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Patient’s perception of health status helps in better recover

We always insist that we should feel healthy to actually live healthy. Doctors in England say that following a coronary bypass surgery; the patient’s attitude helps in an early recovery. To justify this argument the researchers conducted a health survey just before coronary bypass operations and assessed the patient’s own perception of his/her own health status. Following surgery those who had a...

FDA debates status of decongestant drugs

An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration agreed that an ingredient commonly used in over-the-counter decongestants is unsafe, and it plans to recommend further review by the FDA. The FDA Non-Prescription Drugs Advisory Committee met to discuss a new five-year study by Yale University researchers that found phenyl-propanolamine (PPA), an active ingredient in non-prescr...

Status of some prescription drugs

The Food and Drug Administration began two days of public hearings to decide whether to make some drugs available over-the-counter that currently require a doctor's prescription. A number of medications are being considered, ranging from blood pressure drugs to birth control pills. But there are inconsistent views about how this could be good for the consumer. // Prescription drug usa...

Low Socioeconomic Status May Lead To Mental Illness

Researchers are of the low social and economic standing may lead to more cases of mental illnesses like depression,// and bipolar disease. The study, which examined a database of 34000 patients who have been detected with mental illness leading to hospitalization, was published in the current issue of American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. The study results show that income education an...

Post-Menopausal Status May Cause Tooth Decay

Researchers from the University of Buffalo, has found that Post-menopausal// women has an increased chance of loosing their tooth. The study was reported in the Journal of Periodontology, which was conducted in 106 Post-menopausal women during a follow up of 11.7 years. The results showed 57.5% of the women in the study lost at least one tooth. Alveolar bone loss may be cause of tooth loss in Pos...

Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

You may expect your partner to inform you of his/her HIV status, but as far as law goes, you don't have a legal stand on this. Even horrifying is the fact that you have to rely on the quality of condom to protect you // from the virus. The Wellington District Court, New Zealand, dismissed the charges of criminal nuisance against Justin Dalley, who was charged with criminal nuisance aft...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Relapse Linked To Marital Status

A team of researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia report that single men who have a relapse of prostate cancer may not turn up to seek fresh treatment. // The findings of the study were presented on the behalf of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group by Dr. Andre Konski at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology annual meeting that is in progress in De...

Jharkhand Gives Health industry status

The state government of Jharkhand has given health the status of industry. The positive step forward will enable the health sector to receive all facilities provided under the industrial policy. Nursing homes // and pathological labs will receive incentives and infrastructure support. The government move is expected to give a new lease of life to the health sector in state, where half...

Study Finds Low Socio-Economic Status Linked to Poor Dental Health

An article appearing in the American Journal of Public Health says that low income groups and those with little education are more prone to suffer from severe dental diseases//. The study arrived at these conclusions after analyzing data from 15,000 people residing in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota and Maryland. The researchers say that a person's income was intimately tied to t...

Prostate Cancer Outcomes Determined By Socioeconomic Status

More than the available treatment methods, it is the socioeconomic status of an individual that determines the prognosis of prostate cancer, according// to a new study published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study found that education, community poverty, and income level played an equally important role in determining t...

Colour Of Urine Can Reveal The Health Status Of The Patients

A new research has said that urinalysis can reveal very much about the health condition of a person and has also added that this simple diagnostic procedure should not be overlooked. // Carole Foot, an intensive care specialist at Queensland's Prince Charles Hospital said by examining a patient's urine could provide information to doctors about whether patients were taking certain med...

Immune Response To Flu Shots Influenced By Bereavement And Marital Status

A new study appearing in an upcoming issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity says that flu shots do not work properly in elderly patients who have experienced the death of a family member. //But older adults who have a happy marriage show increased response to these shots or injections than those who are unmarried or widowed. Hence it was concluded that marriage and bereavement “are th...

Men Unaware of Fertility Status After Vasectomy

A recent study conducted by researchers has highlighted that most of the US men who had undergone vasectomies do not turn up as required// for follow up tests done to evaluate the success of the surgical procedure. Out of the 436 men who underwent vasectomy at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, a mere one-fifth were found to attend the two-sets of sperm-checking tests, that played a crucial ro...

