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Obese women likey for Cesarean

Fat women are more likely for Cesarean delivery, says Dr.Bell from Duke University NC. Years ago, anesthesia had been one of the major causes of maternal mortality.// Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined. Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated e...

Caesarean may aid twins

According to a new study it is observed that second twins born at term are at a higher risk of death, due to complications during labor and delivery, than first twins. However, planned caesarean section may prevent such deaths. Researchers analyzed the births of more than 3,200 twins// born in Scotland between 1995 and 1998. They found significantly increased risks of death during labor a...

Treating Stroke Patients in Rural Areas

Stroke patients in rural areas of the United States can be assessed and treated as well by a neurologist via a wireless Internet program as they can in person. That good news comes from a study in the October online issue of Stroke.// Treatment through this Internet-based program includes the use of the clot-busting drug tPA, when appropriate, to help rapidly dissolve stroke...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a condition that usually affects young women and the condition// can sometimes be fatal. Now researcher think it is due to overactive dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia region of the brain. People with anorexia nervosa are driven to be excessively thin and are unaware of the seriousness of their condition.When you talk of Anorexia Nervosa, many will remember t...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

Women who delivered their firstborn by caesarean were less likely to conceive again //than those who had a spontaneous natural delivery says a new British study. Researchers led by Siladitya Bhattacharya at the University of Aberdeen, Britain, followed women who had their first single child - multiple births were excluded - between 1980 and 1997, reports newscientist.com. Th...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

It has now become a common practice among women these days to have their baby delivered at the requested date and time by a Cesarean Section for religious regions. The trend may not be all that healthy according to a study which has found // a link between c-section delivery and higher risk of cavities in newborn and has called for special attention regarding the newborns' oral health. Th...

Patient Choice Cesarean Section on The Rise

A cesarean section refers to the surgical procedure that is an alternative for vaginal delivery. The procedure involves an incision in the mother’s abdomen and uterus. The procedure is indicated only // in certain cases when there is a health risk to the mother or the baby. However, it is becoming more and more popular among pregnant mothers who opt for C-sections when there is no medica...

Caesareans In U.S. At All-Time High

The rate of Caesarean sections in the US has climbed to an all-time high, despite efforts to bring them down. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, about 1.2 million C-sections were performed in 2004—29.1 // percent of all births that year, up from 27.5 percent in 2003 and 20.7 in 1996. The C-section rate increased for all births, even those that involved h...

Women warned against Caesareans

Recent research published in this week’s Australian Medical Journal (AMA) has found that first-time mothers who give birth by caesarean face a greater risk of complications if they choose to deliver naturally in subsequent pregnancies.// The study has found women who have a caesarean section are more vulnerable to scarring that can cause uterine ruptures during birth, post-pa...

WHO checks on health system in quake-hit areas

Jong-wook Lee, head of the World Health Organization has arrived in northwestern Pakistan to inspect the damage caused by the massive earthquake two months ago.// Lee is here to check on preparations being made for the onset of the harsh Himalayan winter. His agency says its main immediate task is to immunize as many people as it can to try to ward off epidemics. Some 400...

Normal Delivery Is Better Than Caesarean Birth

The sex life women who give birth naturally may be better than those who opt for a caesarean birth, says a study that warns both prospective mothers and healthcare// professionals to think again. This goes against the popular belief that surgical births result in lesser problems to mothers. Some women believe that having a caesarean birth will help protect their sex life after they h...

Tourism not to be affected by bird flu affected areas!

The problem of bird flu has taken gigantic proportions not only in the animal world but human world as well. The fear is so intense that tourists wanting to visit // countries with bird flu like China, Vietnam, Turkey and Croatia want an advice from doctors. At the moment the unanimous voice is to take the plunge as bird flu is an animal disease and not a problem for humans to w...

Scotland Ranked As Sickest Area Of UK: Survey

A health survey that probed into analysis of the nation's well being has revealed Scotland to be the top scorer with respect to an unhealthy neighborhood. // Scotland infact deserves the credit of harboring 22 of the UK's 25 unhealthiest neighbourhoods. Scotland residents were found to be overweight, indulge more on tobacco and alcohol compared to those who lived in England and Wales....

UN Formulates Action Plan for Relief to Recovery in Quake-hit Areas of Pakistan

The humanitarian community in Pakistan is preparing an Action Plan for Relief to Recovery in order to ensure that there is no gap between relief and reconstruction. //The main aim of this plan form the remaining winter month is to improve sanitation and to prevent the outbreaks of diseases in the spring. Commenting on this plan, the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) in Pakist...

