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Designer Bag Launch Causes Shopping Chaos in Hong Kong

... the shops refused to open their doors, apparently fearing chaos if they let the crowds in. Hundreds of people had braved Hong Kong's searing summer heat to queue overnight in the hope of snaring the fashion must-have when it went on sale here on Friday morning. Some arrived as early as 3:00 pm on Thursd...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

... forced to toe the line, as if in tacit agreement, fearing reprobation. Decisions about sexual activity, frequency of sex, contraception, and family planning are almost always a male prerogative. So much so, that many HIV infected women have only their partners to blame for the spread of infection. On the...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

...so needed, as few families know about vaccination, fearing the vaccine might cause harm, said Muhammed Amin on the KL-OIC Health Ministerial Conference 2007 held in Malaysia. In order for a country to be considered polio-free, there must be no new reported cases for two years. Afghanistan reported two case...

Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

... while veterinarians prepared to anaesthetise her, fearing the animal's reportedly mischievous character. "What was going on here was slavery," veterinary doctor Amir Khalil, who manages the Dancing Bears Park near Belitsa, told AFP. He said the bears were captured as cubs and forced to 'dance' on hot met...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

... products from China had been detained or recalled fearing contamination. It had been found that wheat gluten from china was contaminated this wheat gluten was added to almost all the pet food. Some pet food was found to have melamine and melamine like products in them. This melamine is used in fertilizers...

Study Finds That Lincoln Suffered from Smallpox During Gettysburg Speech

... but that may have been to prevent the public from fearing that Lincoln was dying, said Dr. Goldman. While almost a third of those contracting this serious form of smallpox in the mid-19th century died, fortunately, Lincoln was able to return to his full duties only 25 days after the start of his illness, ...

Red Wine Lessens the Risk of Prostate Cancer

...eluctant to recommend drinking alcohol for health, fearing that their patients might assume that if a little alcohol is good, a lot might be better. The Harvard Mens Health Watch notes that men who enjoy alcohol and can drink in moderation and responsibly may benefit from a lower risk of heart attack, stroke...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Doing Well in Hospital

...rd another long flight, he flew home for treatment fearing he wouldn't survive if he didn't reach the U.S. Health officials said they were looking for about 80 passengers and 27 crew members from two flights. Speaker flew from Atlanta to Paris on May 12, arriving on May 13, on Air France flight 385. He ret...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...ss Manipur with doctors postponing major surgeries fearing shortage of lifesaving medicines. "We do not have sufficient stocks of medicines and hence are putting on hold some of the major operations planned earlier," a doctor at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences here said. Such is the fear that ...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

...think twice before dipping our hand into the lake, fearing infection. The tourists who stay in house boats on the lake, dump all sewage into its waters," said Rehman Moti, a Dal Lake resident. Tests of water samples of the Lake recently showed that arsenic levels were almost 1,000 times above permissibl...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

... products from China had been detained or recalled fearing contamination. It had been found that wheat gluten from china was contaminated this wheat gluten was added to almost all the pet food. Some pet food was found to have melamine and melamine like products in them. This melamine is used in fertilizers...

Heavy Periods Have Other Remedies, Not Necessarily Hysterectomy

... and seek help rather than put up with the misery, fearing hysterectomy. Today, there are a host of treatments to the aid of such women. A small medicinally treated plastic instrument is implanted in the womb, equipped to convey progestogen, which slows the growth of the lining in the womb. Apart from this...

Mosquito-borne Dengue Disease on the Rise in Five Malaysian States

...es in the first week of the year, with authorities fearing that the mosquito-borne// disease could further spread due to the rainy season, reports said Wednesday. The north-eastern state of Kelantan registered the highest jump, from 18 cases in the last week of December to 32 cases in the first week of Ja...

Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005

...d not to vaccinate their children against measles, fearing side effects,inspite of concrete evidence that measles vaccine is indeed safe. A huge epidemic was prevented only because the majority of the people in the area where the outbreak took place had taken vaccination against measles, the agency noted. ...

Britishers 'Stiff Upper Lip' Causing More Deaths Due To Heart Attack

...BHF shows that more than two thirds of the Britons fearing heart attacks are willing to wait and watch rather than calling an ambulance. //The reluctance in calling emergency help have proved to be fatal in UK, where heart diseases are reported to be the biggest killer, often killing at least one in every fi...

West Bengal Performs 'Yagna' to Ward off Dengue, Malaria

...epic Ramayan, they did not bring any horse (ashwa) fearing protests from animal lovers. The yagna had to be deferred earlier as the Calcutta High Court asked the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to reply why it had permitted a religious rite that could pollute the environment. But on Thursday ...

Lack of Equipment and Skilled Doctors Costing Civilian Lives in Iraq

...ose who decided to stay have closed their clinics, fearing for their lives. In Diwaniyah College of Medicine, the authors are trying to establish a specialist unit in emergency medicine to train the medical students and doctors. But they desperately need international support. Iraqi doctors are doing the...

Information about future risks imperative to heart attack patients

...k, it is natural for a patient to tread carefully, fearing another attack. Fear, negative feelings, even depression may be overriding emotions// after a heart attack, which cannot be wished away unless health care providers rise to the occasion to allay the doubts and uncertainties that ebb and flow in a pat...

New Guidelines To Rehabilitate Drug Offenders

...o approve extensive drug abuse treatment programs, fearing financial costs. Drug abuse costs communities every day, in the form of prison expenses, court costs, property damage, violent crimes, emergency room and other medical care, child abuse and neglect, lost child support, foster care and welfare costs, ...

Flood-ravaged Surat Issues Epidemic Warning

...ge, people began fleeing the city in large numbers fearing epidemics. Memories of the 1994 plague continue to haunt the people of Surat - that took at least 50 lives - and not too many are ready to take any chances. The rains and flooding in Gujarat has also led to an outbreak of chikungunya across the sta...

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