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Agartala Medical College under Fire from MCI

...obal Educational Net (GEN) in your town,” Dr Mehra reportedly told the college authorities. The college faculty was also not spared and the delegation recommended demotion for some of the professors. The inability of the second year students to answer some fo the most fundamental questions on theory only ad...

UNICEF To Help For The Betterment Of Refugee Kids in Chhattisgarh

...dren in trouble hit areas across the globe, Adrona reportedly told Singh that it would help kids living in relief camps at the Maoist-hit areas. Raman Singh has approved UNICEF's idea and added the Chhattisgarh government would work in tandem with the organisation for securing the future of thousands kids at ...

AIDS Claims Two Lives Of Same Family In MP

...official said. Three-fourth of HIV/AIDS patients reportedly contract the disease from unsafe sex and 72 percent of the patients are males. While 205 people tested HIV positive in 2004, in 2005 the figure rose to 359 - the highest since 1988 when the first AIDS patient was reported in the state. India has ...

US Government Authorizes CDC To Detain Sick Travelers

...hey are suffering from bird flu. The MoU, which is reportedly available with Reuters, also allows Customs and Border Protection agents to provide passenger data to CDC. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed this MoU in October. But HHS sp...

Nepal: Doctors Treating Protestors Being Deported

... government. Brian Cobb, an American doctor, was reportedly detained Wednesday after he appeared on a private television channel the day before saying he and others were brutally assaulted by the security forces. On Tuesday, Cobb had told Kantipur television channel that truncheon-wielding policemen swooped...

Madhya Pradesh To Concentrate On Better Rural Hygiene

...penses incurred on sanitation-related diseases are reportedly to the tune of Rs.12 billion. --Edited IANS...

Indian Scientists Identify Second Pancreatitis Gene

...hem from the state of Kerala, where the disease is reportedly rampant. CCMB director Lalji Singh described the development as immensely significant. He said: "No one in the past had found the mutation of this gene. This is the first time in the world that it has been identified". "If we put together SPINK1, ...

Jalgaon undertakes Culling of Two Lakh Birds

...national agency pointed out that 40,000 birds went reportedly missing in the culling operation in Nawapur in February. According to him this could well have been sold in Jalgaon proving that the government response has been inadequate. The Health Ministry has also sent teams to conduct house-to-house survey, ...

US On Alert After Outbreak Of Corneal Infections

...nti-fungal medication. However, some patients have reportedly experienced a significant loss of vision, resulting in the need for a corneal transplant....

A new disease: couch potato: needs drug therapy

..., a neuroscientist at the University of Newcastle, reportedly identified the new disorder. In severe cases it can be fatal because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe, his report adds. It's diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, pr...

IMA against Spiritual Guru Baba Ramdev

...ractitioners and allopathic medicine. Ramdev had reportedly alleged that medical practitioners were exploiting people for money and abusing allopathic medicine. He has said that medical practitioners conduct unnecessary tests to make money. An irked Kumar had written an open letter to doctors accusing Ramde...

Indian Doctor In Britain Warned For Refusing Treatment

...itain. Mahesh Chandra, the general practitioner, reportedly refused the man treatment because "he was not British and did not speak English", a GMC committee has been told. Chandra, who studied medicine in India and has been practicing in Britain since 1971, received a second warning from the medical counc...

PHC Doctors Tricked Tribal Women To Undergo Sterilization

...meet, local reports said here Thursday. She was reportedly enticed with money to undergo the operation. Shoba belongs to the Mal Pahari community, one of the nine primitive tribes of the state facing an extinction threat. When Shoba's husband Umesh Pujhar came to know about it, he informed government...

MP’s Ask for Reduction of VAT on Condoms, Essential Health Ite

...in are on the rise, along with teenage pregnancies reportedly the highest in Europe. According to the MP’s, the use of condoms can help reduce these alarming statistics. Further, If the Condoms were to cost less, it will certainly promote the use of condoms. br>...

Bird Flu Hits India

... best to tackle the situation. Police officers are reportedly planning to quarantine the area for up to 3 kilometers. The Maharashtra government has ordered the culling of the chickens in the affected area. The Navy is on stand by to distribute the medicines in the event of a human outbreak. Reports coming in a...

Oxygen Shortage Causes Panic Among Patients

...deliveries of Oxygen have taken a beating. A woman reportedly died waiting for the supply of oxygen that did not arrive for a good many hours. The NHS trust is inquiring into the matter along with the firm. Patients in England and Wales are being advised to avail oxygen supplies from the NHS instead of the pri...

New Chemical May Halt HIV Infection

..., according to US based scientists. The disease is reportedly responsible for 25 million deaths across the world since 1981. //The lab tests of the chemical CSA-54 found that it disables the virus's ability to infect cells, according to BBC News. The tests were carried out by researcher Derya Unutmaz, Associa...

Fish Consumption Results In Higher Mercury Levels

...ating fish. The mercury levels in human beings are reportedly particularly high in Hawaii. ...

Second Hand Smoke Does No Harm

Smoking is reportedly being prohibited on the grounds of unscientific fears, according to a skier who is on a vacation at Utah. The British Medical Journal had already published a report which states that second hand smoke (SHS) does not raise the risk //of heart and lung...

Mentally Deranged Man Chained for 20 Years

... his brother Bhogchand, a farmer. His family had reportedly done its best to get him treated, but this did not serve its purpose, forcing them to chain him up. But for all the violence that his family claims he exhibited earlier, Mansharam is a very quiet man today. He spends his days not moving an inch or ev...

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