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Wait Between Pregnancies

New research shows women who allow only short intervals of time between pregnancies are at an increased risk for developing complications. Researchers in Scotland studied nearly 90,000 women who had given birth twice between 1992 and 1998. Results of the study show women with complicated first births are much more likely to become pregnant again in less than six months. They are also more...

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

In a research report done by Swedish scientists its said that it is better// to go for surgery while in early stage of prostate cancer than to wait and see if the disease progresses. Surgery for treating prostate cancer, also known as prostatectomy, is a common procedure. The researchers had conducted he study to see if prostatectomy done in early stages of prostate cancer benefits the...

Artificial Heart , Gives Hope For Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

A recent study shows a completely artificial heart could prevent death in critically ill patients and those who are candidates for a heart transplant . The artificial heart implant improved survival rates before receiving actual heart transplants and after transplantation. // The artificial heart was found to be a successful bridge to heart transplantation in many patients who did not i...

Long wait for Chronic pain patients in Atlantic Canada

Patients in Atlantic Canada suffering from chronic pain have to wait for more than 18 months for their treatment in pain clinics. The survey was conducted by Action Atlantic funded by Pfizer pharmaceuticals.// The survey found that more than 460 000 chronic pain sufferers are waiting for their treatment in pain clinics the long wait was due to inadequate doctors and hospital staffs in h...

Cancer Patients Forced To Wait For Over Two Months

Over 25% of Scottish patients suffering from cancer have been compelled to wait for more than the two-month target across the UK meant for initial treatment // . This is resulting in further deterioration in the conditions of the patients where lung and breast cancer are concerned. The April to June 2005 figures reveal that only 74.3% of the patients were attended within the target time...

Vaccine For Cervical Cancer Awaits Approval

Sanofi Pasteur MSD is in the process of developing a vaccine called Gardasil against cervical cancer. The regulatory approval for the new vaccine is being sought by the organization in Europe and the US.// The European Medicines Agency for Sanofi Pasteur MSD has to approve of the marketing authorization for selling the product in Europe. Gardasil is reported to have a decided advantage...

Patients In Ontario Wait Longer For Treatment

The waiting times at Ontario’s hospitals are getting longer, according to Government data which have been leaked. This has been revealed by Elizabeth Witmer, the Conservative health critic.// The waiting time rose from 34 days to 37 days between July and September 2005 for cancer surgery, while it rose from 139 days to 142 days for cataract surgery. The waiting time increased to 22 days f...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

In Scotland new measures are being undertaken by the health officials to reduce the waiting list of patients who have been referred by their General Practioner. // Hence new methods are being adopted by increasing the wages of the Surgeons three times their normal wages. Consultants receive more than ￡1,500 a day from officials to cut on the waiting list. In the near future pa...

U.K. Government to reduce waiting time of patients for non-emergency surgery

United Kingdom Ministry is planning for reduction of waiting time spent by patients before they had there surgery. The Government is planning to reduce the non-emergency surgery time to less // than 18 weeks from time of admission to NHS. Government is hoping the project will be made completed by the year 2008. Patients wait for long time for initial appointment with the doctor, for get...

Australia awaits US FDA reports on ADHD drugs

United States has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to study the safety of the drugs used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) following reports that the drug usage // causes cardiovascular diseases such as strokes and heart attacks. The US committee would meet on starting of february to review the safety of ADHD drugs. The Therapeutic Goods Admini...

Mobile Operating Theater to Cut Waiting Times

A mobile hospital that is being started in the grounds of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at a cost of ￡1 million, aims to cut down the waiting times for patients//. The hospital is equipped with an operating theatre and health bosses hope that bout 200 operations can be carried out here. NHS Grampian said that this is the first Scottish theatre to employ a ward as well. The van has been l...

NHS To Achieve Waiting Figure Target By 2008

The National Health Services (NHS) patients, currently on a six-month waiting list would be promptly attended to following the Government report that would be released this Friday. // The health officials had stated earlier that the maximum waiting period would not exceed six months, if they were to be admitted to a hospital by the end of 2005. This in fact was one of the targets of...

Circumcision, Will Have To Wait

Chicago: An 8 year old boy’s impending circumcision has been postponed after his father raised an opposition to it, leading the county judge to put a hold on the circumcision plan, till the time it is thrashed out in the court. // According to the mother, doctors have recommended this procedure to keep infection at bay, though her ex-husband has termed it an "unnecessary amputation." U...

India Awaits Test Results To Confirm The Bird Flu Virus In Humans

The result of the blood samples, taken from the people of Nandurbar district, is yet to confirm whether the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus had spread to humans, even as the culling of thousands of birds goes on unhindered. // Officials said the massive culling exercise in the region that reported India's first case of the global disease was likely to be completed by early Thurs...

