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Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

...virus has infected 310 people. A total of 190 have died of the disease. Some 250 million poultry have been destroyed, or have died from bird flu. Over the past two years, the international community has pledged more than $2.4 billi...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

...250 million poultry have also been culled, or have died from bird flu....

US to Detain Seafood Imports from China

...defects and weeks after thousands of cats and dogs died because of tainted Chinese pet food. Dangerous toys, fake drugs, toxin-coated cosmetics, illicit pesticide-laden mushrooms, errant fireworks, tainted toothpaste and other Chinese products have led to recalls and bans and potentially more stringent ...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

... since January out of whom 30 children have so far died of the disease. Dr. M.P.Singh, Joint-Director of state's health department said that steps are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. "In Gorakhpur, a vaccine was introduced last year for children aged between 1 to 15 years. We have ...

Experts Critical of a New OTC Product to Treat Psoriasis

...m a zinc product called Skin-Cap. The excitement died when tests showed that the Spanish-made product also contained clobetasol propionate, an extremely potent topical steroid. Topical steroids are available only on prescription and there are dangerous side effects to it including raised blood pressur...

Bayer and Onyx Submit Supplemental New Drug Application for Nexavar to Treat Liver Cancer

...ople (about 13,000 Americans and 57,000 Europeans) died of HCC. "This filing exemplifies our commitment to providing valuable therapeutic options for significant unmet needs in cancer treatment," said Hank Fuchs, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer of Onyx. "We believe that Nexavar...

The American Dream Comes True for 105-year-old Cuban

...chair, chatting with neighbors and, since his wife died three years ago, flirting with the ladies. Marri... may also be in his genes: one of his grandmothers died at the age of 119. As for his diet: Pig roast is his favorite, he has red wine with every meal, dr...

Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Family

...But only 87 percent of daughters whose mothers had died within five years survived. Being sister to a woman who had died of breast cancer within five years gave a 70 percent chance of survival from breast cancer, whereas ...

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

...danger lives-as in the case of a Houston woman who died in a 2006 fire because her clutter-filled home hindered firefighters' efforts to rescue her. "Hoarding is different from being disorganized or not prioritizing," said John Hart, LCPC, a behaviour therapist with the Menninger Obsessive-Compulsive Di...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

... "Between January and April, some 25 people have died of malaria and 9,721 people tested positive for th...t taking any chances," Sarma said. Some 304 people died of malaria last year. "The casualties are less this year as we have taken a series of anti-malaria...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...l artery blockages. The percentage of patients who died in the hospital or who developed heart failure was... in 2005, 4.6 percent of the heart attack patients died in the hospital, compared with 8.4 percent in 1999. Heart failure developed in 11 percent of heart a...

Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

...akur, who discovered she had AIDS when her husband died of the disease in October 2005, said she was thrilled to be inaugurating the "condom bar" - said to be the country's first. The unique bar has real condoms dotting the wall that stacks liquor bottles. Besides having souvenirs like cups, T-shirts a...

Migraine and Pregnancy Is the Combo Pregnant to Trigger Strokes?

...re were 97 cases of stroke and a negligible number died due to brain attacks....

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

At least 18 newborn babies have died in a hospital here in the month of April alone and its superintendent was Wednesday removed from his post for not informing the state government about the deaths. Unofficial sources, however, put the number of infant deaths at the state-owned Sree...

Unprotected Sex Among the Gays on the Rise

...y they are worried. More than 25 million people died because of aids virus and 40 million are infected with the disease. The high rates of unsafe sex and ignorance about HIV status occurred despite an awareness campaign and access to condoms, virus testing and antiretroviral drugs, they note. This sh...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

... healthcare system here. Kunal Saha, whose wife died of alleged wrongful treatment in India in May 1988, said: "I am going to appeal to my senators and congressmen in US and will ask them to raise this issue with the Indian government on how they (judiciary and a medical board) can discriminate against...

Kerala Health Minister Charged for Infant Deaths in a Hospital

...roliferate in unhygienic conditions. A few infants died due to staphylococci infection. The news broke out Tuesday courtesy a local TV channel and since then leaders of all political parties, minus the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist, have staged protests at the hospital leading to clashes with...

More Than a Toothache

... treat her son, even with the help of a lawyer. He died as the bacteria from his infected tooth spread to his brain. In 2000, the surgeon general of US reported that tooth decay was the most chronic ailment for children and that poor children were most at risk. In spite of such modern innovations as t...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...ally at peace and that his death has a purpose. He died of colon cancer last April. At the time of his d...ne police sergeant who fought the blaze have since died of cancer) attempts to get compensation for their widows from Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insuran...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

... Scientists studying the genes of two infants who died of mysterious illnesses found the infants had muta...n, lamin A, than progeria patients. Both infants died very young and before researchers could fully unravel the cause of their disorders. But when researc...

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