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Boy Punished for being HIV positive

... was very critical. The child had been kept in a ward with other highly infectious patients. When hospit...spital in the city and now finally to an isolation ward in AIIMS....

Carotid Stenting Could Avert Depression In Stenosis

...a carotid stent in a narrowed carotid artery helps ward off depression that could arise as a result of carotid stenosis. //"The patients in this study who received carotid stenting showed significantly fewer depressive symptoms than those who did not," said lead researcher Wolfgang Mlekusch, M.D., special...

Honey Works Faster than Antibiotics in Healing Wounds

...eeks. According to Dr Arne Simon from the cancer ward of the Bonn University Children’s Clinic, doctors are faced with many antibiotic resistant germs and therefore honey was once looked upon as a viable treatment. He said, “In hospitals today we are faced with germs which are resistant to almost all ...

Curry Could Help Keep Off Alzheimer’

...esides improving mental performance and helping to ward off Alzheimer’s has also been found to fight cancers. When used in combination with drugs it can prevent spread of breast cancer, and it also helps prevent the spread of prostate cancer by blocking the protein that plays a key role in the spread of ...

Death of girl Suspected to be due to Bird flu Outbreak

...n Pho Hospital have isolated the two patients in a ward with closed-circuit television cameras, to monitor for bird-flu related symptoms around the clock. Dr Thawat said, ''Because they are having a human influenza, further tests are need to confirm what type of the human flu virus they have and whether...

Hundreds Of Jobs To Be Lost With The Merger Of Two Major Hospitals In UK

...e frontline jobs, jobs that are going to result in ward closures, bed losses and a reduction in services to patients," adding, “Health service users in Nottingham will suffer because of this.” Peter Homa, the Chief Executive of the trust said, “We have to think differently about how we can deliver safe ...

Madhya Pradesh Hospital to Probe Power Failure Deaths

...ritical condition. Three women and a child died in ward no. 2 during the one-hour power cut. "Power went off in the hospital premises around 6.45 p.m. but the generator started functioning around 7.30 p.m. The power supply was restored about 7.45 p.m. but during this period four patients succumbed," an...

A new deal for childcare services given go-ahead

...reater Glasgow Health board. An already existing ward at Inverclyde Royal Hospital (IRH) will be convert...osals, the acute assessment unit in the children’s ward at IRH will be transferred to the Royal Alexandra Hospital(RAH) in Paisley. The health chiefs deci...

The higher the income the lower the disability rates!

...ke a big difference in helping middle-class people ward off disability//. "The surprise was at the upper end," said Meredith Minkler, an author of a report on the study in the Aug. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "We always knew there was a major gap between the very poor and the very r...

Male circumcision could avert HIV infection

...ing circumcision rates by just 10-20 percent could ward off 32,000-52,000 infections in Soweto, South Africa, alone over the next 20 years. A recent study of tea plantation residents in rural Kenya also showed that circumcised men were about two-thirds less likely to contract HIV over a two-year period t...

Police Stumble into Trading Corpses Racket

...rs at the grave of a person killed by lightning to ward off an evil spirit. Pal and his accomplices, however, said they had not take away the remains of the body as the experiment they were asked to conduct before exhuming the bones did not show positive results. "The arrested people claim that rice k...

Insulin Resistance: An Important Indicator of Heart Disease and Diabetes for Teens

...body-mass index of 30 or higher. The key factor to ward off diabetes and heart disease is to ensure that people do not gain weight in childhood and adolescence, which will certainly reduce the risks of disease during adulthood. Therefore, researchers have stressed the importance of developing strategies t...

Girl Complained of Rolling Down Stones Instead of Tears While Crying

...y. "We are going to admit Savitri in our special ward for a comprehensive examination by a team of senior doctors. We are curious to know the problem," said Shakti Gupta, medical superintendent of the centre. "It's a unique case and all the treatment required will be free of cost," Gupta added. The ...

Intake of vitamin E during pregnancy influences asthma risk in kids

...take vitamin E supplements, at any dosage, to help ward off asthma in their offspring,” he said. “Vitamin E is abundant in many staple foods such as green leafy vegetables, whole grain cereals, vegetable oils, meat, and fish. The average adult's daily vitamin E needs could be fully met if these foods we...

Measures To Prevent Bird Flu From Migratory Birds Stepped Up

...ed to implement tough bird flu control measures to ward off bird flu virus spreading from the migratory bi... of Pathum Thani, Suphan Buri, and Nakhon Sawan to ward off the bird flu virus. Dr. Charal said that forestry officials would be asked to closely monitor t...

'Smart Beds' Could Help to Prevent Elderly Patients from Falling

... to get up, are on trial in a hospital's geriatric ward here to prevent occupants from falling, the developer said Wednesday.// The innovation relies on sensors installed under the mattress. When a patient tries to get up, a buzzer goes off at the nurses' workstation, a light comes on along the corrido...

Limb Transplantation with a Difference

...er because the weakened immune system is unable to ward off these threats. Furthermore, immune suppression therapy eventually fails, and transplanted organs undergo rejection an average of 10 years after surgery. "The holy grail of transplantation research is to find a way to produce permanent tolerance ...

Immune Response Linked to “Ghost” Parasites and Severely Congested Sinuss

...s may come at the expense of the nose’s ability to ward off other invaders, such as bacteria, viruses or fungi. “The epithelial cells lining the nasal and sinus cavities play an important role as first responders of the immune system,” he says. “But when they are distracted fighting non-existent parasit...

Maggots in a hospital ward!!

Maggots were found crawling on the surgical ward floor in a Scottish hospital. The patients were subsequently moved out of the ward at Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin.// According to pest control experts, a dead bird on the ward’s roo...

Now Single Jab Could Ward off Asthma, Eczema and Hay Fever

...wiss firm has developed a vaccine that it says can ward off common allergies such as asthma, eczema and hay fever. // The vaccine by Cytos Biotechnology has been tested on humans and contains harmless DNA similar to that found in the TB bug, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. Rates of asthma h...

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