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New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

The US government has approved a genetically engineered drug called NATRECOR to ease the breathing of hospitalized congestive heart failure patients. Congestive heart failure is a condition // in which the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. Most of the patients with congestive heart failure suffer flare-ups in which they gasp for breath and need...

Record Growth Of Soya-Based Dairy Alternatives Over The Past Year In European Markets

A recent survey by Prosoy shows that Soy milks, yoghurts and desserts grew by 22 per cent in 2004 and that people have become even more health-conscious and more aware of food intolerance and allergies. // Researchers say that based on the current trend, sales are further expected to grow in the next three years. The study coordinators stated that they have tracked well over 130 new pr...

Record growth of Soya-based dairy alternatives in Europe

A recent survey by Prosoy shows that Soy milks, yogurts and desserts grew by 22 per cent in 2004 and shows that people have become even more health-conscious and more aware of food intolerance and allergies. // Researchers say that based on the current trend sales are further expected to grow in the next three years. According to the survey researchers also say they have tracked well o...

Gujarat Records Fall In AIDS Cases

The Indian State of Gujarat has registered a fall in the number of AIDS patients. The decline has been to 3.6% in 2004 from 4.48% in 2003.// Where the low risk group is concerned, it declined to 0.13% in 2004 from 0.38% in 2003. The 2005 figures are expected to be even lower. Says Laxman Malodia of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run AIDS Control Society: "We have 5,636 HIV posit...

Record Number of Countries Contributed to UNFPA in 2005

More countries contributed to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in 2005 than in any year since its establishment in 1969, bringing the number of donor nations to 171.// In 2004, 166 nations had contributed to UNFPA. Every nation in Africa pledged funds to UNFPA in 2005. Contributions to the UNFPA regular resources last year were also the highest ever, touching $350 mill...

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 had yet to be confirmed by a World Health Organization (WHO) affiliated laboratory. "We sent the woman's samples to W...

British Columbia Has The Best Health Record

The top rank with regard to Canada's health system has been claimed by British Columbia, in spite of the patients in the province expressing low satisfaction where the services // are concerned. The worst health system in the country appears to exist in Manitoba, which has been ranked last in terms of patient satisfaction and performance. The Conference Board of Canada has made these reve...

Government Medical Records Find Their Way to the Auctions House

A man who purchased 41 tapes from the B.C. government action assuming that they were empty found to his surprise that it had 77,000 personal medical files. The tapes had information about the patient’s name, address, HIV status, substance abuse history and mental illness.// He had the intention of selling them and handed them over to the Vancouver Sun. Minister of Labor Mike de Jong sa...

Number of Allergic Anaphylaxis Episodes Are Far More Than Those Recorded

Researches found that the life-threatening anaphylactic reactions to foods are under-diagnosed and under-treated, both in the community and in the emergency room. This was reported at the American // Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology meeting after analyzing the two studies from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College. F. Estelle R. Simons,...

Apprehension looms large over patient record system

The novel patient record system, designed to connect up 50 million patients' records, and the largest in civil projects, seems to be in trouble, according to reports. // The National Audit Office has been asked to check the veracity of reports doing the rounds that the new NHS system might have thrown patients records off gear, creating inconvenience and grave consequences to patients. Th...

Manic Ecstasy: Man gets Into a Frenzy after a Record Consumption of 40,000 ecstasy tablets

Mr. A, is certainly not ecstatic, though he has created a record of sorts. Doctors in England are at their wits end, with details of a man, now open for public consumption, disclosing the highest record ever of consuming 40,000 //ecstasy pills in his life. Mr. A had absolutely no competition, as the second position for the’ecstacy’ record went to a certain person who was said to have cons...

Decline of Suicide Rates to a Record Low, Holds Promise

Recent updates on the suicide rates show a good trend of decline in the number of suicides. Yet, more needs to be done, for the government to realize its goal of scaling down the suicide rates by 20 % within the year 2010. // Department Of Health has enabled some Statistics which portray that in 1995 the rate of suicide was 9.2 per 100,000 and in 2004 it had dropped to 8.56 deaths per...

Meeting To Discuss Issue Of Personal Health Records

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Biomedical Informatics is hosting a meeting that is to discuss the privacy, business, societal, and technical issues surrounding personal health records. The first meeting on Personally Controlled Health Records Infrastructure (PCHRI 2006) will be held on October 10-11. // "The work done at this meeting will further the development of the ri...

