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Testing Your Health & Charging Your Mobile At One Go - Check Out The Urine Powered Batteries

Imagine a credit card-sized, urine-powered paper battery that could make healthcare tests cheaper and even charge mobile phones! Current biochips need an external reader such as a laser scanner or an external source of power // , such as conventional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. The technology developed by Ki Bang Lee at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechn...

Men under 50 susceptible to suicide after discharge from emergency

A recent study has found that men under 50 are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause in the 30 days after being discharged. // A study of public hospital emergency departments in Perth conducted on 270, 000 patients aged 15 and over attending the emergency departments of seven Perth hospitals between June 2000 and July 2003 found nine men aged under 50 committed suicide wi...

Minister Defends Hike in AIIMS Treatment Charges

Health Minister of India Anbumoni Ramdoss justified the increase in the fees for lab tests and treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences //(AIIMS), saying that this was necessary to maintain the quality of the services. This is incidentally the first time that a hike is taking place at the institution since 1995. The budget of the AIIMS is at Rs. 420 crores while the revenu...

Ofcom To Assess The Bedside Call Charges

Ofcom, which is a telecom regulator, found that incoming call to bedside phones cost higher than the call made to Australia. It demanded the health department to review the charges levied on the bedside phones. // This came about after the relatives of the patients started complaining of the bedside phone charges. The company after a seven-month study found that a bedside cal...

Elders in Scotland Inappropriately Charged For Free Food

Elders in Scotland are being wrongly charged for free services such as making a cup of tea or toast, revealed a survey conducted by charity Age Concern Scotland//. Legally, such food preparation techniques that fall under free personal care should be delivered free of cost. The thirteen councils that have been blamed for doing so are currently involved in discussion with the Scottish...

Whopping Cancer Treatment Charges May See the Light of Day

The cost of treatment at the community-built Riverina Cancer Care Centre is looking forward to some change, with expectations hovering around reduction in prices, which will bring about the much needed respite after the recent price hike. // This has happened following fears expressed by the cancer support groups that people may avoid treatment owing to high costs. Kay Hull, who is the...

Charging Car Park Fees From Cancer Patients Is Morally Wrong, Says Macmillan Cancer Relief

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that hospitals are raking in huge amounts courtesy charging patients// for the use of car parks. The BBC reports that trusts had made up to ￡1.5 million a year by charging for this service. The hospitals, which earned the maximum revenue, were large ones with a big list of patients. The Department of Health figures show...

Cricket Match Lands Mother and Child in ICU after Lathi Charge

Chandigarh: A nine-year-old girl and her mother, injured in a lathi charge during the second one-day international (ODI) between India and England in Faridabad, a satellite town of Delhi, are in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital. // The little girl, Vidhi, had a broken collarbone and a broken wrist and her condition is being closely monitored by doctors. They said Vidhi had s...

Doctor Cleared Of Charges of Killing a baby

Dr Mohie El-Khadem of Prestbury Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, was found not guilty of killing baby Olivia Rowlings//. The doctor has been cleared of the manslaughter of a baby who died of head injuries eight hours after being born. Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court took five hours to reach their verdict. Passing their decision to the judge they offered their sympathies to the f...

Doctors to Reveal Gap Fees Charges to Patients

The doctors have been forced to disclose details about their out of pocket expenses following radical overhaul of health insurance premiums// by the Federal Government. In an attempt to encourage young people to take out private health cover, it has been further planned to abolish the two five percent lifetime surcharge on premiums. The new plan which would be accompanied by the sale...

Hospitals Facing Huge Losses From Healthy Patients Yet To Discharge

The Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester, which is already suffering from huge losses, and is heavily strapped for cash, has been spending ￡359,000 caring// for two patients even though they do not need treatment. Two elderly patients have been in hospital for two years even though they do not need treatment. Both women have been fit to leave the hospital since April 20...

Merciless Lathi Charge of our Meritorious Medicos

The widespread protest by medical students across the country shows the anguish and the strong undercurrent that prevails in the country against the government's policy for reservations for OBC in professional course be it medical colleges, IITs or IIMs. // The protests are gaining momentum and now besides the medicos the IIT students also have decided to join the agitation. What the...

User charges imposed on AIIMS patients may be withdrawn

Government is considering doing away with the user charges imposed on patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences// (AIIMS) here, a senior CPI(M) MP said today. This was conveyed to a delegation of Members of Parliment led by CPI(M) member Basudeb Acharia when they called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Tuesday. The delegation, which also included Nirma...

Parking Charges at Hospitals Morally Wrong

Charities and patients' groups told MSPs that charging patients and their relatives for parking at hospitals is ‘morally wrong'. // They also voiced their concerns about increasing number of people who would be affected by parking because of centralisation of hospital services. Patients have reported being charged even up to ￡10 a day for parking in certain parts of the...

