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US Halts Import of Chinese Toothpaste

...a, killing hundreds. In 1937, more than 100 people died in the United States after ingesting a DEG-contaminated drug. Earlier this week the Dominican Republic banned the sale of two brands of Chinese toothpaste for similar reasons. Nearly 90,000 units of the toothpaste, imported from Panama and sold...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

...She was imprisoned but won her appeal in 2003. She died in March this year. The consequences of the case, says Jonathan Gornall, have been devastating for her family and far reaching for the medical and other professions involved. Protocols introduced as a direct result of the case will be obligatory b...

First Human Case of Bird Flu Confirmed in Vietnam Since 2005

...f human bird flu fatalities, with 42 people having died of the infection between 2003 and 2005, but it has since been surpassed by Indonesia with 76 deaths....

Shortage of Doctors and Nurses Affects AIDS Treatment in Africa

... In Mavalane district in Mozambique, many patients died during the two-month wait to start treatment, while in one of Lesotho's main hospitals, more than half the nursing jobs were vacant. The report said that countries would only be able to cope with the crisis by "task-shifting" allowing nurses to do...

Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

Two people have died of anthrax in Orissa's tribal dominated Koraput di...tween 1994 and 2006. In 1998, as many as 43 cattle died in Niali area of Cuttack district due to the deadly disease. "Though 18 of the 30 districts in Ori...

High Pretreatment PSA Velocity Predicts Worse Outcome

...ty. As expected, men who had multiple risk factors died from their disease significantly earlier than thos...only identified high-risk factor. Of those men who died with only one identified high-risk factor, 88 percent of RP-treated patients and 80 percent of RT-tr...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

...n the countrys commercial capital Lagos one person died of the virus in February. Bird flu experts are concerned about reports that large-scale farmers around Lagos and in the north of the country have been buying the imported vaccines through local markets that are poorly regulated and frequently sell ...

Chikungunya Scare in Orissa: 4 Die

...e in Orissa's Nayagarh district after four persons died due from suspected chikungunya in the past four days, a health official told Sunday. The dead have been identified as Sibaram Das, Mochi Patra, Aparti Sahu, and Ghanashyam Panda. They were among the 642 persons affected by the disease in the vill...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

...n a 30-year-old landscape worker in Virginia Beach died after a fire ant attack. Although reports of human deaths are rare, Miller explained that people who are allergic to bee stings might also have severe reactions to fire ant stings. In Virginia, fire ants have only been found in urban areas and are ...

Scientists Identify the Most Significant Single Predictor of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...ey observed that men who had multiple risk factors died from their disease significantly earlier than thos...sk factor. It was observed that of those men who died with only one identified high-risk factor, 88 per cent of RP-treated patients and 80 per cent of RT-...

WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public

... 2004 study that found that as many women in China died from second-hand smoke exposure as they did from smoking. Research has also shown that 100 percent smoke-free environments are good for business, cost little and prevent people from taking up smoking. "Despite this evidence, the tobacco industry co...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

... after her husband Sarat Das, a plumber in Mumbai, died of AIDS March 15 last year in this eastern Indian coastal state. Sukanti realized then that she was HIV positive, and so was her younger son. Villagers and even her in-laws immediately began boycotting her. Dilip Kumar Parida, a social activist, sa...

Japanese Expedition Clears Half Ton of Garbage from Mt. Everest

...rest from the Nepalese side while four people have died in the attempt....

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

A teenage girl has died of bird flu in Indonesia, taking the death toll in... ministry official said Friday. The 15-year-old died on Tuesday, four days after she was admitted to hospital on the main island of Java, the official sa...

Orissa Under Anthrax Threat

...IANS) Two people in Orissa's Koraput district have died of anthrax, a fairly uncommon disease while many ...signs of infection after consuming cattle meat and died last week, Chief District Medical Officer K. Haribandhu Reddy told IANS. Reddy said five other peo...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

... of the death of its founder, Bart de Graaff -- he died after waiting years for a kidney transplant. The notion was the brainchild of Endemol, the Dutch production company behind Big Brother and many other reality TV shows spinning the globe. Its star is Lisa, a 37-year-old woman dying of a brain tumo...

Panama Official Arrested Over Tainted Medicine Deaths of 100

...cially the government has said that 52 people have died from the tainted drugs. The dead, mostly patients in the 60s with kidney problems, fell sick around the end of 2006. On Thursday Chinese officials said following a probe into the case that the Chinese exporter was not to blame for the deaths. Wei C...

Man Contracts Deadly Bird Flu Virus in Vietnam

... been admitted on Thursday and Friday, one of whom died late Friday. Their samples are being tested in Hanoi, she said. Last week Vietnam reported that a 30-year-old farmer had been infected with the deadly bird flu virus, the country's first human case since November 2005. The victim was admitted t...

Common Desert Shrub may Increase Longevity

...d only once all the mice in the control group have died in six to 10 months. If NDGA turns out to extend maximal lifespan by 20 or 30 percent, people would accept that as an important finding, he says. The researcher further said that much more research was needed before any possible human anti-aging ...

Anthrax Kills Six in Orissa

...raja and Sirimunda village, some 500 km from here, died of the disease on May 20 and 21, while four more succumbed later, chief district medical officer K. Haribandhu Reddy told IANS. He said other people infected with the disease were now out of danger as a team of doctors was camping in these two vill...

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