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Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...ale water in containers. In Malaysia, 48 people died from dengue during the first five months of the year, health officials said, up roughly 71 percent from 2006. By May 26, 20,658 people had caught the disease, a surge of 55 percent over the corresponding 2006 figure. "We are concerned over the inc...

American Sports Star Teenager Dies Due To Overdose Of Muscle Cream

... a documented first -of -its-kind case, a teenager died due to an overdose of muscle cream, used to soothe...aid. Newman, who garnered numerous track awards, died April 3. Methyl salicylate poisoning is unusual, and deaths from high levels of the chemical are rar...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

... An earlier study showed that nearly 22,000 people died in 2001 from illnesses related to drinking, 8.7 percent of total deaths that year, with 2.2 million people aged 18 to 64 suffering from alcohol-related disorders, it said. "Excessive drinking has also caused enormous economic damage, undermining pr...

Sunstroke Claims Fourteen More Lives in Delhi

At least 14 people died Monday due sunstroke in the Indian capital taking ...nued across north India. 'At least three people died in the Deen Dayal Upadhayay (DDU) hospital today. All the three were men and two of them apparently ...

Chikungunya Affects Kerala's Healthcare Status

...r in the state. Last year, more than 100 people died during the outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral fever in the coastal districts of Alappuzha, Kollam and Ernakulam. The present outbreak, which has seen more than 40 people die in the past two weeks in the south and central districts of Kollam, Path...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...ional health practices. It was only when her child died of cold and cough, an easily curable ailment, did she realise that the simple steps often suggested by the 'aanganwadi' worker could have saved her child. Padmavati is among those unfortunate women in the remote areas of Orissa who can never be su...

No Foul Play, Woolmer Died of Naural Causes, Say Jamaican Police

Woolmer, 58, died after being found unconscious in his Kingston hote... I are relieved to be officially informed that Bob died of natural causes and that no foul play is suspected in his death." Mr Woolmer's death sparked specu...

China Admits Fake Blood Protein Used in Drips

...he added. Officials did not say whether anyone had died or fallen ill through using the false protein, tho...s of scandals. In one of the worst cases 13 babies died from malnutrition after being fed fake baby milk. Last month the country's top food and drug regulat...

Teenagers Untimely Death Draws Attention To Safety Of Over The- Counter Drugs

...wman, 17, from Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island died April 3, from an overdose of the muscle cream BenGay, which contains the active ingredient methyl salicylate. Such muscle creams are used very commonly to soothe aching muscles after training sessions of sports. Says Dr. Gerard Varlotta, director ...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...hird. Scariest of all, two women in Italy recently died from a fully resistant type of TB that's officially incurable. (Scientists are dubbing it XXDR TB.) Today, TB terrorizes those whose immunity has been weakened by HIV, hunger, alcoholism or other diseases. If the new strains become dominant, everyone...

Mix of Disease Process in Brain Leads to Dementia

...t of the cases. Also, 80 of the 141 volunteers who died had sufficient Alzheimers disease pathology in their brains to fulfill accepted neuropathologic criteria for Alzheimers disease, although in life only 47 were clinically diagnosed with probable or possible Alzheimers disease. We know that people c...

Kerala Government Sanctions Funds for Chikungunya-affected Districts

...ffected districts in Kerala. Over 40 people have died of the disease, while over 7,000 are admitted to hospitals, mainly in Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts. Armed forces doctors and paramedics have also joined in the efforts to control the situation after the State Government sought help to deal...

Womans Death increases Pressure on LA Hospital to close down

...ho lay bleeding on the floor of the emergency room died last month after dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility. Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, once a symbol of hope in the inner city, struggled Wednesday to survive amid new reports of breakdown...

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

... the heart of the epidemic. Eleven of the children died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness, according to the allegations. Action Congress urged the federal government to ensure that such trials were not repeated anywhere else in the country b...

Fears Of Spread Of TB After Students Death

...y person has contracted TB from a young nurse who died suddenly from the disease. According to health of... Friday morning complaining of abdominal pain. She died that afternoon. When physicians learned of her symptoms, she was immediately moved to an isolation...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...s Drillich, director of BNN channel, whose founder died waiting for a kidney transplant. "We received a ... United States last year, 6,287 transplant-seekers died (more than 96,000 are currently registered), according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation ...

Health Checks on Workers Dismantling Blue Lady in Gujarat

...ies such as India, China and Pakistan had probably died in the past two decades from accidents or exposure to toxic waste. In February last year, France recalled its decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau after an outcry over the asbestos it contained. But the Gujarat Maritime Board, which lease...

Indonesia's Bird Flu Death Toll Touches 80

A 29-year-old Indonesian man has died of bird flu, bringing the country's death toll fro...day. The man, identified only by the initials YT, died in hospital Tuesday in Pekanbaru, capital of Riau province on Sumatra Island, after undergoing one-d...

Mums Death is Reason Behind Jolies Dramatic Weightloss

...er the loss of her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in January, but also busy running around four young kids. The actress has four kids all under the age of 6 with beau Brad Pitt Maddox, 5, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 1. "I've always been lean and this year I lost my mom and ...

HIV Drug Resistance can Be Identified by Genome Sequencing

...nts. It is estimated that 22 million people have died from AIDS and over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. In the U.S. alone, 40,000 new infections occur each year....

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