Life Or Death: Parents Await High Court Judgment

The High Court would pass judgment regarding an appeal by health officials, requesting the withdrawal of all life support measures, to let a 17-month-old boy die//. Lawyers who are currently handling the case of this severely disabled boy argue that his quality of life is so poor and that doctors should be allowed to let him die. The identities of the boy and the treating physicians hav...

The Long Wait Continues In the Health Care Service despite the Money Factor

A report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) said that despite the government investing a huge amount of money there has been no shortening of waiting time. // Glenda Yeates, president of the federal-provincial agency said that the volume of diagnostic tests and high-priority procedures has increased dramatically. But demand for care seems to have increased just as m...

Gynecologist Solving SuDoKu, While Waiting For Next Patient

David Penman, a gynecologist at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent has blasted the NHS authorities by saying that he is left to "twiddle his thumbs" since his hospital cannot afford to do more surgery. // "What do you do while you wait for the next person to turn up when there should be three in the gap between two patients? Sit and read the paper, drink coffee - while we're paid, whe...

High Demand For Protective Suit in Afghan: Culling Would Have To Wait

Culling of chickens in Afghanistan would have to wait until areas affected by H5N1 bird flu is provided with protective clothing by the U.S. forces//, according to health officials belonging to the Agriculture Department of Afghanistan. Bird flu infection has been confirmed in the eastern province of Nangarhar and Kabul. Although the Government officials had stated that massive cullin...

New Study To Determine "Watchful Waiting" Period For Prostate Cancer

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are beginning a new study to monitor low-risk prostate cancer patients who are eligible for watchful // waiting and can avoid the stressful chemotherapy treatments. "With the advent of the PSA test, we see prostate cancer detected much earlier but there is no evidence that early detection means longer survival. Because...

To Wait Or Not

Induced labors have increased by almost two times since 1990 in America. Labor, delivery and birth, which were once uncertain time events, are now being increasingly manipulated to suit the whims and fancies of parents and hospitals. // A pregnant Super Bowl fan in Pittsburg told news reporters that she requested her doctor for an early labor induction so that she would not miss the gam...

Health Minister Promises New Benchmark for Wait Times

Federal Health Minister Tony Clement assured patients frustrated by long waiting lists. He said that they can take their health care providers to the court for not meeting its benchmarks. // He guaranteed that one can open the door to legal action if the promise was not met by the health care provider. By this the framework in place is maintained and a patient can demand if he is not g...

800 People On US Waiting List for AIDS Drugs

More than 800 poor Americans are yet to receive AIDS medications from government-funded programs, which are most often the last resort to those who cannot afford to buy costly treatments, //according to an annual survey in the US. The report added that several US states were also forced to cut down on the medications that were allocated to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, or ADAPs, due to...

Innovative solution to help reduce the waiting times for kidney transplants

An innovative solution was found at the St. Michael's and Toronto General Hospital when the first Canadian kidney transplant paired exchange occurred. The scenario was that of two Toronto couples, both with one spouse dying //of kidney disease and the other unable to donate one of their own healthy kidneys because they weren't a compatible blood type. Tom McCabe in his early 60s, gave...

Funds Pumped In To Reduce Waiting List of Priority Patients

As the waiting list is growing day by day, the New South Wales (NSW) Government is planning to pump in more funds to reduce the queue//. It has decided to allocate to more money to the region's area health services. This step is thought to help cut elective surgery waiting lists. The Hunter New England and north coast area health services will get a funding boost of $500,000 e...

UK Patients Seek Fertility Treatment Abroad Due To The Long Waiting List

In UK couples go abroad in order to undergo fertility treatment. The main reason for not taking it up in their own country is that there is a long waiting list and the second the right of anonymity for UK donors //were removed by a law. Hence European fertility clinics are flocked with UK customers. But the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is warning people about th...

Waiting Period Of Over 10yrs For Women Needing Breast Reduction Surgery

A federal parliamentary committee that was formed to look into the costs of healthcare, met in Adelaide, and had heard the demand for breast reduction// surgery, which is extremely high and has no system of prioritising patients. This meant that a woman who though has a valid reason for wanting her breasts reduced has to wait just as long, sometimes longer, than women wanting smaller b...

Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

Looks like it is time for impatient patients to travel abroad rather than wait for weeks or months to get treated// for their ailments. Recently, a woman won the right to claim compensation from the NHS for a hip replacement surgery done abroad. In yet another case, a 63-year-old British woman who traveled elsewhere gave birth to a baby, after prenatal diagnostic tests confirmed absence o...

