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Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

... a disabled Sydney cabbie last January. The driver died of a heart attack after he was beaten up by the two fourteen year olds. The two girls, cousins pleaded guilty to the manslaughter and were jailed for six years. The taxi driver Youbert Hormozi, 53s family said that the family of the girls too des...

FDA Advises Manufacturers to Test Glycerin for Possible Contamination

... In late 1995 and early 1996, at least 80 children died in Haiti due to DEG-contaminated glycerin in aceta... hundreds of deaths. In 1937, more than 100 people died in the United States after ingesting DEG-contaminated Elixir Sulfanilamide, a drug used to treat inf...

Ostracized HIV Victim of Bihar Commits Suicide

..."He poured kerosene oil and set himself ablaze. He died of severe burns," a villager said, adding that at the time of the incident his aged parents had gone to a village fair while his wife was at her parental home with her two children. "The family used to go without food due to poverty and he was trea...

Various Civil Society Groups Form Alliance to Fight HIV/AIDS

...Memorial march in the state in memory of those who died of AIDS. "Several programmes were being organised from workshops to advocacy programmes, including a session with lawmakers from the state," Ahmed said. Only 19 percent of Asians who need AIDS drugs receive them, a World Health Organisation (WHO...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...ering from this disease and thousands have already died this year. "They are dying in thousands and silently. It is unlike when dozens died due to dengue in Delhi, creating a flutter," Thakur told IANS here. The sand fly that transmits th...

Kerala Government Bears the Brunt for Infant Deaths

...roliferate in unhygienic conditions. A few infants died due to staphylococci infection. Last week, the hospital's superintendent was removed for not informing the government about the deaths. The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association has, however, blamed the government for the hospi...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

...ing a heart transplant. Six others (9 percent) had died by May 2004, when data collection ended. Yet, after 30 days on the pump, one third of the patients had a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 40 percent (measured when the pump flow was decreased). Ejection fraction is the percentage of...

Brooding Could Kill, Warn Psychologists

... start and became even more so over time, half had died 17 years after the study started. Among those who were high in neuroticism at the start but didn't increase, and the less neurotic, 75% to 85% were still alive. The good news: "People can change," Mroczek says. "If you learn to worry or fret less,...

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

...d cab driver in Sydney in January last. The driver died of a heart attack after he was beaten up by the two fourteen year olds. But they were let off with less than a three-and-a-half year term with a possible parole in August 2009, leading to all round outrage. They too showed no tinge of remorse....

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

... when another PTRP inmate, Pvt. Jason Poirier, 22, died in the same Fort Sill barracks from acute methadone intoxication. It's doubtful that the adjustments since Scarano's death will do any more than those after Poirier's to alter fundamentally the treatment of injured soldiers. "Ft. Sill still doing ...

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...ormalities in the motion of the heart. One patient died of acute heart failure. The good news is that most patients who survived the first 48 hours had a steady recovery. Thirty one, or 78 percent, of patients had follow-up echocardiography within a few weeks. Heart function was found to be normal in 29...

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

...nga in the San Joaquin Valley, where three inmates died in December. In response to the deaths, Sillen sent a team of doctors and created more than 50 new medical positions at the severely overcrowded prison. While Fama terms this terrific, he expresses his regret that Sillen had not moved faster, giv...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

...moved a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and retransplanted it in another recipient. To m...ready been transplanted into one recipient who had died a week after the procedure from unrelated causes. There are a number of potential issues that aris...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

...n all patients, without complications. One patient died 5 days later of illness unrelated to the VSD patch. In 2 patients, the rupture didn't fully heal, causing damage to blood cells as they jetted through the narrow opening. A third patient developed a bacterial infection that started several months aft...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...d -- at home and even at school. When her mother died a few years ago, Britney went to live with a grandmother in Baltimore who later kicked her out. Now unemployed and living at Sylvia's Place, she tried working at McDonald's and "even [has] the scars to prove it." "I worked at McDonald's, but it w...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...c and a drug to fight cancer. But he unfortunately died relatively young, at the age of 53 in 1948. This, ...gs, it was the people that came in later, after he died so young unfortunately, who further developed it into major molecules and took the credit," said Dr....

Sunstroke Has Claimed Eight Lives So Far in Orissa in Two Months

At least eight people have died due to sunstroke in the past two months across Orissa, officials said Monday . While three deaths have been reported from the southern district of Ganjam, one death each has been reported from the districts of Balasore, Kandhamal, Kendrapada, Nuapa...

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

...f more than 3 years. During that time, 19 patients died and 44 had a nonfatal heart attack. Cumulative anxiety scores were averaged and adjusted for age, and the patients were divided into 3 groups. Those with anxiety scores in the highest third had almost double the risk of heart attack or death when com...

Depleted Uranium Weapons can Cause Lung Cancer

...posure changed the chromosomes in the cells, which died due to genotoxic effects that amplified with the particle concentration. The team therefore concluded that DU increases risk of lung cancer....

Extremist Christian Preacher Dies of Heart Problems

...o mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73. He died suddenly of what his doctor suspects was the final throes of heart disease. Dr. Carl Moore, Rev. ...

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