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India’s First Full-Fledged Trauma Center Read

...e due to delay in treatment. Earlier, the casualty ward handled trauma cases. Now, a separate hospital dedicated to it would definitely enhance treatment. The center will network among the hospitals of MCD, NDMC, Railways, armed forces and Delhi government.' SRI...

Hospital Food Needs Improvement to Meet the Nutritional Needs of the Patient

...itals ensure that there would be assistance of the ward staff to patients who need help at meal times. A study by Age concern reports that most probably 90% of the nurses had no time to give heed to the patients. Feedback from patients Feedback of the patient concerning their satisfaction with hosp...

Wards Pose Danger to Mother and Child

... guidelines. Not many consultants were going for ward rounds either, which is one of the guideline they have to follow. According to Department of Health spokesman, there is an increase in the number of consultants by 40% and midwives by 41% since 1997. He also said, "Maternal mortality is as low as...

The Outbreak of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa In An LA Hospital, Makes 7 Children Sick

...t is not dangerous, because our immune systems can ward off infection. But those with weakened immune systems, such as newborns who are premature or critically ill are usually affected. The bacterium can cause a variety of infections depending on where it enters which include respiratory, urinary trac...

Research on Top of the World

...elp in case of hypoxia. Patients lying in an ICU ward usually experience hypoxia or low oxygen levels that can cause circulation problems and metabolism difficulties. The treatments involve using drugs like adrenalin, which can harm the heart and artificial ventilation, which can cause lung infection...

Physical Exercise Fights Mental Woes

... to the brain, helps the bodies detoxify and could ward off addiction, depression, stress and //even Alzheimer's, say researchers. "Exercise improves thinking and mental function and decreases your tendency toward addiction," Marc Siegel, associate professor of medicine at the New York University of Medi...

Poor Ward Care Is Harming Patients

Poor ward care is harming patients, warns a senior doctor in...dds. If the senior medical staff are rarely on the ward seeing what goes on, if they don’t act as role models for their trainees, and don’t make themselves ...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...cient , as the high concentration of melanin could ward off sunlight, a primary requirement in the vitamin’s production. If recent anthropological musings are to be believed, all of humanity has an African progenitor who, with his very high eumelanin content, was sufficiently equipped to face the bl...

Garlic Hope in Infection Fight

...ed to prevent gangrene, treat high blood pressure, ward off common colds and is even believed// by some to have cancer-fighting properties. Now, scientists at The University of Nottingham are leading a new pilot study to see if the pungent bulb could also hold the key to preventing cystic fibrosis pati...

South Africa: Nigerian Man Treated for Lassa Fever

...d and he was immediately admitted to the isolation ward at Unitas hospital," said Dr Rahman. Lassa fever - is endemic in West-African countries such as Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone but is very rarely found in South Africa. It is a viral haemorrhagic fever with symptoms that are similar to...

French Women can Get Fat

...ce to cut down on unhealthy food choices and hence ward off obesity. While opinion is divided on the effect of these changes, one thing is certain. The WHO has warned that unless profound changes are made in the way food is marketed and processed, the tide of the obesity epidemic will just rush forward,...

Good Oral Health Equals Good Health for Your Heart

...sing of teeth in children and adults, doing so may ward off gum diseases and keep heart attacks and strokes at bay. And if you do have a gum infection, don’t ignore it, treating it may help open up arteries, and increase blood flow through them. You never know, you may then be warding off a stroke or he...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

...s to increase the number of hospital beds inside a ward to meet the increasing demand, especially during an epidemic. When the distance between beds is reduced, exhaled droplets can spread from one patient to adjacent patients, spreading infection. Health care staff working while sick are an obvious sou...

‘Drunk’ Doctors Misdiagnosis Proves Fatl

...three days, he was seen by 10 doctors and put on a ward for alcohol-related complaints. Mealey continued to suffer these symptoms and sadly only when the young man suffered serious seizures and fits, did the doctors call for CT brain scans and tests. By then it was too late. Scans revealed that Mealey w...

Samjhauta Victims in Pakistan Feel Neglected

...per found there was no doctor in the Mayo Hospital ward where the victims were recovering. The patients we...k treatment. Asked why there was no doctor in the ward when the media team visited it, he said the doctors might have been in another ward at that time. A...

Texas Youth Commission Reeling Under Multiple Charges

...) facilities continue to reel under allegations of ward neglect and abuse, after the Dallas Morning News unearthed sordid// details about the agency. Leaders of the state continue the investigations of sexual and physical abuse of the juvenile inmates, as well as gross neglect of their health. Repor...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

...died in 2004, the hospital disinfected the crowded ward and searched for the source of the bacterium but o...abies died. It was when the hospital closed the ward in December 2005 that authorities discovered that the bacterium was breeding in the ward's sinks, wh...

Husband Cools His Heels in Jail After Kidnapping Wife from Hospital

...s you are", as he physically pulled her out of the ward at the City of London's St Bartholomew's Hospital. In the statement made by defending Counsel Michael Gomulka, "This defendant did not want his wife to undergo an augmentation operation. He did not think it was necessary. He was also worried about ...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

...f all women and their babies within the post-natal ward environment. This is due to both the increased activity and complexity of medical and obstetric conditions that women have, combined with the provision of transitional neonatal care." In summary, there is a crisis brewing in the maternity care in h...

Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital

...state government has lashed out at the psychiatric ward at the Brooklyn Kings County Hospital// as a shame...Legal Service, paints an appalling picture of the ward and charges patients - including children and the physically disabled - are routinely neglected and ...

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