Authority to Health Staff, To Scan Patient Medical Records

Patients medical records will now be open to checking by health workers, who have recently been given the power to take a peek at the records to verify if patients// have undergone the required diagnostic tests, especially in cases of severe health conditions such as high BP. This is a move by the Scottish government to spruce up their dwindling health record. This will certainly g...

Record Number Of Women Use Abortion Pills

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has announced that nearly a third of the 32,000 terminations by women in the first nine weeks of pregnancy had involved// the abortion pill, also known as EMA early medical abortion. The latest figures reveal that the demand for the abortion pill in Britain has reached an all time high with 10,000 pregnant women undergoing the procedure la...

Outsourcing Medical Records Risky: Unison

UK's biggest trade union Unison has alleged that medical records of patients that are typed outside the country have many errors that could cost the life of a patient. //Many NHS trusts are outsourcing the work to countries like India to save costs, the union said. However some typing errors like "hypertension", which means high blood pressure, instead of "hypotension", which means lo...

Electronic Patient Record "Serious Threat" to Patient Confidentiality

Doctors in this week's BMJ have their say on whether patients should have to opt in or out of electronic patient records.// The medical profession is concerned that, in the proposed summary care record, data will be accessed with no further input from the patient, and this is not being made sufficiently clear to the public, write Drs Paul Cundy and Alan Hassey in a letter to this week...

Electronic Medical Record For Every American by 2014

Information technology heralded the introduction of electronic patient records in healthcare management. It was observed that nearly 25% of the doctors in the United// States made use of this form of record maintenance by 2005. The target for 2014, as laid out by the President is to ensure that every American has an electronic medical record. Presently, a government healthcare IT cert...

Incorrect Recording Of Response Time By Six Ambulance Trusts

A government audit conducted by Department of Health to find the response time of ambulance services for emergency calls have found that six trusts// had failed to record correct details for how they responded to the most serious life-threatening emergency calls. The Government has set a target saying 75 per cent of such 'Category A' calls should be responded to within eight minutes....

India Records Over 1.3 mn Chikungunya Cases

As dengue fever grips the country, another viral disease chikungunya is causing concern as over 1.3 million suspected cases //have been reported across nine states. Though Delhi has 28 suspected cases and seven confirmed cases, the worst hit is Karnataka with over 756,028 suspected cases and 294 confirmed cases of the disease. Maharashtra has 262,595 suspected and 679 confi...

New Record Set By Orissa On Blood Donation

Orissa Red Cross Society jointly with Ama Odisha organization has set a new record in blood donation breaking the previous record of 2,002 units //donated on a single day. The chairman of Ama Odisha told the newspersons on Thursday that the previous record was broken twice during the week-long drive that was launched between 25-31st October covering 181 centres across Orissa....

Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping- A Test to Sift Unhealthy Embryos Records Success

London: Embryonic testing based on the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory, which helps in detecting unhealthy embryos, with a motive to nurture// the healthy ones, has borne fruit. Now, babies have been born to a British Couple, the first in UK, after successfully employing this method of embryonic testing. This method proved a blessing to the parents in question, who carried genes tha...

Maiden Quintuple Kidney Transplant Sets a Record

In a rather unique show of exemplary medical prowess and team effort, five concurrent kidney transplants were performed at John Hopkins //Comprehensive Transplant Center. This maiden feat was accomplished with the combined effort 12 surgeons, 11 anesthesiologists, and 18 nurses and it took place over 10 hours and required six operating rooms. A spokesman from the hospital has confirmed th...

Recording Neo-natal Consultations Is Helpful to Parents

Parents with infants needing neo-natal care find recordings of consultations with their consultants helpful, finds a study.// The parents of babies requiring care in neo-natal intensive care units (NICU) often do not recall the information given to them. Researchers in Australia set out to assess the usefulness of audio recording the conversations between mothers and their neo-natal co...

Mistletoe Is Good For Christmas Decorations, Not For Cancer

A 61-year-old cancer patient developed a lesion under her skin on her chest wall and doctors were perplexed, as the biopsy showed a new pattern of inflammation. //Interrogation revealed that the lady had been injecting herself with extract of mistletoethrice every week. This case study is published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). A 19th-century Austrian philosoph...

AIIMS Creates Record by Completing 100 Four-arm Robotic Surgeries

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Friday become the first hospital in Asia to complete 100 surgeries// through the most advanced four-arm robot - Da Vinci S. "We were the first to acquire Da Vinci S robot in July last year and today we completed the 100th operations through the state-of the art machine. It's a record in Asia," said Ashok K. Hemal, a senior...

