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Are Indians aware of SARS ?

...urdaspur, a man admitted as a suspected SARS case, slipped away from a local civil hospital. In Kolkata, about 30 per cent of doctors and para medics at the government Hospital did not report to work. In Pune, four patients who had been confirmed by laboratory tests to be suffering from SARS were discharged ...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

...ow eight probable new cases and 26 suspected cases slipped through upgraded monitoring and reaction systems designed to catch SARS. The new cases included two deaths, and another death of a patient sick for months raised the overall toll in the Toronto area to 27 from more than 150 cases in the biggest SARS...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...rantine and a good chance that some cases may have slipped through the net, it is too soon to claim SARS has been beaten, health experts say. "It will be by no means a declaration that the world is SARS-free," said one. Nevertheless, health officials say the event will be an important milestone in the figh...

Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness

...ct. They're so similar, he said, that he sometimes slipped images of rhesus monkey eyes into presentations for medical residents to see if anyone noticed the difference. (IANS)...

SARS outbreaks contained

...uarters in Geneva. "It is possible that cases have slipped through the net." Although the virus has now been contained, the WHO said much remains unknown about it, including its origin and the most effective treatment methods. Its statement went on to call for continued research into the respiratory illnes...

Lady Doctor from Nepal to Help Katrina victims

...mally treats mountaineers caught in avalanches and slipped in crevasses. She heads the Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic in Nepal, has now offered to cope with a new emergency// - the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US. Freer left for Louisiana on Thursday, one of the worst-affected American coastal to...

Remote Robotic Surgery Using Miniature Robots

...out a cm wide and have wheels on them. They can be slipped through a small incision into a cavity and surgeons in different locations can operate a remotely controlled computer. The robots perform different functions – some have lights and camera on them while others have surgical instruments. Hence a set ...

More Severe Earthquakes May Hit Kashmir In Future

...d below the surface by the fact that the Himalayas slipped about three to four meters within about 15 seconds,” he said. He said that data showed that the mountains behind Muzaffarabad, around the epicenter, actually rose by about a meter, releasing an energy equivalent of a 30-megaton nuclear explosion. ...

Doubts Over China's HIV/AIDS Estimates

...s released on Wednesday reveal that the number has slipped to 650,000 with the number of full-blown cases at 75,000. The report also says that in the last year there were 70,000 new cases of AIDS with 25,000 deaths. But the Times says that many experts believe that the number of cases in China is at least 1....

Safe Drinking Water To Be Made Available

...to habitations which are either uncovered, or have slipped back from full coverage, addressing problems of wa...al of the problem of 280,000 habitations that have slipped out of full coverage for a variety of reasons. In addition, there are over 200,000 habitations th...

Surgeon Buys a Retractor from eBay

..., Norfolk. A retractor, which was much needed, had slipped his mind when he placed the huge order. Since a retractor is critical equipment in an operation theater, the surgeon, with a motive to save time, placed the order without seeking official permission. The equipment was subsequently seized by the hos...

Administration of Fish Drug for Asthma Patients Begins in Andhra

...centimetre-long 'murrel' fingerling and it is then slipped through the throat of the patient. Dozens of family members of Goud have mastered the art of administering the drug. If taken for three successive years, the medicine is believed to cure asthma. Despite demands from physicians to reveal the ingre...

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

... tackle the issue, and the confused consumers soon slipped into a somber reverie. Indifference prevailed as old habits die-hard. To an uncaring public, cocooned in complacency, the recent revelation comes as a bolt from the blue. In the name of industrialization and economic growth, several factories have ...

NHS duped by Foreigners? IVF treatments Drain NHS Finances

...on, said: "One wonders how these people could have slipped through the system to obtain IVF on the NHS. It is not fair on couples here. In this country, couples have to wait two years simply to get on the list for treatment. People have to remortgage their homes and marriages break-up under the strain of try...

Research for Back Pain Relief Strikes Gold

...caffolds’ could be implemented in the treatment of slipped discs and other chronic debilitating disorders triggering off anguishing back pain in her final year assignment. Her work based on tissue engineering was commended greatly by the panel of judges. The work of another Ph.D student on Back Pain was th...

Mittal tightens grip on steel making giant, to be its chief

... in steel prices meant that third-quarter turnover slipped to 17.3 billion euros from 17.8 billion euros in the same period last year. Source-IANS...

Naked truths and Basic Instincts

...ut a corrupted jumbled image When scientists then slipped an erotic picture of a nude into this cancelled image slot according to the sexual orientation of the person it was found after ver 32 trials that they re able to detect the orientation of the 'Gabor patches' when it was shown again in the slot occu...

