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Surveys Find Outright Hunger among Latino Immigrants in North Carolina

... hunger in surveys of immigrant Latino families in eastern and western North Carolina,// southwestern Virgini...ounty, the other surveys included two conducted in eastern North Carolina in Harnett, Johnston, Sampson and Wake counties (one also included Duplin County) and...

South Africa To Make Available Two New Drugs To Fight The TB Outbreak

...the health official’s state that in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal region 53 people have been diagnosed with the highly virulent strain of TB and 52 of them have died and all of them were HIV positive. <...

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

...ar heavy weight," says Yadav, who migrated to this eastern metropolis from Bihar's Samastipur district. "Now the sahib even pays my rent of Rs.500 every month," says Yadav with gratitude. Says Aparesh Das (name changed), a haemophilia-affected 29-year-old from neighbouring South 24 Parganas district: "...

Another EEE case confirmed in Massachusets Boy

Massachusets third human case of eastern equine encephalitis this year has been confirmed in a nine-year-old Middleborough boy.// According to state health officials the boy is seriously ill and has been hospitalized. His parents identified him as John Fontaine. Middleborough was inclu...

Indian Scientist to Help Reduce Infant Mortality in Africa: UNICEF

...'s coordinator on maternal and neonatal health for eastern and southern Africa. In such an environment, without any care and support, the newborns are at risk of dying from pneumonia, asphyxia, hypothermia and complications arising from prematurity. The mothers have to be taught how to look after their...

Cambodia hit by two new bird flu outbreaks

... been detected in two more districts in Cambodia's eastern province Kampong Cham. According to officials, around 3000 ducks have died in the last week.// "We have discovered two more outbreaks of bird flu, but it has not infected the people yet," Kao Phal, the director of animal health at the agriculture m...

Fuel Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests In Nepal

... reported from key towns of Pokhara, Biratnagar in eastern Nepal, Kavre and Baglung. There were also demands for the resignation of Hridayesh Tripathi, minister for industry, commerce and supplies. The hike was defended by Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat, who said Saturday Nepal has been losing millions o...

Eastern UP hit by killer virus – Coxsacki

...The team is expected to visit several districts of eastern UP in the coming week,” e added....

Need for Change in Social Norms to Prevent Spread of HIV

...e Uganda and Thailand and now in some countries in eastern and southern Africa. When people enroll in trials to test microbicides [topical agents that may prevent HIV transmission] or preventive drug therapies, their rate of HIV transmission often drops because they receive intensive preventive counselling, ...

Bariatric Surgery: A New Hope for Treating Obesity

...the first super specialized weight loss surgery in eastern India, a doctor said.// Ritubrata Saha, 23, who had been obese since childhood, underwent the Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy here Aug 4. Today, Saha is grinning ear to ear. The man finally hopes to shed his extra pounds - after paying Rs.250,000...

Zoo Animal Succumbs to Avian Influenza in Germany

...ath of the Australian black swan at Dresden Zoo in eastern Germany has raised fears that animal collections created over a century or more to might be decimated by the H5N1 virus. The bird was found floating dead on a zoo pond on Tuesday. Zoo biologist Roland Brockmann said, "Black swans die quite often, s...

Antibiotic Drug Recalled Following Adverse Effects

...tion. The injection produced by a company in the eastern province of Anhui has reportedly led to the death of a six-year-old girl from Harbin. The girl suffering from common cold was given an intravenous injection of clindamycin phosphate glucose injection, but developed high fever within 20 minutes of th...

England in the Grip of Dangerous Alcohol Addiction

...for women. It was found that in the regions across eastern and southern England 16% of adults drink this amount or more, at least once a week. TheCentre for Public Health at Liverpool, the North West Public Health Observatory and the John Moores University drew up the alcohol map. Binge drinking was obse...

36 Children Die of Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh

...cephalitis has once again struck in the pockets of eastern Uttar Pradesh where the virus has already claimed the lives of 36 children, officials said.// Even as health authorities claim the currently spreading virus was not the deadly Japanese encephalitis, they do not rule out its possibility in the days t...

Researchers have Developed Anti-wrinkle Cream From Camel's Milk

...he National Research Centre on Camel (NRCC) in the eastern Rajasthan district of Bikaner say they have developed an anti-wrinkle cream from camel milk. M.S. Sahani, director of the institute, said: "In our research we found that camel milk contains qualities that can be tapped for developing anti-wrinkle ...

Practise Of Male Circumcision In Africa May Reduce HIV Risks

...sion rates and lower HIV rates, while Southern and eastern Africa has lower circumcision rates and higher HIV rates." Deborah Jack, chief executive of the National AIDS Trust, said, "These findings are encouraging and it is clear the promotion of voluntary circumcision can play an important role in reducin...

Poor Health of people in Central Goldfields Shire, reports The Victorian Burden of Disease

...e, lack of exercise, obesity, and a poor diet. The eastern part of Melbourne is reported to be in the pink of health but it was just the opposite in Central Goldfields Shire. Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said "It measures the size of the `burden of disease' for each local government area in terms of years of...

Bird Flu Virus Reported In Remote Nigerian State

The remote state, Taraba, in eastern Nigeria, has reported the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Official sources, however, point out that in most //of the other parts of Africa, the spread of the virus is slow. Nigeria, the first African country to be hit by bird flu, has not reported...

Bird Flu Detected In Remote Nigerian State

...rd flu has been detected in remote Taraba state in eastern Nigeria, which is the first African// country to be hit by bird flu. Although no human cases have been reported, experts fear that several cases have gone unnoticed. Currently 14 of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory have bird fl...

Degree Course In Ayurveda

...ous Jadavpur University (JU) for the first time in eastern India//. The course, which would be the second of its kind in the country after Gujarat, would be offered by the Bengal Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (BIPS) in joint venture with West Bengal Health Department under a public-private-partners...

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