New Study Confers All Clear Status On Letrozole, Infertility Drug

Concerns about increased risk of birth defects associated with letrozole, a cost effective and an easy to use drug, commonly given for infertility treatment has been settled//. A new research has now established that the rate of birth defects associated with letrozole is very similar to that associated with clomiphene citrate, the first line treatment for infertility for more than 40 years that i...

Gay and HIV + men have no qualms revealing HIV status

A study undertaken by Ohio State University that chose to study the mind-set of gay men who are HIV-positive has shown that these men have no compunctions opening up to others about their HIV status. // Head researcher and lead author of the study Julianne Serovich says, “I was very surprised at how little regret we found, because you see the angst in HIV-positive men who deliberate...

Socioeconomic Status Plays A Role In Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

A group of autoimmune diseases, named Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), causes chronic inflammation of the joints, which inversely affect health-related quality of life// , during adulthood. Socioeconomic status suggests patient prognosis in adults – study finds. But nothing regarding children was found. Arthritis Care & Research journal published a study in the June 2006 issue, w...

Human Chain Seeks AIIMS Status For Tiruchi Medical College

More than 2,000 people today formed a human chain to show their solidarity and support for the upgradation of The Tiruchi Government medical college. This was an initiative to raise the college's present level of care and bring it in par with The All India Institute of Medical Sciences. // The human chain, comprising supporters of various political parties, local people and students,...

Rush of honor for Rush University – Magnet Status for Excellence in Nursin

Chicago – Rush University Medical Center has yet again been honored with the Magnet status, given for excellence in nursing. // This is considered to be the highest recognition for nursing services signifying superior nursing care to patients. This is for the second time that Rush University has received this much-coveted status. Fewer than 50 hospitals in the United States have rece...

Most HIV/AIDS Patients do not Disclose Status: Report

A majority of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country do not disclose their status at workplaces fearing discrimination, a United Nations study has said. // "Seventy-four per cent of the employees have not disclosed their HIV-positive status at their workplace. Of the remaining 26 per cent who have disclosed their status, 10.3 per cent have reported facing discrimination at the han...

India To Claim 'Bird Flu Free' Status

India will lay claim to the 'bird flu free nation' status next month, as no case of avian influenza has been reported in the country for the last three months, federal Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Friday. // "There has been no case of avian influenza for the last three months, which makes us eligible for the bird flu free nation status," he told reporters here. Th...

India to Claim Bird Flu-Free Status Next Month

India has complied with all protocols necessary for being notified bird flu-free, and hopes to receive the certification from OIE, the international animal health agency, on Aug 10, a senior official said here Friday.// While the notification does not rule out a recurrence, the Animal Husbandry Department under the ministry of agriculture is hopeful that the surveillance and other prev...

Avian flu-free Status to Boost India's Poultry Exports

India's poultry industry is eagerly waiting for the country to be declared avian flu free, possibly next week, to cash in on demand from overseas particularly the Middle// East. "We are looking to the opening up of the export market with the notification by the government that India is free of avian flu," O.P. Singh, CEO of National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), told IANS from Pu...

Canadian Parents Have a Rosy View of Their Children’s Health Status

Ruth Collins-Nakai, President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) said that Canadian parents appear to have a very rosy view of the health of their own children// although in general they rated Canadian children a C when it came to health, according to a survey carried out by Ipsos-Reid, commissioned by the CMA. It was revealed that 26% of Canadian kids aged 2-17 are obese/overw...

Specialist status for breast doctors may be revoked

Breast medicine as a specialty in New Zealand may no longer be included in the specialist category, if the recommendation by the Medical Council comes into force//. A few radiologists who have had the opportunity of working with breast physicians understand the benefits of having them as part of the team. But the rest are still unconvinced about their contribution, so much so that br...

‘Obesity’ Acquires Permanent Resident Status in the US

Obesity has been a frequent flier in search of greener pastures, but now, gauging by the unconditional adulation it has received//, has decided on a permanent home in the United States of America. ‘O’ for omnipresent, obesity, is estimated to have entered into the lives of nearly one-third of U.S children, leaving them with a bagful of unwholesome fat and a life time of woes to follow....

