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Date Rape Drug Seized at Chennai Airport

... persons in this connection//. Technically it is a veterinary anesthetic, but is increasingly as a date rape dru...rs. The DRI authorities said the chemical was a veterinary anesthetic and used as a narcotic. The abuse of Ketamine had been spreading rapidly in the `rave ...

Melamine Contamination Killed Thousands of Pets, Says a New Report

...ld, The Pet Hospital, one of the largest chains of veterinary hospitals in the US, nearly 39,000 cats and dogs//...compiled from records collected from more than 615 veterinary hospitals. Last month there was massive recall of contaminated pet food. Described as one of the l...

Indians Add to Rich Diversity of Virginia Tech

...iculture, engineering, architecture, forestry, and veterinary medicine programmes. The Indian professor, G.V. Loganathan, who was killed in Monday's shootout, was a member of the civil and environmental engineering department. It is also one of the few civilian universities in the US with a corps of cadets ...

Hot Flashes: Studies Explore the Various Possibilities Involved

...year research effort led by University of Illinois veterinary biosciences professor Jodi Flaws and colleagues at the University of Maryland, Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore and the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Physicians have long noted that some factors, such as smoking, increase the li...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...mes to obesity," said Philip Johnson, professor of veterinary medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "Some of the very same problems humans encounter with obesity may also occur in horses." Obesity in horses not only causes weight gain but also endocrine problems, including insulin resi...

Steps To Prevent Out-Break Of Bird Flu

... 10. The Department has trained more than 22,000 veterinary manpower to handle control and containment operati...ze the master trainers so available to train other veterinary staff. 11. Testing of serum samples has been started at regional level in the laboratories at Bang...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...outbreak. The shortage is blamed on graduates of veterinary schools who opt for the regular hours and assumed ... on dairy farms, lived in small towns, and came to veterinary school to be dairy veterinarians, or food animal veterinarians, and then went back to those small to...

Animals too Affected from Heat Wake in Jaipur

...trokes with as many as 50 canines being treated at veterinary hospitals everyday. Veterinarians say such extreme heat is not favourable for pets, which don't have any sweat glands to keep cool. The sick dogs have to be put on drips and given ice treatments to bring their body temperature to normal. "We have...

National Institute Of Health & Family Welfare To Commercialize Its Products

...erm banks and can be extended in the same area for veterinary applications. At present no such laboratory kit for sperm function is available in the market. The kits do not require any imported material and have been developed indigenously. In addition, the institute has also developed a vaginal contraceptiv...

Four Malaysians in Hospital for Bird Flu Checks

...g monitoring continued throughout the country. The veterinary services department said Monday 4,127 birds had been culled, 1,430 eggs destroyed and 1,139 premises checked within a one kilometre (half a mile) radius from where the outbreak began in Sungai Buloh. Samples from nearly 6,700 fowl outside the outbrea...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...ad begun last May. Says Jia Youling, head of the veterinary department of the ministry of agriculture:"The 'high-fever disease' was caused mainly by the blue-ear disease virus, but other viruses cannot be ruled out." According to Jia, the death rate from the 'high-fever disease' accounted for 0.2 percent of...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

... in sacks to be taken away and killed later. The veterinary department was alerted Sunday by the owner of the infected chickens after about 60 of his birds died, said Kamarudin. Surveillance teams are being sent to surrounding areas to check for more virus outbreaks but none had so far been detected, he sai...

Concern Expressed Over Poor Quality Bird Flu Vaccine Used in Nigeria

...ase incidence, according to Joseph Domenech, chief veterinary officer of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a report. More than one million birds have been destroyed across Nigeria since February 2006 when the virus was first detected in the country. However, cases of the virus have since been con...

Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

...on," he added. Villagers however alleged that no veterinary staff were present for the vaccination of animals. Orissa has reported cases of anthrax infection in the past too, specially from Kalahandi, Koraput and Rayagada where tribals often consume infected meat. Over 200 cattle and five people lost thei...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...recent outbreaks in Bangladesh, the Government and veterinary authorities have applied immediate control and con...top the virus spread and improving the capacity of veterinary laboratories to facilitate rapid diagnosis of suspected outbreaks were the other measures suggested ...

Singapore to Import Eggs, Fish from Andhra Pradesh

... in this regard with Chuasin Bin, CEO of agri food veterinary authority, government of Singapore. According to a release from the chief minister's office here, he suggested to Singapore authorities that they could enter into a direct buy-back arrangement with Andhra Pradesh farmers for not only supply but als...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

...ated or controlled," said Joseph Domenech, head of veterinary services at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Rome. "Most affected countries have been very open about new outbreaks," he said. "This shows that countries are taking the H5N1 threat seriously. They are better prepared today and have improved t...

Potentially Lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Resurfaces in Europe

...untry. Zbynek Semerad, a spokesman for the Czech veterinary services, told AFP Wednesday the H5N1 virus had be... only. "There is no reason to panic. The special veterinary measures have already been widen without delay, with the aim of preventing a new outbreak of the vir...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

... serious flu-like symptoms in humans. Health and veterinary experts have singled out Indonesia, Egypt and Nige... global pandemic. The FAO experts said efficient veterinary services and improved private/public partnership for better surveillance and control are indispensab...

Roche Completes Acquisition of BioVeris

...h, life science development, patient self-testing, veterinary testing, drug discovery, drug development and clinical trials. "We are excited to be able to offer ECL technology to existing and new customers for these expanded uses. This is a highly innovative technology that our customers and their patients wi...

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