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Liposuction Shape the Body with Lipoplasty Liposuction is a medical procedure which is used to remove stubborn fat that accumulates in the thighs, hips, abdomen, buttocks, knees, upper arms, neck, chin, and cheeks. The procedure is usually done for cosmetic purposes or in extreme cases for excessive fat removal and to improve the body’s contour. Liposuction or “suction lipectomy” is usually done when all the traditional weight loss measures or the lifestyle changes fail to decrease the fat in the desired areas. Liposuction is employed in the extreme of all cases and should never be considered a substitute of balanced diet and exercise . The newer kind of the most advanced lipoplasty includes ultra sound assisted lipoplasty.  Things to Know: Lipoplasty Lipoplasty is a specialized surgical procedure which is performed by an accredited surgeon. Since there are some healthcare risks involved so a complete prior healthcare checkup is to be performed. Liposuction is not advised and risky

No time lag No wait No queue G Krish, a British resident who had a heart bypass surgery at Delhi's Hospital, said: "The good hospitals here have world class facilities and doctors but cost one-tenth. Krish said he admired the fact that "unlike in England there is no wait to get into the hospital and no rush to get out".  Due to the ease and affordable health tourism many countries intiated links with the hospitals in India for speedy treatments in India for their nationals as one has to wait for a long time in these countries to get cured or to undergo even minor operations. 

Now weight loss is possible by a surgery !! Weight loss surgery refers to various surgical procedures, which are performed tocontrol obesity by modifying the gastrointestinal tract and reducing its absorptionof nutrients. This surgery is often termed as bariatric surgery. Prevalence of overweightand obesity has reached pandemic proportions and is contributing to premature morbidityand mortality because of increasing nourishment and a decrease in physical exercise.Surgery for weight loss has shown to be very effective for morbidly obese patients. Weight loss surgery is generally advised only to thosewho are unable to loose excess weight either through diet and exerciseprograms and are obese with related conditions such as hypertension,Diabetes mellitus and obstructive sleep apnea. It is possible that anindividual can maintain a healthy body weight through this surgery.These procedures maybe carried out medically and safely but yet it isessential to understand the operative risks, mor

             A condition in which the amount of bone mass decreases to the point where the bones are fragile and easily fractured, affecting twice as many women as men. Women are particularly risk from the osteoporosis as they have a lower density of bone, because of smaller body size than men. The risk increases those who have a premature menopause, early hysterectomy, previous anorexia nervosa etc. Also women who smoke or drink excessively are at the greater risk. Weight-bearing exercise , a diet rich in calcium, Vitamin D and other minerals, and not smoking can help to prevent bone loss. Hormone replacement therapy is the most effective preventive treatment but is not suitable for all women. Physiotherapy and acupunture can help to relieve pain. Osteoporosis can be detected by doing  Bone density test.

Most cancer surgeons in Indian hospitals are certified and have more than a decade of experience. Also the medical staff is well trained professionally. The doctors and cancer surgeons in India at these hospitals are adept in dealing with most complicated cases. The advanced and cutting edge medical facilities available at Cervical cancer surgery hospitals in India makes them a reliable global destination for patients who are seeking a suitable and less cost option for recovery from Cervical cancer. Cancer Treatment : Medical advancement in cancer treatment in India has developed to such an extent that it has attracted over a million patients in past few years. The success rates of high end cancer surgeries in select Indian hospitals are far better than the success rates of the same surgeries in other parts of the globe. Various modules for treatments and surgery for cancer in India: Bone marrow and stem cell transplantation ,Chemotherapy of haematological malignancies, Chemothera

UN report Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, November 23, 2010 India has shown a 50% drop in the number of new HIV infections in the last 10 years as the AIDS epidemic is beginning to reverse globally with a decline in the newly-infected HIV cases and AIDS-related deaths, says a United Nations report released on Tuesday. The 2010 UNAIDS Report on the global  AIDS epidemic shows about 33.3 million people were estimated to be living with HIV at the end on 2009 with 2.3 million living in India. An estimated 2.6 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2009, nearly 20% fewer than the 3.1 million people infected in 1999. In India, 120,000 people got infected in 2009. While 1.8 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses, nearly one-fifth lower than the 2.1 million people who died in 2004, about 170,000 people died in India. "We are breaking the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic with bold actions and smart choices. India is doing quite well in HIV treatment. Investments in

