| Flying hospital brings hope to India's blind millions
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The world's only flying eye hospital is on a two-week mission to India to perform free surgeries and train hundreds of eye care personnel in a country that has the world's largest blind population. An estimated 75 percent of India's 12 million blind people suffer from avoidable blindness because of the country's limited eye care infrastructure that has only one eye surgeon per 100,000 people. Indian authorities say a national program to control blindness is expected to reach its blindness elimination target of 0.3 percent by 2015, five years before the World Health Organization deadline of 2020. .
Poll claims 50000 get surgery abroad
About 50,000 UK patients went overseas last year for cosmetic, dental or other treatment, according to a study by Treatment Abroad, a website promoting "medical tourism". It says 22,000 patients travelled for dental procedures, 14,500 for cosmetic surgery, 9,000 for the kind of treatments typical of National Health Service waiting lists, and 5,000 for infertility treatment - the NHS provision of which varies markedly around Britain. .
Three Little Words Spell Independence For People With Dementia, UK
From today (April 12) people with dementia across the country can secure this same independence, with the launch of the Alzheimer's Society dementia helpcard.
Designed by people with dementia for people with dementia, the helpcard provides an effective and discrete tool for people to explain their diagnosis when they are out on their own. Carried inside a purse or wallet it includes contact details for a carer, friend or relative.
The helpcard from the charity's Living With Dementia project was put together following requests for something to support people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. During trials, volunteers like Mr Wilson, recorded how they used the helpcard to explain their diagnosis in shops, taxis and during trips to the dentist.
Health Briefs
SOUTH BEND -- The Third Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture will be given at Indiana University South Bend at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in The Grille, the cafeteria in the administration building. There will be a reception at 6 p.m. for Gail Bederman, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. She will give a talk titled "The Origins of the Reproductive Rights Movement, 1798-1965: An Ongoing Project." Bederman, who has taught the history of women, gender and sexuality in the United States for 15 years at Notre Dame, is the author of "Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917." This event is free and open to the public. Myeloma talk includes a free light dinner SOUTH BEND -- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will host "Exploring Myeloma," an educational program on myeloma and its treatment, April 9 at Memorial Hospital, 615 N.
Check-ups determine patients’ state of health in just one hour
Prevention is better than cure - and the Med & Check franchise is capitalising on the old saying to bring in business. The medical check-ups carried out at the practice determine the state of customers health in just over one hour. Two doctors and two nurses form the medical team who carry out a number of tests on patients to check for anomalies in the organism. The advantage of the service is that patients do not have to wait to be seen, as appointments are given in advance, and after consultation, patients leave the building - situated on Alameda Principal number 44, in Malaga - with the written results of the tests in their hands. Results are also given on disk. One of the medical staff, Santiago García Orza, explained to SUR that the check-ups are part of a pilot scheme which may be extended to Fuengirola and Antequera.
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