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Chikungunya Strikes Chennai, India

... showing symptoms of the disease. The symptoms are sudden fever, severe arthralgia (joint pain), headache, chills and rashes, almost similar to that of dengue. The disease is by far concentrated in North Chennai, especially in Tondiarpet, Basin Bridge and Pulianthope zones. Hence to combat the disease the c...

Possible Link between Miscarriages and Male Babies

...hen doctors at a fertility clinic in Denmark saw a sudden increase in the number of women suffering from miscarriages especially among women whose first born child is a boy. They studied 305 women suffering unexplained recurrent miscarriages and found that 60% had first born children who were boys. Scien...

Over Two-dozen Children Succumbs to Encephalitis in Bihar

...pread of the killer disease. The children reported sudden light fever in the early morning, which was followed by bouts of unconsciousness and convulsion leading to their death. Civil surgeon Ramnagina Prasad Singh confirmed the deaths of the children due to suspected encephalitis. Unofficial figures s...

Two-year old Girl With Polio Detected in UP

...ses reported last year. However, this year saw a sudden rise of 21 cases in the first five months which causes concern, the sources said. Of the 22 cases reported from UP, Moradabad district alone accounted for 11 followed by three in Badaon, two each in Bareilly and Farukkabad and one each in Bulandsah...

Defibrillators Can Only Put off Heart Failure but Cannot Prevent One

...re //. But they are very efficient in reducing the sudden cardiac death. The results of the study were publi...DIT-II). ‘The ICD kept them alive by preventing sudden cardiac death as their heart disease naturally progressed to heart failure.’ ‘Patients who developed...

In A freak Accident A Father Severs His 4-Year Old Sons Foot

...injured by lawn mowers in the last six weeks. This sudden increase in lawn mower accidents has hospital officials calling for more supervision of children when adults are cutting the grass. The police are urging close supervision of children whenever machines are involved....

MMR Vaccine May Be A Reason Behind Autistic Children, Study Finds

...dings with 275 American children, whom suffer from sudden motor skill loses. About 85% showed vaccine strain of measles virus in gut tissue biopsy and 35% showed a positive DNA test. 'In an effort to maintain vaccine uptake and protect susceptible children against autism I believe that the Government ...

Dummies, Bad For Breastfed Babies – Study Challenge

...d a dummy were less likely to suffer a cot death - sudden infant death syndrome (Sids), the authors from the Joanna Briggs Institute in Australia concluded....

Two Students Try To Self-Immolate As Anti-Quota Stir Continues

... for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). 'All of a sudden we saw this youth running towards the grounds in the midst of the sloganeering. He had already doused himself in kerosene and lit a match,' Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Neeraj Thakur told IANS. Within minutes, a posse of policemen grabbed...

Canada Warns High BP Patients about ADHD Drug Side Effects

...analyzing the reports of patients who had suffered sudden deaths, and other psychotic behavior such as hallucinations. Some of the ADHD drugs which are to be shunned by these patients are Adderall XR, Concerta, Ritalin and Ritalin SR, Dexedrine and Strattera....

African Viral Fever Hits Two TN Districts

...lpatti and Sathankulam by the disease which caused sudden chillness, high fever, severe pain and swelling in the joints, headache and nausea. He said the fever could be cured with paracetamol, anti-analgesic, anti-inflammatory and other supporttive drugs. A team of officials from the Health department are...

Abnormal Heart Rhythm Controlled By Cholesterol Drugs

...valuation (definite) committee evaluated about 458 sudden cardiac deaths with cardiomyopathy due to a surviv...atients in a 2,000 days study. There was only 1 sudden death from arrhythmia among the patients who were receiving Statins, compared with 18 patients who w...

WHO Chief's Sudden Death - A Major Loss To Global Health

The sudden demise of the Director General of World Health Org...aid. PHO's condolence resolution stated that "the sudden death of the WHO chief was devastating, it has left the world shocked and the public health field or...

WHO Praises Singapore and Vietnam but Slams China With Respect To Tackling SARS

...rced quarantines. Bu the book also talks about the sudden stop of the spread of the disease in Vietnam....

Reports Of A HIV Break Out Scare People Of A Holiday Island

...up last week by the local health authority after a sudden rise of up to 10 cases. The exact numbers of cases have not yet been revealed, but investigations have suggested the virus may have been acquired at any time over the last six to eight years. Officials have asked anyone who has had unprotected sex ...

Fear Of Flat head Syndrome Makes Parents Ignore Advice About Cot Death

...oring the official advice on the best way to avoid sudden infant death has doubled in six years and they believe this may be because of increased publicity about so-called 'flat head syndrome' where babies' skulls can deform because they sleep in one position. A survey carried out by the Foundation for th...

Jolt to Quit Smoking

... ‘ICDs are implanted in patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death,’ Sánchez says. ‘The devices shock t...th heart disease who had ICDs implanted to prevent sudden cardiac death. The patients were followed for an average of two years. During this time, more than...

Quest for bird flu vaccine in US

...n six months after a pandemic is declared. All the sudden increase in the development of vaccine against avian flu is that if countries acted to keep vaccine supplies for their own citizens during a pandemic, vaccines might not be available for Americans. Sanofi Pasteur has also received a contract of $97 m...

Ringworm Infections on the Rise

...tics by the British Skin Foundation has reported a sudden increase in the disease in some areas such as London, Birmingham and Bristol. A new organism called Trichophyton tonsurans has emerged which spreads directly between humans causing ringworm infections. Experts say that the fungal infection spreads am...

Long Term Mediation Not Advisable To Treat Hot Flashes

...f those affected seek treatment. Hot flashes are a sudden sensation of being overheated, with sweating and facial flushing. It can occur during any time of the day and can disrupt sleep and persist for years, sometimes even decades. Hormones which were initially prescribed fell from grace when a study showe...

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