Health Tourism  is a concept where a patient travels to another country for medical treatment in order to save costs, or get treatment faster or even to avail of better medical facilities. Most patients from countries like USA and UK travel to developing countries such as India for treatment because India offers some of te cheapest pricing options of treatment, offers a good holiday, there are no waiting lists or queues to stand in, the doctors are comparable to anyone in the world and finally, language does not pose a problem as most people speak English. Why would someone travel to India and not to Thailand? Although the cost difference between treatment in India and Thailand is not much, India offers what you call a language advantage - a patient would surely prefer a country where English is widely spoken. Also, it is believed that the facilities in India are more suited for International patients. India is also working hard to increase it's infrastructure to better suit the

DO... Fit in fitness If you want to stay fit, your fingers and your mouth should not be the only parts moving regularly. Following a sedentary lifestyle will make you prone to heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, lethargy and mood swings. Hence, a workout should be an indispensable element of your day. Warm-up and cool-down You just can’t afford to miss this one. A warm-up prepares the body for the activity to follow. Our muscles perform better and are less prone to injury when they are warm. A warm-up can mean simply walking or marching for 5 – 10 minutes to raise the body’s core temperature. A cool-down lowers the body’s temperature, gradually. The last 5 – 10 minutes of the workout should be cool-down time. This allows the blood to return to its resting state. Stretch A good time to stretch is immediately after an exercise session, while the body is still warm. Stretching prevents muscle soreness and increases flexibility. It also relaxes the muscles,

A journey should always be planned in advance to avoid medical problems. Before a long trip, have a medical examination to make sure your diabetes and blood pressure are in good control. Schedule the examination in such a way that you have enough time to control it before you depart. Before any trip, get a detailed prescription from your doctor that should list insulin, syringes, and any other medication you use. A copy of this prescription may even be needed at the customs checkpoint. Blood pressure patients are sensitive to any type of motion which may cause air-sickness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Avoid air travel if your blood pressure levels are out of specified range. Delayed flights, long queues, boarding hassles etc. can add to your stress and elevate blood pressure further. To avoid this condition, you need to take certain precautions: Have a cool and quiet evening before your day of journey, have a light breakfast the next morning Do not consume alcohol and excess s

A. Smith, the fattest Briton who once weighed 297 kg, is now a happy man having lost eight kg in just two days after he underwent an obesity surgery here becoming the "heaviest patient" to be operated upon. "I have seen and heard sniggers and nasty things. Now I hope it will be a thing of the past," 35-year-old Smith said as he radiated an ear to ear smile. Smith flew down to India to undergo 'Sleeve Gastrectomy' procedure at a hospital here last week becoming the "heaviest patient operated in Asia". Turned away by many UK hospitals which expressed their inability to perform the surgery as Smith had a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 80, putting him in high risk category, he decided to contact Laparo Obese Centre in INDIA and planned the operation. "Smith was a classic case of super obese patients who end up showing co-morbid conditions in early age due to morbid obesity. He used to suffer from heaviness in abdomen, severe backache, hype

 In the 1980's, Lovely was considered a very promising young star. But when she turned 17, lovely married a businessman  and declared herself semi-retired from showbusiness. Over 20 years later and at the age of 40, Lovely says she is in a good place. Seperated amicably from her husband and with two adult children, she works fultime in her ex's business and still dabbles in showbusiness although not on a fulltime basis. Best of all, the lovely Lovely is slim and svelte after reaching a nightmarish weight of 145 pounds last year. "I've gone through liposuction twice in the past but I wasn't happy with the results. I normally weigh 110 pounds but I reached 145. Even my daughter was urging me to lose weight." she explains. "Salamat po, doctor" is a showbiz slang that usually refers to those who have undergone cosmetic enhancements to become more attractive. Lovely is one happy member of the"salamat po, doctor" brigade after undergoing full

A total knee replacement is a surgical procedure whereby the diseased knee joint is replaced with artificial material. The knee is a hinge joint which provides motion at the point where the thigh meets the lower leg. The thigh bone (or femur) abuts the large bone of the lower leg (tibia) at the knee joint. During a total knee replacement, the end of the femur bone is removed and replaced with a metal shell. The end of the lower leg bone (tibia) is also removed and replaced with a channeled plastic piece with a metal stem. Depending on the condition of the kneecap portion of the knee joint, a plastic "button" may also be added under the kneecap surface. The posterior cruciate ligament is a tissue that normally stabilizes each side of the knee joint so that the lower leg cannot slide backward in relation to the thigh bone. In total knee replacement surgery, this ligament is either retained, sacrificed, or substituted by a polyethylene post. Each of these various designs of t

