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Study casts doubt on keyboard ills

Using a computer does not appear to pose a severe occupational hazard for developing the wrist and hand ailment known as carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a Danish study published Tuesday.The finding was based on a survey of nearly 7,000 workers at 3,500 locations who were questioned initially on symptoms and 5,568 of the group who were assessed a year later. This study found a p...

Who Board To Discuss Asian Tsunami Related Health Issues

WHO Executive Board is to discuss the devastation caused in Southeast Asia by the tsunami that hit on 26 December and the related relief and reconstruction work // being carried out in the affected areas, on the opening date of its 115th session. Also on the agenda of the 32-member board is to discuss the broader topic of WHO's work in emergencies in general. These include, importance of e...

Abdominal Crunches Not The Best Option For Wash Board Abs.

Contrary to previous claims that abdominal exercise alone is the best way to improve your stomach muscles recent studies prove that combining dieting and plenty of cardiovascular exercise - to streamline overall body // fat - with the usual abdominal workouts is the best way to those flat abs. Most abdominal exercises help strengthen the muscles but have little effect on fat deposits...

Flu, Boarded A Ship?

A Medical Team is all set to board a 500-capacity British cruise vessel, Funchal that has been around for over 20 years. // This ship is presently off the West Australian coast, and will host the medical team, who are to examine reports that passengers on board have been infected by a contagious flu. The department's director of Communicable Disease Control, Dr. Paul Van Buynder said,...

Skateboarding to health

A new study has revealed that skateboarders have better self-esteem and lower tendencies to engage in risky behavior compared to their more sedentary peers. // The report of the study will appear in the April issue of Pediatrics. It is authored by Melissa Nelson, professor and epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota with co-author Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of...

Shangai Citizens to Monitor Billboards

China's largest metropolis, Shangai proposes to start a citizen advisory panel, preventing advertisers from featuring billboards// with images that would offend local sensibilities. The move follows a series of recent complaints over a huge billboard in the city's commercial Xujiahui area that displayed the bare thigh of a Hong Kong pop star selling skin-care products. The...

Computer Keyboards In Hospitals Could Spread Infection To Patients

Computer keyboards used in hospitals are a reservoir for bacteria that staff could pass to patients and need to be disinfected every day, a new study warns.// Researchers collected samples from 25 computer keyboards at various locations inside University of North Carolina hospitals and found that each keyboard was infected with at least two types of bacteria, reports the science portal...

Budhia Is Fine, Government-constituted Medical Board Reports False

A Cardiologist working for a private medical college described the Budhia’s medical board report as ‘quite premature’//. A panel of Government doctors who had examined the budding marathon runner, warned him against running such long distances. According to the report of the government-constituted medical board, the kid’s clinical parameters such as serum urea, serum ALKP (alkaline ph...

Pharmacy Board Says Pharmacists Have Right To Refuse Morning-After Pill

The state Board of Pharmacy has voted to allow pharmacists to decline to sell morning-after emergency contraceptive in Washington//. But the governor, some lawmakers and women's rights organizations are furious with this decision. Rod Shafer, executive director of the Washington State Pharmacy Association had said earlier this year that pharmacists should have the right to decline to...

115 people on board a cruise liner taken ill due to suspected Norovirus

Seattle- Nearly 115 people cruising on a celebrity ship took ill after which, the ship made a hasty return to Seattle, Washington //. The cause of this sickness is thought to be Norovirus, although it is yet to be confirmed. It is estimated that Noroviruses render nearly 23 million Americans indisposed each year. According to Dave Forney, chief of the vessel sanitation program, 'The r...

Health Board and Doctors’ Association clash on working hours issu

Dr Christopher Landrigan, from Harvard University, a specialist in the area of sleep deprivation has prepared a report on the repercussions of lack of sleep on health //care professionals. Presently, he has been deputed by the health board to lend his observations on the optimum working hours for Doctors, perfectly timed, when the talks between the health boards and the resident doctor’s associat...

On-board Avian Flu Testing Labs on US Navy Ships

A Singapore bioscience firm has set up the first on-board avian flu testing laboratories on the US Seventh Fleet's flagship and an aircraft carrier, the company confirmed Monday.// The H5N1 testing facilities are on the flagship USS Blue Ridge and the carrier USS Kitty Hawk, said Rosemary Tan, chief executive of Veredus Laboratories. Veredus, founded three years ago, also m...

