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Apollo to offer tele-medicine to Sabarmati jail inmates

Prison inmates at Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad are all set to receive medical treatment through satellite connectivity. Healthcare group Apollo Hospitals [ Get Quote ] will launch its 'telemedicine' facility at the jail, to provide t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Indonesian Researcher Says Potential For Herbal Meds Untappe...

Yogyakarta. A lack of cooperation among government officials, business owners and researchers has stifled the country’s potential to become a world supplier of herbal medicines, a Gadjah Mada University researcher said on Tuesday. Z [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Medicines cause most accidental poisonings in kids

Medication overdoses send one in every 180 US 2-year-olds to the emergency department every year, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Such overdoses are responsible for more than two-thirds of all childho [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

New push for hydrotherapy pool

If the Mount Gambier Community RSL has its way, the community’s decade-long dream to get a hydrotherapy pool may finally be on the horizon. The RSL has urged members and the community to support a proposal to the Mount Gambier Health [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

The healing power of water: Canine hydrotherapy

The use of hydroelectricity to produce energy for human needs and agriculture’s development of irrigation to harvest mass amounts of produce demonstrates the incredible power of water in our lives. Water is used for cleanliness [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Herbal Medicine A Symbol Of Women's Empowerment in Uttarakha...

A woman's SHG in Uttarakhand is pioneering self-reliance by training its rural women in the ancient Indian art of herbal farming and medicines. Women of the Ramnagar area of Nainital District have joined the Navjyoti self-help group and are [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

STIGMA IN A BOTTLE HIV-positive patients abandon written med...

Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to Eli Lilly and Company’s and Daiichi Sankyo Co Limited’s anti-clotting drug prasugrel, yet that did not manage to put to rest investors’ concerns regarding cance [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Lesson 1 Homeopathy is NOT herbal medicine (repost)

This article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal has led me to revisit and repost an old essay I had at the old place on 6 January 2006. The article addresses Oscillococcinum, an extract of the liver and heart of the Muscovy duck that is d [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Is Calpol bad for children?

I there a parent who, in the midst of this season of cold and flu, doesn't raise a hymn of praise to the pink elixir? Liquid child paracetamol, most commonly manifested as Calpol. Can ease teething pain, reduce fever, give a child a good n [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Knee Report

Knee Report- Knee Disease, knee joints and exercise: injury and prevention Introduction Knee disease and problems seem to be universal. But I believe we can walk comfortably, from birth to death, without suffering from the painful effects [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Window of opportunity for stroke treatment widens

Emergency room physicians can deliver clot-busting treatments to a wider range of stroke patients than previously thought, European researchers report in the Sept. 25 New England Journal of Medicine. The finding could change the way strok [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Study warns against frequent pill-popping

Popping pills for every minor pain or fever might not be such a good idea after all, with a new study showing that antibiotics administered to cure certain diseases might end up causing more harm than good to patients. A study carried out [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

New Rules For Food And Drugs Imports

According to the new principles, all labels for all food products and drugs should present the following information to the customer: country of origin, the source of a medicine’s active ingredient and its place of manufacture and als [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

Pills, Potions, Drugs and Alcohol

There are a lot of different substances we use to change the way our bodies work, not all of which we recognise as drugs. A drug is a chemical substance that causes a change in the body. This includes both prescription and non-prescripti [...]