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Diabetics To Seek Mental Counseling To Cope With Stress

Diabetics should make it a point to seek mental counseling. Experts say diabetics under mental distress raise their risk for heart disease // because of unhealthy habits they implement to deal with the stress. The study, which sampled 4,241 diabetics, showed nearly 13 percent of respondents experience psychological symptoms such as stress, depression, anxiety or other emotional problems....

HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling

In a study done to evaluate the effect of diseases on contact with children it was seen that children of parents with HIV // were less likely to get the kind of affection other kids received. Results also showed about a quarter of HIV-positive parents report avoided certain types of physical contact with their kids out of fear they might transmit the disease to their children or pick up...

Parents understand better the hearing loss problem in children if counseled

Equipping parents with sound advice may help them identify hearing loss problems in children//, which otherwise may remain undiagnosed and therefore untreated. Hearing loss in children often remain undiagnosed and can cause problems in their academic performances and lead to deficiency in attending, difficulty in attending and problems of low self esteem. According to the r...

Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work

A research report presented in the latest BMJ said that results of a randomized controlled trial of home based motivational interviewing by midwives to help pregnant smokers quit or cut down had yielded not significant improvement in the smoking habits of the mothers//. A third of pregnant women smoke and current guidelines recommend that they should be offered intensive support to hel...

Family Counseling To Encourage Children Eat Healthy

Counseling the family at home can effectively encourager the children to eat healthy. This is specifically true for children suffering from diseases. Researchers from Finland’s University of Turku had found that home-based counseling could lead to healthier eating habits among children with a family history of cardiovascular disease. // Genetic predisposition and unhealthy...

Home Based HIV counseling in African Countries

Christopher Smith, Member of African Subcommittee, House Committee on International Relations has urged the African countries to implement house to house AIDS testing and counseling as done in Uganda. //Uganda is conducting this program and as been found very effective in early diagnosis of HIV and also helps in avoiding social stigma of violence against HIV positive person due to ignoran...

Online Medical Counseling In UP Lacks Transparency: Students

Around 400 candidates who qualified through the CPMT-06 arrived at the counseling centre on GSVM Medical College. This is the first time that candidates can access counseling process online// and perhaps this has meant low in-person attendance. The seat status will be available on the website www.upcpmt.nic.in. But students were dissatisfied with the whole online process. They said tha...

Weight loss given a thrust with e-counselling

Those who are following a web based weight loss programme can be doubly benefited, if this is accompanied with behavioural counselling//. This is the finding of a research study appearing in the August 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine conducted by researchers at The Miriam Hospital and University of North Carolina. "As consumers continue to seek information on the web, it's e...

Anonymity Helps In Overcoming Inhibitions During Online Counseling

Online counseling through Internet is gaining momentum slowly but surely as anonymity assists the patient to chat freely with the practitioner// and discuss problems of any sort, as they do not come face to face with them. If the person being talked to is not visible, it is easier for the client to speak about terrible experiences or problems. "Psychotherapy is treatment fo...

AIIMS Counsel Claims Cancer Patient Got HIV Through Needle

The Delhi High Court has demanded an explanation from the medical superintendent (MS) of the AIIMS hospital as to how a boy suffering from cancer got inflicted with AIDS after undergoing blood transfusion in 2001. //The court has also asked for an explanation on why the relevant documents were not being made available despite repeated requests. Justice Vikramjit Sen ruled that the bloo...

Telephone Counseling Could Help Lung Transplant Patients

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Washington University in St. Louis say that for patients awaiting a lung transplant, telephone-based counseling is a Godsend //. In the study, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the researchers say that although the counseling made no difference to survival rates or physical functioning in these patients, t...

Psychiatrist's Help Sought to Counsel Children Making Hoax Calls

When bomb hoax calls are made by children as young as eight, it is time to call in experts. Exactly what harried Delhi Police, battling a spate of prank calls by// youngsters between the ages of eight and 16, have done by seeking the help of psychiatrists. The Mumbai terror attack and its aftermath have thrown up the worrying phenomenon of children getting a vicarious thrill from crea...

Doctors Warn on Pregnancy Counselling

The Government's proposed new pregnancy counselling Medicare item number may well breach women's privacy, AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, warned today//. Available only to women who are uncertain about whether to continue with their pregnancy, the item would allow identification of women who talk to their GP about termination, Dr Haikerwal said. "This item number would...