Health Board to deal with Another Upcoming Fight

History is expected to repeat itself and the campaign that took place eight years ago to retain surgical facilities at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion// in Lauriston looks set to repeated again. NHS Lothian has again proposed plans to transfer eye operations to St John's in Livingston, a situation that would force Edinburgh people to make a round trip of about 40 miles for treatment....

Delhi Medical Board to Probe Mistaken Surgery on Child

The medical board of the Delhi government will investigate the case of a four-year-old child who was mistakenly operated //upon for congenital hernia instead of an extra finger in a government hospital here. Kapil Brijpal was taken to a wrong operation theatre Tuesday in the Baba Ambedkar Hopsital in Rohini, where he had been admitted for removing the sixth finger of his right hand. <b...

Health Board to take over Eating Disorder Service

Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB) is likely to take over Johnsonville's Eating Disorder Service (EDS) which due to close by this year-end. There are only 2 specialist// inpatient units in New Zealand, one is this and the other is in Christchurch. Insufficient financial support by the DHB was the reason given by EDS managers to the patients and staff for the termination of services...

Irish Medicines Board Extends Paracetamol Recall To All Batches

All batches of the paracetamol tablet Paratabs 500mg are being recalled by the Irish Medicines Board due to fears of contamination which is most likely to be mould//. This applies to all tablets dispensed since August 29. As people could not have purchased the product without a prescription , they are being asked to return any unused tablets to their pharmacy and not to consume anymore...

Tussle between doctor duo and Austalian health service board

Australian media reports that the board of the Central Gippsland Health Service has decided to stall mediation with two paediatricians.from Sale//. Peter Goss and Jo McCubbin had resigned from the Sale Hospital last June, saying that they were compelled to take such an action because of threats to services. However they would continue their services by working in Gippsland from another p...

New Flat Keyboard To Tackle Hospital Super Bug

A hospital in London has developed a flat computer keyboard that it claims could help reduce incidences of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus // aureus (MRSA), one of a number of hospital-acquired infections that kill 5,000 people each year in Britain. MRSA, which is transmitted mainly by touch, is a specific strain of the staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibioti...

Going Overboard With a Hand Sanitizer

The behavior of a 49-year-old prisoner, otherwise calm, had suddenly turned awry. Guards in the prison found him red eyed, cantankerous and sermonizing//. Apparently, the prisoner had been consuming from a gallon of hand sanitizer which contained almost 70% alcohol. The alarm regarding abuse of hand sanitizers was not new, according to the chief of Maryland Poison Control Center, Dr....

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

The Madras High Court in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to transfer the Novartis AG’s appeal against the rejection of its patent// plea for the anti-cancer drug Glivec to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. The decision could be considered a temporary setback to the pharma multinational. For it cannot hope for any early decision on the patent plea...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

After getting caught on the wrong foot in the Novartis case, the government of India is moving fast to plug all loopholes in patent law// implementation. It has now been notified that all patent litigations filed in various courts in the country after notification of the amended Patent Act have been transferred to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, set up at Chennai....

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

The many Australians taking to the bottle is not funny. Infact their love for the spirits has created a bottle neck in the health system, overburdened// by the fallout of the binge drinking culture on the people’s health. Binge drinking has become a trend evident among all age groups, class, boundaries and cultural lines. Experts have suggested that this trend spells doom for Austral...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

The many Australians taking to the bottle is not funny. Infact their love for the spirits has created a bottle neck in the health system, overburdened by the fallout of the binge drinking culture on the peoples health. Binge drinking has become a trend evident among all age groups, class, boundaries and cultural lines. Experts have suggested that this trend spells doom for Austral...

LifeCycle Pharma Forms Scientific Advisory Board in Solid Organ Transplantation

LifeCycle Pharma has established a Scientific Advisory Board for its transplantation programs. In addition, LifeCycle Pharma announces the expansion of its United States (U.S.) clinical development department with the addition of Drs. Rob Gordon and Larry Chodoff LifeCycle Pharma A/S OMX:LCP) today announced the formation of an international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of experts in the fiel...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

After being the focus of national attention, USS Nimitz, the lead aircraft carrier of the United States, has sailed off the Chennai coast . While everyone talked about the possible radiation from the nuclear reactors powering the ship and debated over if the ship had nuclear weapons on board or not, very few knew of the F-16 and F-18 Hornets and Super Hornets, the world's best fighte...