State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Health Care
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Electronic eye
A retinal implant based on a microchip could help treat blindness
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Cord of life
Scientists discover that the blood in the umbilical cord is a treasure trove of treatments for various diseases
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MONEYMAKERS
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the
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Sugar of death
The World Health Organisation (who) has reported a 3 per cent rise in the incidence of diabetes the world over. The total number of diabetic patients in India stands at 20 per cent, 2nd highest in
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Care scare
Japan's health care system is the envy of the world. The average Japanese male expects to live 75.9 years, while women can live upto a ripe 81.8 years. But this success has helped create the fastest
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HUMANE MATTRESS
With the development of a new type of computerised mattress containing sensors, researcher Jukka Alihanka of Biorec Oy in Turku, Finland, has solved the problem of monitoring patients with coronary
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Bodies of evidence
IT IS a profoundly unhealthy world we occupy today. THE World Health Report, 1995 brought out by the World Health Organization, Geneva, reveals that about 51 million people died in 1993 worldwide:
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Computer therapy
The versatile computer has found a pew role - that of a therapist. In a study at Georgia Tech, psychologists have used virtual reality to treat a group of 10 people suffering from acrophobia - an
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Outbreak
THAT nightmarish faction book, The Hot Zone, told the story of the deadly Ebola virus. Now Outbreak tells us an even more horrifying story of a fictional virus, Motaba. Like Ebola, which dissolves
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Homeo path
THERE is hope yet for those unable to shake off their addiction to drugs and alcohol. The cure is indigenous, painless and involves the oral intake of a vaccine made from homeopathic elements.