Female Foeticide Practiced More By Educated People
...ified people also in this country. The value of girl children is however realized by educated people in states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Since the enactment of legislation in 1996 seeking to bar pre-natal tests for sex determination, about 27,000 clinics having the technology have been registered. ...Chicago: Dad, I need you desperately, Please come back
...insurance, so the local hospitals denied this poor girl the transplant, she so desperately needed. Later t...y rose to the occasion and bailed her out.// The girl underwent a successful liver transplant later that year in Miami, Florida, but the organ’s condition...Renuka Chowdhury Stresses Importance of Bridging Gender Gap
...nd want the government to declare a decade for the girl child." she said in an interview to IANS. "I will prove that I can do wonders in this ministry, which has been low profile so far." Chowdhury, who was the tourism minister of state until recently said that the focus would be on bridging the gender ga...Inhuman Error: Medicine Becomes Poison, Causing Death
...he Beatson Oncology Centre case in Glasgow, when a girl of 15 was administered potentially lethal doses of radiation. The Scottish Executive Health Department is incharge of the inquiry into the case....Do Women Die In Childbirth Because It Is More Preferable?
...epresents the deliberate or intentional killing of girl children over liking for baby boys. Inadequate bre...n, inappropriate investment in the interest of the girl child, familial neglect are other less severe forms of prejudice against a girl child. Although the ...New Abnormal Karyotypes Discovered in China
...es since 1996. In one of the cases, a 4-year-old girl lost the gene responsible for inhibiting retinoblastoma, a tumor in the retina, from developing into cancer. In another case, a 22-year-old female patient was born without a womb which was attributed to the abnormal chromosomal karyotype. In ano...Burn Injuries More Common In Small Boys
... are more likely to suffer from burn injuries than girl children of the same age. // Researchers at Malmo University in Sweden looked at 148 children up to the age of six who were taken to the University Hospital and 21 health centres. They discovered that 96 percent of the accidents could have been pr...Baby Bottle Tooth Decay Affects Kids Physically and Emotionally
...Sasha is a cherubic and a smart looking 2-year-old girl until she opens her mouth. The black stumps of what are left of her teeth give her a fearful look. It is this disease, wherein almost all teeth except the lower front teeth are decayed that is called as the baby bottle tooth decay syndrome. Indeed, i...Trafficking of Women from Asia and East Europe For Flesh Trade
... the worst cases involved a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl who was bought and sold numerous times after being...ls and massage parlours up and down Britain. The girl finally escaped the hands of her traffickers in Yorkshire after breaking down in the toilets of a Sh...Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India
...n to mark International Women's Day Wednesday, the girl child in India struggles for survival even before ...(-50), east (-50) and north (-50). Clearly, the girl child is a casualty of technology becoming more advanced and access to it getting easier. The law ex...10-year-old Pleads, 'Herceptin For My Mum, Please'
...er Herceptin refusal case in the UK, a 10-year-old girl whose mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer is seeking the help from her MP in order to ensure that her // mother gets the requisite treatment. Katie Morgan's mother, Susan wants to be treated with Herceptin, but Shropshire Primary Care Trust ...Indian-Born Doctor Diddy Shines In Germany
... in Essen as an associate professor and also met a girl named Monika, whom he was to marry later in the year. That was also when I started thinking about breaking out on my own or taking a shot at becoming chief of a hospital. I decided on private practice, said Diddy. But he had to first get a German M......ay in UK. It was very disturbing when a11-year-old girl had admitted taking heroin for two months. Neil Hunter, Glasgow Addiction Services Partnership, said that there was no overnight solution. This is because these people have complex problems. He said that about 1,200 people have access to training, em...‘Radiation Overdose Girl’ Is Picking Up the Threads of Her Lie
...her friends again” According to her parents, the girl has always been upbeat and has never left her condition bog her down. Her mother Liz said: "She has been brilliant through this. She did say that it would not keep her down, and it certainly hasn't. She has a great sense of humor, and she has really ...NHS Trust Wants Abortion Mother's Case To Be Dismissed
...defending the claims, says that Jayde is a healthy girl and that the amount being claimed by the mother was too heavy. "Nothing said to (Ms Dow) by the doctor could or did mention a warranty that her pregnancy would be terminated," advocate David Stephenson, representing the hospital authority, said. "NHS...H5N1 Bird Flu, Claims a Young Victim
... World Health Organization, a 3-year-old Cambodian girl has died// of H5N1 bird flu. She is the virus’ fir...nh. According to WHO spokeswoman Megge Miller, the girl is a confirmed positive case of H5N1. She said, "She has been confirmed positive with H5N1. Tests ha....... I hope he finds what he is looking for." Pete’s girl friend and famous model Kate Moss was also earlier in news regarding her drug past. She however went and got herself admitted to a de-addication center and has now vowed never to take drugs. (source: IANS...Use of forceps causes baby’s deat
...Lyme, Staffordshire, was charged of the death of a girl baby. // Olivia Rowlings died shortly after birth at a Shropshire hospital because Dr El-Khadem who delivered her used excessive force. The doctor said that he used a suction device and forceps because the baby was not in the right position. A Birm...Doctor Jailed For Abortion Racket In Haryana
...as a social evil. People should be proud to have a girl child." Punjab and Haryana have some of the worst sex ratios in the country. There are about 861 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, according to the census. The national average is 927 women to 1,000 men. In an article in The Lancet, Indian an...The Face Of Indian Health Care: A World Health Day Evaluation
... over a billion where the death of one single baby girl would mean nothing at all. But I bet the poor mother would dare to become pregnant again. July 2005, India: Ultaf Bi, a resident of Savali village in Karnataka presents to a primary healthcare centre in her village, with complaints of stomach ache....