Agrahari’s father was admitted to Max in May 2005 for knee replacement surgery and the hospital charged him Rs 3 lakh for the treatment. The operation was carried out successfully on May 19, the complaint says, but the patient developed complications the following day.
As per the complaint, he developed ‘Hyponatraemia’, resulting in irritability and sudden rise in blood pressure, as the doctors failed to take prompt corrective measures. The patient Read the rest of this entry »

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Zimbabwe’s health system has collapsed and the southern African nation, now overwhelmed by cholera, soon will see other epidemics, a worsening AIDS crisis, and the effects of widespread malnutrition, the international doctors group Medecins Sans Frontieres said yesterday.
The Nobel Prize-winning group urged foreign donors and Zimbabwe’s government to do more in light of the crisis. It said the government was making it Read the rest of this entry »

Main Line Health, based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., is a non-profit health system
serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs. Founded in
1985, Main Line Health includes four acute care hospitals: Lankenau,
Bryn Mawr, Paoli and Riddle Memorial, along with Bryn Mawr Rehab
Hospital, Main Line HealthCare (a physician network); the Lankenau
Institute for Medical Research; The Home Care Network; Main Line Health Read the rest of this entry »

Half the women were assigned to attend three 50-minute sessions a week of aquarobics during their pregnancy, while the other half acted as a control group.
“We found no statistically significant differences in the duration of labor or they type of delivery between the two groups,” study author Rosa Pereira, of the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, said in a news release. “However, only 27 percent of women in the aquarobics group requested analgesia, Read the rest of this entry »

The St. Mary’s County Board of County Commissioners, the Department of Recreation and Parks along with St. Mary’s Hospital Diabetes program are pleased to announce that the Fall Fitness and Diabetes Festival.The festival will be heldSaturday, Nov. 1, from noon until 4 p.m., at Leonard Hall Recreation Center in Leonardtown.
Citizens are invited to come learn how to get fit as a family. Many activities, attractions and door prize drawings Read the rest of this entry »

November 2, 2008 8:35 a.m. EST
(AHN) – The Food and Drug Administration’s determination that a widely-used chemical found in baby bottles is safe contained mistakes and should be redone, an FDA panel unanimously ruled.
The chemical, bisphenol-A, or BPA, is also found in many other plastic products.
The FDA science board stated in a report released earlier this week that the FDA ignored several government-funded studies linking exposure to low Read the rest of this entry »

INDIANAPOLIS – A power outage forced St. Francis Hospital
on Indianapolis’ far south side to stop accepting patients.
St. Francis spokesman Joe Stuteville said the hospital was
running on backup power Thursday night but has stopped accepting
new patients.
Indianapolis Power & Light spokeswoman Crystal Livers-Powers
says a line failure cut electricity to customers on the city’s far
south side about 8:30 p.m.
It wasn’t clear if the failure was Read the rest of this entry »

Final preparations are being made for the 2nd annual Cancer Research Classic.
The 10-team high school boys’ basketball extravaganza is slated for Saturday, Jan. 3 at Wheeling Jesuit University’s McDonough Center.
”We are already one of the premier tournaments in the country,” said Dr. Gregory Merrick, one of the heads of the showcase, during a news conference Wednesday at Wheeling Hospital’s Howard Long Wellness Center.
”And as far as Catholic Read the rest of this entry »

Along with the rest of the country eagerly
anticipating the inauguration of Barack Obama, the majority of American women
will be reveling in the fact that those who wanted to curb a woman’s right to
choose didn’t make it to the Oval Office. 
However, after the warm glow subsides, the
reality of working to regain traction on ground that was lost during the Bush
administration will set in.  With a
president in the White House who understands and Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities had been tracking the truck, a gray Ford F-250, since about 3 p.m., when a LoJack theft-detection system alerted Phoenix police that it was stolen.
Around 7 p.m., the truck was spotted by a Sheriff’s helicopter going south on I-19. Department of Public Safety officers stopped traffic while Sheriff’s deputies conducted a high-risk stop near the Canoa rest area with their guns drawn, which is standard procedure for stolen vehicle Read the rest of this entry »