AIDS is 'forgotten epidemic’: Koop

C-Everett-KoopOn Wednesday C. Everett Koop, the surgeon general informed that the disease is fitting the forgotten epidemic. His gloomy and bearded features gave the country its first frank gossip about AIDS almost 25 years ago. He is 95 and lives in New Hampshire.

He told in a meeting at the National Press Club that in every year about 56,000 Americans are infected by this and 15000 people have died. About one-fifth of them don’t know that they have this disease.

Investigation mandatory to curtail suicide rate

Investigation mandatory to curtail suicide rateRelatives backing group wishes to observe additional achievement on top of the quantity of people performing suicide in the concern of regional health panels.

A statement published yesterday exposed that 127 people taken care of in hospitals during 2009/10 expired from a grave or guard occasion. Out of those who expired, 64 were suicides cases which is an augment from 37 the preceding year and 16 the year prior to that, as per the Health Quality and Safety Commission report.

Hospitals need to learn from mistakes, says commissioner

Hospitals need to learn from mistakes, says commissionerAccording to the Health and Disability Commissioner, hospitals need to learn from their past mistakes and stop making them again.

According to the reports of the Health Quality and Safety Commission 2009-2010, 127 people lost their lives last year, apparently due to 374 "serious and sentinel events". These serious and sentinel events are basically incidents that can lead to serious lasting disability or even death, that is not even associated to the patient's disease or underlying condition.

Hospital Laboratory Upgrade Underway

Hospital Laboratory Upgrade Underway Initiated this week has been a big upgrade of Waikato District Health Board's main laboratory, which aims to improve the patient care.

$4.5 million will be spent to make provisions for major facility and process improvements and support the laboratory, located at Waikato Hospital, so as to keep pace with the increasing number of specimens received by it every year.

This work will go on simultaneously with the implementation of a new computer system.

Growers to decide on $50 million govt. package

Growers to decide on $50 million govt. packageA group of kiwifruit growers met up at the Bay of Plenty to vote in great multitude for accepting a $50 million package for aiding in managing the bacterial disease PSA.

The bacterial disease was discovered on 37 kiwifruit blocks in the three regions of Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay and Tasman.

The Government and Zespri, marketer of kiwifruit marketer, both have decided to contribute $25 million each to aid the affected growers.

Radio waves exercised to treat high blood pressure

blood pressureRecently Melbourne researchers were researching in a device and finally they have got huge achievement with that. It is a device which uses radio waves to decrease blood pressure.

It was found that in Australia, out of the total population a quarter to a third had high blood pressure. Some of the people did not react to available drug treatments.

At last Melbourne researchers have found a solution to this. They have tracked a new method to condense blood pressure that does not use drugs. This trail was worldwide and it included 106 patients across Europe and Australia.

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