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Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...an army of health workers from the government, and voluntary organizations of the country are leading the war against polio in India. Of the 1918 cases of polio detected worldwide in 2002, around 1600 were from India alone, and 1242 cases were registered in Uttar Pradesh. This year the number of polio cases g...

Kidney transplant donor and recipients need to talk it out

...isks. The report said that all the donors had made voluntary decisions taken instantly to donate their kidneys and have no regrets for their actions. The recipients have reported that their lives have been enriched by their transplant as they can now are in a better health from physiological standpoint and ca...

Kidney Donors Health Can Cause Anxiety Among Kidney Recipients

...ical risks, he found that all donors made instant, voluntary decisions to donate and did not regret doing so. "However, recipients originally showed caution because they were concerned for their donor's health," said Mr Gill, "they only agreed to accept after establishing that it was something the donor genu...

Gambling related to Parkinsons medication

...igidity, decreased mobility, stooped posture, slow voluntary movements, and a mask-like facial expression. Researchers had learned about the gambling habit acquired by the patients of the disease during the routine visits that had made to the clinics for treatment. Researchers also found that the gambling beh...

Warning issued by FDA over "Liqiang 4 Capsules"

...nts related to this product to MedWatch, the FDA's voluntary reporting program or online at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm....

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

...e advanced areas of pharmacogenomic research. The voluntary data, will be reviewed by an internal, agency-wide...c data submissions through both the regulatory and voluntary processes and will continue to work closely with industry and the healthcare community. In addition...

Language development linked to Foxp2 gene

...cerebellum that is responsible for coordination of voluntary muscular movements like speech etc. Researchers are hopeful that this study may open ways for establishing links between the Foxp2 gene and autism in children. Reference: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, news release, June 2005...

World Blood Donors Day on 14th June 2005

... observed to create awareness of the importance of voluntary blood donation and encourage more people to become...ay is supported by major organizations working for voluntary non-remunerated blood donation: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies...

Pesticide exposure may cause Parkinson’s diseas

...igidity, decreased mobility, stooped posture, slow voluntary movements, and a mask-like facial expression. The study also found out some other risk factors for the disease. Having a family history of Prakinson’s can increase the risk for an individual of developing the disease by 350%. Also factors like being...

Milk intake increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease in midlife

...igidity, decreased mobility, stooped posture, slow voluntary movements, and a mask-like facial expression. In a clinical study of patients of Honolulu Heart Program, of the 7,504 men in the ages of 45 yrs to 68 yrs, 128 had developed Parkinson’s disease. When this data was adjusted for age and dietary intake...

New Medicine For Parkinson’s disease

...igidity, decreased mobility, stooped posture, slow voluntary movements, and a mask-like facial expression. One of the treatments of this disorder is the drug Levodopa. When given in conjunction with this, the new drug Rasagiline is said to lessen the off hours (hours during which any drug has least effect) of ...

HIV Screening May Increase Patient Life Span

...timate the health benefits and costs of performing voluntary HIV screenings in health care settings and they found that screening for HIV infection is cost effective....

Less Sleep Could Lead To Weight Gain

... conclusion researchers say that sleep loss due to voluntary curtailment of time in bed has become a hallmark of modern society, and they believe that their findings indicate a need for greater attention to sleep ....

The Link Between Migraine And Brain Lesions Questioned

...region, the area responsible for the regulation of voluntary movement and the maintenance of posture and balance. Overall, patients with migraines and visual difficulties who had more than one attack per month were at the highest risk for infarcts and were 13 times more at risk than the control group. The ri...

Brain Infarctions Found In Patients Suffering From Migraine

...region, the area responsible for the regulation of voluntary movement and the maintenance of posture and balance. Overall, patients with migraines and visual difficulties who had more than one attack per month were at the highest risk for infarcts and were 13 times more at risk than the control group. The ri...

Brain Infarctions Found In Patients Suffering From Migraine

...region, the area responsible for the regulation of voluntary movement and the maintenance of posture and balance. Overall, patients with migraines and visual difficulties who had more than one attack per month were at the highest risk for infarcts and were 13 times more at risk than the control group. The ri...

Resolving Autism

...mpairments involving language, working memory, and voluntary response inhibition. These problems lead to the typical symptoms of the disease, which is characterized by inflexibility, the tendency to insist on adhering to strict rules, and difficulty adapting to new situations. Many of the higher-order thinkin...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

... Institute of Public Health in Cambridge, analysed voluntary surgical returns and hospital episode statistics relating to 12 hospitals carrying// out heart surgery on children from 1991 to 1995. Dr Spiegelhalter found that a hospital carrying out 120 open heart operations on children less than a year old had...

Alcohol linked to brain activity

...areas of scarring or injury that might affect your voluntary and involuntary actions of the body such as ability to button a shirt or put a key in a lock. It is thought that alcohol exerts benefits through thinning the blood vessels and by increasing levels of high density lipoprotein (LDL, or 'good' cholester...

IMA to create database on physicians

...the services provided by them. However, it will be voluntary on the part of the medical institutions. He said the grading was being done by the IMA and encouraged private institutions to voluntarily get their services and facilities inspected by the IMA. The IMA official further pointed out that the exercise...

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