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Cancer Survivor to Run Half-marathon

...tween Sep 7 and Oct 1, and travel for 130 hours by plane as part of his endeavour. His final run will be at Newcastle upon Tyne in Britain Oct 1. He will run another half-marathon in Mumbai Tuesday. ICI Dulux, where Young works as a management consultant, is supporting the cost of his runs. Sir Ranu...

Chicken Pox Fears Cause Captain To Force Baby From Flight

...ld baby son in Tenerife after the captain// of the plane refused to take the baby onboard since he had a spot on his head. The captain thought it was chicken pox. The boy was left with his grandparents since his mom had an interview to attend. My Travel's agent, Direct Holidays, said that the captain fol...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

...When the call came, Gairett's parents had him on a plane to Toronto and on the operating table in less than 24 hours. As Bill MacIver, Gairett's father said, "There was no time to panic. Your stomach knots up and it's just `holy cow,' because you've always known it was going to happen but never believed it...

Chinese Doctors Transplant Heart From Brain-Dead Patient

...ned a formal consent letter and was transported by plane to Jinan. (Source:PTI News)...

Travel-Related Blood Clots Can Be Reduced By Using Flight Stockings

... a person is stationary for many hours, be it on a plane or train, in luxury accommodations or in coach quarters.There is no definitive link between air travel and increased risks for traveler’s thrombosis, but some evidence suggests that flights of eight hours or more increase the chances that a person wi...

Plane Facts: Beneficial To Have Medics Full-Time In Super Jets

...re to those who fall ill. The largest passenger plane in the world, the Airbus A380, is capable of carrying nearly 840 passengers. Statistics show that the frequency of such requirements arise almost with every one in 1,400 passengers have had an on-board medical emergency ,out of which 8% of those inci...

Chip of a Woman: A 'Human Dairy', Who Has Scientists’ Eating Out Of Her Hands

... wife was murdered, even the date of the Lockerbie plane crash. Not only that, she also instantly associates her actions during a recalled event and even the weather during that day. When she was posed a question in November 2003 to describe every Easter since 1980, the 40-year-old Jewish woman supplied r...

Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries

... I may be, but would you let an airhostess fly the plane with your family in it? ,' wrote another doctor. 'Top grades at A-level, five years of university training, then a minimum of three years further practice. Make sure you take your advice from someone who has done their homework,' read another put u...

Move Over Chicken - Rabbit Meat, All Set to Bridge the Gulf

Kerala: Rabbits might soon find themselves on the plane to the gulf, not so much for greener pastures but to suit the changing palates of people in the Gulf. // The demand for rabbit meat has increased following the bird flu scare, and is much like the oasis in the desert, for what was a dry gulf palate s...

Nigerian girl recovering well after removal of brain tumor

... of Faridah's schoolmates were killed in a Dec. 10 plane crash as they traveled home for the holidays. The students at Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja, Nigeria, had helped raise money for Faridah. Mariam and her daughter arrived in Cleveland nine days after the crash. Feridah now has a stack of get well c...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

...spatial arrangement of these atoms in a particular plane that makes all the difference. The systematic study, manipulation and modification of these nanometer size particles however require complex instrumentation. The parallel advancements taking place in the field of science and technology and the imple...

Flying with caution, with SARS

The risk of contracting SARS on a plane trip may probably be small if the trip isn't to As...lly experts say, the risk of contracting SARS on a plane trip is probably small, if the trip isn't to Asia....

Acne Drug linked to suicide attempts

...rts say that the 15-year-old pilot who crashed his plane into a skyscraper was prescribed the drug. At this point, investigators don't know whether or not the teen, Charles J. Bishop, was actually taking Accutane at the time of his death. Blood tests should reveal if the drug was in his blood. // Accutan...

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