Orissa Villagers Jubilant as Girl Cleared Class X Examination
A girl in Orissa's Bhadrak district has cleared the class X examination - a feat no girl of her village has achieved so far. // The Belagadia village, some 150 km from the state capital o...Budding Footballers at Risk from Blood Infection
...all boots. The first case involves a 13-year-old girl who developed friction blisters over the heels of both legs after playing a competitive game of football in new boots. After developing symptoms such as fever, abnormally low blood pressure, rash, vomiting and diarrhea, she was admitted to a local ...Woman Delivers Identical Quadruplets
... a software professional based here, delivered the girl babies- Aditi, Aakriti, Akshathi, Aapthi, at the Apollo Hospitals on April 25 last, ten weeks prior to her full term, without any medical complications, doctors said. The babies weighed 825 to 980 gms at birth, they said. Talking to reporters here,...Two-year old Girl With Polio Detected in UP
...s (WHO) surveillance team detecting a two-year-old girl affected with polio virus in the district //. WH...Officer Salman Khan today said that a two-year-old girl from Shahpur Tahar Khera village of the district has been detected with polio. "She has been detec...Cancer Survivor Gives Birth To Baby Girl
...Director of Fertile Hope has given birth to a baby girl named Paisley Jane Beck on June 1. This is an exciting // event for Beck who was diagnosed with tongue cancer at the age of 22. And like many cancer patients she face permanent infertility. Facing a void of resources concerning the effects of canc...HIV Test is Becoming Mandatory as a Part of Pre-marriage Exercise
...eople wanting to get their report changed. "One girl wanted her report changed. She asked for a negative report despite the fact that she had HIV," said a doctor. (Source: IANS News)...Lightning Kicks Up a Furore in the Mobile Industry
...ty and death. In one such instance a 15-year-old girl was struck by lightning while using her mobile in a London park. Though she survived she is in a wheelchair with physical, mental and emotional problems. Statistics show that about 30-60 people are struck by lightning each year in Britain. The doctor...Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal
... in the capital. "There are growing incidents of girl students in Class 9 and above being subjected to sexual abuse by the soldiers," says Tarak Dhital, whose NGO, Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), is a member of the campaign. "There are such reports from remote districts like Rukum, Salyan and Bajura, a...Little Makoda-Poster Girl For Leukemia Awareness Campaign Losses Her Battle Of Life
...from an acute form of leukemia. She was the poster girl for the B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation's late...ina two years ago. It was reported that the little girl was abandoned near a government office in Chongqing, and that the identity of her biological parents...Blind Girl Students to Catwalk in Guwahati Fashion Show
...will sashay down the catwalk alongside eight blind girl students at a unique fashion show in this Assam city// . Preparations are on for the show 'Light Up the World' slated for July 17 at the ornate Pragjyoti cultural centre in Guwahati. Young fashion designer Himangshu Bora is busy training the eight e...Steps to End Discrimination of AIDS Patients
... check spread of AIDS and crimes against women and girl children, he said. The proposed bill had provisions to institute advisory committees involving social organisations and a Health Ombudsman to look into the issues. Parliamentary Standing Committee (Home) Chairperson Sushma Swaraj, who also spoke, s...Medical Student Admitted To Hospital After Ragging
A girl medical student from Visva Bharati University was so traumatised after ragging by her seniors that she had to be admitted to hospital//. The girl, a first year student of Sangeet Bhawan and a resident of Ananda Sadan hostel was ragged by three to ...NHS 24 Is A Failure. Says Sheriff
... ruled that the system failed in case of a teenage girl and a 30-year-old man. "In each case, had these signs and symptoms which were presenting been properly identified, or [had] the fact that they could not be properly understood been itself identified, there is a strong likelihood that each of the pa...Mainpuri- First District in Uttar Pradesh to Impart Sex-Education to Girls
...strict in Uttar Pradesh to impart sex education to girl students of 70 junior high schools, officials said today. // The state government had selected Mainpuri and Allahabad districts to start the sex education in which girls will be educated about the HIV/AIDS and other sex-related problems, they said....Bird Flu in Thailand Suspected to be H5N1 Strain
...urred in December 2005. On Monday an 11-year-old girl was admitted to a Pichit hospital with flu-like symptoms after the death of several chickens on her family farm. Test results are due on Tuesday. Sunee Thirakaroonwongse of the Pichit Provincial Hospital said, "The chickens started to die on July 8...Complex Surgery Performed on Eight-Month-Old Egyptian Girl
...cessfully performed on an eight-month-old Egyptian girl at a leading private hospital here.// Ebtisam Ibrahim was initially evaluated by a team of paediatric cardiologists of Frontier Lifeline Hospital and was diagnosed to have complete atrio-ventricular septal defect with lung pressures -- a condition ...GAO Investigation Questions Validity of DNA Testing Kits
... DNA samples from two test subjects, a 9-month-old girl and a 48-year-old man, created 14 fictitious consumers from those samples, and sent the tests back for analysis. Although the websites for all four companies claimed that the test results were not intended to diagnose disease, the GAO found the per...An 18-year-old French teenage girl was admitted appearing unsteady and mentally slugg...the patient's night table. He said that when the girl was questioned as to what she was doing with the bag, "she showed us how she used to breathe directl...Women And Children Worse Off In Case Of HIV/AIDS
...women and children are more vulnerable from HIV. A girl child is also the most likely one to be withdrawn// from school if anyone in the family happens to be infected with AIDS. The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) estimates that women number at least 2 million of the 5.2 million HIV/AIDS cases i...Medical College Admission Denied for Physically Disabled Student
...e has below 70 percent disability. The Sambalpur girl was asked to undergo a physical test by the Burla college despite the certificate by the district medical officer R.C. Nanda. The medical board comprised the heads of orthopaedic, surgery and medicine departments as well as Nanda. Citing 87 percent...