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Pneumonia Claims 30 Lives In Pakistan

...owfall expected, the threat is likely to grow with thousands of children and older people being the most vulnerable. 'This development shows why it is very important for us to do more, and quickly,' said UN Chief of Emergency Operations Andrew MacLeod. (IANS)...

Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Risk In Young Natural Disaster Survivors

...he 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia which claimed thousands of lives and destroyed the whole area. They found that adolescents who were not treated exhibited more symptoms of PTSD and depression. Around 125 adolescents were assessed for depression and PTSD in Armenian regions of Gumri and Spitak, where the ep...

DNA Vaccine Trials Against HIV Virus In Sweden Nurture Hope

... it goes through progressively wider trials, among thousands of volunteers. More than 30 candidate AIDS vaccines are currently being tested worldwide. The increased financial grants for AIDS is said to have prompted for this global competition. Detractors have raised skeptical concerns regarding the mater...

Singapore Government to Raise Fund For HIV Treatment

...o contribute// money to the fund, which could help thousands of women and children infected with HIV. It is estimated that more than 61% of HIV positive women in singapore are married and reports say that there could be more than 4,000 to 8,000 undiagnosed patients with HIV in singapore....

Breast cancer patient lost her case

Deborah Carney a breast cancer patient has to pay thousands of dollars as a compensation to her doctor as the jury rejected her case against the doctor//. Doctor Robert Newton is the family doctor of Deborah Carney against whom she had put a case for negligent treatment as they feel that the doctor missed an ...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...This strong empirical evidence affects hundreds of thousands of families," said Annemarie Charlesworth, lead author and research specialist, University of California. The current review summarizes the results of nearly 42 studies conducted in the above regard and therefore provides authoritative information....

Students wants to extent Tution waiver in Ontario

...tudents in protest to this announcement has posted thousands of postcards to their Premier Dalton McGuinty requesting him to extend the Tution waiver to the students....

New Chair Invented To Relieve Backache

...while sitting down. It could have implications for thousands of employees who spend most of their time seated at a desk. The chair is so shaped that the pelvis, which supports the upper body, is tilted forward. Most chairs allow the pelvis to tilt backwards, causing the body to slump. "At the hospital where...

Measles Vaccination Drive Intensified In Quake-Hit Pakistan

...e were killed in the Oct 8 temblor and hundreds of thousands rendered homeless. --IANS...

U.S. launching cancer gene-mapping pilot

... involved in cancer, we're talking about basically thousands of Human Genome Projects," Collins said. Scientists have discovered numerous genes that play a vital role in cancer. At times a single genetic mutation is enough to spark a tumor; or it just makes people more vulnerable to the disease. Other changes...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

Tens of thousands of poor Andhra women have financed the bypass surgery of a fisherwoman costing Rs 60,000 by contributing 50 paise each.// Thanks to their efforts, B. Hemavati, 35, wife of a fisherman and a mother of two, will undergo a life saving operation at the ...

Avian flu scare in Malawi too!!

...ca. The suspect is of course avian influenza after thousands of migratory birds were found dead on a hill in the central Ntchisi district.// There was alarm and panic as agriculture officials expressed alarm after local villagers started scooping up the dead fork-tailed drongos -- known locally as namzenze -...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

...in the last month and senior officials have earned thousands of pounds. This has caused commotion waves among politicians as in some areas consultants were earning up to ￡10,000 on top of their ￡100,000 annual salaries. The health officials not only have to pay for the consultants but also for the other th...

The MRSA Superbug May Yet Be Overcome

...ital acquired infection which is infecting several thousands of people. The sponge grown bacteria is capable of killing strains like listeria in addition to the superbug. The scientists do not however know as to why the bacteria which produce these antibiotics can be grown on the sponges of one manufacturer al...

Immune Response Of Human Beings Can Be Re-energized

... a microarray experiment measuring the activity of thousands of genes in normal memory CD8 T cells in mice and in exhausted versions of those cells. They found that a gene known as PD-1 was much more active in the exhausted cells. "When [co-author] John Wherry of the Wistar Institute found a high level of th...

China reveals new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

... This year alone, China has killed and incinerated thousands of head of cattle to control the outbreak of the Asia type 1 foot-and-mouth disease, officials say. Outbreaks have been reported on the outskirts of Beijing, neighbouring Hebei province, eastern Jiangsu province, the western region of Xinjiang, an...

Rehabilitate Sex Workers - Mata Amritanandamayi

...nt earthquake. The lady who is today a guardian to thousands of orphans, widows and disabled people, had a very...ho lost their parents during Tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left many more homeless on December 26, 2004. Her Ashram has already constructed and...

Foot and mouth disease sets foot in China

...e area. As a measure in 2005 alone, China killed thousands of cattle to stop the outbreak of the Asia type 1 foot and mouth disease....

Experts urging artery screening in the UK

...tic aneurysm, a blood vessel condition which kills thousands each year in the UK, a magazine reports. This condition, a swelling // in the main blood vessel from the heart which can kill if it bursts, accounts for 1.36% of deaths in men over 65 in the UK. The National Screening Committee (NSC) has backed r...

Russia warns against travel to Turkey, Iran closes border

...ck to Russia in the spring of 2006. Hundreds of thousands of birds were culled but no human cases were reported. Meanwhile, Iran closed its Turkish border crossing on Sunday, and statements from a senior Russian health official were made on Sunday advising holiday-makers against travel to Turkey, since th...

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