Schoolkids trapped in landslide rescued

A major tragedy was averted in Ladakh as Army troops, battling adverse weather conditions, rescued 11 schoolchildren who were trapped in a major landslide near Turtuk village in Nubra Valley on the Line of Control (LoC).

Giving details, a Defence Ministry spokesman at the Northern Command in Udhampur said on Sunday that a school bus carrying 15 children to Tyakshi — an Army Goodwill School ? was trapped in a landslide around 9.45 am on Thursday. Eleven of them were seriously injured.

Rescue operation was launched immediately under supervision of senior Army officers, the spokesman said and the children were taken out of the school bus trapped in the landslide. An Army medical team rushed to the site despite continuing landslides, and provided immediate first aid and treatment to the injured children.

Three Army helicopters were launched despite bad weather conditions to evacuate eight seriously injured children to Military Hospital at Hunder.

Three children were evacuated to Military Hospital, Leh by Air Force helicopter. Two of these children have been further air evacuated to an Army hospital in Delhi.

Onions ruled out for three months with back injury

London, May 21(ANI): England fast bowler Graham Onions has been ruled out for up to three months due to a back injury and will now miss the upcoming series against Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Onions has been out of action since he was forced to return home from England’s tour of Bangladesh with the injury in March.

The 27-year-old underwent scans on his back earlier this week, which confirmed that the injury was worse than feared.

“I am naturally incredibly disappointed to miss the bulk of the domestic season and am still hopeful that with rest I can be back on the field nearer to the end of the summer,” The Telegraph quoted Onions, as saying.

“The ECB medical team has been very supportive and all I can do is be patient, work hard on my rehabilitation programme and focus on my number one goal which is to be fully fit and available for selection for the Ashes tour to Australia,” he added.

Onions also underwent surgery on Thursday at a London hospital to repair a cartilage in his left knee. (ANI)

Bret Michaels released from hospital after brain haemorrhage treatment

Washington, May 5 (ANI): Former Poison singer Bret Michaels has been discharged from the Arizona Hospital where he was being treated for brain haemorrhage.

The singer’s doctor Dr. Joseph Zabramski said that Michaels was no longer in a critical condition and has been discharged from the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph”s Hospital in Phoenix to an undisclosed location to recuperate, as reported by TMZ.com.

The doctor also said that Bret’s condition is being monitored by a medical team.

The doc added that the singer is “very lucky” to be recovering so well. (ANI)

Spanish face transplant man goes public

London, May 5 (ANI): A Spaniard who had one of the world”s first face transplants has unveiled his face to the world.

The patient named only as Rafael appeared in public to thank the donor and surgeons who operated on him.

He said: “I am full of joy and happiness. I want to thank the family of the donor and the medical team.”

Rafael, 34, was the third person in Spain and the tenth in the world to receive a partial face transplant, reports The Sun.

He spoke with difficulty at a Press conference at the hospital in Seville, Spain, where he had undergone the 30-hour surgery in January.

Doctors replaced the bottom two-thirds of his face after a congenital disease, neurofibromatosis, had left him with multiple benign tumors.

His face is still inflamed and he has to endure months of rehabilitation, but Rafael can now distinguish between hot and cold, and can feel pain in his lips again. (ANI)

Jesse James in rehab?

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Sandra Bullock’s love rat hubby Jesse James has entered rehab, it has emerged.

TMZ reports, a member of the medical team at Sierra Tucson, a Tucson rehab facility that specializes in drug, alcohol and sex addiction, as well as other disorders, has revealed that the TV star is a patient there.

According to sources, when a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer stopped Jesse last week on the 10 Freeway near Blythe, for driving without a front license plate and driving with tinted windows, James revealed to the cop that he was going to Arizona to try to save his marriage to the Oscar winning actress.

And now, it has been specified by the sources that James was heading to a rehab facility in Tucson. (ANI)

Chandigarh terror threat part reason behind Lee’s return to Sydney for recovery

Melbourne, Mar 19 (ANI): Australian fast bowler Brett Lee’s management has confirmed that the security environment in India played a part in his decision to return to Sydney to have his surgically repaired elbow checked for the Indian Premier League.