Revised Pregnancy Counselling Item Still Flawed

AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today the AMA still has serious concerns about the revised new pregnancy counselling Medicare item//, but is relieved that the new version is less likely to pose privacy concerns than the original. The Government previously said the new Medicare item number – due to come into effect from 1 November 2006 - would be available for counselling patie...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

Telephonic counseling has been found to be of immense help for patients to lose weight and become fit, according// to a study. “There’s an important use for the telephone in delivering support for making changes to physical activity and diet,” said Elizabeth Eakin, Ph.D., lead study author, at the University of Queensland in Australia. Eakin and her colleagues in the Schoo...

WHO, UNAIDS Issue New Guidance on HIV Testing and Counseling

The WHO and UNAIDS today issued new guidance on informed, voluntary HIV testing and counseling in the world's health facilities, with a view to significantly increasing access to needed HIV treatment , care support and prevention services. The new guidance focuses on provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling as recommended by health care providers in health facilities....

Counseling Counters Insomnia

A recent study done on patients to unravel the effect of behavioral counseling on insomnia has reinforced that in just a couple of sessions of counseling// that focuses on good sleep habits, patients can be relieved to find themselves sleeping well. During sessions therapists aim to delve into intricate reasons which could cause sleeplessness in individuals suffering from insomnia. Th...

Voluntary Counseling and Testing Program in South Africa Successful

The Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) program in South Africa, has been quite successful in the past financial year between April 2005 and March 2006, the Department Of// Health reports. The number of people tested has almost doubled as compared to last year. Around 1,715 588 attended the free counseling before testing. 80 percent went ahead and got tested for HIV. About 35 perce...

US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam

Guwahati: A leading US HIV/AIDS healthcare provider will soon be reaching out to hundreds of people living with the virus in Assam to provide treatment and support//. The US-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will set up three voluntary counselling and testing centres in Assam's main city of Guwahati, the eastern town of Dibrugarh and the southern city of Silchar. Indi...

Counseling Helps Young Women Cut Drinking, Improve Contraception Use

A few nonjudgmental counseling sessions can prompt women to both scale back risky drinking and practice more effective contraception, according to a new study//. Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States. This CDC study explored a strategy that could reduce a woman’s risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy...

Minorities More Likely to Receive Alcohol Counseling

A study has found that African-American and Hispanic adults have twice the odds of reporting receiving counseling about alcohol use from a physician//, compared with white adults. What causes this disparity in counseling is not known, but this may be a rare instance of minority populations receiving better and more appropriate health care than the majority. However, the finding may a...

Patient Sets Medical Counsellor on Fire

A medical college counsellor set afire by his patient Tuesday is fighting for his life at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College hospital// in Jabalpur where the incident occurred, the police said Wednesday. The counsellor, Sanjay Shrivastava suffered 80 percent burns when he was set on fire by Kaushal Kishore Jaiswal of Sidhi district. The counsellor had refused to advise Jaiswa...

Armed Forces Introduce Yoga, Counselling to Counter Stress

New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Concerned over a spurt in suicides in the armed forces - 21 this year alone - the defence ministry has taken// a series of counter measures including counselling and yoga classes to help soldiers cope with stress, parliament was informed Wednesday. "Training capsules on relaxation exercises including yoga and meditation have been introduced," even as officers...

Counseling to Mothers Against too Much Shaking of Children

The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda in Maryland, USA, has launched a major initiative against the Shaken Baby Syndrome. // It is now calling upon all mothers who deliver their babies at the Centre to attend a mandatory series of Shaken Baby Syndrome educational briefings. Shaking a baby too hard could result in permanent danger or even death to infant, experts point o...

Counseling For Medical And Dental Seats Allotment Through Videoconferencing

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss inaugurated today a videoconference system for counseling of seat allotment for medical and dental courses. This is the first time that the counseling is being done through videoconference connecting Delhi, Puducherry and Kolkata. DGHS is entrusted with the responsibility of allotting 15% All India Quota of MBBS/BD...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

It would be spending $33 million to add about 200 mental health professionals to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health needs. "As the war has gone on, PTSD and other psychological effects of war have increased," conceded Col. Elspeth Ritchie, psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general. "The number of (mental health workers) that was...

Minorities Prefer Counseling and Prayer to Drugs for Treating Depression

Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression , according to a national Internet survey. African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians who took the survey were skeptical about the biological basis of depression and wary of becoming addicted to antidepressants, according to Jane Give...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

Dietary counseling has resulted in weight loss of approximately 6 percent of initial body weight (approximately 10-15 pounds) after one year, compared with people not involved in formal weight loss programs. The authors analyzed 46 trials that included 6,386 people who were participating in dietary counseling-based weight loss programs and 5,467 people not involved in formal weigh...