Record Donation to Children’s Hospita

It’s a gift that brought tears to the receiver and to the giver//. An outstanding donation of 30 million dollars was pledged to the staff at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children or Sick Kids. The gift comes from a scion of a beer baron and well-established friend of the hospital. Arthur Labatt, the founder of the Trimark Investment Management mutual fund company a...

Filipino Children Brush Teeth in Bid to Break World Record

Manila: More than 41,000 Filipino schoolchildren on Wednesday brushed their teeth simultaneously in three cities in the Philippines// in a bid to break a world record, organisers said. A total of 41,038 children gathered in open parks in Manila, the central city of Cebu and the southern city of Davao to make the bid successful. Organisers said the bid broke Britain's curre...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, on 21st February announced it has passed t...

Indian American Records Brain Dialogue During Sleep

A team of neuroscientists led by an Indian American has recorded groundbreaking recordings of activity in two brain regions during// deep sleep. Mayank Mehta, assistant professor of neuroscience at Brown University in Rhode Island, made the startling discovery, according to 'Brown Daily', a student newspaper. Mehta and his team found that the electrical activity in the bra...

Medical Records - Direct to Home With the New NHS IT System

The convenience to view personal medical records on the home PC is no longer a far fetched idea, but forms the core of the novel NHS IT system, slated to span the whole of// England. The medical electronic records, spearheaded by ‘Connecting for Health’ seeks to improve the quality of patient care, enabling access to personal medical records from the confines of their homes. Communica...

Winter Warmth Breaks All Records

Winter in the northern hemisphere this year has been the warmest since records began more than 125 years ago, raising fears of global warming//. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US government agency, said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880. "Contributi...

Rare Case of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Between Dental Patients Recorded

Researchers have documented a case of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission between two patients at a dentist's office in the United States//. While this kind of infection is exceedingly rare, universal vaccination against the virus would likely have prevented both cases, according to the authors. The case report, by John T. Redd, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Centers for Disease...

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

Visions of deaths caused by possible mistakes made by medical secretaries in India have been raised to prevent transcription work in British hospitals// from being outsourced to India and the Philippines. Several hospital trusts of the National Health Service (NHS) have outsourced medical transcription work to India, with more considering the option to cut budgetary deficits. The move...

MEND - Child Obesity Programme Records Success

A nine-week programme to get children especially the eight to 12-year-olds in shape and in the pink of health has recorded success. The MEND programme, as it is called, got// underway in 100 locations across England. This programme is opportune, considering that 30% of children in UK are labeled as overweight or obese. MEND - for Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, and Do-it took charge of mo...

Indian Doctor in Britain Made Record Eye Check-ups in a Day

Premal Patel, an Indian origin optician who was part of a British charity, made a record 850 eye examinations in a day while volunteering// in India. Premal Patel, who was part of a team with the Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) charity, carried out a record 850 eye examinations in a day in the Indian city of Bangalore in March. The charity helps people with sight difficulties in...

Virginia Tech Shooters Mental Health Records No More Secret

After weeks of negotiations, investigating officers obtained the university mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho , who caused one of the bloodiest shooting rampages in American history. Cho killed himself on April 16, shortly after a shooting rampage in which he killed two students at a dormitory and then 30 other students and staff in a classroom building- Norris Hall at Virginia...

Talwalkars Awards a Record $1 Million Order to Nautilus

US-based fitness giant Nautilus has been awarded a record order worth over $1 million by Talwalkars, India's largest chain of health centers . This is the biggest ever order placed with a single fitness equipment company in India. The order follows a joint venture agreement between Talwalkar Better Value Fitness and Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd to create new premium health and fitne...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

New Delhi, India has made substantial progress in curbing the spread of polio with just 82 cases reported in the first half of this year compared to 676 last year, says WHO. Of the 82 polio cases till June 25, over 50 cases were from Uttar Pradesh and 17 from Bihar, it says. 'The total global cases of polio in 2007 is 213 compared with 585 for the same period in 200...

New York Records Decline in Smoking Rate

New York Citys smoking rate has shown a decline, thanks to the comprehensive program in 2002, encouraging smokers to kick the habit. The statistics in the 2006 report shows a decline in the smoking rate by 20%, in comparison to 2002 figures. Over the past year, smoking decreased among men (from 22.5% to 19.9%) and among Hispanics (from 20.2% to 17.1%). These large declines followed...