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Detection of Weak strains of bird flu virus – Target of European Unio

...said Markos Kyprianou, EU Health Commissioner in a press release in the form of e-mail. The bird flu threat from the Asian region is said to have prompted for increased measures regarding detection and control of bird flu. If the virus is able to mutate into a more virulent form, then human transmission ...

Early Flu Outbreak in US.

...Georgia the State Health Department reports to the press that they've had 4 cases of Influenza Type A flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta cautions the need for vaccines against this particular strain of flu. The vaccine that conferred immunity against the flu so far seems not t...

India becomes a member of IARC

At a press release Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Information and Broadcasting Minister said that Dr. Manmohan Singh has approved for a six million dollar scheme to join the International Agency// for Research on Cancer (IARC). It helps to prevent and improve cancer...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

...ith her lover Pete Doherty. She had earlier in her press releases denied that she had ever used drugs. Post revelation she lost many prestigious contracts and went on a five-month rehabilitation centre course at Arizona's Meadow Clinic. She even paid for Doherty to join the programme but he quit. In a pu...

Canadian Sikh Community Donates To Hospital Project In Canada

...odern trend toward holistic health care", said the press release. Edited IANS....

China Doubles Its Investment In AIDS/HIV Treatment.

The government of china in Beijing told the press that it has taken all possible measures to reduce the ever increasing number of HIV/AIDS infection in China. // It said that it is going to double the funds in the next two years allocated to keep in check the number of HIV positive people below 1....

Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet For Post-Menopausal Women

...facts about obesity and overweight including NHLBI press releases can be accessed online athttp://www.nhlbi.nih.gov....

Vietnam administers Bird flu vaccination to all birds

Vietnam has told the press that it has completed the vaccination for all the poultry across the nation. It has reported that 242 million // poultry were vaccinated across Vietnam. According to the department of Animal Health, which comes under the Ministry of Agriculture a...

Officials In Turkey Confirm Deaths Due To Bird Flu

... Rural Affairs Minister Mehmet Mehdi Eker told the press that five regions are detected with bird flu. Necessary steps are being taken care of by the government and 1100 birds have been culled in Eastern Turkey. In the province of Dogubayazit and Agri in the Eastern Turkey two deaths have been reported...

Chinese Health Officials To Discuss Preparation Of Bird Flu

...by officials of the Lincoln Park Zoo, according to press reports by Kelly McGrath, official spokeswoman. Representatives from other similar organizations such as American Zoo and Aquarium Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Dep...

Five in Turkey infected with H5N1 virus: health official

... health ministry's Basic Health Services, told the press that so far 28 people were tested at a government laboratory in Ankara. This brought to nine the total number of people infected with H5N1, the most virulent form of the virus, since the outbreak began last month; two of the nine have died. Teenag...

Medicare to cover services provided by rural health care personnels.

Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott told the press that all the medical expenditures of pregnant women will be covered by medicare if they consulted qualified health care // personnels. This plan is introduced mainly to ensure proper medical care in the rural areas. But in a period of six months t...

Fear of Listeria outbreak in Australia.

...nfection. Health Minister John Hill has told the press that the death of the woman is not linked to Listeria. The hospital authorities confirmed that they did not serve the meat from Conroy's small goods company. An enquiry was ordered to probe the cause of death of the two patients who died last year...

Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes For Fabricating Research

...sk for your forgiveness," he said// in a televised press conference in his first public appearance in three weeks. "I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry." Two days earlier, a Seoul National University panel investigating Hwang concluded he had never cloned human embryos and had purpo...

Asian Nations To Take Joint Efforts Against H5N1

...WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific at a press conference. 'I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given,' Omi said, citing Japan's decision to donate 500,000 doses of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu and financial pledges of between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion to be finalized in Beijing...

Kellogg Warned Against Its Marketing Strategies

...en focusing upon its marketing. This was said at a press conference also where he displayed crackers, cookies and other snacks dotted with television characters. The proposed lawsuit would mark the latest attempt to battle the growing obesity crisis in the United States through the courts. This comes in ...

Turmeric And Cabbage effective against prostate cancer

...g Tony Kong, a professor of pharmaceutics told the press today that this research is of great value in establishing new treatment modalities for prostate cancer in any stage. There were previous data of PEITC and curcumin to be very effective against prostate cancer from cell culture laboratories. But t...

Pakistani Gays Land Themselves In Trouble

...ed sour when the three zenanas were presented at a press conference here without their lawyer and without the NGO's knowledge. The zenanas are reported to have told the media that they are persecuted in Pakistan, which amounts to treason in Pakistan. Vision is expecting a backlash to this incident in Pakis...

Prevention of lethal diseases by vaccines

...ine. The director Professor Derek Hart told the press that by the end of this year the trial would be complete and this vaccine would be mass produced in about three to five years....

Surgeon Attempts to Create A Surgical Hernia Feat

...ries in 13 hours, 41 minutes and 19 seconds said a press release of a hospital here in Chennai. // The surgeon Dr J S Rajkumar, chairman, Lifeline hospitals was attempting to surpass the previous record of 41 surgeries in 24 hours. The patients on whom the surgeries were done were poor patients. Apparen...

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