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New AMA Survey Finds Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors

...pletely get out of patient care when Medicare cuts hit next year. "Physicians are working hard to improve quality of care for patients, but this short-sighted government payment policy makes it difficult to purchase new technologies used to help improve care," said Dr. Wilson. "Congress needs to take a...

Humans Could Face Greater Bird Flu Risk, Indonesia Warns

Researchers in Indonesia, the country worst hit by bird flu, have found preliminary evidence which suggests humans could be more susceptible to infection, an official warned Wednesday . The head of Indonesia's national committee for bird flu control, Bayu Krisnamurthi, also told reporters the hu...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...egion. Neighbouring Indonesia, the country worst hit by bird flu, has recorded 99 human infections, 79 of them fatal. Thailand has reported 25 human cases, including 17 fatalities. H5N1 has killed 188 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...h Hong Kong teenagers vibrates to the latest dance hit as a pair cavort on stage dressed in the skimpiest of outfits. "Scream louder if you want more," a DJ shouts to the cavernous hall, while on stage the male dancer in low-cut jeans throws his female partner onto his lap in a frenetic routine in tim...

Mental Illness Foremost Reason for Absenteeism

...e number of prescriptions for anti-depressants had hit an all-time high....

Zimbabwe Receives 15m Dollars of AIDS Drugs from US

...ercent. Zimbabwe is one of the countries hardest hit by the HIV and AIDS pandemic with at least 3,000 people dying weekly from AIDS-related illness -- or about one person every three minutes -- according to the National AIDS Council. The country has also experienced an upsurge in number of TB cases l...

Georgia Hit With African Swine Fever: FAO

Georgia has been hit by African swine fever, a devastating pig disease that could also threaten neighbouring countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. "This is a dramatic development," said Jan Slingenbergh, senior animal health officer at the Rome...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...tness, it said. In southwestern Yunnan province, hit by an earthquake last weekend, hundreds of students displaced by the quake took the test in makeshift tents. "China is in the grips of summer gaokao madness," Xinhua said. The pressure is driving growing numbers to cheat, some through ever-more adv...

Its Boy and Girl Twins for Gurinder Chadha

...d her latest project is the film adaptation of 80s hit Dallas....

Overuse of Popular Console can Cause 'Wiiitis' in Gamers

...s to control the action in video games. But the hit gaming system may also have a downside - a newly diagnosed ailment called Wiiitis (pronounced Wee-i-tis), according to a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Julio Bonis, 29, from Barcelona came up with the diagnosis af...

Hospitals in Older Cities Close Down, Blacks Worst Affected

...ood Johnson Foundation. But few cities have been hit as hard as Detroit. The number of hospitals in the city has dwindled to seven or eight from 42 in 1960, said Alan Sager, director of the Health Reform Program at Boston University's School of Public Health. Hospitals that are larger, have major med...

Alzheimers Incidence is Set to Quadruple by 2050

The number of those hit by the debilitating Alzheimers across the globe would quadruple by 2050, and the biggest jump is projected for Asia. At the moment the continent has almost half of todays Alzheimers patients, at 12.6 million. By 2050, the region will have 62.8 mi...

A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug

...s to make it to large-scale, Phase III testing has hit a hurdle, and scientists will have to wait until at least month's end to learn if the much-anticipated drug Alzhemed really works. The problem is statistical, said lead researcher Dr. Paul Aisen of Georgetown University: Hospital-to-hospital differ...

Some Indonesian Fowl Not Showing Usual Bird Flu Symptoms

...icial said Monday. Indonesia, the country worst hit by bird flu, with 79 fatalities, has been struggling to control H5N1 outbreaks across its vast archipelago. "From our observations during 2007 we have found that chickens infected by bird flu have not been showing the usual symptoms," Memed Zulkarn...

Nearly Thirteen Percent of Vietnam's Waterfowls Carry H5N1

...y of agriculture and rural development. Bird flu hit Vietnam in December 2003 and has spread to 16 Vietnamese cities and provinces nationwide....

Indonesia Facing Massive Hurdles Against Bird Flu

...enza remains a big problem. Indonesia is the worst hit from the deadly H5N1 virus, recording 79 deaths from 99 human cases detected since bird flu broke out two years ago in all but two of its 33 provinces. El Bushra, regional adviser with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) communicable disease tea...

Kerala Government Sanctions Funds for Chikungunya-affected Districts

... The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where farmers use plastic cups and coconut shells to collect rubber milk and leave it open, making it a breeding ground for the mosquitoes. Like dengue, another mosquit...

Prostate Cancer Claims More Life Than Breast Cancer

... Challenge in honor of Father's Day. Each home run hit in 60 selected games from June 6 through Father's Day on June 17 will raise money for prostate cancer....

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

...nalists. Eight of Assam's 29 districts have been hit by the mosquito-borne disease. "Between January and April, some 25 people have died of malaria and 9,721 people tested positive for the disease in the same period," the minister said. Unofficial reports put the death toll at around 40. Experts sa...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...se the disease can spread rapidly by air, it could hit multiple producers if not detected, leading to a regional outbreak. The shortage is blamed on graduates of veterinary schools who opt for the regular hours and assumed better pay of small animal medicine, though surveys indicate the pay difference ...

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