Foreign patients coming to India are smiling, thanks to medical tourism in India.  Dentistry in India  is now recognized as one of the best in the world. India is becoming a favorite destination for foreign patients who are wishing to have better dental treatment at low cost.  Dentistry in India  is now seeing as a health holiday, getting dental treatment in India and at the same time visiting various tourist destinations in India. Many Indian hospitals have state of the art having latest surgical and dental instruments and using latest technologies in field of dentistry. Indian dentists have proved themselves in providing excellent dental services in the field of dentistry. With world class facilities, zero waiting time and most importantly one tenth of medical costs dental tourism in India is serving as very useful to those seeking quality services at an affordable cost.  Dentistry in India  is mostly preferred by the foreigners because of its affordable cost dental treatment option

Every human in this earth has a dream to excel and earn a better and comfortable livelihood. To achieve this people works so hard and often lead hectic schedules in life. They hardly get proper time to eat and sleep and merely forget how important their health is if they are to stay fit and keep working and earning. Someone has rightly said that "health is wealth" - if you are in good health, you can earn in a variety of ways but ill health deteriorates your plan and your dreams can not be fulfilled. Now the treatment cost skyrocketing, it is better if you stay healthy otherwise be informed beforehand where to seek medical assistance to get healed from your ailments. The concept of traveling to distant places for health check-up is a talked-about issue today as this process has significantly aided people in earning good health in considerably reduced cost. This concept has given the term "Medical Tourism" and many Asian counties like Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia,

November 17, 2010 — The American Society of Nephrology (ASN)'s upcoming Renal Week 2010 is set to feature in-depth scientific exchange and groundbreaking research in basic, translational, and clinical sciences concerning kidney disease. Key issues expected to generate vigorous discussion at the event include research on how physicians can improve patient outcomes on dialysis, genetic factors that might increase the incidence of end-stage renal disease in African Americans, and the way novel biomarkers contribute to the detection and care of acute kidney injury. The Late-Breaking Clinical Trial session, one of the meeting's major events, will focus on the latest research developments pertaining to nephrology, said ASN program committee chair David Ellison, MD, FASN, in an interview with Medscape Medical News . "Six groundbreaking trials of various treatment approaches to kidney disease will be presented in the Late-Breaking Clinical Trial session," said Dr. Ellison,

1. Develop a strict-but-realistic security policy Your practice should take basic security measures, if it hasn't already done so. Antivirus, antispam, intrusion detection, and firewall software should be installed, Patel says. Because a hacker online or a thief in your office is more apt to seek patients' financial information rather than health data, do not use Social Security numbers as unique patient identifiers, she cautions. Once you have an EHR, you'll need to anticipate common but potentially insecure scenarios and devise a policy for how to respond to them. Todd Chambers, Chief Marketing Officer at Courion Corp., a Westborough, Massachusetts-based identity and access management provider, cites a few issues to address: Which staffers can access the EHR? Will passwords be used? How strong will they be? How often will they be changed? How will confidential data be shared with others? Should encryption be used? Is it permissible for mobile devices such as lapto

Bangalore: What do you enjoy doing? What makes you feel energetic? What do you do well? These are no ordinary questions. Answers to the above questions can lead you to the most precious asset you have for building a successful career: Your strengths. Why bother about strengths? When you use our strengths, you will enjoy your work and give your best performance. Opposite is also true. Failing to use your own strengths is a recipe for boredom and mediocre performance at work.   You may wonder if you have any strength in the first place. Indeed, when people see a great musician, painter, orator or sportsman perform, they recognize readily his/her strength. But they fail to ask themselves what their own strengths are and quietly assume they have none. There are three main reasons why people fail to leverage on their own strengths. First, what you are good at comes easily to you. Therefore, you may take it for granted. For example, if your strength lies in, say, leading people, you m

Houston: The popular social networking site Facebook has ranked as the third largest web company, with a valuation of $41 billion, an amount greater than eBay with $39.4 billion. Facebook's latest valuation is based on the selling price of shares on SecondMarket, an exchange for privately held companies, according to Bloomberg. The valuation makes it the third-largest online business after Google ($192.9 billion) and Amazon ($74.4 billion) in the U.S. The forecasted revenue and worth of Facebook in the public market is theoretical as the company is yet to go public. This year, the company is expecting sales of at least $1.4 billion. Facebook's value has been growing for almost three years now, but it seems to be accelerating recently.   While the company is growing at a faster pace, its revenue is not yet that much impressive. That's the reason the company is not filing for an IPO. Since September 2009, when it had 300 million members, Facebook's users have increas

