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Egyptian Boy Has Bird Flu

...irst outbreak was announced in February 2006. The report said that he was being treated with Tamiflu, and that his condition was stable. A 10-year-old girl died of bird flu earlier in June, bringing to 15 the number of fatalities in Egypt. Egypt's geographical location on major bird migration routes and ...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...nsumption in buildings met national standards, the report said. Members of China's cabinet have also called on office workers to ditch business suits in favour of t-shirts in an effort to cool down cheaply, and ordered that air-conditioning units in most public buildings be set no cooler than 26 degrees C...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...lcoholism, adds NIAAA Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D. A report of the study appears in the June 26, 2007 advance online publication of Molecular Psychiatry. Previous studies have shown that childhood sexual abuse increases the risk for numerous mental health problems in adulthood. However not all abused childr...

Ultrasound Better Than Biopsy for Breast Examination

...nign (category 3). Dr. Grafs study is the first to report outcomes from ultrasound follow-up of masses that were classified as probably benign at initial ultrasound. Our study shows that following a lesion classified in the BI-RADS lexicon as category 3 is a safe alternative to immediate biopsy, Dr. Graf ...

SARS Patients Experience Mental Health Decline

...to's University Health Network, and her colleagues report their findings in Monday's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. "These data may help to highlight the needs of patients and caregivers during and after an epidemic, the potential benefit of a family-centred approach to followup care, and the...

An Indigenous Treatment Plan Offered by the Labor on Child Welfare

...use that were identified in the Northern Territory report just a week or so ago, do really say to all of us that we've failed in the past, I think both sides of politics, both levels of government have to take a responsibility and we really do have to act....

Doctor Migration Has Limited Impact on Health Care in Poor Countries: OECD

... health care in poor countries, the OECD said in a report Monday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperati...ve the shortage issue," the OECD maintained. The report argued for increased financial assistance from the developed world to health care sectors in poor co...

Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back

...ttending an event on world AIDS day in December, a report in the Hindustan Times said, prompting other parents to call for their expulsion. Three of the five children are infected with HIV but all were living in a shelter for infected mothers. Officials in Kerala state -- reputed to be one of the countr...

Storing Medical Info Under Your Skin

...se drug events and other medical errors," said the report prepared by the association's ethics committee. ...mpact they would have on prescription drugs. The report concluded that it is "likely that utilization of RFID devices for medical purposes will expand." T...

Afghan Opium Production Soaring Out of Control

The annual UN report on illegal drugs has said that opium production in...in Helmand is spread across 70,000 hectares. The report says that while global co-ordination of drug law enforcement has improved, traffickers of heroin fro...

Man Accused of Spreading HIV Granted Bail in Australia

... immediately, the magistrate ordered. Kuoth must report to police every Monday and surrender his travel documents. He will reappear in court on July 6. The case puts renewed pressure on Ms Pike who, earlier this year, resisted calls for her resignation following the mishandling of the case of Melbourne ...

Blunders in Epilepsy Care Cost Lives, and Money UK Report

...rly 400 lives and 189m every year , according to a report published today by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Epilepsy. The report - Wasted Money, Wasted Lives - concludes that, despite effective treatments, there are 365 avoidable...

US Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Restrict Payments by Drug Companies to Doctors

...n year. The legislation also required companies to report and make public any consulting fees paid to doctors. Lee Greenfield, a former state representative in Minnesota and one of the laws authors, said it passed with little fanfare or debate after legislators heard stories about doctors accepting gifts ...

Britain is Now Europe's Cocaine Capital

A UN report on drugs has officially declared Britain the cocai... Britain exposed as a thriving drugs market. The report found that cannabis use in this country had diminished since the reclassification of the drug - from...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...ose they treat. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked the country's health system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par with nations such as Peru and Honduras. In 2004, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Russia spent $441 per capita on health care, about a fi...

Extradition Nears for Indian Origin Rogue Surgeon Dr. Death

... for his extradition from the US. According to a report in The Australian, the signing of the paperwork for Dr Patel's extradition is being regarded as the most significant development to date in the bid to have him returned to Brisbane for a criminal trial. Dr. Patel fled to the US on April 1 2005 aft...

Non Communicable Diseases to Be the Cause of Deaths in Poor Countries by 2115-World Bank

...ch include malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis. In its report the Bank emphasized the need for the government th... minister in Botswana underlining the facts of the report said Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic No communicable Diseases" predicts rising life expe...

Weight Control for Obese Diabetics

According to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine ,a plate and cereal bowl with markers for proper portion sizes appear to help obese patients with diabetes lose weight and decrease their use of glucose-controlling medications. Between 1960 and 2000, the proportio...

UN Report Warns of 'environmental Refugees'

...ion patterns of rural and urban areas, warns a UN report released Wednesday. "Much of the environmental r...ed," says the 'State of the World Population 2007' report of the United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa). "Drought, flooding and the other consequences of cl...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

... skeptics might say. It has now come out with a report warning that desertification represents one of the...ations of people fleeing degraded homelands. The report called on governments in arid regions to revise rules on land use to halt overgrazing and unsustaina...

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