are known to trigger 30,000 emergency-room visits and kill at least 150 people a year. 'I really think in five years there's going to be a treatment available for kids with food allergy,' says Burks. Peanut allergy is considered the most dangerous type and 1.5 million are affected by it. Even a ...

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade

...l Sharon became too sick to keep going.Eventually, visits had to be limited as Sharon spent more and more time having to stay in bed or lie down and rest. Nicholas N. Nissen, M.D., assistant surgical director for liver transplantation at Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Transplant Center, was one of the surge...

Stomach – Most Affected During Festive Seaso

... over the past ten days. There have been even more visits to our website, and our digital TV service is now available in the majority of homes. 'By any measure, that's a lot of people helped: feedback from patients shows that they appreciate the service, which is available 24/7 every day of the year and i...

Hong Kong on Bird Flu Alert

...epartment said they would conduct a fresh round of visits to local poultry farms and pet bird shops to ensure precautionary measures against bird flu were in place. "In view of this suspected case, we have phoned poultry farmers reminding them to maintain precautions against avian influenza. Letters have...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

...," she said. Health teams would make door-to-door visits to administer drops to children left out, she said. "It has become imperative to repeat the dose of polio drops regularly and up to 10 to 12 times after occurrence of fresh cases." Source-IANS...

Hey Days for Surgery as Patients Shine

... to the statistics, Nearly 1.8 million day surgery visits happened last year as compared to 1.3 million a decade ago. Further, there was a 25% decline in the number of Canadians being admitted to hospitals....

Guns, Knives - Main Cause for Hospital Emergencies

...unted to over 3% (40,000) of 1.2 million emergency visits in Ontario trauma care between 2002 and 2003. // The study Researchers at the Toronto-based Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) looked at the gunshots and knife wounds in Ontario's 180 hospitals between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 200...

New Software to Help Patients

... Medication errors lead to an increase in doctor's visits and hospitalizations, which drive up health care costs. With $25,000 in VentureLab funding from the Georgia Research Alliance, Dr. Guion is working with an independent consultant to test and market a program that allows patients to print out a 'cal...

HIV Home-based Care Produces Positive Outcomes in Uganda

...ts in an antiretroviral programme with weekly home visits in rural Uganda, the vast majority - over 80% - experienced positive social outcomes and very few experienced negative outcomes”, write the investigators. They add that, “the overall frequency of negative outcomes did not change. These findings sugge...

Slightly High Blood Pressure is Also Hazardous

... year; Blood pressure should be checked during all visits to the doctor; As too much sodium can cause hypertension, Canadians should restrict their salt intake to less than 2,300 milligrams a day. An active, healthy lifestyle, which includes regular physical activity, is necessary to prevent high blood pres...

Proactive Measures for Diabetes at Edmonton

...r level of a person is recorded whenever he or she visits a hospital, clinic or a doctor which is immediately stored in a central database. This information can further be used to detect diabetes and treat the illness if found. If diabetes is not treated, it could manifest itself as blindness, kidney fail...

Citalopram, a Boon in Treating Depressed Heart Patients

...r a placebo. Clinical management included doctor visits to discuss depression and medication use, provide reassurance, and inquire about patients' symptoms. Psychotherapy took place immediately after the clinical management sessions, and dealt with problems such as interpersonal conflicts, life transition...

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