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Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

...nd they are mainly women. The abuse has reached an epidemic propotions . The study commissioned by the Briti...man in a relationship is pregnant. This unspoken epidemic is unquantifiable because some victims were not believed while others did not realise the abuse they...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...engue cases in affluent Singapore has surpassed an epidemic threshold for the first time since 2005, the government said . The National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Health Ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday that the weekly number of dengue cases reported last week totalled 401, up 37 perc...

Mental Health of Children on the Decline

...d IQ. The mental health of the young today is an epidemic of disorders ranging from depression, anxiety and anorexia to violent delinquency.It is the lifestyle of the present that has to be blamed for the kind of problems that the children are facing. It is forcing the children to grown much faster than the...

Nigerian Village Quarantined After 20 Children Die of Measles

... a further 100 children to be hospitalised. "The epidemic has killed 20 children and over 100 children are i...ear." According to Usman, those worst hit by the epidemic are infants aged six to 12 months. Measles is often fatal in children in developing countries....

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

... why Africa as a continent is experiencing an AIDS epidemic far in excess of any other region of the world with some African countries' prevalence rates exceeding 25 percent of the adult population and tens of millions dying from the disease on the continent. Talbott's new study suggests that the reason is ...

Six Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Germany

...of some 6,000 turkeys. Germany battled a bird flu epidemic last year. It broke out on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen and spread to six of the country's 16 states, including Bavaria. The disease spread to mammals, infecting three cats and a stone marten, but did not affect humans. The last reported case ...

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...ldren below five years of age, as well as fighting epidemic diseases. Fey supports The UAE and other nations that are working to solve our world's healthcare problems through prevention. "We believe preventive medicine will contribute to solving the world's healthcare challenges," said Fey. "The UAE is o...

SARS Patients Experience Mental Health Decline

Canada-The many survivors of the 2003 epidemic severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) recovered...l health problems, according to a new study. The epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome (SARS) became a global epidemic in 2003. Most cases were in Asia, ...

US Officials Urge Testing for HIV as Health Crisis Intensifies

...signed to help individuals understand the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the prevention and intervention measures during National HIV Testing Day....

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

...out in the northern city of Kano when there was an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera. Nigeria file...g children at a field hospital in the heart of the epidemic in Kano. A similar suit was filed a couple of weeks earlier by authorities in Kano, Nigeria's larg...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...ABC News cite reports that trafficking has reached epidemic proportions: A $42.5 billion illegal industry. In one rural village, ABC News met 23-year-old Irina. When she was 19, she was promised her a job at a restaurant in Portugal. Instead, she was sold to into white slavery by a group of men who brought...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

... common belief that violence and rape fuel the HIV epidemic in countries affected by conflict, and consequently refugees fleeing humanitarian emergencies have a high prevalence of HIV infection. But the study team could find no clear evidence to support the view. The UNHCR report challenges this view. 'In t...

UK to Support Third Phase of India's AIDS Control Programme

...rt programme to halt and begin to reverse the AIDS epidemic in India by 2012. The announcement was made by Sus... keynote speech at the workshop, said: "The HIV epidemic in India continues to be largely concentrated in high-risk groups. However, there is evidence that m...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...lion per year by 2015 - a level that may cause the epidemic to move into long-term decline. Adding male circumcision to prevention programs would account for 8% of the drop in infections by 2015, a significant impact for a single intervention. This underscores the potential power of male circumcision as a p...

Alteon Initiates Phase 2 Trial of ALT-2074 in Diabetes and Haptoglobin 2-2

...ity and increased oxidative stress, are growing in epidemic proportions in the United States and many other developed countries. The major complications associated with these diseases are cardiovascular in nature, and lead to such events as stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and death. Not all patients wi...

No Clear Link Between Conflict, Rape and HIV: UN Study

... also no evidence that refugees exacerbate the HIV epidemic in host communities, the report said. UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond stressed however that the findings did not mean the agency was taking a complacent attitude towards the problem. "This does not mean that conflict in all countries would mean lower...

India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

...about the possibility of a South Africa-style AIDS epidemic in India, but the new figures being mentioned would mean a fairly low infection rate. However organisations that work with high-risk groups such as commercial sex workers, intravenous drug users and homosexual men said their work will go on as befo...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...nment Tuesday sounded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives and affected a... well under control and compared to last year, the epidemic is not alarming. But we are not taking any chances," Sarma said. Some 304 people died of malaria las...

New Virus Test Technology Experimented

A new diagnostic technology to detect epidemic diseases has entered the phase of clinical experim...nces of the viruses, namely DNA or RNA, to confirm epidemic diseases such as hepatitis or AIDS, said Charlie Xiang, chief scientist of the Microarray Centre of ...

Malaria Control Measures

...mpt treatment, strengthening of referral services, epidemic preparedness and rapid response (ii) Integrated Vector Management including indoor residual spraying with insecticide in selected high risk areas, use of insecticide treated bed nets, promotion of larvivorous fish, use of larvicides and source reduct...

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