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Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...or living standards and unhygienic conditions make members of the Mushahar community of Dalits an easy prey to the disease. The kala azar, medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis, is also known as the poor man's disease because it affects the poorest of the poor. According to sources in the state gover...

Bidi Workers Protest Against Using Skull and Crossbones Sign on Packets

... workers their wages and other dues". Federation members estimate that manufacturers have defaulted by Rs.1 billion in benefits due to workers and associated staff in the industry in these three districts alone. The federation has threatened an indefinite strike from June 1 if the government does not me...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

... an Act the same month. On 7th June 1920, fifty members were formally nominated to constitute the Indian R...est voluntary blood banks in India since 1962. The members regularly organise motivational campaigns to promote Voluntary Blood Donation. It has more than 100 ...

Operation on Pillow Angel Violated Laws, Says US Advocacy Group

...hat of an infant, unlikely to ever change." Family members call her their "pillow angel." In 2004, when Ashley was 6, her uterus and breast buds were removed, and she received a high-dose estrogen therapy. As a result, Ashley was frozen as a child. She attained her full growth at 4 feet 5 inches and 75 pou...

South Africa Increasing Efforts To Contain Drug-Resistant TB, Minister Says

...TB. The health department also is tracing family members and other people who have been in contact with someone diagnosed with MDR-TB or XDR-TB to ensure the disease has not been transmitted, Mseleku said. In addition, the National Health Laboratory Service has been examining archives to determine if previ...

Curb the Pocket Money, Curb the Problem Drinking

...ment, Prevention, and Policy. Teenagers who were members of youth groups or who had alcohol bought for them by parents were more likely to drink sensibly, the study also revealed. The authors highlight a number of potential interventions including limiting and monitoring young people's funds, upping the ...

School-Employed Voyeur Jailed Over Making Pornography

... of the breast and groin areas of girls and female members of staff, by drilling holes in the walls of the school bathrooms. He also drilled a large hole in the kindergarten floor to take pictures "upwards from the legs of female teachers". Mayne superimposed the snaps on to photographs of adults engagi...

US County to Compensate Woman Wrongly Quarantined for TB

...ses required the testing of 600 students and staff members at schools in the county. Nationally, officials have expressed concern about the rising number of drug-resistant cases of the disease. A tuberculosis patient who has been quarantined for nine months in the prison ward of a Phoenix hospital as a...

Million Mentally Ill in India

The mentally ill are the most vulnerable members of our society and are most prone to abuse, neglec... minister replying to the concern expressed by the members of the committee accepted that the county faces an acute shortage of mental health professionals. He...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...ta, a new website is being launched on SubbaRow by members of a group called SubbaRow Club. The website would contain tapes of the interviews taken of colleagues of the scientist as well as 100 photographs. The Nehru Memorial Library is providing the platform to launch the site, said Gupta. Gupta and other ...

A Stroll Along Countryside Could Reduce Depression and Raise Self-esteem

...walk in an indoor shopping centre. A group of 20 members of Mind, England and Wales leading mental health charity, participated in the study. While 71 per cent of the participants showed decreased depression levels after the country walk, 90 per cent reported increased self-esteem. In contrast, only 45...

Government Plans to Set Up Drug Banks in All Districts

...he Drug Controller's office have been nominated as members of the committee. The committee would also assess feasibility of a district illness fund and an anti-cancer fund, the minister added. Paswan said his ministry was planning to increase the number of scheduled drugs under the government price contr...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

... license. Two years ago, 600 students and staff members were evacuated from an Edinburg, Texas, elementary school after pesticides drifted from a cotton field into the school's air conditioning system. Thirty-nine people developed nausea and headaches. EPA officials say they have no real idea how often...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...said. These exams determine whether former service members are experiencing PTSD and how severe it is. Currently, the time devoted to the evaluations varies widely as does the amount of detail examiners provide to the raters who determine the appropriate level of compensation. Moreover, many veterans denie...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

... on Saturdays and Sundays. Often, they operated on members of the same household on the same day. Chan is accused of performing procedures on 208 patients, which resulted in more than $9.5 million in insurance billing with more than $1.8 million collected for the unnecessary and fraudulent work. Rosenberg...

Sanctions Imposed On Zimbabwe Can Threaten International Health Security

... of Zimbabwe. Britain, its fellow European Union members and the United States, imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe following the country's land reform program. Says Parirenyatwa: "Some powerful countries have imposed economic and other forms of sanctions on our country. The knock-on effects these measures are...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...t my breach of the rules has set a poor example to members of the public whose opinion I cherish dearly. Years go I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone as treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications. I had in my...

Marathon for a Cause: To Fight Against Kidney Disease

...City Marathon. A number UAE senior officials and members of the UAE diplomatic missions in Washington and United Nations in New York witnessed the launch of the sports event....

Combining NSAIDs With Chemotherapy May Improve Cancer Therapy

... of the UI team. Trask, Goswami and Domann all are members of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI. Goswami and Domann added that when radiation is used to treat head and neck cancers after surgery, the cells most resistant to radiation therapy are in the S phase. Thus celecoxib's selective kil...

Minorities Prefer Counseling and Prayer to Drugs for Treating Depression

...ssion, diagnosis and treatment are less likely for members of minority populations. Junling Wang, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Tennessee, College of Pharmacy, recently published a study showing that African-American and Hispanic patients use SSRI antidepressants, which include commonly prescrib...

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