Come Apart and Rest Awhile – It’s Christma!

...hree bags of gold from the top of the chimney that slipped into the stocking of each of the daughters. The money brought back the laughter in their lives and happiness in their heart. Ever since, Santa Claus has become an inseparable part of Christmas. The custom of using a star to light up homes has an in...

Meningitis Case Dismissed as Viral Infection Proves Fatal for Child

...ally died. An infant of two years Wesley Hayward, slipped into a coma and died, just hours after being dismi...ven on Diane’s insistence. By evening the boy had slipped into a coma. He died the following day. Dr Gulati is charged with providing inadequate care, which ...

Women - Do You Consider the Condom, a ‘must-have’ in Your Hand Bag, on a Night Ou?

...ly 71% of the respondents felt awkward if a condom slipped out of their bag. Further, only 32% of the women preferred to verify the partner’s sexual past. Some even felt, it was the man’s problem to carry a condom. Out of the 1064 women who were interviewed, about 47% of them felt, they might be labeled ‘ pr...

Hipbone Replaced in an Aged Woman in India

... for a 97-year-old woman.// Shakunthala Devi had slipped and broken her hipbone in a village in Kangra valley, 220 km from here, last month. Though her age was not conducive to a hip replacement, the doctors agreed to undertake the risk at the patient's plea. "A day after the operation, the patient was m...

Rhythms of Life

...morrow at a frenetic pace, man has antagonized and slipped out of synchrony with nature and has gone on to initiate the 'beginning of the end'. The destiny of mankind has changed forever as we are dealing with illnesses at unprecedented rates. The incidence of cancer, stress and mental illnesses, like depres...

Date Rape Drug Seized at Chennai Airport

...red a date rape drug. Date rape drugs are easily slipped into drinks and food and are very fast acting. They render the victim unconscious, but responsive. They make the victim act without inhibition, often in a sexual or physically affectionate way. They will have little or no memory of what happens while...

Nandigram Killings Lead to Depression Among Many

.... Gargi (name changed) stopped taking food and slipped into depression after viewing the heart-rending scenes of the violence at Nandigram on television. When she was taken for counselling, the psychiatrist said: "She is severely traumatised and suffering from fear psychosis after watching the image...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...live three centimetre-long murrel fish and is then slipped through the throat of the patient. Dozens of family members of Goud have mastered the art of administering the drug. If taken for three successive years, the medicine is believed to cure asthma. However, the medicine has lost its popularity in rece...

30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

...bursts between huge gasps for breath. 'My skull slipped off my neck about five times. Every time they tried to screw this to my head, I would slip,' said Malloy. 'I had a fractured skull, swollen brain stem, bleeding in my brain, GI tube in my stomach, can't swallow, and nerve damage in my eyes (becaus...

Asian Workers Race Against Clock to Avoid Prison

...ho don't want to leave, or 'infiltrators' who have slipped in from neighbouring countries. They have one desire in common -- not to leave the country, and prefer to work illegally, offering their services to whoever will pay the best in an oil-rich country where they are viewed as cheap labour. Most too ...

IIT-Kharagpur the Leading Technology College in India: Survey

...p 10 list for the first time. While IIT-Madras has slipped from the top slot to second position, IIT-Bombay climbed two spots to occupy the third slot. The premier IIT-Delhi had slid to fourth from No.2 last year, while IIT-Roorkee has jumped two places to fifth spot. IIT-Guwahati is ranked sixth, while II...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...h. It's not clear exactly how many patients have slipped through the chink. Health board spokeswoman Mary Anne Gill said it was difficult to estimate the cost of various operations, with the cost of each case depending on the specific disease. According to her the estimation runs into more than $546,000 ...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...ified as a date-rape drug because it can be easily slipped into a person's drink to render them unconscious. Federal authorities said the illegal marketing occurred from January 2003 through March of this year. Jazz bought Orphan in June of 2005. Jazz agreed to cooperate with the governments continuing c...

Australian Injured as Spain Begins Annual Bullrunning Festival

... not very fast either. Several bulls and runners slipped and fell on the cobblestoned street. The festival officially began Friday night with the lighting of the traditional chupinazo cracker by Pamplona's mayor. Organisers expect more than one million people, many of them from Britain. The bullrun h...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...pill delivered by American mobsters that was to be slipped into a chocolate milkshake, a former Cuban intelligence chief said. But the capsule stuck to the freezer where it was hidden in the cafeteria of the Havana Libre (ex Hilton) Hotel and ripped open when the would-be assassin waiter went to get the po...