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Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

In this weeks BMJ, two groups of public health doctors argue for routine opt-out HIV testing in healthcare settings such as general practice surgeries, accident and emergency departments and hospital wards. In the first article, Professor Harold Jaffe and colle...

Shisha Owners Mobilise Against July 1 Smoking Ban in England

...ne is virtually absent. "Everyone is talking for weeks about that dreaded day. What are we going to do after July 1st?," asked Ranna, a 21-year-old British woman of Iranian descent. "Smoking shisha, it's a social gathering. We meet each other to discuss, play cards, have a little bit of our home countr...

Workers Compelled to Stay in Shape to Avoid Pay Cuts

...lth. Workers who smoke will pay $5 extra every two weeks starting in 2008. Clarian Health will be charging workers up to $30 every two weeks for insurance if they let health risks such as smoking or high cholesterol go unchecked. "I thin...

Beaches Shut Due to High E-coli Level in Water

...nada after 10 water sample tests over the past two weeks showed higher than acceptable levels of E.coli organisms. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFLA) Public Health inspectors closed the beach to swimmers after conducting 10 water sample tests over the past two weeks. Chenier said the highes...

Pre-kindergarten TB Testing Costs High

...mptoms that can include a cough of more than three weeks duration, coughing up blood, fever, chills, night sweats, weight loss and fatigue. They need treatment that stops them from spreading TB to others. The study, titled "Cost-effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Tuberculosis Screening before Ki...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

...that the risk of suicide attempts decreased in the weeks after patients started taking antidepressant medication. His new study strengthens his earlier conclusion that for populations of people, even teens and young adults, suicide attempts tend to be rarer right after starting antidepressant medication th...

DelSite Working Toward Solving Delivery of Influenza Vaccine in Pandemic Situations

...ame expert, about 10 million doses per week for 25 weeks would have to be delivered in order to protect the U.S. population during a full pandemic. Current cold chain distribution systems may not be able to respond, but a nasal powder vaccine that can be shipped at room temperature and be self-administered...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

... look into the matter and submit a report in three weeks time. Another three-member committee has also been set up to oversee the Rs.10 million modernization of the Sree Avittam Tirunal Hospital. People belonging to the lower and middle classes avail of the hospital's services due to the lower treatment...

Testosterone Cream Ineffective in Enhancing Libido in Female Cancer Survivors

... of the program and subsequently at four and eight weeks regarding their desire for sex. The finding revealed, there was no difference in libido between the two groups. Instead both groups showed a marginal increase in libido, portraying a placebo effect, rather than the effect of the testosterone cream. ...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

...tonin receptors, the SSRIs, in the first couple of weeks of taking them, you may feel sick and more anxious. Some of these tablets can produce nasty indigestion, but you can usually stop this by taking them with food. More seriously, they may interfere with your sexual function. There have been reports o...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...thing as naturally as possible. "I had about six weeks of pain, I had a bleeding nipple on the right and fed on my left the whole time which then became really sore. "It was really unbearable and I was half way to giving up at six weeks, and that's a big thing for me to admit, she recalls. Yet, luck...

More Than a Toothache

...n Baltimore. For instance, Deamonte's bill for two weeks at Children's alone was expected to be between $200,000 and $250,000. The federal government requires states to provide oral health services to children through Medicaid programs, but the shortage of dentists who will treat indigent patients remain...

Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...pite these promising results, an editorial in this weeks journal warns that, until we have more evidence about the longer term benefits of surgery, it is difficult for doctors to provide firm advice to patients. The main problem with the trial is that the follow-up period was relatively short, and people...

Over the Counter Drugs can Be Highly Addictive, Warn Doctors

... can be highly addictive, warn two doctors in this weeks BMJ. The development of dependency on OTC drugs is often forgotten, write Drs Chris Ford and Beth Good. Yet, in the past three months, they describe seeing three patients with addictions to Nurofen plus (ibuprofen and codeine phosphate). All th...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...tween different countries. An editorial in this weeks BMJ asks should it be available? In the Netherlands, about 200,000 live births occur annually; of these, 10-20 babies mostly with severe congenital malformations are thought to be actively killed. Yet between 1997 and 2004 only 22 such deaths wer...

Major Change Needed to Achieve Dignified Care for Older People

... care for older people, says an editorial in this weeks BMJ. The welfare of older people who live in care homes has raised concern for decades in many countries, write Marion McMurdo and Miles Witham at the University of Dundee. Of course, both illness and dependency pose threats to dignity, but peop...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...e, asks Paula Derry, a Health Psychologist in this weeks BMJ? Birth control options that reduce or eliminate periods are being developed, she writes. The oral contraceptive Seasonale, for example, combines 84 days of active pills with seven days of placebo, reducing the number of pill-induced periods fro...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...s' fears. Both the VA and the Pentagon in recent weeks have acknowledged a need to improve mental health treatment. Jan Kemp, a VA associate director for education who works on mental health, has estimated there are up to 1,000 suicides a year among veterans within the VA system, and as many as 5,000 a y...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...g 20-week wait for an ultrasound scan, in just six weeks you can know the sex of the child, the DNA Worldwi...l DNA in an expectant mothers blood as soon as six weeks gestation all the way through to delivery of the child. During pregnancy, small amounts of the babys...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

...oring, non-nerve cells in the nasal passage. Three weeks after chemical exposure, the researchers examined nasal cells to see which, if any, had grown back. They discovered that the newly grown cells, both nerve and non-nerve, grew from HBCs-a population of cells not previously known for repair abilities...

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