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Egypt Outlaws All Female Circumcision

...r to a private clinic in Minya, a town on the Nile south of Cairo, for the operation. She died before she could be transferred to hospital. Her mother accused the woman doctor of negligence, charging that her daughter's death was linked to the anaesthetic and not the removal of the clitoris, for which sh...

Ninth HIV-infected Child Dies in Kazakhstan

...alth standards at local hospitals in the country's south and the fact that people paid bribes to get safe blood transfusions. Experts believe the first cases of HIV diagnosed among Kazakh children were probably contracted last spring during blood transfusions or from non-sterilised medical equipment....

Goans Celebrate Monsoon Festival

...ed with much traditional fervour. At Loutulim in south Goa, men wearing 'copel' or crowns of flowers and grass, sung traditional songs and danced to merry tunes before jumping into a pond. Maendra Alvares, one of the participants, said: "We celebrated San Joao, the feast of Saint John's, like how it wa...

Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

...reas favoured by tourists such as Andalusia in the south and the Balearic Islands, regional authorities and doctors alike are speaking out over what they say are the lack of funds and human resources to treat so many within the national health scheme. In 2006, "125,000 foreign tourists were treated by th...

Insecurity Jepardising WFP Initiatives in Western Afghanistan

... and central Afghanistan, and in many parts of the south and east, WFP operations are continuing as normal. Since June 2006, there have been 25 incidents involving trucks carrying WFP food throughout Afghanistan. An estimated 600 tons of food has been lost, valued at approximately 400,000 dollars. Most t...

Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report

... "Some obvious problems remain, like opium in the south of Afghanistan, a cancer that threatens security and health and breeds corruption," said UNODC executive director Antonio Maria Costa, ahead of Tuesday's publication of the 2007 World Drug Report. "Furthermore, progress made in some countries is be...

France Celebrates Summer With All-night Music Fest; NY Swings Along

... their own music from the windows above. Further south in Chatelet and Les Halles the summer air crackled to rock rhythms, electric guitar and even the music of the Andes. Those in search of the bigger events could attend one of the many concerts specially organised for the "Fete de la Musique" -- an ann...

Southern England Far Healthier Than the North

...lems and cancer all show that people living in the south of England enjoy a healthier life. The health profiles, compiled by the Government, are designed to help local councils and the Health Service work out where they need to concentrate resources. The figures show men in Kensington and Chelsea live...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

...n fact "deteriorated" in recent months. The deep south was an independent Islamic sultanate known as Pattani for hundreds of years before being conquered by Bangkok in 1786. The border provinces came under direct rule of the Thai bureaucracy in 1902. A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled...

WAG Wedding Extravaganza for England Footballers

...ed being driven into Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, south central England, were Chelsea and England players Ashley Cole and Joe Cole. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, with new girlfriend Daria Zhukova in tow, was also there, according to The Sun, as was England boss Steve McClaren and a host of other high-ea...

Robot Hosts South Korean Wedding

...nd his bride at Daejeon, 130 kilometres (78 miles) south of Seoul. "This is Tiro, master of ceremonies for today's wedding," the robot -- featuring a cone-shaped body, two arms and a dark-glassed face with eyes and a mouth of flashing lights -- said in front of smiling guests. In a male voice, the robot ...

Al Gore's Son Charged With Possession of Controlled Substance

...The 24-year-olds blue Toyota Prius was pulled over south of Los Angeles on July 4. He was allegedly driving faster than 100 mph. Since there was the smell of marijuana inside the car, the police carried out a search and recovered prescription drugs including Xanax, Valium, Soma, Vicodin and Adderall fro...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...ee past the immediate." She will be steering far south of the North Pacific Gyre, sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 13 million square mile (34 million square kilometer) clockwise whirlpool of ocean trash. Savage will average roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) of rowing daily. In the A...

Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...houses at Neno district, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the commercial capital Blantyre, the minister said. Clinton is also expected to hold private talks with President Bingu wa Mutharika at the hilltop Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, during his one-day visit, Chaponda added. Malawi, where 60 percent ...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...th into grivets or northeast into grivets and then south into vervets. Wertheim said, "I was surprised that the geography could explain the virus phylogenetic tree, how well it fit. You just look and -- there it is!" The UA researchers suggest that in the border zones where two African green monkey speci...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...ore than 100,000 people are down with fever in the south and central districts of the state and the disease is now spreading to the northern districts as well. Alappuzha district of Kerala, a favorite tourist destination with its popular houseboats appears to be worst hit with the maximum Chikungunya death...

Large Geographic Differences in EpiPen Prescriptions in the U. S.

...gests that perhaps more year-round sunshine in the south led to higher Vitamin D levels and could explain the north-south difference in the incidence of respiratory and allergic disease....

Malaria Sweeps Tripura, 25 Dead

...he disease is the tribal dominated Amarpur area in south Tripura district where 10 people have died. "An army helicopter has been pressed into service to transport medical teams and medicines to the interior areas," the official said.All hospitals in the state are crowded with patients hit by malaria. "T...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...ynaecology, and paediatrics at its Saket branch in south Delhi. The project is also expected to create 4,500 jobs in the medical industry during the construction phase. "Max Healthcare is proud to partner with IFC. This partnership recognizes our efforts to establish benchmarks of medical excellence and ...

China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare

...in Shanghai and the Guangxi region in the nation's south to re-evaluate the drug, it said. The latest move comes after China's former head of drug registrations was given a suspended death sentence on Friday last week for taking bribes to approve medications, some of which did not meet standards. A Bei...

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