Lee, however intends to return to his Punjab Kings XI franchise upon receiving medical clearance from Cricket Australia.

“From a security point of view he’d prefer to be spending the time waiting in Sydney rather than Chandigarh,” Lee’s manager, Neil Maxwell, said.

Lee has been training in India under the guidance of former NSW physiotherapist Pat Farhart and has been in contact with CA”s medical team since his retirement from Test cricket last month, The Age reports.

CA said the trip home was part of a plan to ease the fast bowler back to fitness before the final squad of 15 was named for the ICC World Twenty20, which starts next month.

Shaun Marsh, who missed the New Zealand tour with a bulging disc, is also awaiting the green light from CA to join the Kings XI. (ANI)

Chelsea chief sends psychologist to check Cole

London, Mar. 5 (ANI): Amid reports over love-cheat Ashley Cole’s bizarre behaviour following his break up from wife Cheryl, Chelsea chief Roman Abramovich has sent a psychologist to check whether the 29-year-old England left-back was in sound mental state.

Cole, who is recovering from a broken ankle at a clinic in France, has been wracked by grief after betrayed wife Cheryl ditched him over his flings and sex texts.

According to The Sun, Cole had appeared miserable since arriving at the clinic more than a week ago – and had gone days without shaving.

But after being told Chelsea were sending the psychologist to assess him, Cole promptly cut off his beard and trimmed his hair to give a good impression.

“He desperately wanted to look good for the psychologist. He knew the results would go straight back to the top and he wanted them to be positive,” the paper quoted a source close to Cole, as saying.

The psychologist arrived at the Centre Europeen Reeducation Sportif (CERS) facility near Biarritz on Wednesday and had lunch with Cole and Blues team-mate Michael Essien, who is there for treatment on his knee.

“The day the psychologist arrived at the clinic, Ashley was in a completely different frame of mind. He had smartened himself up and was trying to be serious and sensible. It wasn”t the Ashley we”ve been used to – he was clearly worried about something,” the source said.

A Chelsea spokesman confirmed a psychologist had flown out to assess Cole.

“It is a very normal procedure. We have a duty of care to all our players and we regularly send members of our medical team to help them get fit, especially those undergoing long-term treatment,” he said. (ANI)

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Clues to gigantism provided by family in Borneo Mountains

Washington, August 22 (ANI): An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo has helped Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form of gigantism that often results in enlarged hands, feet, and facial features.

The information could lead to better screening for the disease, which most often results from a benign pituitary gland tumor that can be deadly if left untreated, but which is difficult to detect until later stages when features become pronounced.

Researchers located a 31-member aboriginal family that included individuals with acromegaly living in a mountainous region of Borneo, Malaysia, when the effects of the family patriarch’s growing pituitary tumor necessitated medical treatment.

A medical team including VARI Distinguished Scientific Investigator Bin Tean Teh, and staff from the Department of Medicine at the University of Malaya Medical Centre and the Department of Medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Malaysia subsequently traveled to the family’s village several times to collect blood samples for testing.

“Researchers had recently found a mutation in the AIP gene associated with acromegaly, but we found that several family members who didn’t have visible symptoms of acromegaly had this mutation as well,” said Dr. The.

“This increases the importance of screening for families with cases of acromegaly since anyone could be a carrier. On one side of the family, at least two generations carried the gene before someone showed any symptoms,” he added.

The later stages of acromegaly often produce enlarged hands and feet, protruding brows and lower jaws, thick voice and slowed speech from swelling of vocal cords, and other symptoms.

When diagnosed, the tumor and entire pituitary gland are usually removed, followed by hormone therapy for the rest of the patient’s life. owever, because the progression of the disease is so gradual, it is difficult to detect. If left unchecked, patients can die from complications such as heart or kidney failure.