Unexplained Repeat Cesarean Deliveries On The Rise In US

There has been a considerable increase in the number of repeat cesarean deliveries in the United States over the recent years//. The 8-year study conducted between 1996 and 2003 survey has further found that 10% of the cesarean births were due to unexplained reasons. According to National statistics, there has been a 63% decrease in the rate of vaginal births in women who have had a c...

Legionnaires Investigation in Chatswood's Shopping Area

Legionnaires' disease is caused by a bacteria belonging to the Legionella family, Legionella pneumophilia. // It has already infected two women one aged in her 50s and the other in her 70s. They were admitted in the Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. New South Wales (NSW) health officials are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Both said that they...

Lack Of Communication Between Brain Areas Can Cause Autism

According to researchers from the University of London, the cause of autism may now be explained due t the poor communication between brain areas//. And the reason for them not interacting well with other people. Weak links between brain areas may mean that people with Autism do not benefit from social situations as well as other people. The study compared brain scans of 32 people. 1...

Mortality Rates Due To Heart Diseases Is High In Rural Areas Too

Breaking a myth that cardiovascular diseases are an urban lifestyle phenomenon, a three-year-long study in 45 villages of Andhra Pradesh has revealed that heart-related problems// are the largest killer in rural areas too. The study by five leading institutes led by the Byrraju Foundation, an NGO, has found ample evidence to prove that cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest killer in...

Construction Of A New Hospital In The Bega Area Confirmed

THE NSW Minister for Health, John Hatzistergos, has confirmed that a new hospital for the Bega area will be constructed on a priority basis.// Stating that he has directed the Area Health Service and NSW Health to start the detailed planning process for a new hospital. Stating that they will undertake detailed planning of the future health needs of the Bega community in order to dete...

New Healthcare Scheme For Rural Areas Launched

The Indian Government has launched a unique healthcare scheme to improve the currently existing medical and surgical services in the rural areas//. Additionally, doctors in the country’s primary healthcare centres would be provided appropriate medical facilities to render their services in a better way. Christened as 'Rural Surgery', the project will be launched by the National Board...

Study Advocates Use Of Oral Painkillers After Cesarean Section

A new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has advocated the use of oral pain medication like oxycodone and acetaminophen for pain relief// after a cesarean section. The researchers say that this appears to be a better option than patient-controlled morphine. Using these drugs for pain relief in postcesarean pain "offers superior pain relief with fewer un...

Relief Operations In Indonesia’s Quake-Hit Area

An information delegate of British Red Cross (Indonesia), Mark Snelling, explains about relief operations in earthquake tore areas of southern regions of Java island//. Over 5,700 were died and more than a thousand were injured and everyone involved in the relief operation knows that that even 24 hours here is an eternity – said latest official reports. The city of Yogyakarta,...

Assam Recruits Doctors to Serve in Rural Areas

If one is a doctor aged below 65 years, a government job in Assam is assured - just walk in to an interview next week and get the appointment letter on the spot//. But there is a catch. The new recruits must serve in Assam's rural areas. 'Anybody with a medical degree can just walk in for an interview on Wednesday and Thursday and get a job. We have about 234 vacancies acro...

Malaria Claims 49 Lives In West Bengal's Dooars Area

Malaria has claimed 49 lives and affected 20,000 people in West Bengal's Dooars area bordering Assam and Bhutan, RSP member Nirmal Das told the West Bengal Assembly today. // Of the 20,000 affected, 35 per cent had been diagnosed as those of malignant malaria, Das said during mention hour. Stating that a medical team recently visited the area, he said that it was far from a...

Beef imports-Area of concern

American beef is thought to be produced by injecting cattle with many growth hormones that are extremely harmful to health//. This has caused concern among EU nations that import beef, necessitating a ban on the import of beef from US. A government expert and a pharmaceutical chemist, John Verrall has brought attention to the ill-effects of consuming beef from cattle that have been inj...

Vaginal Delivery Should Be an Option after Multiple Cesareans

According to the study conducted by Dr. Mark B. Landon of Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, it was found that it was not risky// to attempt vaginal delivery for a woman who has had multiple C-sections done. The study results were published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. But previous studies say that it is very risky for women who have had...

Malaria Claimes 60 Lives In Terai, Dooars Areas

The death toll in Dooars and Terai region of North Bengal due to malaria reached 60 in the past two and a half months till yesterday. // Chief midical officer (health), Jalpaiguri, Dr Bhusan Chakraborty, today said 48 malaria deaths were reported in Dooars region of Jalpaiguri district, mainly in Alipurduar sub-division. Two died in the past two days in the area. In the Ter...