Health Minister Praises Efforts By NHS In Reducing Patient Waiting Time

Scotland's health minister Andy Kerr said that the NHS staff should be praised for their efforts and has hailed the latest statistics on NHS waiting times// as the "best ever". He said that the maximum waiting time for the patients had reduced from 12 to 6 months. Reports indicated that the figures up to 31st March on the number of outpatients and inpatient day cases with an 18-week w...

Waiting list in British healthcare causing them to shell out a fortune!

Due to long and endless waiting lists for patients in Britain, they are forced into taking treatment elsewhere and that causes them a fortune //. For example citing an arthritis case of an Ulster man, who had to pay thousands of pounds so that he can be cured fast, could have done free if by NHS. But the waiting list was too long to wait for. He had to spend ￡3,500 on two drugs - Hum...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

A 36-year old, Scot woman, Oonagh Wilson, elected to undergo hysterectomy and mastectomy. due to a 4-year delay in finding out the degree of susceptibility her family harbors to develop breast cancer //. Oonagh’s decision came after being told that she would have wait for at least two more years for the results of the genetic tests. Lack of funding and trained professionals, changes...

Official Lapse Makes the Patient Wait

Tina Jordan who is 50 suffers from severe back pain but she has to wait for another year to get an appointment with a specialist. // It is not her fault but she is a victim of an administrative mix-up which health officials are refusing to rectify. The extra delay which she is put through will not appear in the Scottish Executive's waiting list figures. This is because the first referra...

B C Medical Association Reports on Setting Limits to Waiting Times

According to the British Columbia medical association report it was announced that patients who are in need of cardiac//, hip or knee operations should not be made to wait for more than six months. The British Columbia released two reports which were commissioned by the provincial and federal medical associations. Long waits result in further deterioration of the patient’s health there...

Three-year-old AIDS Patient Awaits Death

She rarely utters a word or opens her eyes. In fact, three-year-old Pooja, afflicted by AIDS that has already killed her parents, hardly moves on her bed//. Doctors say she is on the verge of death. Her poor uncle is shattered. Pooja's birthday falls next month and her maternal uncle Naresh is praying that god 'gift' her with her 'death' because the disease is in an advanced stage. <b...

Health Care Waiting Period Waived for Evacuees from Lebanon in Ontario

Canadians returning to Ontario from Lebanon will not have to wait for access to public health care.// The provincial government has said that it will waive the mandatory three-month waiting period for OHIP coverage for the new arrivals. According to the Health Minister George Smitherman the evacuees have undergone a lot of stress and strain and will have access to the "health...

Watchful Waiting Effective for Low Risk Prostate Cancer

"Watchful Waiting" may be more appropriate in men with low-risk prostate cancer than the common method of treating with surgery or radiation therapy, according to a research// team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The results of the study conducted by lead researcher Dr. John T. Wei and his associates have been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Thei...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

The long waiting lists for psychiatric consultation some over 12 months old in several areas of the country must be reduced urgently, it was claimed today.// Dan Neville, a Fine Gael TD, demanded that the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) be made available to mental health patients. He said, “It is simply unacceptable that waiting lists in many areas of the country are...

Wait Times For Kidney Transplants Differ With Provinces: Report

The wait for a kidney transplant in Canada can differ according to provinces, says a new study in Tuesday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.// People on dialysis in Alberta were four times more likely to receive a replacement kidney than those in Ontario, the study conducted over a five-year period found. Saskatchewan, Atlantic Canada's four provinces and Quebec also...

Inordinately Long Waiting Times at A&E Infirmary

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's accident and emergency unit is said to make patients wait longer than anywhere else in Scotland to be seen by a doctor.// This news has only added salt to the wound of hospital chiefs who face mounting criticism over cleaning procedures at the ERI following its branding as one of the dirtiest hospitals in the country earlier this week. Recent figures...

800 Patients to be Dumped from Hospital Waiting Lists

Mounting pressure on district heath boards (DHB) has led to the development of proposals to dump about 800 Auckland patients from hospital //waiting lists in one shot before the end of the month. The move follows the government’s requirement that only patients who can be guaranteed treatment in six months should stay on a list. Patients who have been assessed as not sick eno...

Ear Infections Treated with “Let’s Wait and Se’

Children with acute ear infections have been found to get better without antibiotics although the infection may have been so severe// that an emergency room visit had been prompted. A recent study revealed that although two-thirds of children were given a prescription for antibiotics, to be used just in case of need, they have to get the prescription filled to get better. The...