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Body Parts Industry Of U.S Under Investigation

...Dr. Celia Witten, pronounced the industry safe and claimed the government oversight was working for the more than 1 million medical procedures involving non-organ body parts: "Today's report finds no significant industry wide problem in the recovery of human tissues", Witten was quoted. Yet, experts in the...

Sweltering Heat in Madhya Pradesh Claims Fifteen Lives

... the northern parts of the state, as the heat wave claimed six more lives taking the toll to 15. The weather officials had no hope to offer, saying the hot weather would persist for the next two days. The six deaths include two each in Shivpuri, Morena and Damoh. The mercury soared to more than 46 d...

Cod Liver Oil Helps Keep Depression at Bay

Boffins have claimed that cod liver oil might help keep depression at bay. The study that was conducted at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway has come up with the benefits of the major constituents of cod liver oil, omega-3 fatty acids. The research which ...

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...tinent in the fight against the diseases that have claimed millions of lives in the world's poorest continent....

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...e conflict in Aceh, one of Asia's longest running, claimed at least 15,000 lives. The separatists dropped their claim for independence in return for more autonomy for Aceh under their 2005 peace deal....

New Virus Test Technology Experimented

...ses has entered the phase of clinical experiments, claimed a Chinese scientist//. Different from traditional methods that rely on antigen or antibody test, the new technology is based on genetic substances of the viruses, namely DNA or RNA, to confirm epidemic diseases such as hepatitis or AIDS, said Charl...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...ded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives// and affected about 10,000 people. "Doctors and paramedics have been put on alert across Assam with medical teams, including mobile units, fanning out to vulnerable areas to check the spread of malaria," Assam Health Minister Him...

Swami Ramdev to Hold Yoga Camps in U.S.

...y in early 2006 when communist leader Brinda Karat claimed that Divya Yog Pharmacy, owned by him, was using human and animal bones in some of their ayurvedic medicines. Tests done at a lab showed that the medicines contained only herbal ingredients. Source-IANS/V...

Fake Encounter With Cancer

... She was not on any of the treatments that she had claimed to undergo. According to the police, she had managed to hoodwink many with her sordid story. Infact, friends and colleagues had come together for a spaghetti-supper fundraiser to help Allen with funds for chemotherapy. If the lady in question is...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

... could not be sure how many lives the steroids had claimed but he believed the figure was high. Yet mothers still come to him to request pills for their daughters, believing that thin girls are shameful because they look 'sick'. To be 'sick' is often a euphemism for having HIV/AIDS in Africa. But the mes...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

...y before the California medical board, Dr. Goldman claimed that it was Conte who misled him with false information about a woman athlete's medical condition in order to obtain drugs for her. The medical board's accusation said the athlete, identified only as K.W., tested positive for modafinil at an inter...

Health Insurance Company Expands Product Range

...fit amount under Hospital Care in addition to that claimed under any other health insurance plan. The policy offers a cashless claim benefit at 3,000 network hospitals across the country. Any insurance amounts over and above those incurred towards hospitalization are paid directly to the policyholder. ICIC...

Heat Wave Claims Three Lives in Orissa

...ing across Orissa for the past few days has so far claimed three people. It is the result of the soaring temperature which// has crossed 40 degree Celsius in many parts of the state, officials said. The western town of Sundergarh recorded Monday 42 degrees Celsius, the western towns of Bhabanipatna, Bolang...

Woman Says Irritable Bowel Drove Her to Shoplifting

...st that was what a woman arrested for shoplifting claimed when she was caught shoplifting in Cape Coral, Florida, says Cape Coral Daily Breeze, a local newspaper. 61-year-old Helen Gallo of Clearwater walked into a grocery store on Sunday, removed a grocery bag from her purse and began filling it with vario...

Hormone Replacement Therapy – To Choose Or No

... prestigious Women Health Initiative (WHI), which claimed that HRT has serious risks such as strokes and hea...ct protect many patients from such conditions, and claimed that the additional risks might apply only to older women. HRT, this study said, could in fact, bo...

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

...retaries in Britain. Public service union Unison claimed that outsourcing such work by some hospital trusts had already led to mistakes with the potential to endanger patients. Regional officer Colin Baker said: "I have written to the chief executive complaining that this matter was not raised through th...

Dengue Claims 41 Lives in Jakarta

Dengue fever outbreak has claimed at least 41 lives in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. The local media reports that more than 11,000 have been affected// by it. Governor Sutiyoso said the mosquito-borne disease cases had risen drastically since January, with a total of 11,094 peop...

Thailand Claims World’s First Successful Heart Separation in Siamese Twin

Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital Thursday claimed to have carried out the world's first successful heart surgery to separate Siamese twins//. Doctor Mongkol Laohapensaeng said the 12-hour operation was performed at Siriraj Hospital on February 20 by a team of 61 Thai doctors and nurses and more tha...

Indonesia's Bird Flu Death Toll Rises to 72

...his year alone, the H5N1 avian influenza virus has claimed the lives of 15 people in the country. Last week Jakarta announced five new deaths from bird flu. Alarmed by a sudden spike in bird-flu deaths early this year, the Indonesian government declared a ban on backyard poultry farms in residential areas ...

India Should Take the Lead in Stem Cell Research, Expert

...rnational universities," said Rajkumar. He also claimed the process of stem cell harvesting adopted by his hospital would be different from what was being used elsewhere. The hospital would consider making available the technology to other institutions after five years or so, it is reported....

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