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Skewed Sex Ratio! No Problem, We Will Buy Tribes - Says Patel Community In Gujarat

...towards female sex said: 'the aversion towards the girl has been around for centuries.' In ancient days, e...ere practiced in the community in which a new-born girl child was killed by drowning her in a pot of milk.' But today to the contrary to the above practice...

Whet your appetite with “Mindless Eating”: A gourmet's deligh!

...e liquor store clerk switch pricetags, so the poor girl thought she was drinking a $9.50 bottle of good stuff from Normandy instead of some $2 gem called "Night Train Express".One food expert called Wansink the "Sherlock Holmes of Food" because of his sneaky, scientific investigative skills. Another obser...

Gender Might Have a Say in How Your Child Speaks

Whether a child is a boy or a girl may well be the clue to how it grasps and uses language, according to a study claiming to be the first of its kind.// A discovery from two Georgetown neuroscientists put it that boys and girls use different ways of processing language. While female ...

Child Dies After Meal, Vitamin Dose

A six-year-old girl died and five children were taken ill after taking mid-day meal and a spoonful of Vitamin A at their government school here.// The meal Friday was given as part of the national child nutrition programme aimed at preventing blindness.The children, a...

Vaccines For Cervical Cancer Will Soon Be Available In Developing Nations

...tive when given to girls aged under-13, before the girl begins her sex life. Dr Jacqueline Sherris, from PATH, said, "There is an increasing commitment on the part of global community to supplement the cost of the vaccine in the initial years of its availability so companies can make the profit they nee...

Over 50 Vietnamese Girls Faint Due to Mass 'Hysteria'

...rls". School and medical officials said the first girl to faint was brought to the Vong Dong Senior Secondary School's nurse Thursday. The five girls that accompanied the 13-year-old to the nurse's office then fell unconscious. Emergency medical personnel arrived to take the children to hospital. Dozen...

Insurance Cover for Girl Child

... Development has proposed insurance cover for each girl child to provide incentives //for the upbringing o... cover of one lakh rupees will be provided for the girl child as a safety net and also to enable the girl to receive a lump sum at the age of 18 years. Br...

Corporate Inc Awakening To Economic Impact Of HIV

...IDS also increases the workload on the elderly and girl children, said Bery. HIV households spend 400 percent more than non-HIV households on medical expenses and have a lower per capita outlay on education. The NCAER survey also shows that HIV households are higher borrowers than non-HIV ones, with 46...

Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005

...t number recorded in almost 90 years. The young girl had been to Romania as a missionary to an orphanage. Unwittingly she brought back this infection that tore apart the carefully built up immunisation regime against the disease by the health officials in her home state, Indiana. The one grave lapse f...

Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?

...equivalent of 7 peanuts. The parents now allow the girl to go out to play and to birthday parties without them.'Our whole worry level is really gone.' This experiment should not be tried on your own, warns lead researcher Dr. A. Wesley Burks of Duke University Medical Center. Children involved in the st...

Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

... the skeletons while investigating the murder of a girl who was missing from Nithari village, adjoining the area, for the past six months. "We have recovered 16 skeletons till now, but the figure could rise as more skeletal remains are being found from the drain," said Rajesh Kumar Singh Rathore, senior...

Brain-Damaged Girl Frozen in Time to Remain Child-Sized Forever

...ild for the sake of convenience. The Seattle-born girl is described as ‘Pillow Angel’ by her parents as she stays where they place her (usually on a pillow). She suffers from a rare brain condition known as static encephalopathy, which means she cannot sit or talk and is fed by tube. Three years ago, h...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

...ember we detected the case in a five-year-old baby girl in Jammu," said a top official of the National Polio Project who declined to be named. "The recent surge in the cases in north India is a cause of worry. The first case from Jammu is a clear indication that the polio strain is constantly covering n...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

...he first transplant was performed on a 26-year-old girl in Saudi’s Fahad hospital. She had a uterus transplanted from live donor, but had to have it removed when blood flow to the donor organ stopped. Yet scientists regard the operation as a success. Says Julia Rowland, director of the National Cancer...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...her son, Crown Prince Dipendra's desire to marry a girl of his own choice is regarded as one of the factors that led to the infamous palace massacre in June 2001. Unlike the presidential wives in the US, the prime ministerial wives in Nepal however have mostly kept a low profile and remained out of lime...

To Russia With Love-Bird Flu Strikes

...n authorities have revealed that an eight-year-old girl has become the latest person in the country to die from it. The deadly strain of bird flu, H5N1, has claimed dozens of human lives since it first appeared in Asia in 2003, and it has since spread worldwide. Scientists fear the virus could mutate ...

Meet the Youngest Sex Change Patient

...is a female as per legal records. She looks like a girl with all the typical girlish qualities. Dr. Bern Meyenburg, the head of a clinic for children and adolescents said, "Kim is a mentally well-developed child who appears happy and balanced. There is no doubt of the determined wish, that was already d...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

Bhubaneswar: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly operated on her leg instead of her p...rom here, the// patient's father complained. The girl was a victim of an unusual case of polio affecting the hand, but the surgeons on Saturday operated u...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

...w hope. The family spokesperson said the baby is a girl and that Cecilia was a possible name the couple had discussed before her stroke. As with all knowledge, ethical aspects have assumed an important criterion in the use and abuse of emerging technology. There have been regulatory procedures to limit...

Bird Flu Claims Next Egyptian Victim

A 17-year-old girl is the next to succumb to bird flu, bringing the d...illance for the World Health Organization said the girl was believed to have been infected after coming into contact with sick and dead birds. Egypt's sta...

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