70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death
...after their death?" Bhadrak Collector N.K. Burma admitted that a copy of their letter had reached his office. "I had not come across their plea earlier. Now I will definitely go according to the provisions of government rules and regulations. Procedures to include the family in the poverty alleviation sch...NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India
...ul treatment. The Supreme Court on March 31 had admitted a Rs.1.43 billion compensation claim by Saha after Delhi-based National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) dismissed the case in June 2006. Saha Wednesday filed a fresh appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court against t...Maverick Gay Ex-governor Turns a New Leaf - Accepted at the Episcopalian Seminary
...pokesman Bruce Parker said, "Mr. McGreevy has been admitted to the master of divinity program and he will be starting in the fall, where Mr. McGreevy goes with this is up to him. We have a lot of people studying here who are not interested in ordination at all." It is not binding on priests serving at The ...Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study
...n five non-Aboriginal babies and toddlers had been admitted at least once because of infection. The most co...iginal children were three times more likely to be admitted to hospital but these rates were declining, Dr Lehmann said. Researchers believed the increased u...Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey
...roblem only during adolescence and over 60 percent admitted that they were unhappy to learn of it. A huge 58 percent said they were rejected by their families and friends as soon as their gender status was known and added they were still existing in the fringes of society despite positive intervention from ...Significant Rise in Proportion of Chronically Ill Children Dying in Intensive Care
...young children dying in intensive care after being admitted to other hospital wards has steadily risen year on... intensive care, the numbers of those who had been admitted from wards within the hospital almost doubled over the same period from just under 15% to 25%. Ch...Women Deliver Babies With Eye Defects in Jharkhand Villages
...nchi with their newborns Saturday. The babies were admitted to an eye hospital with severe eye defects at the initiative of the state health department. While two babies have no eyeballs, the other two have only one eyeball each. "The disease is known as micro ophthalmic and is caused by environmental poll...Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players
... a clubhouse assistant for the Mets from 1985-95, admitted to selling banned drugs, including anabolic steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormone, from 1995 through 2005, according to a plea agreement filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. He also pleaded gui...US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam
...n a major contributor to the controversy.' Conte admitted one count of conspiracy to distribute steroids and a money-laundering count in his plea deal. In his testimony before the California medical board, Dr. Goldman claimed that it was Conte who misled him with false information about a woman athlete's ...NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital
...rday at the Mission of Mercy Hospital. He had been admitted three days earlier on April 18 with diabetes, abdo...ta, his neighbours had raised Rs.2,000 and got him admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital. His death sparked a big controversy on whether any hos...Man Sentenced to Prison for Concealing HIV Status While Donating Blood
...son and imposed a one-year probation on him. Ivy admitted he had been diagnosed in August 2002 with HIV. A doctor at St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago confirmed the diagnosis in November 2002 and told Ivy he could never donate blood, plasma or tissue in the future. Nevertheless, Ivy indicated to Bio-...HPV Vaccine – Should It Be Mandatory for Girls
...ulsory for all children to take this vaccine to be admitted into any primary school. The present raging debate is over the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer. Should the vaccination for HPV be made compulsory for girls? According to statistics, about 14,000 women are victims of cervical can...Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients
...study included 150 patients with a mean age of 49, admitted to the hospital with ICH after acute TBI. All pertinent patient information including history of blood-thinner usage was recorded. Initial alcohol levels were measured in all patients suspected of intoxication. Other labs were drawn including those u...Bird Flu Claims Its 14th Human Victim in Egypt
...ernate was sick with symptoms of bird flu. She was admitted to a hospital but did not survive the infection. In Egypt, nearly 34 humans have been infected with bird flu of the virulent H5N1 strain. Scientists have constantly voiced their concerns about the lethal H5N1 strain. They fear it could mutate an...Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children
...two most common hospital superbugs for every child admitted to its pediatric intensive care unit. The more ...creening is already standard at Hopkins for adults admitted to intensive care units. Health experts fear spread of these particular bacteria because they hav...Rotavirus can Spread Beyond the Intestine
...and compared them with samples taken from children admitted with bronchiolitis or noninfectious, nonchronic conditions and healthy adults. Rotavirus antigen was detected in the blood of 51 of 57 of children with rotavirus-positive stools, in 8 of 9 of children without diarrhea but with rotavirus-positive s...Drinking Age Must Be Raised to Curb Binge Drinking-Voices Warn
...lth figures that show that the number of under-18s admitted to accident and emergency with alcohol-related injuries have increased by 40 per cent in the past three years, have moved politicians and health campaigners to much concern. Another article that calls the drinking age to be raised to 21 is one by ...Improper Abortions- Kenyan Teenagers At Risk
...rtion, which accounts for 43 per cent of all cases admitted with acute gynecological conditions, also accounts for the longest hospital stays.Accordingly, an average 91 bed-hours are required to treat a patient suffering from the complications of unsafe abortion, compared with 39 hours for patients reporting ...When 'prevalence' Makes for Disparity in AIDS Care
...Hospital, we learnt that two or three patients are admitted in a terminal stage every month. They belong to the poor community, and many more may be dying undiagnosed at home or other places." Sharma estimated that within this semi-rural town at least 100 new HIV positive people are being diagnosed every mo...‘Land Of Dreams’ Staggers Under The Weight Of Neuroses And Substance Abue
...lem. In the other 5.7 million stays, patients were admitted for another condition but they also were diagnosed as having a mental health or substance abuse disorder. Regarding the economics of these findings, the government paid two-thirds of costs: Medicare covered nearly 50 percent of the stays, and 18...