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Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

The Assam government Tuesday sounded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives and affected about 10,000 people. "Doctors and paramedics have been put on alert across Assam with medical teams, including mobile units, fanning out to vulnerable areas to c...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

... on. She was smiling and grinding and laughing. It sounded very scary. Anastasia's hypothalamus was home to a benign tumor which was causing the seizures. This condition termed in medical parlance as hypothalamic hamartoma, is extremely rare affecting about 30 people worldwide each year. If the condition i...

Small Pox Scare Put West Bengal on High Alert

...e disease. Local reports said the alert has been sounded in the state after receiving a message from the fo...be quarantined and tested. A high alert has been sounded in the Indo-Bangladesh border districts. However, Bangladesh authorities have not yet confirmed any ...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...he Khamisiyah demolitions. Still many scientists sounded skeptical. But last week a research funded by the defence department showed that even a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members. Also symptoms were found to be exacerbated by the use...

Smallpox Alert in Northeast

The central government has sounded a health alert in India's northeast asking authorities to take immediate precautionary measures following reports of a smallpox outbreak in Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said Monday. "Following the centre's instruction, the Tripura government ...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...urnal of the American Medical Association in 1994, sounded the alarm that pet cats were often infected with a microbe that could be transmitted to their owners through a scratch. These earlier investigations taught the researchers several important lessons: new diseases and new bacteria infecting humans ar...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

... on. She was smiling and grinding and laughing. It sounded very scary.” Anastasia's hypothalamus was home to a benign tumor which was causing the seizures. This condition termed in medical parlance as hypothalamic hamartoma, is extremely rare affecting about 30 people worldwide each year. If the condition ...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

The Assam government Tuesday sounded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives// and affected about 10,000 people. "Doctors and paramedics have been put on alert across Assam with medical teams, including mobile units, fanning out to vulnerable areas to ...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

... low tides. The conversation at the water's edge sounded like an Asian market. Divers hailing from places where abalone is a delicacy and considered an aphrodisiac -- places such as China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and South Korea -- spoke in their native tongues. "A long time ago it was food for the king only,...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

... Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said. "As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, 'Go back to China.' Dr. Marleen Wong, director of Crisis Counseling and Intervention Services for the Los A...

Northeast States Sound Bird Flu Alert

...al governments in India's northeastern region have sounded an alert by restricting the entry// of poultry fro...g border with Bangladesh. A general alert has been sounded and steps taken to prevent outbreak of bird flu here,' said Narayan Das, director of the animal reso...

India Sounds Bird Flu Alert in Border States

...rom the dreaded avian influenza but alert has been sounded in the states bordering// Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the health ministry said Friday. "The country continues to be free from the avian influenza virus as on date. As a precautionary measure, states bordering Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh ...

Diabetes and the Magic Beans

...stry and the magazine Chemistry and Industry, have sounded that soya beans when included in a daily diet can help prevent sugar buildup. This is as a result of soya hindering weight gain and lowering the levels of cholesterol. The experiment was carried out on animal models. A batch of 32 rats were ta...

Indonesia En Route to HIV Epidemic, Experts Warn

The World Health Organization has sounded its concerns about HIV-infected cases growing by leaps and bounds in Indonesia//, and announced a ‘generalized HIV epidemic’ in Papua, one of the country’s most remote regions. Talking numbers are frightening –there is an estimated number of ...

Still Births: Three Times Higher Risk for Older Moms–to–e

... be monitored more carefully according to reports sounded at the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference// in San Francisco, as they are at a higher risk of giving birth to still-born babies, than previously known. Mert Ozan Bahtiyar of Yale School of Medicine, who put forward results made after an extensive...

Better to Chicken Out of This

...ovement of poultry and eggs if the green signal is sounded from inspection agencies. Scientists fear the spreading of the avian flu could result in a lethal pandemic should the avian flu virus mutate with that of the human flu virus. So far there have been 157 deaths from the avian flu, though all were c...

Don’t Let Symptoms of Whooping Cough Escape You, Parents Warne

...of whooping cough in children; this alert has been sounded after recent reports, of increase in such cases in// the previous year. A recent report has established the increase in cases - from 178 cases in 2005 to 669 cases in 2006. According to Dr. Michael Finkelstein, associate medical officer of healt...

Loop Incision Treatment Enhances Premature Delivery Risk

... cells was not connected with this risk. They have sounded an important message to re-look at the benefits of laser treatments in cutting down potential risks in the treatment of cancer. They wrote: ‘To aid informed choice, women should be provided with information about the advantages and disadvantages of...

Alert in hotel after detection of bacterial contamination

...ential outbreak of 'Legionnaires Disease' has been sounded in North Somerset. //Over 500 guests who visited the Grand Atlantic Hotel before 10 Nov in Weston-super-Mare were contacted by the health officials after water samples tested positive for Legionelle Bacteria. The hotel which has remained closed since...

India sounds bird flu alert as migration season begins

India Wednesday sounded a bird flu alert in all states as the season of migratory birds begins with the onset of winter.// "We have given clear instruction to all our states to be on vigil. The alert will be in place till February next year," said Upma Chawdhry, joint sec...

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