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Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...brain disorders. The region is also witnessing a surge in drinking among 18 year olds who also portray acute withdrawal symptoms. The government is facing flak at not being able to effectively control the crisis. Professor Ian Webster, a drug and alcohol specialist and chairman of the Alcohol Education...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

... cause harm to any part of the brain. There is a surge in cases of chronic sinusitis because of unchecked pollution. Chronic sinus may also be caused due to allergies, infections, virus, fungi, harmful medicines and certain nasal anomalies. The problem escalates during summers, when people beat the heat ...

This 'Grass' is Not Green - Say, 'No Thanks, I Am Fine Without Drugs'

...kers for this drug. Naturally, there has been a surge in drug associated crime. Many unfortunate accidents have taken place as a direct consequence of illicit drugs. There have also been cases of drug overdose causing brain damage and even death. Another consequence of injection drugs has been the sprea...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...ity and other parts of the country lags behind the surge in demand. The Chinese government set a goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010, but failed miserably in 2006, the first year of implementation....

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...illions of people in China and India is creating a surge in demand for food - the rising populations are no...n reserves in 34 years. The reason for the price surge is the wholesale diversion of grain crops into the production of ethanol. Thirty per cent of next ye...

Stroke - Unfair to the Middle-aged Fair Sex

...hile further study is needed, this mid-life stroke surge among women suggests prompt and close attention ma...he study also found a greater than expected stroke surge among men who were nearing the end of middle age. Men aged 55 to 64 were three times more likely tha...

Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO

...detection of MDR-TB cases, will lead to a ten-fold surge in the number of XDR-TB and MDR-TB patients who will be treated and cured under WHO guidelines. Extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB), a form virtually immune to antibiotics, has been reported in 37 countries in all regions since emerging in 2006, ...

Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts

...two-year ban on duck hatching that has triggered a surge in production. Nationwide vaccination campaigns -- widely hailed as a model that other countries have sought to emulate -- have become increasingly spotty, Vietnamese and international animal health officials have warned. "We've had bird flu for fo...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...d other health care facilities to deal with a huge surge in need that would accompany a mass disease outbreak. And the government has little ability to ensure that during an outbreak, when many workers would stay home, limited Internet capacity would go to essential work and not to children playing video g...

Final Potter Book Already Out on the Web?

...ked in 1.5 million orders. Amazon is expecting a surge in the number of orders as the release date of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' approaches....

30 Dead as Dengue Fever Epidemic Hits Myanmar: Report

... the latest country in the region to experience a surge in the mosquito-borne disease. Than Winn, a senior Myanmar health ministry official, told the weekly Myanmar Times newspaper that the number of cases was soaring. "In the first six months of this year there have been about 3,000 cases of the dise...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...uld be much worse as agricultural commodity prices surge around the world. Cereal prices are at a 10-year high, a combination of poor harvests in some climate-affected countries and the switch to growing crops for biofuels in others. And rice prices have been steadily creeping upwards too. A joint report...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...eatment by 50% and in that year there was a sudden surge in the number of procedures from 84,819 in 2002 to 102,426 as couples rushed to take advantage of the existing funding arrangements. The following year, when the new reimbursement rules were implemented, total activity dropped by nearly 50 per cent...

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