A Move To Help Commercial Sex Workers Quit Their Business
... (TAI) will soon begin training sex workers in the state to seek alternative employment. The move has been accelerated following the provision of $12.7 million for the project to be implemented in five years. // The decision to train sex workers on an alternative employment scheme has been taken up after ...Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh
...d by the rapidly spreading killer virus // in the state has gone up to 131. While the disease was so far ... in India." However, according to sources in the state health headquarters here, poor demand for the vaccine had forced India's only manufacturing unit at ......sease is already present in the neighboring Indian state of UP // . According to Kathmandu radio - encephalitis caused 10 deaths each in the townships of Tikapur and Dhangadi until Friday evening. The report also said that over 80 patients were undergoing treatment in various hospitals and health posts ...A Settlement Over Stem Cell Controversy Through Scientific Research
...gin, in addition to reprogramming to the embryonic state could eliminate the need for creation and destruct...ents are directed to ensure that this reprogrammed state would be maintained even after removal of the embryonic stem cell DNA, currently a technical hurdle,...Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead
...en the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department on Monday lay down measures to combat dengue. The disease has mainly been reported from Lake Gardens, Golf Green, Dhakuria, Jodhpur Park, Tollygunge, Santoshpur and Jadavpur, which have posh apartments as well as slums. The actin...General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good
...umonia, diabetic ketoacidosis, and a bipolar mixed state requiring hospitalization. Researchers feel that the study demonstrates no benefit of anesthesia over a safer, cheaper, and potentially outpatient alternative using buprenorphine as a bridge to naltrexone treatment. Taken together with the results o...Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.
... have virtually been left to god's mercy, with the state administration expressing helplessness in arrestin...lue as Japanese encephalitis has been striking the state for 27 consecutive years, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Unofficial reports say the actual toll c...Encephalitis Deaths Cross 220 in Uttar Pradesh
...ne disease and is continuing to spread across the state since it broke out July 29 and has also spread to ... Dr. Dhole. Contrary to earlier statistics by the state health directorate of 1,500 Japanese encephalitis deaths in 27 years, Dhole said their survey had re...Encephalitis Deaths in Maybe higher than Reported
...erent government hospitals and dispensaries in the state since the disease broke out in Gorakhpur a month ago. One health official said: “Our figures are collected only from government hospitals, but a good number of patients go to private hospitals, while many perish in villages even without receiving an...Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon
... outbreaks were also reported from the neighboring state of Haryana. In October 1996, a suspected dengue/DHF outbreak was reported from Ludhiana city of Punjab state. This year, In Kolkata, 13 deaths and more than 71 people were infected due to dengue fever in Kolkata and its suburbs in the last one week,...Free Condom Counters For Border Security Force Cadres
...hari initiative launched in collaboration with the state AIDS control society and UNDP's REACH programme to combat HIV/AIDS among BSF troopers. "We are setting up these condom counters in each and every BOP (border outpost) in West Bengal, catering to about 30,000 troopers," said BSF Deputy Inspector Gene...Encephalitis Has Claimed 400 Lives In Uttar Pradesh
...ontinues to claim victims in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where nearly 400 people, mostly ... According to the official, 28 persons had died in state capital Lucknow, while five deaths were reported from districts in eastern and central Uttar Pradesh...Mushrooms can help fight chronic disease
...l candidate in food science and other Pennsylvania state food scientists have found that among the most commonly consumed mushrooms, portabellas and criminis have the most of the antioxidant ergothioneine. The white buttons follow close behind. Infact, white button mushrooms have about 12 times more of th...Cholesterol Can Cause Burst Arteries
...n artery and crystallized from a liquid to a solid state can expand and then burst, sending material into the bloodstream. It is this chain of events – the expansion of the liquid cholesterol as it crystallizes into a solid – that kick-start the body’s natural clotting process that, unfortunately in this c...Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women
...of hormones and, specifically, the post-menopausal state that may put women at higher risk. For most of the patients, CABG still represents the optimal therapy for their coronary heart disease, and the results shouldn't scare women away from heart bypass surgery. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...Dengue Claims 15 Lives In West Bengal
...engal so far, has been declared an epidemic by the state government.// State Health Director Prabhakar Chatterjee Tuesday told IANS:...Uttar Pradesh Encephalitis toll continues to rise - Over 600 dead
...phalitis epidemic continues to cause deaths in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The embarrassed health officials are tight-lipped about the toll in a Japanese encephalitis epidemic; the Uttar Pradesh government and yesterday admitted the dreaded disease had claimed 591 lives.// As many as 415 people, about 80 ...Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled
... the brain fever that has killed 620 people in the state since the end of July. And that is just the offic...as four-year-old Abhishek, reduced to a vegetative state where he can neither sit, nor move, nor talk. "The doctors at the Gorakhpur hospital did save his l...Researchers Begin Study To Find Out If Angioplasty Can Be Safely Done In Smaller Hospitals
... to participate in the study. Special waivers from state authorities are required for participating community hospitals. Source: Newswise ......e survey. The study also finds wide variation from state to state in the rate of these types of C-sections, for which there is, no medical necessity. The controvers...