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Women Win Legal Battle Over Treatment Of Breast Cancer

... act at their own discretion, and this has lead to widespread disparities in who receives the drug. It has been found in survey that only 10 % of eligible patients in some areas are given access to Herceptin, compared to 90% in others. The ruling stated that it is now a matter for the PCT to reconsider its po...

Depression and Anxiety Endemic in Britain

... well. What is more alarming is that despite the widespread prevalence of depression, 55% of them had never discussed the condition with their family or friends. A majority of them resorted to drugs or other forms of therapy as they felt open discussions to be of very low value. In view of the above situation...

High Cost Forces NHS To Reject Inhaled Insulin

...onal medical experts in the US and Europe to grant widespread approval for this medicine. The choice here is quite simple: force patients to keep enduring the burden of multiple daily injections and poor compliance, as they have since the 1920s, or give them an alternative,' responded Pfizer, a leading pharmace...

Soaring Rates Of HIV Infection In Swaziland

...e deadly virus. Surprisingly, although HIV/AIDS is widespread in Africa, 66% of South Africans expressed that they were unlikely to become infected, in a 2005 survey. Tendency to indulge in sex at an early stage, early marriage, and polygamy are other cultural and gender issues that need to be addressed. Gend...

Non-Cardiac Chest Pain Can Be Treated By Hypnotherapy

...se of well being. The disadvantage associated with widespread use of hypnotherapy is that it is labour intensive and associated with a high treatment cost....

Bird-Flu Claims Its 12th Human Victim In China

...e most prominent cause of the spread, according to widespread reports. Though the virus cannot transmit easily from one person to another, there is a lurking apprehension of the virus mutating and sparking of a pandemic in global proportions....

Measles Rate Shoot Up among Nursery Children in Scotland

...ity that the vaccine might be linked to autism was widespread in 1998 which had an adverse effect on the vaccination scenario. A study was conducted by Dr Claire Cameron which looked at the vaccination records for Scotland for all children born between 1987 and 2004. The results of the study were published in t...

Diabetes, The Silent Killer of New Zealand

...l level to prevent damage to other organs. Despite widespread research, there is no guaranteed cure for the disease. Exercise, diet, tablet and insulin therefore continue to be the gold standard. It has been established that the risk of heart attack in a diabetic is comparable to the risk of a patient who has...

Eye Hygiene Crucial To Keep Fungus at Bay

...titis is considered potentially dangerous, causing widespread damage to the cornea and even blindness, if left untreated. There is still ambiguity surrounding the reason for a lens cleaning solution to cause fungal keratitis. Dr. David Hollander, an ophthalmologist at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute, is of the...

Smuggled Birds To Bali Culled Due To Bird Flu Fear

...d flu has been reported so far on Bali despite the widespread prevalence of the bird flu virus in poultry. Vaccination and culling of birds have been carried out in high-risk areas. Mass slaughtering of birds, as recommended by the United Nations cannot be carried out owing to the limited financial resources in...

The Price Of Autism

...cost could be higher if there were more useful and widespread treatment options available. “Given that the federal autism research budget has been historically less than $100 million per year and given that research budgets for other conditions with similar numbers of affected individuals are sometimes orders o...

New Breast Cancer Drugs, Not For All

...he drugs for use on the NHS. This has resulted in widespread unrest and fuelled protests among the breast cancer campaigners....

Fear Of Spread Of Bird Flu Leads To Widespread Culling Of Ducks

...d flu has been reported so far on Bali despite the widespread prevalence of the bird flu virus in poultry. Vaccination and culling of birds have been carried out in high-risk areas. Mass slaughtering of birds, as recommended by the United Nations cannot be carried out owing to the limited financial resources in...

Pfizer Commences Its Advertising for Celebrex with All the Warnings

... of Celebrex was $3.3 billion worldwide. But after widespread concerns about the drug causing heart attacks the company stopped advertising//. But 16 months later the has returned to the consumer ad market in hopes of reviving sales of the drug, which plunged last year during the ad moratorium. Now the new ads ...

Nursing Home Residents Receive Appropriate Emergency Care Despite Poor Funds

Despite the widespread belief that residents of nursing home or hostel are transferred to emergency departments in hospitals, //it has been found that aged care homes effectively attend to the health care needs of the residents, even in the presence of poor funds. A new st...

Review of Reversal of Spread of Diseases in Africa

...t UN General Assembly in the following month for a widespread effort to put 10 million people on antiretrovirals by 2010 with the majority to be probably drawn from Africa. In Africa the total death toll due to Aids has already crossed 22 million, out of a global total of 25 million. The number of Aids orphan...

Mental Hospitals Offer More Problems than Solutions

...in San Bernardino and Atascadero are besetted with widespread problems, including inadequate diagnoses //and treatment, improper and excessive medication, besides prolonged hospitalization. In addition violence among patients, repeated suicide attempts by hanging, improper and inadequate care that has led to ...

Students Divided over OBC Reservation

...rth Bihar's Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga towns staged widespread demonstrations with sit-ins, burning of effigies and road blocks both in support // as well as in opposition over the proposed reservation for OBCs in premier technical institutions of the country. Students of Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospi...

Asian American Community Prone To Hepatitis B infection

...nfected with hepatitis B. The viral infection is widespread across Asia and if left unchecked, it causes liver cancer, which is a leading cause of death in many Asian countries. New York City has the largest Asian population in the United States--about 800,000 people, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. "Hep...

Clopidogrel Allergy Can Be Tackled By Methodical Desensitization

...king the stent and causing a heart attack. "With widespread use of drug-eluting stents, it's going to be more common to see allergic reactions to clopidogrel, and more critical that we find a way to keep patients on the medication," said Phillip A. Horwitz, MD, a professor of medicine and an interventional ca...

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