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When 'prevalence' Makes for Disparity in AIDS Care

...iting for it to become high prevalence before they wake up. By then it may be too late and beyond control", says B.K. Sharma, who set up the hospital. The hospital attempted to survey 59 existing laboratories and blood banks, including government ones, in this town for HIV findings, "but could not get a...

Australian Prime Minister Wants to Ban Entry of HIV-infected

... over immigration of the HIV-infected comes in the wake of reports that the number of newcomers carrying HIV into the state of Victoria has more than quadrupled in the past two years. Health Department records show the number of HIV-positive people arriving from overseas and interstate has jumped from 1...

Officials Indicted for Allowing a Fast Food Joint Teeming With Rats in New York to Function

...onditions that attract and sustain pests. In the wake of the incident, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut said it had asked a leading rat expert to review company standards at its New York outlets. The company apologized for the rats and said it was working to ensure another infestation ...

FDA Announces to Companies to Stop Marketing Products Containing Trimethobenzamide

...ide hydrochloride. The declaration has come in the wake of on-going initiative to ensure that all marketed U.S. drugs have required marketing approval. These products are used to treat nausea and vomiting in adults and children. Drugs containing trimethobenzamide in suppository form lack evidence of eff...

New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision

...al invasion. The WHO endorsement had come in the wake of studies done in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. In the trials circumcision was shown to lower a man’s risk of contracting the virus from heterosexual sex by about 60 percent. But there are those who contend that African studies cannot be extra...

Irish Dentists Wipe The Smiles Off Their Patients

...and to lose access to free oral healthcare, in the wake of the Irish Dental Association (IDA) voting for a withdrawal of support for the Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS). According to the IDA, the DTSS scheme set up in 1994 to provide free oral care for the less well off has been due for ren...

Transplant Tourism on the Rise, Says WHO

Organ transplant tourism is on the rise in the wake of persistent supply shortage, the World Health Organisation has noted.// It has pleaded strongly against the undesirable practice of preying upon poorer nations by patients from the developed countries of the West. Demand for human organ transpla...

Flesh-eating Bugs Surface in Singapore

...nd mussels among others. The warning came in the wake of the death of an elderly man who was bitten by a crab when he was cleaning it before cooking. The 83-year-old Tan Boon Hock fell ill in Singapore 12 hours after he was infected with Vibrio, a type of waterborne flesh-eating bacteria. He died two ...

Bird Flu Scare in Tripura

... imports chicks and eggs from Bangladesh. In the wake of the scare, the Family Welfare Preventive Medicine and the Animal Resource Development departments have jointly taken all possible steps to tackle avian flu. This is according to ARD director Narayan Chandra Das. The state has been asked to tak...

Tuberculosis – 125 Years Since Discovery, Yet a Challenge to Dat

...hs every day. So the point here is, the world must wake up." One reason why TB still remains a challenge, especially in countries like Pakistan, India, Afghanistan is because many fail to complete the course of treatment. Thus, the bacterium mutates into drug-resistant strains, posing one of the greates...

Anti-Fluoride Claims Discarded As False

... tooth decay. This announcement has come in the wake of an opinion published by a Bangor pediatrician, Leo Leonidas that linked fluoride with autism and lower IQ in children. Leonidas also commended people of Mount Desert Water District who decided to remove fluoride from the local drinking water. Acco...

Expert Panel Sets Limits on Pesticide Residues in Soft Drinks

...ly Welfare constituted it in November 2004, in the wake of a controversy over pesticide residues in colas. The Indian Center for Science and Environment (CSE) had published a report claiming that its findings revealed high levels of pesticides in Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The levels were 24 times higher tha...

Sleeping Pills can Sometimes Cause 'sleep-driving' and Allergic Reactions - FDA

... while still asleep, not realizing that are yet to wake up. Still worse, those who consume such pills could be subject to life-threatening allergic reactions, as well as severe facial swelling, both of which can occur the first time the pills are taken. The FDA has now ordered the makers of 13 differe...

Use Daylight-saving Change to Practice Healthy Sleep Habits

...g three hours before bedtime so they don’t have to wake up to go to the bathroom. * Start dimming the lights and other stimuli in the house well before bedtime. Source-Newswse SRM...

Turkey Giant to Receive King-sized Compensation

...0 turkeys that had to be culled last month, in the wake of a bird flu outbreak, caused by the deadly strai... be ‘woefully misplaced’ at such a time. In the wake of recent problems associated with the bird flu outbreak, Bernard Mathews has decided to lay off ano...

Sleep Apnea: Take It to Heart, Loyola Advises

...s (or are told that they) gasp for air at night or wake up groggy to be evaluated for sleep apnea, a potentially deadly, but easily treatable, sleep disorder that raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. More than 18 million people in the United States have sleep apnea. Gregory H., 59, of Berwyn, ...

EU Commission to Set Up Rapid Action Team

...f animal diseases. The decision has come in the wake of various outbreaks, such as the recent bird flu outbreak, previous foot and mouth disease of cattle, blue tongue disease etc. The commission will be setting up this rapid action squad. It will ask for expert members to be proposed from various m...

New Moms Must Not Skip Meals

...ve to reckon with fatigue because babies typically wake in the night to nurse, added Pfarrer of the insurer DAK in Hamburg. And nursing a child requires an average of an additional 600 calories a day. Mothers of newborns should not skip meals, and they should strive to eat a balanced diet. Pfarrer recom...

China Gearing Up for Bird Flu Season

...measures on bird flu prevention, especially in the wake of the new lunar year. At this time, there is an increase in transportation of livestock and poultry across the country. In addition, bird flu is predominant during this season. Yin affirmed that China would reinforce measures such as bord...

Philippines To Arrive At Guidelines On Organ Donations

...h a list of guidelines has become necessary in the wake of promoting medical tourism in the country. If this is taken care of, Philippines could witness a stream of foreign patients especially from Japan. Currently government is busy carrying out a number of parleys between experts in this field and hea...

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