Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?
Treating patients with osteoarthritis has been a difficult task for doctors to handle. The only option available was either wearing a back brace and waiting to heal or switching over to painkillers. // A new form of treatment called vertebroplasty, in which a form of cement is injected into the broken spinal bone has revolutionized the treatment of osteoarthritis. Vertebroplasty came...Patients More Willing To Use Self-Injectable HIV Therapy Than Anticipated
Recent study shows that HIV patients are more willing to consider and use self-injectable therapy than many physicians anticipate // . Initial results from the OpenMind study, the largest behavioural study to look at both patients' and physicians' perceptions of HIV care in treatment-experienced patients, were revealed today at EACS. The findings are anticipated to help physi...China Unwilling To Share Bird Flu Samples, says WHO
The World Health Organization has issued a statement, highlighting the unwillingness of China to share bird flu samples, collected from recent bird flu outbreaks.// This was stated following announcement of the third bird flu related human death, by Beijing. The deadly avian bird flu virus is said to have claimed the life of a 41-year-old factory worker, from the Southeastern province...Centre Willing to Help Tamil Nadu to Promote Indigenous Medicine
Centre was willing to help Tamil Nadu in promoting Indian Systems of Medicine and the government was now preparing a project report to be submitted to it in this regard // , state Health Minister K K S S R Ramachandran, said today. The state government was keen to set up an Ayurveda college and would take all efforts in this direction, he said while inaugurating a meeting of the state...