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Doctors Warn of Deficiencies in Antenatal HIV Testing

..., two infants were diagnosed with HIV within a few weeks of one another. Both mothers had had antenatal scr...ffer repeat testing of high risk individuals at 32 weeks of pregnancy and midwives are being advised to consider ongoing risks in all women, they say. Cont...

Should Doctors Go to Patients Funerals?

...l started to attend his patients funerals. In this weeks BMJ, he and a colleague explain why other doctors should consider going to their patients funerals. Attending the funeral of a patient allows the doctor to gain a complete picture of a patients life and is a positive and affirming experience, they...

Phase II Data Show Efficacy and Tolerability of Tapentadol in Chronic Pain Treatment

...how that tapentadol ER is effective for at least 4 weeks in the treatment of moderate-to-severe chronic pai...evaluating the safety and efficacy at the end of 4 weeks of treatment with tapentadol. Subjects in this study underwent a titration period, and were subseque...

JK Rowling Intensifies Her Disabled Children's Rights Crusade

...and explained why her charity is important. "Two weeks ago I visited Prague for the first time. It is a city I have long wished to see, though I never imagined that I would be driving past Charles Bridge to visit mentally handicapped and abandoned children, and that nearly all my new Czech acquaintances ...

Insecurity Jepardising WFP Initiatives in Western Afghanistan

...food to the western region of Afghanistan for four weeks due to insecurity. Unless we can resume movement along the southern ring road soon, we will run out of food in the west in the coming weeks, and will have to reduce or suspend distributions to many of the poor families, children and internally displa...

Spears Has Been Warned Not to Drink

...But he admitted that he has not seen her for three weeks and is afraid that she will get back to her old habits....

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...DC officials who led the study. Only a couple of weeks ago researchers had said the superbugs, first seen mainly in hospitals and nursing homes, was spreading to urban poor settlements. The strain had turned up recently among athletes, prisoners and people who get illegal tattoos, it was said. It had ris...

Intake of Potatoes Boosts the Immune System

... quantities of raw potato starch (RPS) for over 14 weeks and found that they had healthier bowels. They also found that these pigs had decreased levels of white blood cells - such as leucocytes and lymphocytes in their blood. White blood cells are produced due to inflammation or when a person is ill to ...

US Whizkids Create Eco-friendly Building Material from Mushroom

...sands of root-like cellular strands. A week to two weeks later, a 1-inch-thick panel of insulation is fully grown. It's then dried to prevent fungal growth, making it unlikely to trigger mold and fungus allergies, according to Bayer. The finished product resembles a giant cracker in texture. "It really a...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...fice on Monday, and warned they would stay put for weeks unless the government gives ground. The nurses first pitched camp on a grass verge opposite the government headquarters on June 19, in the wake of a demonstration by 4,500 medical workers. They have informed Warsaw city hall that they plan to ke...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

...ic in Kano. A similar suit was filed a couple of weeks earlier by authorities in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, which is seeking 2.75 billion dollars from Pfizer. "In the midst of the epidemic, Pfizer devised a scheme under which it misrepresented and failed to disclose its primary motive in seeking to...

Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia

...cs through injections. Follow-up over subsequent weeks showed that while both types of treatment are effective in tackling the illness, the former actually had a number of advantages over the latter. Oral antibiotics are also cheaper than those given via the IV route. Professor Stephenson said that ...

Boffins Identify Gene That Helps Regulates Body Weight

... and their body weight almost doubled. After eight weeks on a high-fat diet, mice with CD38 began to show s...th CD38 that were treated with resveratrol for two weeks were protected from high-fat, diet-induced obesity. By contrast, the protective effect against high-...

Surgery- Very Effective for Common Back Pain

...e reported significant improvement as early as six weeks after the procedure. The SPORT study was undertaken with one purpose in mind: to give physicians and patients solid information that would allow them to make informed choices when faced with a decision of how to treat their back condition, says Dr....

US to Detain Seafood Imports from China

...50,000 Chinese tires because of safety defects and weeks after thousands of cats and dogs died because of tainted Chinese pet food. Dangerous toys, fake drugs, toxin-coated cosmetics, illicit pesticide-laden mushrooms, errant fireworks, tainted toothpaste and other Chinese products have led to recalls an...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...l teletherapy, which usually involves six to seven weeks of daily treatment in hospital. An additional benefit is that the equipment required for the new technology is much less expensive than that used in conventional treatment methods. The Prostrate Cancer Treatment of the Future? According to Profe...

Vitamin D Deficiency Still Persists in Babies

...ard said most cases were between the ages of a few weeks and seven years old. Pregnant women should also be tested for vitamin D deficiency before birth to determine if they need to take supplements, she said. Although exposure to sunlight does spark vitamin D production, she believes there is no need to...

Toxicology Test Will Give Me Answers-Benoits Dad

...n, said the test results, which could take several weeks to be completed, ``could give us closure.'' He said his son had seemed fine when they spoke on Father's Day, and had even said he regretted having to work instead of spending the day with his family. ``That really wouldn't give you an indication of...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...old Ahsan, who has been admitted in a hospital two weeks ago said: Doctors are saying that my child is suffering from Encephalitis. It began with vomiting and high fever. The symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis virus are seemingly mild, but the disease can cause meningitis and inflammation of the heart in ...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...eport at an international conference in Rwanda two weeks ago and released it this week. Kates said organizations fighting HIV infection now spend about $10 billion (7.4 billion) on treatment, prevention and care in developing countries around the world. They would need $22 billion (16.3 billion) by 2010 ...

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