Sok Kean Khoo, VARI Research Scientist and lead author of the study, led researchers in scanning DNA in the family’s blood to find other factors that might explain why only some family members with the genetic mutation had visible symptoms of the disease.

They found regions on a few chromosomes that might lead to further insight.The sooner we know how and why people are affected differently by this disease, the sooner we can help families who have it,” said Dr. Teh. (ANI)

Thanks to botox, paralyzed man walks again after 20 yrs

SYDNEY: An Australian stroke victim paralysed for over 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team.

Russell McPhee, 49, was confined to a wheelchair after suffering a severe stroke 23 years ago that left him so disabled that doctors initially told him he would never leave hospital. But after being injected with botox, the antiageing treatment popular among Hollywood celebrities, McPhee can walk around his home unaided and travel up to 100 metres (330 feet) using a walking stick. “I thought I was going to die in a wheelchair,” McPhee said.

The former meatworker admitted he and girlfriend Kerry Crossley were initially sceptical when told about the treatment. “(Kerry) chipped in and said ‘what, don’t you think he’s pretty enough?’” McPhee said.

Botox, or botulinum toxin, blocks the nerve signals which tell muscles to contract, flattening wrinkles when used on the face. But it can also help patients left immobile by brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, spinal problems or strokes.

Valentina Maric, physiotherapist at the St. John of God Hospital, explained that McPhee was unable to walk because the stroke had left his muscles in permanent spasm.

“The muscles were turned on all the time because of the messages coming from his brain,” she said. The botox stopped the spasms, Maric said, allowing the McPhee to stretch out the affected leg muscles for the first time in decades and strengthen other muscles needed for walking.

She said muscles that had not been used for so long would normally have withered away, but McPhee’s were remarkably intact, leading to rapid progress.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – US Secretary of State Hillary – US Secretary of State  Clinton – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton injured – Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow

June 18 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fractured her right elbow in a fall, BBC reported Thursday.  Clinton had been on her way to the White House when she fell Wednesday afternoon, her chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement.

The secretary of state was treated at the George Washington University Hospital and then went home. She is to have surgery to repair her elbow in the coming week, Cheryl Mills said.

“Secretary Clinton appreciates the professionalism and kindness she received from the medical team who treated her this evening and looks forward to resuming her full schedule soon,” her chief of staff added.

Clinton had been due to join actress Angelina Jolie Thursday morning at an event in Washington marking World Refugee Day, but pulled out after her accident.

Boy’s missing kidney hints at illegal organ trade in Cuttack

Boy’s missing kidney hints at illegal organ trade in CuttackCuttack, May 23: The missing kidney of an 11-year-old, post appendicitis surgery at a private clinic in Cuttack, hints at the possibility of illegal organ trade in the city.

The boy, Abinash Sharma, underwent the surgery on Oct. 31, 2006 at the private nursing home in Bidanasi area of Cuttack. He was admitted on Oct. 26 and was discharged on Nov. 11.

The case of missing kidney
Recently, when Abinash complained of severe abdominal pain, ultra sound was performed. Reports showed that his right kidney was missing. Outraged, his father, Babuli Nath, native of Tirtol in Jagatsinghpur district, Chattisgarh, lodged an FIR with the twin city commissioner of police B K Sharma.

Police in action
Sharma instructed the inspector-in-charge of the police station at Bidanasi to do the investigation.

“The complaint is being taken most seriously and the probe has started,” said a police spokesperson.

The authorities have started acting on the complaint by forming a medical team led by the superintendent of SCB Medical College and Hospital.

The team will examine the boy and submit the medical report based on which the next action will be taken, said A N Sinha, DCP, Cuttack. He added that since the operation took place three years ago it is a complicated case.

B N Mishra, the doctor who had performed the appendicitis surgery of Abinash, was interrogated by police for three hours at Bidanasi police station and operation documents were seized from him.

Mishra says that the allegations are rubbish. He confirmed that he had performed the surgery three years ago, accompanied by two other doctors.

Nath maintains that Abinash has not undergone any surgery after the one in 2006.

