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High Protein Sans Low Carb Diets Not Advisable For Pregnant Women

Pregnant women, whose protein intake is high, including meat, leaving behind the low carbohydrate diets are more prone to develop stress, according to a study.// Researchers led by Rebecca Reynolds at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton studied a group of 86 children born in 1967-8 to mothers who were told to eat a pound of red meat a day to avoid pregnancy complications. <...

Avenues to opened for medical tourists following relaxation of visa regulations

India has always been looked at by outsiders as the land of mystic magic, serine breath taking beauty, and the harmonious central key to getting in touch with the spiritual side of humanity. However there is more to // this large sub-continent then what meets the eye at first glance that cannot be enjoyed without a real time experience. Tourism has been a thriving business in India fo...

Extensive Academic Work Envisaged On Effects of Smoking Ban

From the dot of 0600 GMT on Sunday, smoking ban in enclosed public places will be activated. Scotland will also play host to one of the largest studies// in the world that will probe the impact of smoking ban on the health of bar staff. The study, budgeted at a mammoth ￡140,000, will be funded by NHS Health Scotland, and will be conducted by Aberdeen University researchers, who will s...

University Envisages Improvements in Artificial Arm

Concerted efforts by the University of Utah researchers in the development and testing of a 'peripheral nerve interface' which is an implanted device// that would transmit the nerve impulses from nerves in the residual limb to a small computer worn on a belt and then to the bionic arm. This will facilitate the person to move the artificial limb like a real one. Sensors placed in the a...

Immunization at Birth Envisaged

The common practice followed is to begin immunizations of babies at two months of age. Anything earlier than this schedule will not achieve// the desired purpose, due to the incapacity of the babies’ immune system to respond adequately to majority of the vaccines. Now, according to a new study conducted by U.S scientists, there is a method to activate the immune response in newborns, wit...

Long Term Mediation Not Advisable To Treat Hot Flashes

Researchers said that apart from hormones certain antidepressants and other medicines may help overcome women suffering from hot flashes. // But the bad news is that those medicines have side effects. Long term use results in various side effects and they do not work as well as hormones. Hence nonhormonal drugs are not optimal choices for most women. The findings of the study were publish...

Britain Reconsidering New Visa Rules for Indian Doctors

Britain's health authorities are reconsidering recent changes in visa rules that in effect make thousands of doctors of Indian origin ineligible// to work in the National Health Service. The department of health (DoH) and the home office had put in place a new system by which employers would need to prove that no suitable candidate was available before applying for a work permit for so...

Further improvements envisaged at Carstairs

Scotland's state hospital has been given a clear idea about the expectations of the alcohol and drug programmes for the patients in the midst of psychiatric treatments. While// acknowledging the improvement in reducing waiting times for patients, Lewis McDonald the deputy health minister pressed the need for further enhancements in the treatment procedures for patients. Mr. McDonald...

Envisaged Specialty Training Programme For Junior Doctors Encounters a Speed Breaker

A UK-wide Specialty training programme, aiming to Modernize Medical Careers, for Junior Doctors is facing a stumbling block, even before the commencement of the program//; Doctors from Scotland have sought a clarification mainly about logistics, specialty subjects and whether doctors will be given the option of choosing a convenient location. They have put up these requests in a letter ad...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef continues to be in detention, despite a bail order by a Brisbane court and his visa has been revoked on grounds of national interest . But strangely the Australian government has not moved against Oday Adnan Al Tekriti, 38, a cousin and bodyguard to Saddam Hussein, who holds a temporary protection visa until 2008. The Administrative Appeal...

Haneefs Visa Revoked by Australia

The rollercoaster ride of Dr.Mohammed Haneef, the man from Bangalore in southern India, continues . He is destined to pay a heavy price for a small act of indiscretion, it looks like. He had allowed his SIM card to be used by his cousins, the key players in the failed Glasgow bombing. Intercepted when he was about to board a flight to India, two days after the Glasgow inci...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

Indonesias Mount Gamkonora volcano is spewing hot ash and smoke into the air, seen in the image taken by the MERIS instrument aboard ESAs satellite Envisat, causing more than 8000 people to be evacuated amid fears of an imminent eruption, according to officials. Officials raised the alert to the highest level on Tuesday after the volcano, located in the eastern province of North Malu...