Malaria Sweeps Tripura, 25 Dead
...l dominated Amarpur area in south Tripura district where 10 people have died. "An army helicopter has been pressed into service to transport medical teams and medicines to the interior areas," the official said.All hospitals in the state are crowded with patients hit by malaria. "The government would bea......r claims to have infiltrated a strange sub-culture where infection is desirable and there are "bug chasers"...ourne court heard evidence of "conversion parties" where men were wittingly or unwittingly infected with the virus. "The majority of people that I have know...Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks
... the Yamuna is happening to rivers all over India, where 30 percent of the population now lives in cities, ... can't afford to develop a waste treatment culture where only some part of waste is treated," said Centre for Science and Environment director Sunita Narain....Natural Selection in Butterflies
...focused on the Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii, where in 2001, males of the Blue Moon butterfly made up ...focused on the Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii, where in 2001, males of the Blue Moon butterfly made up only 1 percent of the population. In 2006, the res...US TB Traveler Sued Over 'reckless and Selfish Behavior'
...h Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, where Speaker is being treated, said Speaker does not ha...al via Prague and then drove to the United States, where he called the CDC and agreed to head to an isolation hospital in New York. He was eventually transfe...Gender Equality, the Key Factor to Curb Foeticide: Dr. Ramadoss
... in creating the right socio-economic environment, where sons and daughters are equally valued. This can be achieved by creating awareness about the gender equality through advocacy and communication efforts along with empowering the women suitably. Besides, Mt. Annie Raja, General Secretary of the NFIW an...Now, a Tattoo That can Be Easily Removed
...od news - researchers have discovered a technique, where the cryptic body symbols can be permanent or remov...e. The new method is called micro-encapsulation, where particles are suspended in a biodegradable polymer coating. The microcapsules, that are as tiny as p...Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution
... JC Decaux in the southeastern French city of Lyon where 4,000 self-service bikes have been part of the landscape since 2005. Fifty-five percent of the scheme's users in Lyon say they now drive less, and bike traffic has jumped 75 percent. The Paris initiative dovetails with the pledge by newly-elected...Organic Farming Can Feed the World
... is especially good news for developing countries, where it's sometimes impossible to deliver food from out... culprit in creating dead zones---low oxygen areas where marine life cannot survive. Proponents of organic farming argue that conventional farming also cause...Tourettes Syndrome in Children may also Result in Superior Learning Skills
...cedural memory. But unlike in the past tense task, where some accuracy was lost to the speed of the response, the researchers did not observe any loss of accuracy in the picture-naming test by children with the disorder. This may mean that the brain abnormalities we see in Tourettes syndrome may lead no...Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared
...n in adults who receive them through assaults. And where Hugo was impaled is the most dangerous zone. It was virgin territory for me." Hugo underwent a 90-minute operation to explore possible damage in the wound and clean it. Remarkably, though one of the main arteries in his neck has been permanently ...Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case
...es, particularly when you are dealing with matters where people are abroad, where you are working through different time zones, where you are dealing with modern technologies, you do...India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report
...-- mainly due to selective abortion in the country where many people prefer to have male children. "This will check both foeticide and infant mortality," the minister for women and child development Renuka Chowdhury told the Hindustan Times daily. Officials said the data would permit the government to ...Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists
...ore recent animal-human health interaction example where pet food contaminants that killed a small number o... University in Indiana: "We're in a situation now where we're talking about health teams of physicians and veterinarians and nurses. "If one of these foreig...Cosmetic Eye Enhancer may Lead to Disfigurement
...njected properly . The authors reviewed four cases where patients were injected superficially; all four exhibited nodule development and inflammation. PLA should not be injected superficially, especially around the eyes, says study author and dermatologist Greg Goodman. This material does not act as a der...Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful
...lled through the Hughston Clinic in Columbus, Ga., where Dr. Bakers father and the senior study investigator, Champ L. Baker, Jr., M.D., practices orthopaedic sports medicine surgery. Tennis elbow, a potentially debilitating condition, is common and can be successfully managed without surgery in almost 9...Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia
... uninvited, asking if they were going to the disco where they 'could go down on them' and asking one woman if he could perform oral sex on her among others. The inquest also heard the initial interview that Letterio Silvestri, another of the seven, had given police in New Caledonia. The interview was t...Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms
... birds have been killed at two Czech poultry farms where the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which is potentially ... the village of Norin in the centre of the country where the virus was confirmed on Wednesday, he told AFP. The two farms are within an exclusion zone thro...Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say
...t lack of training is an issue, including in cases where staff used excessive force. Better training in tec...portant as frustrated psychiatric patients with no where else to go spend hours in the ER . In the case of the patient whose arm was broken at Lawrence Gen......ng the option of a non-operative approach in cases where the likelihood of nodal disease is small. According to the authors, the study also raises the question that if patients have no nodal involvement is neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy justified at all" contact us at: The European School of Oncology, Vi...