India dispatches medical aid, doctors to Sri Lanka

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): India on Friday dispatched a team of 27 doctors and paramedics to the war ravaged Sri Lanka for the benefit of the devastated Tamil civilian population.

An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft took off from New Delhi for Colombo this morning with the medical team, including a surgeon and paediatrician.

The team is also carrying about 30 tonnes of medicines worth over Rs. three crore to replenish stores at the Field Hospital run by the Indian Armed Forces in a camp for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

India has deployed a self-contained Emergency Medical Unit with Hospital in Sri Lanka since March 2009. The 110-bed facility comprises of 62 members including eight doctors and paramedics. It has been operating out of Pulmoddai town on the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka.

The Hospital provides urgent medical care to civilians evacuated out of the conflict zone by the Red Cross (ICRC) in ships. The hospital has so far treated more than 3,000 war wounded and trauma patients.

In view of the greater requirement in and around Vavuniya, India’s Emergency Medical Unit with Hospital is being shifted to Menik Farm Area Zone 1 near Vavuniya which has a significant IDP population in need of medical care.

India’s relief assistance so far has included food, clothing, medicines and other essential supplies.

Since November 2008, India has provided 1.7 lakh family relief packs for lDPs and civilians affected by the conflict. The packs include dry rations, personal hygiene items, clothes, utensils and water purification tablets. (ANI)

Sixteen killed in naxal attack in Maharashtra

Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), 22 May (ANI): In a brutal naxal attack at Twitola in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district sixteen policemen, including an inspector, a sub-inspector and five women constables, were killed.

According to reports, a police party was on routine patrolling between Mumumgaon and Dhanora when Naxals opened indiscriminate fire from Hatti Gota hillock, near Dhanora taluka headquarters. he deceased were identified as Inspector Avinash Iyer, sub-inspector Shantaram Ghorpade, Shafi Bhaktdas Shettiwar, havildars Suresh Kirange and Hemraj Tembhurne, nayak Kashinath Rohankar, constables Damodar Naitam, Sadanand Madavi, Santosh Durge, Vilas Mandale, Manik Usendi and woman constables Shobha Tade, Gendkumar Fardia, Shakuntala Aalam, Alka Gawde and Sunita Kallo.
Immediately after the attack a police force, medical team, bomb detection and disposal squad and doq squad were rushed to the site.

Additional Superintendent of Police Manoj Sharma said that all the bodies were being brought back to Gadchiroli district headquarters and further will be kept at the district hospital for post-martem.(ANI)

British Mumbai attack victims abandoned by their own government

London, May 10 (ANI): The British government and different authorities seems to have abandoned Will Pike and Kelly Doyle, who were seriously injured in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack, as they have been continuously neglected by the Foreign Office and their insurance company.

Pike, who was more seriously injured than his girlfriend Doyle, is disappointed by the government’s pathetic and hugely discouraging behavior.

After months of struggle to garner support for his treatment, a government department which offered him a final payment, from a Red Cross charity fund, of just 15,000 pounds to help him adjust to life in a wheelchair, the Guardian reports.

“When you read about these things in the paper, when they happen to other people, you assume there is some sort of system in place. You assume these people must be being looked after. But actually what we felt as the days and weeks passed, me and Kelly and my father, was a sense of despondency, of being let down, of just sinking through the system. We’ve been in this hole ever since,” Pike said.

After the medical team at Mumbai had arranged for Pike to be transferred to University College hospital (UCH), he was flown back to London.

It took Pike nine hours after arriving at UCH before being finally shifted to a medical ward, which shows the careless attitude of the concerned authorities.

Pike said he expected officials to visit him or at least get in contact with him or the family to offer some help, but it was not to be.

“I remember waking up every day at UCH thinking: ‘OK, someone will probably get in contact with us today.’ I remember even thinking I might get a call from Gordon Brown! I thought, this isn’t some everyday occurrence.