Study Finds That Brain Areas Of People With Autism Do Not Work In Coordination

In two revolutionary studies, brain scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that in autistic people// the method by which their brain process information is the basic anatomical difference differentiating them from normal people. It was explained that in studies that were conducted previously it was shown that a reduced amount of coor...

Suspected Dengue Case Reported in Kalyan Area of Thane

Municipal authorities are taking due precaution following reports of suspected dengue fever in Kalyan town, in the nearby Thane district, with the blood sample// of the affected being sent for investigations. "Chandrakant Patil a resident of Kalyan has shown symptoms of Dengue fever and we have sent his blood samples for further investigation and are awaiting the reports," KDMC run Mun...

Japanese Princess Kiko May Deliver Heir Through Cesarean Section

Japanese Princess Kiko may need to undergo a Cesarean operation to deliver Japan's male heir. The baby could be premature, according to Ichiro Kanazawa, head doctor of the Imperial Household agency//. he said the princess had developed an abnormal placement of the placenta, a condition called as placenta previa. "We believe that the delivery will require a Cesarean section operation....

Study Links Children Living In Isolated Rural Areas With A Higher Risk Of Cancer

Scientists have found strong evidence that clusters of leukemia and other childhood cancers are linked to affluence and isolation.// ‘Comare’, Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment, that was set up to advise ministers on the effect of radiation exposure, had studied 32,000 cases of childhood cancer from 1969 to 1993. The researchers suggest that their findings c...

Timing of Food Consumption Activates Genes in Specific Brain Area

Giving up your regular late-night snack may be hard, and not just because it’s a routine. The habit may genetically change an area of the brain to expect the food// at that time, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered. By training mice to eat at a time when they normally wouldn’t, the researchers found that food turns on body-clock genes in a particular area of...

Vibriosis Outbreak Leads To Shut Down Of More Oyster Growing Areas

Washington State Department of Health has ordered closure of more oyster growing areas in the state following an outbreak of vibriosis related to eating raw oysters//. Most of the 86 reported cases in the state have occurred before the commercial closures of the oyster growing areas by the Department of Health on July 24. This list of closures include all recreational beaches and comm...

India Launches A Massive Campaign Against HIV/AIDS In Rural Areas

The government’s plan that was announced on Tuesday, to involve thousands of rural politicians towards the fight against an HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has spread deep// into the countryside has been welcomed by all the major health groups in India. It was reported that the focus on the rural areas had come after reports have indicated that nearly 60% of HIV positive people live in the c...

Researchers Indicate Three-fold Risk of Death after Cesarean Delivery

Paris: Researchers from France have indicated a risk of death almost three times pronounced for women undergoing a caesarian delivery as compared to a vaginal one.// Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, M.D., M.P.H., of Hospital Teno, and colleagues reported that Women, who had died either during or within a month after delivery, were likely to have died following a caesarian rather than a vagi...

Cesarean Section May Increase Infant Mortality Rates in Low-Risk Women

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that mothers who are at a low-risk for infant and mortality rates may increase them if they deliver their baby by C-section// rather than vaginally. The report is available in the latest issue of Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care. For the study researchers looked at 5.7 million live births and nearly 12,000 infant deaths in f...

Skilled Obstetricians to avoid unnecessary Caesareans

A recent report has cautioned that junior doctors’ poor training is resulting in unnecessary emergency Caesarean births in many cases. Senior doctors have reported in this// week’s British Medical Journal (BMJ) that expert obstetricians can prevent several emergency Caesareans. Currently, in the UK, the decision whether to try a vaginal birth, using forceps or a ventouse, or carry out...

Union Health Minister visits chikungunya-hit areas in Kerala

For an immediate evaluation of the situation, the Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss started his visit of the chikungunya- affected areas in Kerala’s Alapuzha district on Friday//. The highest number of deaths in the past 3 weeks has been reported from Cherthala Taluk. Ramadoss visited the hospitals in this area.Experts from WHO and national institutes are in the region for the p...

History of Brain Surgery Now in a 'Grey' Area Following Archeologists Finding

Bulgarian archeologists claim to have excavated fresh evidence supporting the view that ancient men did perform brain surgeries. // The team of researchers led by Georgi Nehrizov claim to have unearthed a skull which appears to date back to the Thracian period which was 4000 years ago. The skull was found during excavations that were being carried out near the city of Svilengrad in Bulgar...

Study Focus on the Need for Vigilance in Two Key Areas Among Adolescents

Parenting a child with an eating disorder - monitoring meals, friends and activities - can be a full-time job. But two new studies from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine// and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital indicate a need for increased vigilance in two key areas: Internet use among adolescents with the condition, and pre-teen weight loss in seemingly healthy c...