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Third Bird Flue Case Found In South Korea

...s on a poultry farm in Iksan, about 230 kilometers south of Seoul. The latest outbreak occurred 18 kilometers south of the farm in Iksan. The Quarantine officials said that the outbreak occurred even after the recent...

More Than 100 Students Affected by Hepatitis in China

An outbreak of hepatitis A in a middle school in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has sent 112 students to hospital, an official said Friday//. All the students have been identified as carriers of the disease, while 21 have been diagnosed as suffering from symptoms of hepatitis A and 33 ot...

Poverty Fuels HIV In Poor Indian States

... to the industrialized regions in India's west and south for better prospects and end up with AIDS.// Bihari migrants are estimated to range from two million to ten million. Biharis usually work as taxi drivers, mechanics, security guards or domestic servants in India's big cities. "I just did not think ...

Sharad Pawar Admitted to Hospital

...th. He was taken to the Escorts Heart Institute in south Delhi. "He is under observation," said Jugal Sharma, a spokesperson for the hospital. Source-IANS...

Vietnam Reports Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak

...ver, the recurrence of the virus in Ca Mau, 350 km south of Ho Chi Minh City, and in neighbouring Bac Lieu province have set off alarm bells that the virus could make a comeback. Minister of Agriculture Cao Duc Phat sent an urgent message to all Vietnamese provinces late Tuesday calling on them to hold e...

New Bird Flu Outbreak In Vietnam

...ver, the recurrence of the virus in Ca Mau, 350 km south of Ho Chi Minh City, and in neighbouring Bac Lieu province have set off alarm bells that the virus could make a comeback. Minister of Agriculture Cao Duc Phat sent an urgent message to all Vietnamese provinces late Tuesday calling on them to hold em...

Tsunami-Hit Coastal Regions Needs More Relief

...ng the innocent-looking silver beaches about 80 km south of Chennai, India, new casurina saplings are knee high and men are back to weaving nets. 'Udavum Karangal' (Helping Hand), one of Chennai's largest rescue and rehabilitation institutions has built 72 houses in the village, which it has adopted. ...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...as made a huge difference to hundreds of lepers in south China. Fu is the only nurse at the Tanshan Leper Rehabilitation Village in Gaoming district. She has devoted three years of her life to improving medical care and helping patients cured of the disease to live a more normal life. In the past, peo...

Bird Flu Suspected in Japan

At a poultry farm in south western Japan in Kiyotake, around 750 chickens have died suggesting an outbreak of bird flu here.// This has been reported to the agricultural ministry and tests have been carried out immediately. Results should be out latest by Friday evening. If ...

Severe Cold is Harbinger of Infections

...cian with Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in south Delhi. "In this cold weather we have seen a 25 percent rise in upper respiratory tract infections," Paul told IANS. Older children and adults do not get such infections easily as they have developed the antibodies in themselves from previous infect...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

...7 per 1,000 live births, very high compared to the south Indian states. Over 55 percent of the children are born under weight. According to the women and child welfare department, 1,026 cases of malnutrition were reported from various blocks in Barwani, from January to October 2006. In 2005 the figure w...

Mental Health - NHS Trust Commences Specialist Transition Service

...list transition service comprises of two teams – a south and a north one, with each team having a consultant psychiatrist, a psychologist and a well experienced mental health practitioner, equipped to handle the young. They will work along with six fully dedicated practitioners. The service will assist t...

Reports of Unknown Disease ‘baseless

...taken ill and have been hospitalized in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province//, is dismissed as ‘false’ and ‘ baseless’ by spokesman Xiong Yuanda of the Health Bureau of Guangzhou. He further confirmed there was no infectious ‘unknown’ disease, doing the rounds in the city, as it is thought to be....

‘Smart Way of Living’ for Dementia Patiens

...oice (dementia services development centre for the south west) and Housing 21 (a national provider of housi...used at one other Housing 21 property in Lewisham, south London. David Self, Dementia Services Advisor at Dementia Voice, said: “The work we have already d...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...al anthropologist from Berkeley, who worked in the south and western regions of India for his book on kidney trade found that, periodic kidney scandals involving doctors were mostly stories concocted by rival hospitals. The rumors were a part of the competitive commercialization that was an aspect of the t...

‘Smart House’ Developed to Monitor People With Dementa

...nd colleagues is already being tested in a flat in south London and a sheltered housing scheme in Bristol. "The ultimate aim is to help people remain in their own homes for as long as possible," Orpwood said. Source-IANS...

Flood Toll Rises, and Indonesia Braces for Disease

...trash-filled rivers and deforestation of hillsides south of the city for development. Critics also blame delays in extending a flood-control canal that carried excess water from overflowing rivers in this city where some neighborhoods lie below sea level. Responding to sharp criticism in the press for ...

Dengue Alert Issued in South America

...speed with which the disease has spread across the south of the continent. Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and, to a lesser extent, Argentina have been affected by the outbreak - but it is Brazil and Paraguay which have seen the worst of it. In the south-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul it is ...

Delhi to Host South Asian Neurologists' Congress

Nearly 600 neurosurgeons from south Asia along with renowned specialists from the US, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia//, and Canada are meeting in the Indian capital to discuss several health concerns related to brain. During the meet beginning February 15, they would discuss late...

Need for Cost-effective Hearing Implants

...he Australian device. Ash Adarkar, area manager south Asia of the Australian company, told IANS: "The machine is labor and time -intensive. It takes nearly six weeks to manufacture one device. Though the international cost is over Rs.750,000, we are selling the device in India for Rs.512,000."S.S. Panwa...

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