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Indonesian Tourism on Downward Trend After Java Quake

...per day. Adding to the scare for tourists is the nearby Mount Merapi, which has been rumbling for weeks. Experts said the quake had triggered a dramatic increase in the volcano's activity. Bagus Sudibyo, deputy chairman of the Indonesian Travel and Agencies Association, predicted that the loss to Yogyak...

Sugarcane Disease Causes Farm to be Quarantined

...rward process and would also begin surveillance on nearby properties. He mentioned that researchers suspected the disease to be one that has never been found in Queensland before.'I mean it's serious enough for us to warrant the processes that we've put in place,' he said. 'If we work through this proce...

After Weight Reduction People Opt For Special Plastic Surgery to Tone Their Body

...al group practice located throughout the Bronx and nearby Westchester. Montefiore treats all major illnesses and has distinguished centers of excellence in cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children's health, women's health, surgery and the surgical subspecialtie...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

...“Promoting and enhancing existing trails or adding nearby trails could be a useful intervention in rural communities,” Boehmer says. “They may be a more economical alternative than sidewalks in making it safer for rural residents to be physically active, particularly in areas with winding or narrow roads.” ...

Research Finds Lesser Rectal Cancer Risks Associated with Prostatic Irradiation

...also make men more likely to develop cancer in the nearby rectum. In this study, doctors in Canada evaluated the records of 237,773 men who had prostate cancer. Of them, 33,841 received radiation therapy, 167,607 had their prostate removed surgically and 36,335 received neither treatment. On an initial si...

Emergency Services To Face The Axe

...rvices, these plans are putting too much strain on nearby hospitals" "The motive is to save money and that is not right. A&E is an easy target as it is relatively expensive and the running costs are hard to predict because you do not know how many patients need to be treated. If we keep stripping these se...

Suspected Dengue Case Reported in Kalyan Area of Thane

...s of suspected dengue fever in Kalyan town, in the nearby Thane district, with the blood sample// of the affected being sent for investigations. "Chandrakant Patil a resident of Kalyan has shown symptoms of Dengue fever and we have sent his blood samples for further investigation and are awaiting the repor...

18 Die of Japanese Encephalitis in Upper Assam

...t, where nearly 100 others have been affected. In nearby Dhemaji district four children died of the disease even as the district administration swung into action to take preventive measures, the sources said. The affected people have been admitted to civil hospitals and nursing homes. The district admini...

Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury

...e coupled with sialidase treatment can coax other, nearby nerve cells within the spinal cord to grow out as well. “Once you rewire, then the brain does an amazing job of sorting it all out,” he says. Having established the ability of sialidase to improve spinal nerve regeneration into transplanted periph...

'Miracle Boy' Prince Declared Fit by Medical Team

... and then took him to the primary health centre at nearby Shahbad town. He was later taken to the Kurukshetra civil hospital for further check-ups. His parents, Ram Chander and Karamjit, were with him while doctors attended to him. "It's a miracle that the boy did not have any major injury despite falli...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Is Familial

...ime, they have been zeroing in on the gene and its nearby stretches of DNA, using analyses of single nucleotide polymorphisms that look at specific differences between individuals within the gene. At the same time, the Toronto group has been focusing on that same area in studies involving adults and childre...

Students of Dharamsala Hospitalized for Diarrhoea

...ause, the general assumption, he said, points to a nearby polluted stream and chemical fertilizers applied to the surrounding fields. As a precaution, the school is now using the underground water, even for washing, and that for the time being vegetables have been cut off from the menu of the school mess....

New Tool to Watch Real-Time Chemical Activity in Cells

...tein biosensor that indicates if an enzyme located nearby is turned on or off. The sensor is made from a protein that glows, originally isolated from jellyfish. When PKA is turned off, the biosensor glows blue. When PKA is turned on and is physically close to a biosensor, PKA itself changes the shape of the...

Death of girl Suspected to be due to Bird flu Outbreak

...we still could get more supply within an hour from nearby hospitals.'' He assured that Ban Pho Hospital has set up special teams of doctors and medical staff to deal with suspicious cases of bird flu and a drill is planned for September to test their readiness. On July 26 Thai health authorities confirme...

Skin Cells Make Use of Geographic Co-Ordinates to Reach Their Destination

...d adjust their behavior based on interactions with nearby cells, or they deduce their ‘positional identity’ through the use of some type of coordinate system. The findings from the new Stanford study bolster the second possibility. The scientists analyzed the gene-expression profiles of adult fibroblasts fr...

Quack Couples Arrested for Conducting Illegal Abortions

...of the hospital. Police sealed the premises of a nearby ultrasound test clinic after it was pointed out that the sex of the unborn children was being detected there in violation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act. Punjab has one of the worst sex ratios in the country at around 800 females ...

Anthrax claims lives of 700 animals.

...r animal health. Animals in the affected farms and nearby farms have been placed under quarantine and do not form part of the food loop. Animals are also being vaccinated to contain the spread of disease and to offset any more setbacks to animal health. ...

Environmental Surrounding Affects Human Behaviour

...their kids play outside whereas, the families in a nearby cluster of six homes on native Sonoran desert hardly know each other. This difference in behaviour may be due to the difference in the environmental surroundings. David Casagrande (Western Illinois University) and Scott Yabiku (ASU) and colleagues...

Forty-Six Suspected Bird Flu Cases In Thailand

...pected of having the disease, while eight are from nearby Nakhon Sawan Province and five in Bangkok's neighboring Nonthaburi Province. So far no victim of the deadly disease has been found in Bangkok. Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has approved a budget to build 100 more patient rooms at hospitals n...

China Orders Ducks Slaughter To Contain Bird Flu

...he ministry added that no cases were reported from nearby farms. The Chinese government also confirmed that the man who died on July 12 in northwestern region of Xinjiang was affected by bird flu. That brought the country's total toll to 14....

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