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Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...s the country. Poudel attributed the rise in HIV cases among housewives to growing migration both within the country and abroad, mainly India and the Middle East. "You have all these migrant men leaving home in search of work and remaining away for periods of one to three years. "They have sexual contact...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

... brawls at weekends or public holidays and in most cases alcohol is involved. The researchers reviewed the 92 patients requiring assessment for human bite wounds by the plastic surgery service at St Jamess Hospital Dublin, Ireland, between January 2003 and December 2005. Eight five of them (92%) were men...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

The number of dengue cases in affluent Singapore has surpassed an epidemic th...sued late Tuesday that the weekly number of dengue cases reported last week totalled 401, up 37 percent from 293 cases the preceding week. This number breach...

Women With Few Older Female Relatives Face Cancer Threat

... breast or ovarian cancers. In about half of those cases -- 153 women -- there were few older females in the family. The BRCA gene mutations were detected in 13.7 percent of those with few older female relatives compared to 5.2 percent among women with plenty of female relatives....

Ramadoss to Discuss Chikungunya With Health Ministers of Nine States Tomorrow

...e viral disease, even though over 11,000 suspected cases have surfaced in the country. Kerala has so far ...orty deaths from Chikungunya, on Tuesday, 35 fresh cases of the crippling disease surfaced in the State. Over 7000 are admitted in hospitals mainly in the tw...

Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes

...last few weeks. "Since the city has recorded few cases of dengue, we don't want to take any chance. Aroun...pital. Last year the city had witnessed over 3,366 cases of dengue. Deepak, a 15-year-old boy tested positive for dengue at the Bara Hindu Rao Hospital ear...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

...pact on the children. Figures show there were 673 cases of under-18s being treated for problems with food ... 1996-97. The statistics also reveal there were 58 cases of children under the age of 10 being treated in NHS hospitals for eating disorders in 2005-06 - 23 ...

Girls Could Be Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer in Britain

...a sexually transmitted infection which causes most cases of cervical cancer. The Department of Health said it had agreed "in principle" to accept the body's advice, but would wait for an independent review of the costs to the National Health Service. Cervical cancer kills more than 1,000 women in Britain...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...randiosity and mania", these are characteristic of cases of the advanced stage, neuro-syphilis, Dr Morrell wrote in his diary. Dr Habeeb, who works at Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington, said though experts had previously explored the possibility that Hitler had syphilis, this was the first time that he a...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...als said there were currently there are 18 million cases in 36 countries worldwide, including in tropical r...erts estimate the drug has prevented nearly 40,000 cases of blindness a year. To date, nearly $600 million has been spent trying to eliminate river blindness...

Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke

...Medical Society. "Over the summer, we see too many cases of heat-related illness in the emergency room, but it's a condition that generally can be prevented with a little effort and lots of common sense." Still, it happens all too frequently. There have been several highly publicized reports of athletes ...

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

...he first case dating from March 20, 2006. Thirteen cases followed over the next months. Health authorities,...ity of humans and birds in Asia, where most deadly cases of bird flu have occurred. "People living in the area should not fear that it will spread," Vit a...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...e gene abnormalities responsible for 70 percent of cases are already known. Those patients and their families can choose to have genetic tests, which may be used to guide treatment or help family members find out if they are at risk. But the remaining 30 percent of patients, who have different variants o...

Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO

...ghted the potential risks of rapid spread. XDR-TB cases are particularly difficult to treat, and a patient could infect other people for years, according to Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB Department. It is also much more expensive to treat resistant TB. TO Treat regular tuberculosis it c...

Chikungunya-hit Villages to Get Funds to Fight Mosquitoes

...d awareness among people even as 17,000 suspected cases of the viral have been reported so far this year. ... Till June 18, India has reported 17,000 suspected cases of chikungunya, of which 414 cases have been confirmed. Of the 17,000 cases spread across nine state...

Researchers Identify New Risk Marker for Obese Children

... pharmaceutical intervention, and, indeed, in some cases a combination of both may be required," Proctor said, adding that pharmaceutical companies are currently on the cusp of producing new drugs that target the reduction of chylomicron cholesterol. "We already know that it's not simply how much you we...

Should Doctors Go to Patients Funerals?

... of that person. It also highlights that in most cases our responsibility to the departed person extends to caring for their family in the wake of their death, they say. Being present at a funeral service can pave the way for the family to have an opportunity to talk about their experiences surrounding t...

Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk

...r and 1,917 women without breast cancer matched to cases by age and race who served as controls. "Pregnancy is a time when the breast undergoes a variety of cellular and anatomical changes. During this period, the breast tissue is exposed to varying levels of a number of hormones, which may affect the ph...

Doctors Remove Tumour from Heart in a Rare Surgery

... heart, Devananda said there were very few similar cases reported in medical literature worldwide. He said PNET commonly occurs in the brain and the chest walls and there was no identifiable cause known to trigger off the growth of this tumour in the heart. "It took us over five hours to remove the tum...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...ased in 2004 stated that 370 deaths and 2,600 AIDS cases have been reported in the State. Many more go unreported. According to the United Nations Narcotics Control strategy report there are overa million opiate users in India. Traffickers have little difficulty in converting opium, which is easily ava...

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