Ramadoss to Discuss Chikungunya With Health Ministers of Nine States Tomorrow
...-limiting illness, marked by high fever, headache, severe joint pain, rashes and nausea. The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where farmers use plastic cups and coconut shells to collect rubber milk and leave ...Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes
...anifests itself with a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains and rashes on the lower part of the chest. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials said that due to rain, dengue has raised its head in mid-June as against its usual arrival time in end July. The civic body h...Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity
Israel has offered help to India in tackling its severe water problem with not just technology to desalinate water but also in areas like waste water treatment, drip irrigation and conservation . "Most of our principles, approach and technologies are applicable in India," said Yosef Dreizen, deputy comm...Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars
...mia Nervosa and binge eating disorder. It can have severe consequences to a person's immediate and long-term health and can cause death. Eating disorders are characterized by an abnormal obsession with food and weight. The eating disorders are influenced by supermodels and celebrities as many girls and bo...Salmonella Scare Results in the Recall of Sesame Seed
...ude vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, severe headache and high fever in healthy people. In case...ons. Sometimes Long-term complications may include severe arthritis. So far, there has been no case of anyone reporting sick from consuming the contaminated...Polluted Chinese River Hospitalises 61
...than 60 people had to be treated in hospital for a severe skin reaction after coming into contact with a polluted Chinese river, state media reported Wednesday. The victims, who had collected dead fish or washed their clothes in the Jindong River in eastern Anhui province on Tuesday, felt a burning sensa...Women Taking Oestrogen Therapy Showed Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification
...therapy be limited to the treatment of moderate to severe menopausal symptoms, with the lowest effective dose used for the shortest duration necessary, remain appropriate. Wyeth continues to support the use of hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is not appropriate for all women. Women experiencing menopausal...Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute
...ally, in his diary, Dr Morrell also noted Hitler's severe gastric crises, skin lesions, Parkinson's disease and violent mood swings as evidence that he had syphilis. Together with "sudden criminal behaviour, paranoia, grandiosity and mania", these are characteristic of cases of the advanced stage, neuro-sy...Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys
...uct from it. "The sale of such toys will lead to severe consequences in society. And they should be banned. But the union government is turning a Nelson's eye despite such sale taking place openly in the national capital," according to Vijayvargiya. While Vijayvargiya is convinced that Crezendo is a sex...Neurological Disorder Gene Identified
... color. The offspring quickly developed signs of severe central nervous system degeneration and peripheral...emor mice for their lack of normal pigment and the severe trembling they developed soon after birth. What could explain the mices debilitating symptoms" And...Nephrologists Reassess Disaster Response Strategies
...people who haven't lived through them 'forget' how severe such rare disasters can be. 'My hope is to summari... degrees of earthquakes, but also for unexpectedly severe earthquakes once in a lifetime or in centuries,' says Dr. Fukagawa. Dr. Kopp's work was supported ...Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk
...ditions with seizures and/or toxemia, or extremely severe nausea. "These pregnancy-related factors may serve as indicators of underlying biological conditions that may influence a woman's lifetime risk for breast cancer," he added. The study and its results were presented at the Society for Epidemiologi...Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe
... in Asia, is considered to be associated with more severe liver disease and development of hepatocellular carcinoma. In contrast, genotype B (also prevalent in the Asia region) has a better prognosis, is rarely associated with hepatocellular carcinoma and seems to have a better response to certain antiviral...Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones
...m mild awkwardness seen in Asperger's syndrome, to severe disability and mental retardation. A recent CDC su... has autism or an autism spectrum disorder, a less severe condition related to autism, such as Asperger's. Several genes have been linked with autism, but e...One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report
...sistance. The FAO/WFP report also noted that the severe food crisis earlier this year, with commodity price hikes and the virtual disappearance of rice from the market, highlighted the need to improve food security policies, strategies and implementation mechanisms. In addition to those affected by crop...Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers
... between three and 15 years, many showing signs of severe neglect and starvation. Medics initially feared at least one of the boys was dead. He had "thousands of flies covering his body, unable to move any part of his body, you know we had to actually hold his head up and tilt his head to make sure that he...US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers
...tial amputee with speech and other problems from a severe brain injury, he now does work therapy delivering mail at a VA hospital and tries to re-establish life in a nearby apartment with a wife and baby daughter. Marine Cpl. Joshua Pitcher, 22, from upstate New York, is a Purple Heart recipient who retur...Doctors Feared That Young Rihanna Had Brain Tumour
Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna had such severe headaches during her growing years that doctors thought she had brain tumour . The Unfaithful star underwent several CAT scans since she was eight till she was 13, when her parents separated. It was later discovered that the headaches were due to ...Omega-3 Fattyacids Keeps Retinopathy at Bay
...to bleeding or scarring. Infants who progress to a severe form of ROP are in danger of becoming permanently blind. There are also aspects of the disease process that may apply to diabetic retinopathy, a disease in which blood vessels swell and leak fluid or grow abnormally on the surface of the retina, an......hip reversed so that people with more fat had less severe calcification. This association also varied by gen...e abstract, adding that these associations of less severe artery calcification with greater fat persisted even when controlling for standard cardiovascular di...