Current Dengue and Chikungunya Status in India

In a press release the Ministry of Health has indicated the current situation with both these viral infections in India. In its update on Dengue// the Ministry has confirmed reports of 9453 cases and 157 deaths as a whole including Delhi as on 04.11.2006 upto 12 .30 hrs. In Delhi and NCR - one of the worst affected areas there were a total of 2872 cases and 59 deaths have been repor...

The connection between socioeconomic status and risk of stroke

Increased Stroke risk among African Americans may include many factors, of which one of them is definitely socioeconomic status, a new study has shown.// Researchers observed that among men and women residing in the Greater Cincinnati area, blacks seemed to be 69 percent prone to suffering a stroke, for the first time, as compared to whites. Kleindorfer and her team inferred that the...

Children’s Immunization Status Worsens as Mothers’ Income, Education Rie

Mothers with more income and education may be less likely to keep their children’s immunizations up-to-date, a large new study finds. // Children in the poorest Hispanic and non-Hispanic black families were more likely to have received the recommended childhood vaccinations compared to children of non-Hispanic white mothers. “This finding, at least in the case of immunizatio...

Social Status may Affect Lifespan

Social status may impact on longevity, say researchers who studied winners and nominees of the Nobel Prize. Previous research has found a link between status and health in monkeys, but it has been difficult to investigate// the link in human beings because status often brings more wealth, which improves living standards and medical care, reported the online edition of New Scientist.<...

Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

Cataplexy is a sudden temporary loss of muscle tone in the body, which occurs during times of intense emotional states like laughter or anger. Cataplexy is one of the symptoms of// narcolepsy, which is a compulsive disorder to fall asleep. In narcolepsy there are compulsive sleep attacks and the person has an irresistible urge to sleep even in the most unlikely circumstances like driv...

WHO Awards Prequalification Status to the First UAE Approved Vaccine

The first ever vaccine approved by the UAE Ministry of Health (MOH) against highly contagious rotavirus has been recently awarded with a //prequalification status by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is the first time a vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis has received such clearance. The WHO prequalification endorses the Rotarix quality, safety and efficacy, and its ability t...

Survey Points To Lack Of Knowledge On HIV Status

A study to be published in the April edition of the Journal of Infectious Disease reveal that HIV transmissions occur when the newly infected people// are unaware about their HIV status. This study was conducted by Dr. Mark Wainberg, director of the McGill AIDS Centre and his team. This study was presented at an AIDS symposium at Montreal. Dr. Wainberg undertook his research on 2,500 HI...

Man Sentenced to Prison for Concealing HIV Status While Donating Blood

A judge in Chicago in the US has sentenced a man to prison for concealing that he was a HIV patient while donating blood to a plasma collection center at Hammond.// Michael Ivy, 46, of East Chicago, pleaded guilty to selling blood contaminated with the HIV in September last year. Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood, in which the blood cells are suspended. Plasma...

Chikungunya Affects Kerala's Healthcare Status

Kerala's status of having one of the best healthcare systems in India has received a severe blow in the past one year due to the outbreak of chikungunya viral fever in the state. Last year, more than 100 people died during the outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral fever in the coastal districts of Alappuzha, Kollam and Ernakulam. The present outbreak, which has seen mo...

Sydney Opera House Wins World Heritage Status

Australia's iconic Sydney Opera House was added to the list of World Heritage sites Thursday, 34 years after the construction of Danish architect Jorn Utzon's vision was completed. The opera house was one of four new cultural sites given the coveted status by UNESCO's world heritage committee, meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The others added to the list were the...

Nodal Status is the Best Predictor in Esophageal Cancer

The number of lymph nodes that contain evidence of cancer is the best predictor of the effectiveness of adding chemotherapy and radiation to a treatment plan prior to surgery in individuals with oesophageal cancer. The authors say their finding is particularly important because the focus of recent pathological studies of response to neoadjuvant therapies has been on the primary tu...