MMR – Related Autism, Doctor’s Need To Be Chargd

From the research results of Dr Andrew Wakefield, their seems to be a connection between triple measles, mumps and rubella jab and autism related bowel // diseases – Lancet published in 1998 says. Thus Doctor’s who has done a health scare over the MMR vaccinated children need to face a charge of professional misconduct for their act. A survey with British people revealed...

Media Charged With Sensationalism

According to latest figures revealed in Ireland, suicide is the most popular cause of death among men and women below the age of 35years//. There were 431 registered suicides in 2005,with approximately 6% of those recorded as copycat suicides. The HSE today appealed to the media not to sensationalize suicides, adding that a significant number of these deaths were preventable.<...

UK doctor Charged By GMC For Professional Misconduct

The General Medical Council (GNC) UK is now investigating Dr Wakefield over claims of serious professional misconduct//. The research that was led by Dr Andrew Wakefield and subsequently published in The Lancet in 1998, had sparked a health scare when it had suggested that their might exist a causal link between the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) injection with autism and b...

User Charges At AIIMS Rolled Back

In an important move that will benefit poor patients, the Centre today decided to roll back the user charges in the prestigious All India Institute// of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The decision to withdraw the user charges, imposed earlier this year, was taken at a meeting of the AIIMS Institute Body where a majority of the members wanted the user charges to be rolled back. "T...

NHS Charges Needs To Be Reviewed

According to the parliament's Health Select Committee the charges levied by the National Health Service in England needs to be reviewed//. It pointed out to the fact that the charges for prescriptions, dentistry and eye care do not have any comprehensible underlying principles. Hence it concluded in its report NHS charges that the existing system needs to be changed. These charges have...

Spouse's Income Taken Into Account In Nursing Home Charges

The HSE and Department of Health have admitted that some nursing homes do take into account spouse's income before deciding on the charges//. This does not concur with the existing legislation. Fine Gael health spokesman Dr Liam Twomey said that the report on more illegal charges was worrying. "It is absolutely disgraceful to along with legislation to hear that HSE guidelines allowed t...

First Gay Man Prosecuted On the Charges of Infecting His Lover with HIV

Mark James, of Burgess Hill, West Sussex was prosecuted for intentionally infecting his live in lover with HIV and a warrant was issued to arrest him.// He failed to appear at court and the Judge Jonathan Lowen told Isleworth Crown Court that the 47-year-old businessman would be sentence in his absence. He is facing a lengthy jail sentence for inflicting bodily harm to his lover. James...

Medicos Seek NHRC Intervention on User Charges at AIIMS

The issue of delay in withdrawal of "user charges" at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was today brought to the notice of the National Human Rights Commission // (NHRC) with a medicos' body seeking its intervention on the matter. In a letter to NHRC Chairperson A S Anand, the Medicos Forum for Equal Opportunity, a body of pro-quota medicos, today said the governing b...

China's First Facial Transplant Patient Discharged

China's first facial transplant patient was discharged for a week after undergoing successful surgery, the state media reported Saturday. // Li Guoxing, 30, who had not seen his wife and two children since he was admitted to the entered Xijing Hospital returned home Friday for a week-long visit to his family in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The transplanted part of hi...

Indo-Canadian Doctor Charged with Abetting Suicide Bid

An Indo-Canadian doctor has been charged with attempting to help a 92-year-old woman to commit suicide.// Ramesh Sharma, 49, of Vernon, British Columbia, was arrested and produced in court to face the charge following investigations into the case by a unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Sharma, according to media reports, was helping the patient to die in a n...

Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion

An Indian Australian doctor has been found guilty of performing an illegal abortion but was cleared of a charge of manslaughter of a premature baby.// Dr. Suman Sood was charged with manslaughter in November 2005 for allegedly failing to follow the procedures that make abortion legal in the state of New South Wales (NSW). Reports here said the decision was reached by a jur...

Region in the brain in-charge of face recognition includes object recognition as well.

Stanford University researchers have zoomed in on a region in the brain, previously understood to be a seat of face recognition, to reassess its capacity.// The latest finding has revealed that this region is versatile as it does much more than just identify faces. The neurons also double up their response to objects- automobiles, animals and even sculptures. Current face perception...

Caregiver Charged In Autistic Boy's Death

25-year-old Tameka Elliott, who was the caregiver to a 12-year-old autistic boy who fell to his death from a high-rise apartment on May 4, is being charged with the boy's// death. This despite the police initially maintaining that there was no foul play involved in his death. The boy's name has never been publicly released. Elliot was arrested Friday, but the police did not say if the...

