Huntington's sufferers have reason to cheer: sufferings might have an end!!!

If latest research is to be believed neural transplants could be used to provide relief to Huntington's sufferers. This piece of good news for a number of people came from a group of French scientists who argued that neuronal transplants can provide improvement and a period of stability in Hunting...

Bagpipe Cured Scot Teen of His Asthma

... Playing music on the bagpipes has helped cure a teenager Scot of severe asthma. Fifteen-year-old David Armours sufferings from the disease were such that he had to give up sports and physical education lessons at school. His mother Janet, a community matron, had ...

Winona Ryders Arrest Got Her Rid of Drug Dependence

...oss the world. Ryder revealed that just before her arrest, she got hooked to some painkillers that a quack had administered to her to ebb her sufferings from an injury on her arm. "Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor, a sort of quack doctor, was giving me a l...

Post-tsunami trauma still haunts children

...legedly ill-treat her. Selvi broke down one day in the church and said she did not want to live with her uncle and aunt. Thukral told IANS: "The sufferings of the tsunami-affected children in these islands are not yet over. There is an urgent need to take care of their rehabilitation." "Selvi and ma...

Victims of Landmine Blasts Walks with the Help of Jaipur Foot

...f the fourth battalion of the Sikh regiment and part of the 11-nation United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), approached us to alleviate the sufferings of people with amputated limbs in that country," said D.R. Mehta, founder and patron of the organisation. After BMVSS proposed providing the art...

Court Fines Newspaper for Revealing AIDS Orphan's Identity

...s) and issue an apology on its front page for a report published last December. The report carried three photos of the woman and the story of her sufferings after her parents, who contracted AIDS after selling blood, died earlier this decade. The reporter, identified by his family name, Hu was accused...

US Boy Wants the Right of Choice of Treatment

...lus radiation. Abraham, who is home-schooled and has a brother who is autistic and a sister who needs back surgery does not wish to go through the sufferings again. Hence Abraham and his parents did a complete research on alternative medicine. They found that the Hoxsey treatment of liquid herbal supple...

Rs 5 Lakh Compensation To Patient For Negligence In Treatment

...ng on the complaint of one Shiv Kumar Sharma, also ordered the St Stephen's Hospital to pay Rs 5000 as litigation cost. "The hospital had caused sufferings to Sharma that were lasting for long seriously affecting his capacity to earn as the sole earning member of his family", the Forum observed. As ...

Pfizer vouches safety of long-term inhaled insulin.

...here are a lot of physical barriers to injected insulin. This (Exubera) is a good tool to facilitate initiation of insulin treatment." For those sufferings Type 2 diabetes, Exubera is permissible either alone or in combination with diabetes medication or longer-acting insulin. For type 1 diabetics, Exuber...

Mass Leave By Doctors Leaves Patients Helpless

...ctors in three medical colleges in Delhi went on mass casual leave Monday, joining resident doctors in their anti-quota protests but compounding// the sufferings of patients. The majority of senior doctors in Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) and Safdarjung ...