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Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

... around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It was also found that such methods adopted to eradicate the mosquitoes had no toxic reactions in any animals, and deltame...

Plague creates panic in India

...had feared an outbreak of the plague from a remote village of Himachal Pradesh state after several people suf...latives. Twelve more infected people from the same village were being treated at nearby hospitals. Thakur said about 8000 people in the affected area had bee...

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...g in Tanzania. Some of the tribe members live in a village close to a lake, while others live inland. The lake-dwelling tribe members eat a diet that includes 300 to 600 grams of fish a day and accounts for about a fourth of their total daily calories. The inland-dwelling tribe members eat a vegetarian diet....

Woman prisoner in Bihar found HIV positive

...rst such case in a Bihar prison. The woman from a village in Patna district, lodged in the prison three months ago on a murder charge, has "almost" full blown AIDS, said M.P. Singh, who is treating her at the hospital. He said jail authorities had been informed but no official had visited her. When contact...

Hyderabad To Have Asia’s First Catheter Making Uni

...e Rs.80 million facility, coming up at Manglapalli village in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, will have the capacity to produce half a million catheter-based products annually. To be developed as per US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) norms, it will produce 150,000 to 200,000 diagnostic catheters and...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

...le," says his uncle Om Prakash, a labourer in this village on the Gorakhpur-Kushinagar highway. Abhishek's father and Om Prakash work in turns to ensure that there is always somebody to look after the child as his mother has two other children to attend to. "We take him periodically to the medical college,...

Non-Communicable Diseases Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate in India

...g the inauguration of a three-day health camp in a village near Vriddachalam. Chidambaram MP, E Ponnusamy, MLAs Dr R Govindasamy, Durai K Saravanan also attended the function. As many as 60 government doctors, 30 specialists from the Apollo Hospital, 10 doctors from Rajah Sir Muthiah Medical College Hospit...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

... officials, veterinary doctors, environmentalists, village council officials and scientists to monitor the health of the local and migratory birds and the officials will also collect blood samples of birds if they suspect the presence of flu in Bhitarkanika, he said. Migratory birds like bar-headed geese, ...

Bird Flu Alert In Jammu And Kashmir

...odies or anywhere in inundated paddy fields, local village ponds or in water logged areas. People have also been requested to avoid illegal trade of any nature of such birds....

First Human Bird-Flu Death Confirmed In China

...after an outbreak of bird flu among poultry in her village in Zongyang county and died Nov 10, // the health ministry said, according to a report Thursday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It is likely, however, that the woman's death was the second from bird flu in the world's most populous country. A ...

‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

...rural women and act as a link among beneficiary at village level and Anganwadi Worker. "These activists will help and guide women to assess the health facilities for antenatal care, institutional delivery, post-natal care and counseling on nutrition and family planning services," he said. The new rural hea...

Effective family control measures and stem cell research focus of Indian Government

...rural women and act as a link among beneficiary at village level and Anganwadi Worker. The participants of the program would assess various factors such as anti-natal care, institutional delivery, post-natal care and counselling on nutrition and family planning services. The health Minister had met Chine...

A Warning For Western Diet Followers!

...e living in Sandwell with those remaining in their village of origin in Gujarat. Those living in the UK had higher body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol and inflammation levels. Professor Kennedy Cruickshank attributed the increased risk of heart disease to diets with high fat and lower unrefined car...

Indian Doctor in World's 65 'caring' doctors

...ular with their patients Dr.Malik works in a village on the outskirt of Delhi and has been treating the most underprivileged sections of society. He has also fought for the right of doctors as the chairman of the All India Resident Doctors Association. The book - "Caring Physicians of the World" - pr...

Bird flu In Indonesia: Government To Launch ‘Village Preparedness’ Schee

... scheme, which would involve millions of people at village level, is being launched in order to speed up the reporting of any outbreak. under this scheme, at least five personnel will be appointed to monitor bird flu cases among both birds and humans in every village. Doctors will also be trained to handle b...

Couple infected with HIV marry in Kerala

...ve any children. Their whole family and the entire village is with them and more than 1,500 people attended the wedding," says Sunil Das, chairman of the Muthalamada Sneham Charitable Trust. Though none of their family members are infected with the virus, both their families have been their constant source o...

DAPIC Project to Prevent Amputations

...ications in diabetics is being offered at a remote village in India’s State of Tamil Nadu, courtesy a hospita...e Community (DAPIC)" programme at Maragal Kandigai village out of mere curiosity, the special shoes came as a boon. DAPIC seeks to prevent diabetic foot amputa...

Romania suspects 5 new bird flu cases

...said tests on samples taken from dead poultry in a village of Padina showed presence of bird flu. Four outb...icinity. Padina lies 10 km (six miles) west of the village of Ciocile, where the disease was also detected earlier this month. On Friday, tests on an infect...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...omen facing serious financial difficulties. "Poor village women lose valuable income when they become mothers. There are problems of getting nutritious food and transport to go to the nearest hospitals. Then there are serious ailments that afflict them." Added one of his colleagues: "If the rural women dec...

China Reports Yet Another Bird Flu Case

...the outbreak of the disease in poultry in the same village where the patient lives, after 1,640 ducks raised by a villager died. Veterinarian officials have culled 15,000 birds within three kilometers of the affected area. In November, a woman was confirmed as China's fifth case of bird flu, but she has re...

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