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Quack of Gurgaon Confesses of Aborting 250 Female Fetuses

In a shocking disclosure, a quack here has confessed to aborting over 250 female fetuses, adding he has lost count of the number of abortions he carried out at his nursing home over the last decade. A.K. Singh was arrested Thursday after the police raided the B...

Nervousness Makes Lily Allen Drink!

...ep it up," she added. Allen is well known for her shocking flare-ups and occasional wild conduct, but the pop singer proved she can create the magic during an angelic appearance at MTV's TRL programme in New York. Looking elegant and decent, Allen played modest and smiled sweetly all through the show. And ...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...you compare us to the worldwide scale, it's pretty shocking how long we went with such high levels," said Erik Stout of Fernie-based Rocky Mountain Inspections, a company that specializes in testing radon in homes. He called for greater public awareness about radon gas, noting "most people don't know what i...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...heir health care providers regularly. "Even more shocking was the finding that 38 percent of controlled asthmatics and 54 percent of uncontrolled asthmatics reported having had an asthma attack during which they feared for their life," said Stephen P. Peters, M.D., Ph.D., lead author and a professor of pedi...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

...s have a right to a safe school environment. It is shocking that such a crime could take place in our schools, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair told a news conference Wednesday evening. The shooting comes a little more than a month after a gunman killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech, an American u...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...overty?" the report asks. While many of the most shocking figures in the Plan International report relate to developing nations, sexual discrimination is still prevalent in the north. In the UK, two women a week are killed by current or former partners. The country also has the highest rate of teenage pre...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...d at Walter Reed to soldiers injured in war is not shocking at all if one ponders what happens at Army posts to soldiers injured in basic training, says JoAnn Wypijewski . Basic training is one of those regimens of cruelty that people have come to accept as normal. The Army may claim to have eliminated som...

Two-thirds of US Children Experience Trauma, but Recover Fast

...disaster or a serious accident. "It was a little shocking to me that it was that high," Copeland said in a telephone interview. Despite those numbers, he said few kids end up developing post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which is characterized by reliving the trauma in some way, avoiding places asso...

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

The shocking story of medical negligence that led to a one-year-old child having his foot amputated has moved the Delhi High Court to ask the concerned hospital for an explanation. In January, a fractured leg brought Jai to the government-run Safdarjung Hospit...

Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

... the government and its aid donors, grappling with shocking rates of infant mortality, tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. Some foreign troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have also been bitten by the sandflies and have developed the disease. NATO saw about 150 cases in Afghanistan in 2005 and about 12 last year, ...

Blunders in Epilepsy Care Cost Lives, and Money UK Report

...t identifies a national scandal: "Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the report is the fact that better services would result in savings for the NHS ... and around 189m could be saved every year. This would more than cover the cost of improved services." Supported by the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK a...

WWE Superstar Chris Benoit Kills Wife, Son Before Committing Suicide

...enoit. Benoits demise comes just days after the shocking death of former WWE wrestler "Sensational" Sherri Martel on June 15....

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

The shocking pictures of neglect that emerged from a grisly state-run Baghdad orphanage this week revealed the Iraqi government's inability to care for some of its most vulnerable citizens. With four years of war having cannibalised much of the Iraqi government...

IMA Accuses US Companies for Selling Recycled Prosthesis in India

...ed prosthesis in India at cheaper prices . "It is shocking but true that US companies are selling recycled prosthesis in India," IMA president Ajay Kumar said here. Kumar alleged that US companies are selling knee and hip prosthesis at $4,000 each in India but in US it is sold for $6000. "The secret of che...

Australia Proposes Comprehensive Plans to Protect Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse

...m the Northern Territory Government, saying such a shocking situation would be met with horror if it were found to be happening in major centres. Detailing the measures, the Prime Minister said: "In relation to alcohol the intention is to introduce widespread alcohol restrictions on Northern Territory Aborigi...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...otlight on the pathetic conditions there. After shocking details emerged of the callousness of the hospital staff and a senator pitched in, blasting those responsible, S. Kimberly Belshe, the state's health and human services secretary, said she had thought Hospital had been making a lot of progress towar...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

...often became the perpetrators in future. ``It is shocking but not surprising,'' said Warren Mundine, who has worked with Aborigines before. Tougher policing and economic development could improve social life of Aborigines, he said. Even if the report did not mention about a pedophile ring, those working wit...

Thousands Gather in Sydney for HIV Conference

...ents by medics was appalling. "The treatment was shocking in the early years, the nurses and doctors didn't know about HIV," she said. "There was a woman who died (in hospital) and they put her in a black plastic bag. Right in front of me. "I said, 'Why did they put in her in the bag?' and they said to ...

Now a Polio Scare for Air Travellers

...fered a lot of pain, terrible disability, he had a shocking childhood. "In those days you were terrified of getting it." For brothers Alex Gath, aged three, and Michael, seven, today's injections were frightening enough and they screamed when they saw the needle. The family had been visiting relatives i...

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