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Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...isappearing, said Mounina. 'The country has been hit by years of drought and we simply don't have that kind of quantity of milk now, or the time it takes,' she added. In the market in the capital Nouakchott, Mounina pointed to all the women working in the stalls selling everything from brightly colou...

Not Enough Tankers to Supply Water

Drought hit towns in Queensland may not find the much needed reprieve yet. There are not enough tankers to supply water, and this is threatening to plunge Queensland into a// deeper crisis. The residents are peeved with the situation, despite Premier Peter Bea...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

... Quebec's aging health-care network as it has been hit hard in recent years by outbreaks of severe diarrhea caused by the bacterium C. difficile. It has been linked to insufficient disinfection procedures at provincial hospitals. Dr. Benoit Cousineau, of McGill University's Department of Microbiology a...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...ch was found to have adverse side effects after it hit the market. The drug did not have years of evidence to back its safety. AV/B...

Indonesia Struggles Against Bird Flu and the Drug Industry as Well

Indonesia, easily the worst hit by bird flu is also struggling to ensure that poor countries get their fair share of any new vaccine developed// to combat it. Since the first case was reported two years ago, government officials have reported 74 deaths from the H5N1 strain in Ind...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

...John Carnie says, “Organ transplant recipients are hit with a variety of drugs to suppress their immune system so that they don't reject the organ that's transplanted. So if you're immunosuppressed, any kind of infection can have devastating consequences, whether it's the common cold or influenza or anyt...

Qigong Help Chronically Ill People to Cope With Anxiety and Discrimination

...py when SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – hit Hong Kong" explains lead author Judy Yuen-man Siu,...ARS outbreak and 70 who enrolled after the disease hit Hong Kong. Three classes were observed for four months before the SARS crisis and for another fou...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...blished in the prestigious journal Science, due to hit newsstands tomorrow. “Our report shows how to use...terns unique to each substance. When a molecule is hit by an appropriate sequence of laser pulses, it gives off light in a specific ‘fingerprint’ pattern. ...

Families Need Help to Deal With Aftermath of Suicide Attempts

When a child attempts suicide, these emotions hit families like a Mack truck. Some family members bury their feelings deep inside and refuse to accept the stark reality. //Others spring into action and vow never again to let the child who attempted suicide of their sight. But no matter how a family ...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...d Orthopedic Institute of Chicago. The operation hit the U.S. market last spring with Food and Drug Administration approval of the British-designed Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System. Competitors are in clinical trials here, and expected to clear FDA later this year. More than 400,000 total or partial...

Different Approach Needed to Protect Brains of Premature Babies

...se for one hour. At all ages, the resulting damage hit hardest on glial cells, support cells that surround, nourish and protect brain cells; and axons, the treelike branches that brain cells use to communicate with each other. Studies of the brains of premature babies have found a similar pattern of inju...

Pranab Mukherjee was Back Home from Hospital

...l committees, sustained head injuries when a truck hit his car at Bethuadahari, 130 km from Kolkata, Saturday night. The truck swerved out of control after one of its tyres punctured and overturned on Mukherjee's car while he was on his way to Kolkata from Murshidabad, where he had gone to inaugurate a b...

Dengue Claims 41 Lives in Jakarta

...utheast Asia and the Western Pacific are the worst hit regions. Source-IANS/B...

Recovering Pranab Mukherjee Likely to Be Discharged Tomorrow

...nment, sustained severe head injuries when a truck hit his car at Bethuadahari, about 130 km from Kolkata Saturday night. The truck swerved out of control after one of its tyres punctured and overturned on Mukherjee's car. He was on his way to Kolkata from Murshidabad, where he had gone to inaugurate ...

Ancient Indian Herb May Prove Cure For Recurrent UTI

...b would expel the bacteria, where it would then be hit with antibiotics. With the reservoir of hiding bacteria cleared out, the infection should not recur", he avers. ANN/B...

Latest IPCC Report Highlights Need for Integrated Climate/human Behavior Models

...se. People in developing countries will be hardest hit by climate change. But as hurricane Katrina and the 2003 heat wave in Europe have showed us, that does not mean that people in the wealthiest countries will be spared." Tony McMichael, IPCC WG2 Review Editor Chapter 8, "Human Health" (Director, Nat...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

...aminated water. Water supply in Galway has been hit by an outbreak of a parasite called cryptosporidiu..., with up to 170 people now confirmed to have been hit by a serious stomach bug as a result. Stomach bug or stomach flu is a popular name for viral gast...

Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...et of recommendations, before the obesity epidemic hit with full force," says Matthew Gillman, MD, associate professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and senior author of the study. "Now, women are coming into pregnancy at higher weights and likely gaining excessively more than they ...

Toolkit Released To Employers Of Expecting Mothers

...ompanies with less than ten staff were the hardest hit financially ,when a worker became pregnant. In response, the EOC has produced a toolkit for employers containing practical advice on how to manage pregnant women and new parents, which was designed with the help of small businesses across the count...

Two More Suspected Avian Flu Deaths in Indonesia

...flu will rise to 71 since 2003 when bird flu first hit Asian countries. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a pandemic across the world. Source-IANS...

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