I remember thinking it wouldn’t be too much to ask for the leader of the country to show a sign of condolence, a sign of caring,” he added. (ANI)

Diarrhoea kills nine in Orissa’s tribal village

Raelpeta, Rayagada (Orissa), May 6 (ANI): At least nine people have died of diarrhoea in a tribal village of Raelpeta in Orissa’s Rayagada district.
The villagers complain that lack of basic amenities like drinking water, food, roads, transportation and medical centre have added to their woes.

“Nine people have died in our village due to diarrhoea within a week. We don’t have any facility like a proper road and transportation. Even the basic amenities like food and drinking water are not available to us. We are also not getting any work,” said Hiramani, a villager.

There is no medical facility available in the vicinity of the village. The public heath center is far away in Sunger village. Lack of transportation makes it difficult for villagers to reach Sunger.

However, the medical authorities claim that the situation is under control.

“Now, the situation in Raelpeta is under control. In the last four days, our medical team has visited the village to take stalk of the situation there. We have done a medical check up of villagers and have taken all necessary steps. We had taken the blood samples of 27 villagers and found one villager to be infected with malaria. We have given chlorine medicine to all these mvillagers,” said Surendra Kumar Rath, medical officer, Kashipur.

In the past too, diarrhoea has broken out in Raelpeta. (ANI)

Flintoff may be fit for World Twenty20

London, Apr.29 (ANI): The England and Wales Cricket Board expects all-rounder Andrew Flintoff to be fit for the World Twenty20 competition in June after he successfully underwent a knee operation.

Flintoff required keyhole surgery on torn cartilage after he was forced to pull out of the Indian Premier League, where he had a forgettable debut for the Chennai Super Kings.

“The surgeon has informed the England and Wales Cricket Board’s chief medical officer Nick Peirce that the operation went extremely smoothly,” The Telegraph quoted Hugh Morris, the managing director England Cricket, as saying.

“I am grateful to the ECB medical team, the surgeon and radiologists as well as the Chennai Super Kings for keeping the England team management and me informed about Andrew’s injury and the subsequent operation,” he added.

The all-rounder will be out of action for between three and five weeks, meaning he should be available to play in the World Twenty20 competition, starting on June 5.

He will, however, definitely miss the two-Test series against West Indies. (ANI)

Liverpool’s Gerrard to miss crunch game against Arsenal

London, Apr.18 (ANI): Steven Gerrard will miss Liverpool’s crunch clash with Arsenal on Tuesday as he is down with a groin injury.

Gerrard suffered a recurrence in the Reds’ final training session before the game, preventing him from even taking a place on the bench.

He may be even in doubt for the trip to Hull four days later.

A Liverpool insider told The Sun: “In the training session before the Champions League game with Chelsea, Steven aggravated a strain he had previously suffered in his adductor muscle. A scan has since confirmed our medical team’s initial diagnosis and the player is expected to be out for between seven and 10 days.” (ANI)

World’s First Ever Face And Hand Transplant

World's First Ever Face And Hand Transplant Surgeons in France have performed the world’s first face and hand transplant in a single operation.The 30-year-old patient had been on a donor waiting list for more than a year after being disfigured in an accident.

He had “scars from burns to the face and hands so severe that it robbed him of all social life,” the hospital said in a statement.

The operation took 30 hours and required a medical team of more than 40, according to the Henri Mondor Hospital in the Paris suburb of Creteil.

“It is a success, he is in good condition,” one of the two head surgeons who performed the operation, Laurent Lanteiri, said.

“The patient is in post-op intensive care, which will last at least 15 days,” he added.Surgeons replaced the man’s entire face above the lips, including the scalp, nose, ears and forehead.

“Everything was reconnected – the nerves, tendons, arteries and veins,” said Mr Lantieri.

Another team led by Christian Dumontier, a surgeon at the Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, replaced both hands, including the wrists.

Doctors also succeeded in grafting new upper and lower eyelids – a world first.

“We will have to wait and see whether the nerves will grow back and give them mobility,” said Mr Dumontier.
World's First Ever Face And Hand TransplantThere have been five other face transplants to date, three of them in France. The most recent was completed on March 27 at the same hospital.

