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Violence Erupts In A Pro-quota Rally In Bihar

...the policemen. More than 100 agitating students, armed with hockey sticks, had first started marching from Gandhi Maidan in the morning and stopped in front of Mayura Hotel raising slogans against the media. The students alleged that a leading English news channel that has its office in the Mayura hotel ...

No Signs Of Any New 2003 War Syndrome In British Troops

...g’s Collage London, analysed health reports of the armed forces personal who took part in the Gulf war in 2...ence for a new "Iraq War Syndrome" in British male armed forces personnel deployed to the 2003 conflict, as compared with those who took part in the 1991 con...

INS ASHVINI Bags Trophy For Best Armed Forces Hospital

...ity of 825 beds attends to all serving and retired armed forces personnel and their families, including coast guard personnel and defence civilian. It is the only hospital in Armed Forces that boasts of heritage structures and has facilities for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, generally not available in civil ...

City Surgeon Appointed Adviser To Armed Forces

...ltation and perform major operations to members of armed forces across the country, an hospital release said today. When contacted, Air Force Administrative College sources, here confirmed the appointment and said that a specially made plaque and order had been handed over to Sabapathy by the Air Marshal,...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

...IN, 462 children were killed during the decade-old armed conflict and 524 injured. Besides, thousands of children have lost one or both parents and tens of thousands have been displaced. Hundreds have also been recruited by the rebels, who, however, deny that they have child soldiers. "As there is a truc...

Sex Workers Adopt IT Solutions to Fight AIDS

...n Mysore and Mandya districts of Karnataka are now armed with smart cards that not only prompt them to get regular health check ups to keep track of their STI (sexually transmitted infections) status but also get discounts on their daily purchases - from grocery to perfumes. This pilot project began in J...

Chinese PLA Names Bogus Army Medical Bodies Selling Fake Drugs

China's armed forces health department today published a list of 16 bogus military medical institutions advertising fake medicines as the government intensified efforts to crack down on drugs fraud.// "These bogus military institutions advertised fake drugs in n...

Yoga and Meditation Comes in Aid of Iraqis to Rid of Trauma

...ined why: "Right from children to adults, even the armed forces, everyone goes through trauma during war situations. They have to cope with total uncertainty and total lack of assurance what they will do the next day." Al Mosawi, head of the ruling Shia Council in Baghdad, who also came here, added: "I h...

Yoga to De-stress Indian Army Soldiers

... Further, the 10 percent cut in recruitment in the armed forces should not be made applicable to the civilian manpower of AFMS, particularly in essential categories and trades like dieticians and physiotherapists, the report said. AFMS should also extend super-speciality facilities like cardiology and ne...

More People Seeking Treatment for Mental Illness in Strife-torn Kashmir

...ar. The violence shows no signs of ending. Heavily armed security forces are a common sight on the streets of the Kashmir Valley, and arrests and bomb explosions are routine. All this has created a climate of fear and anxiety. If a family member does not return home on time, people often fear the worst a...

Cancer Patients Find Relief from Excruciating Pain with Novel Technique

...echnique for pain relief has been developed at the armed forces medical college in Pune, India, which holds a lot of promise// in alleviating extreme pain, during advanced stages of cancer. The Para Vertebral Neurolytic block, which is a concoction of anaesthetic and absolute alcohol, is capable of relie...

Abducted Health Workers Freed By Taliban

... was on the way to a clinic in Ziari district when armed Taliban militants intercepted it. "They freed us after realizing all of us are health workers." Meanwhile, Qari Muhammad Yousuf, a purported Taliban spokesman, told the press that the Taliban took away the vehicle and freed the hostages after learni...

Is the permissible level of lead in blood actually safe?

...aide University Associate Professor Peter Baghurst armed with a federal grant will be overseeing tests on hundred and fifty children, measuring brain development of the subjects to verify the prevailing, recommended upper limit of 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. Children between the ages of ...

Hospital Selected to ‘25 Most Influential’ List in Radiology in 206

...treat it. Also, researchers at Penn will soon be armed with a new, cutting-edge technological tool in the field of radiology - a 7 Tesla whole-body MRI system. Penn’s Department of Radiology will become the first in the Greater Philadelphia region to acquire one of these ultra high-field scanners. Only a...

Instantaneous Diagnostic Test for Lead Poisoning

...e clinics, mobile health units and schools will be armed with this valuable tool to screen children for abnormal lead levels. It is estimated that nearly 300,000 children aged 5 and below have unhealthy lead levels in their blood, a key indicator of lead poisoning. Health experts comment that children m...

Go Green with Popeye: Learn why his eyes pop out for spinach!

...es? Scientists from the University of Manchester, armed with a novel eye device are trying to understand the nutritional contents of spinach that endows eyes with such strength. According to scientists, sweet corn, broccoli and spinach contain healthy levels of a vital chemical called lutein. This chemica...

Salmonella Bacteria Are Deceptive

...called peptidoglycan. Drug and vaccine designers armed with this mouse-model information can target chemicals or immune responses that disrupt peptidoglycan synthesis and other processes linked to Salmonella's colonization of macrophages in humans, said Joshua Adkins, a co-author on Shi's paper and lead ...

An Infectious Agent of Deception, Exposed Through Proteomics

...called peptidoglycan. Drug and vaccine designers armed with this mouse-model information can target chemicals or immune responses that disrupt peptidoglycan synthesis and other processes linked to Salmonella’s colonization of macrophages in humans, said Joshua Adkins, a co-author on Shi’s paper and lead ...

Increasing awareness of sexually transmitted infection chlamydia

...r 35% way back in 2000-20001. 91% of women too are armed with valuable information which can protect them from contracting this illness. Younger women definitely are on the higher end of positive infections probably owing to the fact that they are more sexually active than their older counterparts as figur...

The Latest Chatter behind Teeth that Stick Out Like a Sore Thumb!

... alignment in complete disarray. Researchers are armed to the teeth with evidence gained from their study of 1,200 children between the ages of 4 and 5 who were sworn allies of their bottles, or pacifiers, or their very own thumb, of whom nearly two-thirds suffered problems in their dental arrangement. T...

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