Update 2: 8/29/08 -- It may be encephalitisUpdate 8/27/08 -- 35 more have died""“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi.”...
"Updated Aug. 27 - Four more deaths were reported yesterday by people who'd been taking the medication Byetta.The announcement by Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. came a week after the U.S. Food and Drug...
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It has been long known that a daily half tab of soluble aspirin helps those with heart problems by thinning the blood. Experts have now determined the age at which doctors should urge their patients to take a...
"A common form of skin cancer could be diagnosed by the distinctive chemical "scent" it gives off, say US experts. Philadelphia's Monell Center sampled the air directly above basal cell carcinomas and found it was different to similar samples from healthy skin. They told a...
There has been debate about the poor hygienic condition in the NHS run hospitals and now this new revelation will further press demand for more clean hospitals. According to this new...
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As I entered the hall in central London at 4am I was greeted by hundreds of rats. Within a blink of an eyelid they vanished from sight. They live along side millions of London's residents who are largely unaware of...
The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is still seen by many around the world (including film maker Michael Moore) as a model for social health care free at point of access to all citizens. In the UK itself the media...
In a staratling revelation a human rights group has accused Israeli governement of forcing injured and sick Palestinians to become their spy. The allegation came after Israel granted temporary refuge to more than 180...
Critics of medicinal marijuana (including the Bush administration, it seems) are raising the red flag here, saying that smoking marijuana is bad for you, even if the painkilling properties are good. The US...
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Five of China's six Olympic host cities have banned foreign businessmen from making non-urgent visits until after the Olympics."Authorities in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao will no longer...
Patients of Trinity Mother Frances Neuroscience Institute and Texas Oncology-Tyler are among the first in the nation to have access to state-of-the-art radiation equipment that provides faster and more accurate...
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The set of the film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Oregon State Hospital, is going to be torn down. Most of the dilapidated, 125 year-old building will be torn down and replaced this fall."Although mean Nurse...
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India has long history of preference of male child and it leads to skewed sex ratio and many parts of country have very low female population. Residents in many part of country find difficult to get bride and there are cases where brides have been imported from other culture...