HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT

Skinny guys often say they can eat anything they want without gaining weight. They think they're blessed with a fast metabolism. They may be mistaken...

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 Doctors' rapid burnout; need for counseling

The overwork and poor working conditions expose the doctors to early and rapid burnout. This has to be prevented by various ways including improvement of the working conditions of the doctors and their counseling. A study carried out on Norwegian doctors seemed to indicate the need and the benefits of such counseling to the doctors.

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 Doctor's Rights; USA takes a lead

Doctors make delicate decisions about teen health care every day, but current federal confidentiality rules can render it nearly impossible for a doctor to perform the medical action that his professional judgment demands.

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 Eroding Patients' Rights

If you've been admitted to a hospital any time in the last five years, you've been asked whether you have an 'advance directive'. The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, which went into effect in December of 1991, requires all hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices to inform patients upon admission of their right to sign such a document. All of us have heard of a living will or durable power of attorney for health care. I venture to guess that most of us do not know what they really are.

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 Health and Human Security with Focus on India and Canada

Canada has a publicly-funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities... India's healthcare suffers from double whammy

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 Doctor’s liability is a big issue

In 2001 a doctor in a dental surgery at the Alkmaar Medical Centre, north of Amsterdam, removed a molar from a remand prisoner. In doing so, he cut his finger on an instrument used in the treatment, resulting in blood contact with his patient. The patient was considered to have an increased risk of HIV infection because of a history of drug misuse.

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 Personal Safety and Privacy for Doctors

The AMA recognizes that violence against doctors is a growing concern. This Position Statement is provided in an effort to reduce the vulnerability of medical practitioners to physical harm in all locations or settings in which they practice or may be exposed to personal danger arising from their professional work as doctors. It is recognized that there will be wide variation in the level of risk, the practicality of protective measures for prevention of threats to personal safety and the availability of emergency help when such threats do arise.

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 Dedicated Indian doctor languishes in a filthy jail

Binayak graduated from the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, one of India’s premier institutions. Even as a student he was something of a legend - charismatic, caring, concerned about every last patient. Stories are being exchanged on the web about him.

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 Communal virus attacks doctors, but they too are vulnerable to physica

Doctors in the riot hit Indian city of Ahmedabad have not been working in its Muslim neighborhoods for several weeks, because of security concerns and a disruption in medical services. Consultants and general practitioners belonging to the majority Hindu community are avoiding visits to Muslim localities in Ahmedabad, where religious riots between Hindus and Muslims have claimed more than 400 lives in the past 10weeks. Security concerns for doctors surfaced after individuals posing as patients stabbed and injured a Hindu doctor last month in his clinic in a Muslim neighborhood. The incident prompted the Ahmedabad Doctors' Forum to urge Hindu doctors not to venture into Muslim localities unless their safety was guaranteed.

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 Social implications of women's health status

It is a proven fact that that there is a strong symbiotic relationship between a mother's health and that of her progeny's. The reason is simple. An infant gets nourishment from its mother directly right from the pre-natal state to its toddler stage. Now, in India, a woman is not encouraged to have adequate nourishment. In many regions she lives in a semi-starved condition, if not worse. But, no sooner she gets pregnant than she is plied with all sorts of nutritious intakes in the mistaken belief that these would go directly to the infant (the zeal to provide such nourishment is redoubled if there is proof that the baby would be a male - something that has become possible thanks to the easy access to hi-tech diagnostics despite all sorts of laws forbidding gender related pregnancy tests). Unfortunately, such short term dietary excesses do not do much good to the mother or the child. Consequently, there is a real danger of India turning into a nation of weaklings.

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 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) ABOUT CERVICAL CANCER AND OTHER FEMA

The pre-cancerous stage or dysplasia itself shouldn't cause infertility, but treatments to the cervix for cervical dysplasia, such as conization by cold knife, LEEP (loop electrical excision procedure), laser or cryosurgery (freezing), can negatively affect the ability to get pregnant. After a year of trying to get pregnant unsuccessfully, it is recommended that you see a physician for diagnosis of secondary infertility. If you have a cervical factor causing infertility such as the glands destroyed by past cryotherapy, you may need artificial insemination.

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 Tracking Cervical Cancer

New research suggests that herpes and another common sexually transmitted virus can be a deadly combination, raising the risk that infected women will develop cervical cancer. The findings seem to explain why some women are more prone to cervical cancer. "We know that HPV (human papillomavirus) causes cancer, but a lot of people have HPV and never get cancer," explains Stephen E. Hawes, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington at Seattle and author of a commentary on the new study.

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 CANCER-FREE JOURNEY IN THE MENOPAUSAL ZONE: PAP TEST IS THE PASSPORT

A woman’s chances of developing cancer uterus increase as she matures. About 95 percent of women with this cancer are 40 years old or older. Especially at risk are women who take estrogen, are postmenopausal, are obese, or have a history of breast cancer or of high blood pressure. The deadliest gynecologic cancer attacks the ovaries.

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 WHAT IS CANCER OF THE CERVIX?

Cancer of the cervix (cervical cancer) is the leading cause of cancer amongst women in India. It is caused by the uncontrolled growth of cells in the cervix.

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 Challenges of healthcare Governance in India

The growing demand for quality healthcare and the absence of matching delivery mechanism pose a great challenge.

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