But this is the first time that a transplant of both hands and the face has been completed in one go.

In the operation last month, Mr Lantieri replaced most of the face of a 28-year-old man severely disfigured by a shotgun blast.

In an operation in France in 2007, the recipient was a 29-year-old man who suffered from a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis that had covered much of his face in a disfiguring tumour.

The first successful face transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.

A Chinese man who underwent a facial transplant in China in 2006 after being attacked by a bear died in 2008.

Getting Tendulkar out in first Test would be a dream come true: Arnel

Hamilton (New Zealand), Mar.13 (ANI): Northern Districts fast bowler Brent Arnel hopes to play against Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar in his debut Test, and says it would be a “dream come true” to get him out.

The Te Awamutu-born, Waiuku-raised 30-year-old bowler was quoted by the Waikato Times as saying: “Playing him would be a dream come true, getting him out would be the best moment of my career.”

New Zealand cricket has a long history of giving young bowlers a chance, the bowlers getting injured then coming back as mature cricketers.

Arnel never got his initial chance after the New Zealand Cricket Academy over-bowled him. He suffered a back injury that cost him four years of cricket and nearly his entire career on the back of “some very poor advice” by the medical team at the academy.

Arnel said he was “absolutely stoked” to be selected in the Black Caps 13-man squad which includes a first call up for Auckland batsman Martin Guptill.

Arnel, however, is still not sure where he stands in the selectors’ minds.

“I’m just rapt to be thought of as one of the best 13 cricketers in the country. (The selectors) have two options I guess, they could throw me in straight away and see how I go or just keep me in the squad to have a closer look at me.” (ANI)

India’s first emergency medical services launched by Rapid Rescue Services

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI/Business Wire India): In an endeavor to provide door to door medical emergency services, Gurgaon based Rapid Rescue Services has launched an emergency medical rescue service across New Delhi and Gurgaon.

The emergency service will be run by qualified MBBS trained by Medical team from US to provide the customers a door to door service in the event of a medical emergency.

All the doctors and paramedics will be carrying emergency medical equipment and administrative drugs, who will come on a special designed motorbike to avoid the traffic congestion. This is the first company to launch an emergency medical service in case of emergency and will be providing the services anytime, anywhere in New Delhi and Gurgaon region.

The launch of the service means that from now on in case of emergency, the residents of New Delhi and Gurgaon can be attended maximum within 30 minutes to provide the customer the fastest, most effective and reliable medical service.

To help the team reach the patient faster, the company has also installed GPS system in place. This will help the team to find out the exact location of the patient. The service will be available to all customers signed to a plan, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year in the Delhi and Gurgaon vicinity.

“We intend to provide the most effective and reliable emergency rescue to our members in need of help anywhere, anytime. There is a need for the general public in pre hospitalization treatment and we aim at addressing that with the help of our international standard service,” commented Bhavin Shukla, Director, Rapid Rescue Services.

The company has floated two kinds of memberships-Gold and Silver. The Gold Customers will be located using a GPS key ring. In the event of an emergency all the customer has to do is press the predefined number on their mobile phone in order to be connected to the team to take care of him.

The rescue team will reach at the location in not more than 30 minutes and will be given the necessary medical treatment then and there. Incase of life threatening emergencies, the patients will be taken to a nearest or desired hospital in an ambulance. Apart from the patients’ preference, the company is also in the process of tying up with some of popular hospitals across the two cities. The annual subscription for Gold membership is Rs 15,000 per person and any additional membership will cost Rs 7500.

The other one is silver membership. The silver customers are covered within their homes and need to call the toll free number-1800 102 3005, using either their landline phone or registered mobile in the event of a medical emergency.

In this case also the rescue team will reach their home within 30 minutes, where they will be given medical treatment at the incident scene and in case of life threatening emergency can be taken to the nearest or desired hospital in an ambulance. The annual subscription fee for two people from one family is Rs 10,000 per year. An additional per person would be Rs. 2000. (ANI)