Escalating Healthcare charges in UAE

In UAE, the common man has seen a rapid increase in healthcare charges over the past few years. The people in UAE have been affected not only by the rising cost of living// but also by the health sector, which has become a money-spinning business. The government in 2003 revised the healthcare fee structure. This had upset many emigrants, who previously had the benefit of ‘free’ hospital...

A.Q. Khan Discharged from Hospital after Successful Prostate Surgery

Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who underwent prostate surgery, was discharged from hospital Sunday and taken to an unknown location.// Khan, 70, was driven out from a rear exit as television teams waited vainly at the main gate of the Aga Khan Hospital where his cancerous prostate gland was removed, television channel Geo said. Information Ministe...

Mercy Killing Charge Refuted by Katrina Doctor

Dr. Anna Pou, during her first ever public appearance, since her arrest for causing the death of four patients with dangerous injections, confirmed that neither she nor// the two co-accused nurses, warranted the murder charge. The charge labeled against them by the Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, points at incriminating evidence, of second-degree murder. The witness account...

Abolish Car Parking Charges at Welsh Hospitals, says BMA Cymru Wales

Doctors leaders in Wales are calling on the National Assembly for Wales to abolish car parking charges at hospitals throughout Wales and release// patients from a heavy financial burden. Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Dr Richard Lewis said: "Charging people to park at hospitals is an indirect tax on healthcare. These days, the vast majority of people who attend hospital clinics do so by...

Well known Psychiatrist in UK faces charges for misconduct with client

One the the most respected doctors in the field of Psychiatry in the UK is facing charges of misconduct.// The General Medical Council conducted a disciplinary hearing to look into the charges made against Dr Russell Reid one of the most famous gender psychiatrist in the UK for having apparently suggested to one of his clients to work as an ‘escort’ in order to pay for the costs that wo...

Indian company charged with fraud in supply of Aids test kit

Innumerable faulty test kits well past the expiry date , used to screen blood of donors for HIV//, and Hepatitis B and C infections was found during raids conducted at Calcutta from blood banks across the state supplied to them by a company Monozyme India which had several contracts with the state government of West Bengal . The government is forcibly calling back kits that have been a...

Hong Kong to Charge More Birth Fee on Chinese Women

Hong Kong is to impose a birthing fee of upto $6,150 on women from mainland China crossing the border// to give birth in the city's public hospitals, officials said Monday. The fee - expected to be imposed from February - comes after the number of mainland Chinese women giving birth in the city of 6.8 million swelled from a few hundred to more than 10,000 a year. Cheung Wai-...

Positively Charged Nurses, Best in Nursing Dying Children

Nurses endowed with high levels of positive attitude are happy and confident in caring for dying children and their families//. Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia conducted a survey of several hundreds of pediatric nurses. The findings of the survey showed that, nurses who were positive and confident about their skills, most often were recipients of focused training in...

Should NHS Reform Its ‘Charge System?

Last week, a body of leading public health experts said that NHS should consider billing patients for ineffective treatments and drop all prescription charges//. Patients should contribute towards the cost of some routine operations – they said. Dr. Tim Crayford, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health believes that the spiraling health costs had to be controlled and...

Drug Companies May Be Penalize For Overcharging NHS Tax Payers Money on Branded Drugs

The Nation Health Care System of Britain, the NHS, has been in constant light over the past few years. This focus has become even more acute// |as it tries desperately to repair itself from collapsing. A recent report by the Office of Fair Trading, has expressed that the NHS may actually be paying Drug companies millions of pounds more then they should, for branded drugs. A...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

Individuals with a higher body mass index (BMI) tend are less likely to be discharged directly home after hospitalization for an ischemic stroke// , according to a report. An ischemic stroke occurs when the flow of blood to a part of the brain is blocked or reduced and sufficient amounts of oxygen cannot be delivered to brain tissue. Obesity and excess weight are risk factors for stro...

Recovering Pranab Mukherjee Likely to Be Discharged Tomorrow

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is undergoing treatment for head injuries at the Army Hospital at Delhi is likely to be discharged// on tomorrow. The minister met with a road accident in West Bengal on Saturday and is recovering fast, according to the doctors attending him. A team of top-notch specialists reviewed the minister's health in the morning and found him "acti...

Texas Youth Commission Reeling Under Multiple Charges

The Texas Youth Commission’s (TYC) facilities continue to reel under allegations of ward neglect and abuse, after the Dallas Morning News unearthed sordid// details about the agency. Leaders of the state continue the investigations of sexual and physical abuse of the juvenile inmates, as well as gross neglect of their health. Reports have shown that the inmates have had to wai...