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Married Women, Children Most Anemic in India

...ver the last seven years. Among the states worst hit by the blood shortage syndrome, Andhra Pradesh has 79 percent children suffering from Anemia, Rajasthan 79.8 percent and Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh over 82 percent. As many as 63.2 percent children in the three to six year age bracket and 43.4 pe...

Red Ribbons, Curls and Retro Hairstyles Popular on Valentine's Day

... red among hair colors and accessories were a huge hit during the 'love week'. "Blessed with dark hair, Indians females sported roses, red ribbons, feathers, heart-shaped hair accessories and pearls, which are my favorite. Men went in for long hair and the beach-wet look," added Dar. "Ribbons, clips,...

HIV/AIDS Prevention in Caribbean Schools Curriculum

.... The Dominican Republic and Haiti are the hardest hit among the Caribbean countries and rank as the second region after sub-Saharan Africa. The OECS, now in existence for 25 years, comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguill...

Cancer Research May Help Biofuels

...ially, fuels enhanced by Targeted's technology may hit pumps in four years or so. Genetic modification, Todaro admits, isn't popular with the public, but it enjoys strong support in many parts of the scientific community. It cuts down pesticide use, can help farmers earn more profits, and the evidence...

Anti-Aging Powers of Enzyme Sirtuins

...in addition to the intended target, the drugs also hit other biologically active molecules that you don't want to affect," he says. "This nicotinamide-binding site we've identified appears to be unique to the sirtuins, so that if we're able to design a molecule to target it, it should be very specific fo...

Soldiers Readying to Fight Stress With Yoga

...s posted in inhospitable terrain and in insurgency hit areas. A select group of army and paramilitary personnel were trained here recently in a six-day yoga camp conducted by Swami Ramdev to enable them conduct special sessions among their colleagues. "In order to hold regular yoga and psychology c...

Genetic Disease Hits Kashmir Village

...etic disease that causes deafness and dumbness has hit a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district. All the victims belong to Gujjar community. // Health and Medical Education Minister Mangat Ram Sharma told the state assembly Thursday that at least 72 cases of the disease have surfaced in Gan...

AIIMS Official Files Complaint Against Venugopal

... for going against Venugopal's wishes. One of them hit me from the back... "On Monday, when I reached my office I was again restrained by the security guard in the presence of several other people. I also noticed that the lock of my room has been broken and replaced with a new one," the police complai...

Indonesia Has Stopped Sharing Vital Bird Flu Data

Indonesia, the country worst hit by the flu pandemic, has stopped sharing human genetic samples of the most deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu with foreign laboratories last// month. This was due to its raising fears of the international efforts to fight the highly pathogenic illness ...

Bird Flu Claims Next Egyptian Victim

...ore vulnerable to avian flu. The H5N1 strain has hit at least 45 countries and killed more than 150 people worldwide. The discovery of avian flu in the Middle East has led to widespread culling of birds. The World Health Organization has reported that mutations in the virus have been found in two fat...

U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic

...ck and dead per capita as St. Louis, which had was hit weeks later by the virus moving inland from the Ea... in 1918, including St. Louis and Cincinnati, were hit by a milder spring wave of the virus. That would have, in effect, inoculated their citizens against ...

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer Injuries

.... The overall pediatric soccer-related injury rate hit a peak in 2000 with approximately two injuries per 1,000 children in the country. “To reduce the soccer-related injury rate to the lowest possible level, the prevalence and causes of such injuries must be understood,” said co-author Dawn Comstock,...

NIMH Studies Woman’s Hormonal Cycl

...gan) than in the post-ovulatory phase. When they hit the jackpot and actually won a reward, women in the pre-ovulatory phase activated the striatum and circuit areas linked to pleasure and reward more than when in the post-ovulatory phase. The researchers also confirmed that the reward-related brain...

Hand-foot-mouth Disease Scare Causes Temporary Shut Down of Malaysian Preschools

.... We hope the public, especially parents, will not hit the panic button as we are taking pro-active measures.’ The present scare brought back memories of two major outbreaks in the previous year, which had led to the closure of 25 kindergartens and preschools in the state. The disease has no connecti...

Dengue Fever Hits Indonesia, 75 Dead

...epti mosquito, she said. West Java was the worst hit province with a total of 42 people dead due to the viral since early this month. The province has recorded 1,889 confirmed cases. Source-IANS...

RVF Outbreak Kills 148 in Kenya

... Thursday//. The contagious disease, which first hit parts of Kenya's Northeastern and Coast provinces ...has said a dilapidated infrastructure in the worst hit areas would make treatment difficult and feared the disease would spread quickly. A similar outbre...

Child Care Centres in Tsunami Hit Indonesia

In Aceh and Nias island of Indonesia which was hit by Tsunami in 2004, the UNICEF has built 226 mothe...s besides developmental activities in this Tsunami hit land. According to UNICEF's Chief of Field Office in Aceh Edouard Beigbeder, these centers strengt...

UN Sends Medicine to Afghanistan

...r, Herat, Balkh, Badakshan and Bamiyan – have been hit particularly hard, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). The agency is creating a Disease Early Warning System by sending surveillance teams to the affected areas and distributing medical kits with 120,000 doses of antibiotics for t...

Quitting Not Easy for Smokers Born to Smoking Women

...Each push of the lever was roughly equivalent to a hit from a cigarette. The researchers studied two groups of rats: those that had been exposed to nicotine prenatally and those that had not. Initially, both groups of rats consumed nicotine at the same rates -- about ten hits per session. After four we...

Noah, the Great Survivor of Katrina

...olant tanks, frozen in liquid nitrogen when floods hit the hospital. The embryo-containing tanks were moved from the first floor to the third as the hurricane waters entered the hospital and rose till 8 feet and cut off the electricity. IVF is a complicated and expensive procedure involving: administ...

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