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Indian Government: No Reason For Worry About Bird Flu

...the world's sixth largest producer of eggs and the fifth largest producer of broiler chickens. It produced 43 billion eggs and 1.7 billion broilers in 2005, according to industry estimates. "Multinational vaccine manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, eager to sell their anti-flu drugs in India, are...

Road accidents greater threat than AIDS, TB: WHO

...loping countries, with South Asia accounting for a fifth of the fatalities. The region has witnessed a rapid increase in motorised traffic, typically over 10 percent annually in major urban areas, according to the WHO. The report highlights that most of the victims of road accidents are not necessarily...

Smoking Ban To Be Soon Implemented In South East Asian Bars

..., where 62 percent of adult men are smokers, ranks fifth among the world's leading tobacco consumers. The government's anti-smoking efforts have run into serious opposition. A ban on smoking in all public places in capital Jakarta was announced last year but went into force only this month, giving puffer...

People In Pain Are Unlikely To Seek Medical Help

...h care delivery following rating of pain to be the fifth most vital sign by the American Pain Society. The study authors have further stated that such a goal to identify silent sufferers cannot be achieved without improved physician education and increased participation of the media in spreading awarenes...

Fat chance: Live Statistics of an English Man

... nation category, after Greece, with more than one fifth adults obese. Scotland is disappointing with lowest life expectancy for men (73.8 years) and women (79.1 years), with smokers forming a major portion, contributing to highest rates of lung cancer. Wales is child friendly with lowest death rate amon...

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Tightened Security Across Hong Kong Border

...of the dead magpie were confirmed, it would be the fifth confirmed case in Hong Kong. Although no cases of have been reported from Guangdong, health experts feel that H5N1 was probably endemic to the region. Hong Kong custom officials had seized chicken and poultry meat, weighing approximately 250,000 kg...

Crohn's Patient Robert Hill’s greatest achievemen

...are products, sponsored this expedition. It is his fifth quest to scale the tallest peaks on the seven continents. He wants to send across to the world the message that people like him should not quit living their life. Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting both the small and large ...

Bird Flu Claims Two More Lives In Indonesia

...om H5N1 avian-flu virus. The newest cases were the fifth cluster of humans infected with bird flu in Indonesia. Health officials said earlier that many fowl had died in the neighborhood where they lived in the West Java district of Indramayu. Five patients in the country suffering from the infection are ...

Soft Drinks Can Strengthen Memory Power

...cans of soft drink can boost memory retention by a fifth and combat dementia in older people. Psychology lecturer Dr Leigh Riby, who led the research, said people studying for exams could benefit from increasing the amount of sugar in their diet. He focused on an area of the brain known as the hippocamp...

Measuring Urinary Protein Helps In Detecting Recurrent Bladder Cancer

...is concerned, bladder cancer is reported to be the fifth most malignant, which recorded 63,210 new cases in the year 2005 //year alone, with over 13,000 deaths. The country has a total of 500,000 patients with a bladder cancer history, and the chances of its recurrence is between 50% and 90%. There is n...

Mental health largely affected by shift in eating patterns.

...id 30 years ago, increasing their fat content by a fifth from two per cent to 22 per cent. The report found there has been a 34 per cent decline in vegetable consumption and a 59 per cent drop in fish intake in the last 60 years. Only 13 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women eat at least five portions o...

Gene Linked To Type 2 Diabetes Identified

...uccessful in identifying the gene that affects one fifth of the diabetic population in US. The Icelandic researchers said that the exact function of the gene // is not known, but is thought to regulate the genes responsible for insulin production. The disease was studied in the Icelandic population, a...

Australian Health funds stand accused

...per cent from April. If approved it would be their fifth successive rise at double the inflation rate. Th...of health funds to increase their premiums for the fifth consecutive year. Under changes introducing by the Government, funds no longer have to obtain common...

Increase In Health Insurance Premium Likely In Australia

...l Government to approve a 5 to 7% increase for the fifth consecutive year. If the proposal were to be approved, health consumers would have to pay nearly $300 for their payment of their private health insurance premium. It would be 40% more than what was paid 5 years ago for the same amount of health cov...

Massive Production Of Bird Flu Vaccine To Be Initiated In China

...narian. The newly developed vaccine, with only one fifth the cost of the inactivated vaccine, can be given in the form of a spray, oral or nasal preparation. Inactivated viral vaccines, used for bird flu prevention contain the inactivated form of the virus, which means that the preparation contains the ...

Plant Food Reduces BP Risk

...y 27% and 36% by the consumption of the second and fifth quintiles. High BP is connected with processed and red meat. There was no consistency in the connection between the risk of BP and dairy products. Lesser consumption of meat and higher levels of plant food, low-fat dairy foods and fruits may contribu...

China Reports Yet Another Bird Flu Case

...a. In November, a woman was confirmed as China's fifth case of bird flu, but she has recovered left the hospital last week. --IANS...

Study finds no link between fibre and cancer risk

...the results suggest a link, with people in the top fifth for the fiber content of their diet were 16 per cent less likely to get colon cancer than those in the lowest fifth. But on further analysis, the link disappears. If other dietary factors such as red meat, milk and alcohol are included, the link betw...

Fifth case of bird flu in China confirmed

...om the north-eastern Liaoning province, is China’s fifth confirmed case of bird flu in the last two months. She tested negative for laboratory tests before December 5 but on that day, experts from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention tested her blood samples again and she tested positi...

Brain drain of dentists from Kerala to Britain

...his year, are taught at Manipal in Karnataka. "Our fifth batch of training for the IQE is beginning in December. Since February, 270 dentists have undergone the training, of which 18 have already got jobs in UK," Patel told IANS on phone. Many of those enrolling for the course are from Kerala, which is k...

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