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Police Raids Hospitals and Labs in Orissa

...trict. Police conducted raids jointly with health officials and social activists yesterday, and registered cases of female infanticide. They also sealed several unregistered pathological clinics and private hospitals in Nayagarh district. "Investigation is going on regarding the case. The identity of sweepe...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...the April 12 Caesarean birth of her daughter, with officials calling it contaminated bio-hazardous waste. The judge ordered the hospital not to destroy the placenta, which was frozen, and ordered that it be turned over to Swanson within two weeks. When Anne Swanson gave birth to her first child in 2002, s...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...e growing foreing concern, top Japanese government officials and business leaders were to hold an emergency meeting Friday on import safety. China is Japan's second-largest supplier of food after the United States. To safeguard export quality, China plans to increase communications with trading partners, L...

Katrina Evacuees Made To Remain In Toxic Air

...de fumes. In a conference call about the death, 28 officials from six agencies recommended that the circumstanc...changed track and said it has asked federal health officials to help conduct a new assessment of conditions in trailers under prolonged use. But revelation of th...

Diarrhoea Claims Three Lives in Flood-hit Orissa

... Balasore district where floods have played havoc, officials said Saturday . The disease has gripped over 20 v...ferent health centres in the district while health officials were taking care of others in their respective villages, additional district medical officer R.N. Pa...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...erpromotion of OxyContin doesn't happen again. But officials objected to any ties between the plea agreement and abuse of the drug. Many of those who gave statements had spoken at a rally before the hearing. "One of my main infuriations with that company is that for years they denied there was an epidemi...

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...female foeticide in the state's Nayagarh district, officials said . On July 14, seven female foetuses, about eight months old, were found in polythene packets at Pratapgarh cave near Duburi in Nayagarh district, some 100 km from here, by local residents. Police has registered a case in this connection, but...

US Patient Implanted With HeartMate II, Leaves ICU

...st device that keeps his heart pumping. Hospital officials said it's the longest stay the cardiothoracic ICU has had, and that a lot of technology was used to keep Wilson Guthrie alive. "We're very excited to see him go home," Guthrie's sister, Teresa Rico, a family practitioner, said. "He's a lot better."...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...l progress has in fact been made.'' Belshe said officials are trying to figure out whether more harm would b...emergency care. In a written response, hospital officials said they had made changes, such as adding training for emergency room staff, improving methods for ...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

...ge is that the pills are not a "magic bullet," and officials urge users to use Alli only along with exercise and a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet. But because Alli can interfere with vitamin absorption, it can affect how medications act in the body. The drug is not recommended for children under 18, people wi...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

... to eliminate preventable diseases, senior health officials were expected to announce Friday in Malaysia. Heal...ns. In a draft declaration obtained by AFP, health officials and experts urged Muslim states to develop and produce its own vaccines to ensure reliable supply an...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

...e government would study the report but added that officials were "continually looking at new ways of working to ensure a joined-up approach."...

Robot Hosts South Korean Wedding

...ed as a world first. And last September government officials unveiled a high-tech, machine gun-toting sentry robot that could support troops along the heavily fortified border with North Korea....

Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts

...spotty, Vietnamese and international animal health officials have warned. "We've had bird flu for four years," said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's Vietnam bird flu specialist Jeffrey Gilbert. "Everyone's tired of it... but it's going on, and we are increasingly challenged to get these messages acro...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...reen slime, the newspaper said. Local government officials were monitoring water quality "by the hour" in the lake, Zhang Bangguo, Anhui province Environmental Protection Agency chief engineer was quoted as saying, describing the situation as "grave." Last Tuesday the algae scare in Lake Taihu triggered a de...

After Bringing Cheer Rains Choke Delhi's Roads

...l sight during the rains," said Nazvi Ahmed. The officials at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said...re was six degrees below normal at 22 degrees. The officials have forecast pleasant weather till Wednesday. While the city dwellers are relieved from the scorc...

Volunteers Remove Garbage from Kashmir's Dal Lake

While officials continue to brood over exhaustive plans for its survival, some tourists and locals are setting an example to preserve Kashmir's famed Dal Lake - fishing out tonnes of garbage that threatens to choke the lake. A large number of people, including fo...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...als will be barred for a period of three years and officials will be fired from their posts, if found guilty. The license of the offending doctors will be revoked. The penalty fee will be raised to ten times the potential profit. The new move by the state council attempts to standardize transplant surgery pr...

Delhi Sees the Sun but Turns Cloudy Again

...answered with the city skies turning cloudy. And officials at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had good news to offer. "The skies will remain cloudy for the better part of the day and there are chances of rain and thundershowers accompanied by a squall by evening," an official told IANS. The maxi...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

...outhern Thailand and then ambushed and killed four officials who came to investigate the arson Tuesday, police ... Ambushes claimed four lives Tuesday morning when officials and soldiers went to Maikaen to inspect the burned school site. One bomb, hidden near a bridge lea...

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