Lack of Medical Facilities Have Claimed Lives of Newborns at Chhattisgarh Hospital
As many as 178 newborn babies died at a government-run district hospital in Chhattisgarh during January-May 2007, Health Minister Amar Agrawal told the state assembly Tuesday . Amid protests and allegations by the opposition Congress members about the lack of basic medical facilities...PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities
...ported cancer charities since his first wife Linda died of the disease in 1998, recently revealed that he ...e to his heart promote the practice. "When Linda died I said I would support cancer charities. Animal rights groups wrote to me pointing out that many wer...MS Drug Fails The Test For Treating Crohns Disease
...ve multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML, and two died from it. Yet, after impassioned testimonies fro... survived. Another patient in a Crohn's trial, who died from PML, had been treated with immunosuppressants. This pattern, according to experts, suggests t...Palestinian Rival Leader Claims That Arafat Died of AIDS
Former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat died of AIDS, a rival Palestinian leader has claimed in an interview. Ahmad Jibril, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that he received confirmation of this ...Ayurvedic Doctor Sentenced to Five Years in Jail for Causing Death of Woman
... hospital at Shahdara on March 10, 2005, where she died six days later. The post-mortem report ascertained the cause of death to be multiple organ failure due to a drug reaction. Investigations indicted Kumar for causing the death of the woman. During the trial, he claimed he never practiced as a doc...Diarrhoea Claims Three Lives in Flood-hit Orissa
At least three people died of watery diarrhoea while over 200 were ailing fro...strict medical officer R.N. Pati said. Those who died of the disease were identified as Samaya Hansda, 6, Bhabani Jena, 42, and Gourahari Patra. The rai...Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin
...d OxyContin was when I was told my 18-year-old son died of an overdose," said Bisch. Bisch, who has a Web site called www.oxyabusekills.com, drove to the hearing with two other parents, including Lee Nuss, who held up an urn slightly larger than a pill bottle that she said contained her son's ashes. ...Thousands Gather in Sydney for HIV Conference
...now about HIV," she said. "There was a woman who died (in hospital) and they put her in a black plastic ...ng to do the same to me?" Elaripe herself almost died in December 2002 but was saved when friends raised money to buy her generic drugs. She believes the ...AIDS Patient Helps Others Lead a Positive Life
...nvincing them," she sad. Although Hina's husband died a year ago, she continued with her struggle. "My parents and other family members also accepted me back," she said....Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER
...hout specifying who the workers were. Rodriguez died a short time later of a perforated bowel that probably occurred in her last 24 hours of life, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled. Experts have said her death might have been prevented had she received treatment sooner. But this episode has drawn...African AIDS Epidemic Slows Down: World Bank
... sufficient. In 2006, more than 2 million people died of AIDS and some other 24.7 million were infected on the African continent, the report added. South Africa, however, has the world's second largest number of people infected by HIV, approximately 5.5 million out of a total population of 47 million. ...Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse
...r gypsy owners. Two bears at the park have already died of incurable conditions and the others are slow to recover, park workers said. "We fed them from our table -- meat, bread -- they ate what we ate," Veselin said as he tried to squeeze a cup of water between the bars of Misho's cage. The animal lifted...Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts
... On Thursday, Indonesia said a 29-year-old man had died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 80. In Malaysia five people were quarantined with suspected bird flu, while Myanmar reported a fresh poultry outbreak. Vietnam's unusual summertime outbreak, concentrated...Children Born After PGD as Healthy as Kids Born After ART
...of the 583 were liveborn, 20 were stillborn, and 9 died neonatally. It seems that the perinatal death rate is higher, especially in multiple pregnancies, then in IVF and ICSi children. We need to further investigate these perinatal death rates," she said. "But we were encouraged to find that the major m...AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children
...ncil estimating that some 45,000 children under 15 died due to AIDS in 2006. According to Farai Dube of Jo...e the country's longest-living HIV positive child, died the following year but his legacy persists. His adoptive mother Gail Johnson, whose campaign for you...Four Organ Transplants Dont Help, Canadian Teenager Dies
...e all at once. But the 19-year-old Gairett MacIver died on Sunday at Vancouver General Hospital after about of pneumonia . It was in August 2006 that MacIver, hailing from the British Columbian province of Canada underwent a four-organ transplant at Toronto General Hospital. During the surgery, he recei...Diana Could Have Been Saved Had She Been Rushed to Hospital
... attempts, including internal cardiac massage, she died at 4 a.m. French local time....Annual Cancer Run Draws Huge Response in US
...thers were running to honor family members who had died from the disease. Survivor were in the pink T-sh... said his grandmother, aunt and godmother have all died from the disease.One of the youngest entrants was 3-year-old Luke Amble, who entered the 1K children...World's Oldest Man Says Sorry He's Still Alive
...ecessor, Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico, died at the age of 115 on January 24. Since then, the Guinness Book of World Records has investigated who should take the title as the oldest man on Earth and contacted Miyakonojo authorities earlier this month to verify Tanabe's birthdate. More than 28,0...Angelina Jolie to Help Fran Drescher's Battle Against Cancer
...curable. 'Her mother had women's cancer that she died from and I'm a gynaecologic cancer survivor and our organisation is dedicated to ensure that all women's cancers get diagnosed in stage one, when they're most curable because early detection equals survival,' she said. Drescher revealed that the 'L...