Tag: "beaten" at medical news

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...itting South Africa to import cheap AIDS drugs was beaten off by the court. Health experts and AIDS activists say that this would lower the cost of medicines to ordinary South Africans suffering from the disease but the expensive anti retroviral drugs are still way above the reach of an average South Afric...

Diagnostic Procedure For Tuberculosis Made Easy

.... Currently being developed in Lima, Peru, it has beaten 1,200 other entries to win the top prize at the Medical Futures Innovation Awards 2005. The judges, chaired by Professor Sally Davies, director of research and development at the Department of Health, choose Dr Moore's test because of its simplicit...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...hana, a worker in a local garment factory has been beaten black and blue by her husband. Reason: she refused...4 to 12% of the women reported episodes of getting beaten up during pregnancy. More than a half of them were either kicked or punched in their abdomen, induci...

Fat chance: Live Statistics of an English Man

...ith a life expectancy of 80.9 years, but stand out beaten by their EU peers. Britain is also (in) famous being ranked 2 in the EU fat nation category, after Greece, with more than one fifth adults obese. Scotland is disappointing with lowest life expectancy for men (73.8 years) and women (79.1 years), wit...

Teenage Boy at Boot Camp, Booted To Death

...oset, Martin Anderson all of 14, had been brutally beaten to death. This incident and the deliberate attempt to mask the issue, has led to widespread demand in the U.S to close down all the boot camps. Security cameras helped the truth to emerge when the footage showed seven instructors hammering blows on...

Study on Violence Against Women in Syria

...n, which found that one in four married women gets beaten -- usually by her husband or father. A campaign has also been called to raise awareness of the problem. In Syria violence against women is usually from family members with over 70% being from husbands, fathers or brothers. The reasons for the viole...

Women Are One-upping Men in the Longevity Game!

... the world over, so much so that they seem to have beaten men to it! This change is particularly evident in developed nations and the gap seems to be narrowing in most Western European countries, with lifestyles and smoking patterns being almost equal between men and women. A recent report doing its round...

Merciless Lathi Charge of our Meritorious Medicos

...eam of our society. To see them being mercilessly beaten for their peaceful protests by our notorious policemen invokes in us an anguish and anger. History repeats itself from the time of Gandhiji’s Satyagrahis to todays - Medha Patekar’s Narmada Andolan volunteers. In India the administration has always f...

Administering Polio No Mean Task In U P

...pitalised. He said the health department team was beaten up by the villagers in Bilhaur area and had cow dung applied on their faces. The CMO attributed this to ignorance about polio or rumour mongering that the children taking polio drops would become impotent or fall sick. However, he said there was no...

Child Abuse on the Rise in Botswana

...argaret Nasha said that the children were brutally beaten some were subjected to rape, sodomy, attempted rape, defilement and incest. But such cases were not reported as the victim’s family opted for an out of court settlement mode. Nasha criticized parents who accepted payment from people who abuse their ...

Recognition for 75 Years with Type 1 Diabetes!!

... "Joslin Medal recipients are individuals who have beaten the odds against diabetes, and Robert Bates is cer... a certain amount of pride in the fact that I have beaten the odds. At the time I was diagnosed, life expectancy was not favorable," says Bates. "I am appreci...

Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds

... village was Monday battling for life after he was beaten by mobs, furious that a patient bitten by a snake ...treatment. // Dr. Satish Chandra Sharma, who was beaten virtually within an inch of his life at Sursand in Sitamarhi district, was in a coma, officials said...

Maldives Volleyball Team Members Affected by Chickenpox

...und II as Pool A topper along with Kuwait, who had beaten Maldives 3-0 Sunday. "We are not worrying about the health of our players, but may be the teams that have played with Maldives should," said Huang Kuo-Kuang, the Taiwan team leader. "We are now concentrating on our preparation for the other match...

Doctors And Staff Resign En Masse At Janakpur Zonal Hospital

...dical superintendent and Dr. Raj Kumar Mahoto were beaten up by the relatives of patient Dilip Chaudhary charging that the hospital came up with false pathology reports on his diabetes test showing high sugar levels. Relatives reported that the lab chief has put the patient's life at risk with the false rep...

Has Bird Flu Chickened Out? Experts Peck at the Subject Once Again!

... the experts to wonder //if the virus has actually beaten a retreat. Experts opine the reason behind this could be the climate. Bird flu is dynamic in the winter months, as the virus can survive much longer when the temperature is low. The H5N1 virus which had earlier restricted itself to Southeast As...

Girl With Cancer Forced to Undertake Treatment

... to continue with the painful radiotherapy. Having beaten the condition called Wilm’s Tumour in two distinct episodes spanning over six years, Leah has been confronted by the tumour after a three year respite. According to her parents Kathryn and Mark Richards, the attack has left the child with a poor qua...

Violence Against Women Fueling Spread of HIV Worldwide

...ant to have sex with her. When she refuses, she is beaten or raped." In addition, WSF participants discussed how some husbands beat their wives if they discover that they visited HIV/AIDS voluntary testing and counseling centers. "This fear discourages many women from knowing their HIV status and thus co...

Know the Protective Face of the Sun

A new study has suggested something off the beaten track. While we have been told periodically about the link between skin cancer and too much sunshine//, a new study has shown that the sun might actually protect against the disease. Researchers at the Stanford University have discovered that bask...

Suspected AIDS Patient Allegedly Killed by In-laws

... suspected of having contracted AIDS was allegedly beaten to death by her in-laws, police said Sunday.// Sabita Behera, 30, a resident of Keutunga village in Puri district, 50 km from here, was allegedly murdered because the in-laws suspected she was an AIDS patient, police officer Guruprasad Shib Sankar ...

Six Medicos in Libyan HIV Case Plead Not Guilty

...ternally. Two Libyan officials are said to have beaten and tortured the accused to accept a crime which has not been committed by them. The next hearing on this case is scheduled for March 11th. JYT...

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