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Govt Hospital Surgeons Perform A Rare Cardiac Surgery

...tion of a congenital heart defect in a 30-year old woman under 'spinal epidural anesthesia’. // This surgery has so far been done only under general anesthesia. This new surgical innovation has been named as 'awake open heart surgery', as the patient remains conscious during the entire surgery. The sensa...

Grapefruit Aroma Makes Women Appear Younger

...s revealed that the scent of grapefruit can make a woman appear younger to men. // It is the aroma of the fruit that has this effect. Other aromas like lavender, banana, peppermint or broccoli do not have such effects, according to the study....

Record Number of Countries Contributed to UNFPA in 2005

...ung person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. ...

Breast Cancer Drug Should Be Made Widely Available

Debra Orr, a Canadian woman who has survived breast cancer twice, says that all women deserve access to the new drug Herceptin. //Orr says that the life-saving and life-improving drug should be made available widely so that women suffering from this deadly cancer have a chance ...

Violent computer games spur aggression: study

...e President’s kidnapped daughter. Images include a woman pinned to a wall by a pitchfork through her face 50 Cent: Bulletproof Loosely based on the gangster lifestyle of the rapper. Player engages in shootouts and loots the bodies of victims to buy 50 Cent recordings and music videos Grand Theft Auto: ...

Maternal Vitamin D Supplementation Promises Healthy Bones In Child

...e vitamin D is not necessarily good. Therefore, no woman should take extra vitamin D in pregnancy unless recommended by their doctor', said Dr. Cooper. 'Maintaining bone health is important throughout life. Regular weight bearing exercise and a healthy balanced diet are all essential for keeping our skel...

Poverty Claims Valuable Lives Of Children In Orissa

...pregnancy. Twenty-year-old Samali Juang, the only woman educated up to the seventh standard in Hatisila village, was more fortunate. Although her third child survived, the boy suffers from malnutrition. "What can I do? We are poor, only getting 10 days' wages in a month. I am still trying to provide him ...

Sleep Inertia Resembles Intoxication

...leep time. The study included eight men and one woman and their average age was about 29 years old. They were not suffering from any sleep disorder and were asked to refrain from alcohol, medications, nicotine, recreational drugs, and caffeine for the study period. For a period of three weeks they were ...

Fear of Listeria outbreak in Australia.

... of Listeria was detected in Australia. An elderly woman died on 8th January at the Queen Elizabeth hospita...among the health care officials in Australia. This woman came from interstate and was admitted in the Adelaide hospital and for cancer treatment. But the hos...

Indonesia Records Another Bird Flu Death

A 29-year-old woman in Indonesia has died in a Jakarta hospital as a result of the avian influenza infection, according to official sources// . However, Ilham Patu, spokesman of Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso Hospital designated to treat bird flu patients, said the results h...

Smoking Women May Give Birth To Deformed Babies

...orn child. The effects may be felt even before the woman is aware that she is pregnant. 'We found that the more a woman smoked, the higher the risk became that the baby would have these defects,' said study leader Benjam...

Ireland’s First Double Lung Transplan

...which was also a great success. This was done on a woman hailing from Limerick. In the past people had to go to the freeman hospital in Newcastle for transplantations but now they need not go as far as Newcastle but can get the same treatment here at Mater Hospital. ...

India set to become the global knowledge hub

...ny more," says Shaw, who became the richest Indian woman with a wealth of $400 million when Biocon was listed in 2004. India today has more than 250 universities and many more R&D units, professional colleges and institutions. On an average, more than 350,000 engineers and 5,000 PhD scholars graduate fro...

FDA needs to be more vigilant in monitoring, tissue banks.

...roper screening and in the previous month a Nassau woman has stated that she had contracted syphilis after the bone graft that she received during a back surgery at Franklin Hospital Medical Center. She also received a letter from the FDA and then found out that she may have received improperly screened...

New trend of birth induction is on the rise

... in for an induction. One such case was that of a woman who needed to be induced for the reason that her h...d ellaborate on the risks of induction in case the woman who are having her first child as it would lead to an increased risk of a caesarean. But for subsequ...

Bail Granted To The Doctor Despite Her Patient's Death

...land Yard spokeswoman also said that a 70-year-old woman was also arrested on 13 January in connection with the death of Mrs. Board. The London ambulance service and her family member were skeptical about the death of Mrs. Board and her treatment with the coroner. The London ambulance service spokesper...

Liver Donor Dies After Operation

... surgeon K.C. Tan. The recipient, a 54-year-old woman who got the liver in November, recovered well enough to go home. Tan said the donor was put through a treadmill electrocardiogram and an echocardiogram as part of the screening process to certify him fit as an organ donor. He fared well in the fou...

UK Woman To Raise Funds For Women Welfare

An UK born woman will be cycling across the Indian state of Rajasthan in an effort towards raising funds for the health of the women and children living in the state.// She will be covering 425 kilometers of desert land between 16 November and 26 November 2006. Jayne...

Drinking and smoking increases risk of tissue rejection

The woman who underwent the world’s first face transplant in France is frequently visiting the bar near the hospital. Doctors say that she is increasing the risk of tissue rejection by smoking and drinking.// Isabelle Dinoire, 38, hailing from France was giv...

Male Contraceptive Pill Being Developed By Berlin Pharmaceutical

... problem facing the researchers is the fact that a woman releases just one egg per month that might be fertilised, whereas a man produces between 70 and 100 million sperm per day - and all of these without exception have to be reined in. "The combination of the gestagene (hormonal capsule) implant and the...

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