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Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

... although it allowed Pistorius to continue running while further investigations are carried out....

Many Sceptical of Healing Hand Treatment Practiced in Europe

...usually touches his cheek where he feels the pain, while someone with a bellyache instinctively soothes it ...ners say that patients can feel the flow of energy while they are being treated, but the effect has not been scientifically proven," said Lutz Hertel, chairm...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...t given information regarding their place of birth while filling hospital record. "The focus needs to remain on getting non-eligible people to pay for their treatment and, I think, more importantly, ensuring that those on elective lists are eligible and therefore not delaying New Zealand eligible patients...

Men Under Knife to Reduce Bulging Waistline in Britian

...s are to remove eye bags, called a blepharoplasty, while facelifts account for 14% of procedures, nose jobs...ad a facelift and hair transplant three years ago, while singer Julio Iglesias, 63, also admits to plastic surgery, as does 66-year-old nightclub owner Peter...

Nigerian Health Authority Crackdown On Sub-Standard Health Institutions

...ered, out of which 706 were found to be defaulting while 904 were said to be unregistered.He lamented the poor attitude of some qualified medical practitioners especially in the area of unlawful disposal of gauzes, needles, syringes and human parts removed during surgeries, warning that perpetrators would ...

Researchers Developing smart Wardrobe' to Download Songs to smart Shirts

...ia conductive pads on the inside of the shoulders, while a touch screen on the outside of the wardrobe allows the user to communicate with the system. The system can also connect to the Internet and be scheduled to download music at particular times or to keep track of when you last cleaned a piece of cl...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...d the females in committing suicides in the valley while more females made attempts to end their lives and deliberately harming themselves. Interestingly, Hussain said there are just 12 specialist psychiatrists in the entire valley to cope with the problem. Records of the valley's only psychiatric ailme...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...re asked to play with the same computer card game, while distracting images also flashed up on screen. They did not recognise distractions as a deviation from the task, or as a distraction at all, and displayed the same "weak" brain activity. "That means they essentially have difficulty recognising new usu...

1 in 14 Young Adults Cant Solve Simple Math Sums

...ey asked 2,000 adults to find one eighth of 32 and while 96 percent of those aged 55 and over gave the right answer, only 88 percent aged 18 to 25 gave correct replies. The survey also noted that parents were realising that pre-school learning helps their kids later in life. 74 per cent of adults b...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...solution, a novel way to decrease medication costs while increasing benefits from these effective but expensive drugs. The commentary was inspired by a study presented in June at the American Society for Clinical Oncology. Researchers from Dartmouth showed that taking the breast cancer drug lapatinib (TY...

Indian Introduces Paan-flavoured Condoms

...on (NACO) had put the HIV caseload at 5.2 million, while UNAIDS in 2006 estimated 5.7 million cases which would have been the highest in the world....

Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says

...ed for transplant, with one person dying every day while waiting for a transplant. "Compounding this are issues surrounding consent, which often reduces this number further." To meet demand for organs, the number of people on the NHS donor register would need to treble, Sir Liam said. "I believe we c...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

...ollar's worth of value." Prof Flannery said that while the government's $1,000 rebate for home hot water systems was important, most of the $627 million funding announced on Tuesday went towards schools. He conceded there was an educational aspect to the measure. "Even so, you could still look at put...

Alien Hand Syndrome Causes Random Hand Movement

...tary movement. In addition, the study shows that while M1 [primary motor cortex] may code for limb movement planned by parietal systems, only activity in the latter (but not the former) may mediate conscious experience of motor intentions. The authors conclude, These data open new perspectives for the...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...mily would have had to pay only Rs 33 per premium, while the state government and the local body concerned ... of 70.5. The birth rate for Kerala is 15 per cent while for the rest of the country it is 23.8. Similarly, the death rate is 6.4 as against 7.60 for the cou...

Genes Influence the Ability to Listen Two Things at a Time

...ur ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other earand compreh...DNA, will be alike nearly 100 percent of the time, while fraternal twins, who share roughly half of their DNA, will be less similar. Conversely, if a trai...

Meet the petroholic Boy of Kanpur

...en he was just two-and-a-half years of age. It was while playing outside that he sniffed petrol and henceforth developed a fascination for it. Later, he turned a nuisance since he made it a habit to cut fuel hose pipes of automobiles and drink petrol. Sajids mother Nagina says: "He (Sajid) has been drink...

School-based Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs

...e as instances of sexual body contact with a child while others consider abuse any sexual behavior in a childs presence, the review said. Experts say most cases of sexual abuse go unreported. Moreover, the Cochrane reviewers said without a uniformly accepted definition, it is difficult to know how often ...

Reason Behind Sleepy Feeling During Sickness Found

... (TNF-alpha) is the reason why people feel sleepy while sick . The study was conducted by a team of rese...d with TNF-alpha sometimes reports severe lethargy while patients with sleep disorder, sleep apnoea sometimes report less daytime sleepiness after taking a d...

Baby Bump Sparks Off Pregnancy Rumours Again for Holmes

... their second child when she was spotted with bump while visiting new best friends David and Victoria Beckh...d off her still slim frame in a black bathing suit while playing with daughter Suri on the beach. Both Cruise and Holmes have made no secret of the fact th...

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