California: M.G. Venkatesh Mannar, who fabricated the brand new idea to fortify salt with iron, won a $50,000 cash prize at the 10th annual Tech Awards in California, reports India West. The Canada-based Micronutrient Initiative by Mannar gained the Nokia Health Award at the 10th annual Tech Awards gala. Mannar has developed a way to fortify salt with both iodine and iron in a way that makes better nutrition affordable to millions. His so-called Double-Fortified Salt, which endorses brain development and enhances health and productivity, protects 3.6 million people from anemia and iodine insufficiency daily in Tamil Nadu at a cost of two rupees per kilo. Mannar estimates that 75 percent of India's women are iron-deficient. Adding to this, newborns need iron to boost brain development. This made Mannar and his fellow researchers to think about compensating this deficiency with salt, which will be taken in everyday whatsoever. "Those two deficiencies are widespread in India, b

Bangalore: Bored with your monotonous life? Want some excitement that can revitalize your spirit? Then pack your bag and go out to explore some of the exotic locations in India. A country, with both deserts and rainforests, mountains and blue sea shores, has many such fabulous places that appeal to every visitor's soul. Check out the five Indian travel destinations mentioned below, which are the must see locations for each and every travel enthusiast. Spiti Valley Along the northern route from Manali, Himachal Pradesh or Keylong via the Rohtang Pass or Kunzum Pass respectively, the Spiti valley lies in the North East of the Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, and forms part of the Lahul and Spiti district. One of the least populated regions in India, Spiti possesses a distinctive Buddhist culture. Spiti valley is a research and cultural centre for Buddhists. Highlights include 'Ki Monastery' and 'Tabo Monastery', one of the oldest monasteries in the world, '

October 29, 20210 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — The future of healthcare delivery will veer away from "the patient and clinician in an exam room," and morph into a scenario revolving around multifaceted information technology (IT) that is highly interoperable, interconnected, and instantaneous, according to William Crounse, MD, senior director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington. Dr. Crounse was an invited lecturer at the Medical Group Management Association 2010 Annual Conference. His presentation was entitled How Software and the Net are Transforming Health and Healthcare Delivery. He envisions a future in which much of the daily grind of healthcare delivery occurs online and on mobile devices such as smart phones, using simple and interactive systems. In the next-generation delivery of healthcare, he said, "the importance of user-interfacing cannot be underestimated. It will be a 3-D IT environment." The evolution of "cloud co

November 11, 2010 (Washington, DC) — An innovative mobile technology program called KNOWME Networks that shows promise in combating childhood obesity is being tested by Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD, from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. "Pediatric obesity is a huge problem in this country and worldwide," said Dr. Spruijt-Metz. "We've been remarkably unsuccessful at combating it. . . . To change this behavior, we have to be revolutionary," she told a packed session on health monitoring and health outcomes at the 2010 mHealth Summit. The problem, according to one graph shown by Dr. Spruijt-Metz, is that kids essentially sit down at age 11 and don't get up again. Her revolution involves technology, specifically mobile technology, and includes a set of wearable wireless sensors that measure physical activity, stress, location in time and space, body fat, and a number of other factors. Dr. Spruijt-Metz developed this tool in conjunctio

November 11, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Women who exercise for at least 150 minutes a week might have a reduced risk for endometrial cancer, according to a study presented here at the Ninth Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Exercise cuts the risk even for women who overweight, said Hannah Arem, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut. She spoke during a press conference at the meeting. This is important in light of the fact that body mass index (BMI) "is one of the major risk factors for endometrial cancer," she explained. The exercise that counted in the study's tallies was "moderate- to vigorous-intensity sports/recreational physical activity." "Does vigorous walking at conferences count?" asked Judy Garber, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Instit

  Bangalore: India will account for the highest working age population in the next 10 years, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said in its report released today. In the document prepared for the G-20 Summit beginning in Seoul on November 11, the ILO said that between 2010 and 2020, the working age population between 15 and 64 years in these countries will increase by 212 million and "over 64 percent of the increase will occur in only one country - India." The report said China and Indonesia will see an increase of 23 and 20 million respectively, followed by Brazil and the United States with increases of 15 million and 11 million respectively. These trends, it said, have a number of implications as G-20 countries will collectively need to generate some 21 million jobs per year till 2020 just to absorb new entrants into the labour market. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave for Seoul on Wednesday to attend the two-day summit. The ILO urged the G 20 countr

Hyderabad: Global Internet search giant Google announced plans to hire 300 people to double its engineering headcount in India and strengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research and development centre in the world. The firm plans to recruit 300 engineers in couple of years to increase its presence in India with focus on cloud computing.  Cloud computing is web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices such as smart phones on demand over the Internet. Google already has cloud computing centres in Mountain View in California and New York but the Hyderabad centre is the largest in terms of the number of engineers working here. Google already has 2,000 employees in India and the Hyderabad engineering centre will be core to its efforts to focus on cloud computing, he said. While the engineering centre in Bangalore is working on cloud computing as well as search, ads, maps and news, the Hyderabad centre