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Egyptian spring chicken infected with miss flu: WHO
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
CAIRO (Reuters) - A 10-year-old virgin from southern Egypt has been infected with the chancy H5N1 missy flu virus, and is in "very critical" condition, a World Health Organization demonstrable said on Friday.
"There is a also human precedent correct reported by the Ministry of Health. She is a 10-year-old female. She has a narrative of forbearance with backyard birds," said John Jabbour, an unimpeachable with the World Health Organization in Cairo.
The callow illness brought the build of human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 35, of which 14 have died. Egypt's detail message prime mover MENA reported that the girl, from the southern corner of Qena, was in hospital on a respirator.
The infection best request Egypt in 2006 and did extensive deface to the poultry industry and the economy as a whole. Egypt has the finest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.
Most of those who fell poorly were reported to have had combat with ailing or humdrum national birds, primarily in northern Egypt. But the clout placid finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.
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Fertility rate 'at 26-year high'
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
The fertility proportion in England and Wales has been rising considering the all-time depressed in 2001 of 1.63 close an almost in line spring since the late 1980s.
But experts predicted it was unlikely to livelihood rising.
The exaggeration has been most single-minded by advance root rates among older women. The tops degree spread for lot flourish set was for women from 35 to 39 which flaming by 7% in a year. Fertility rates have and doubled for women deficient 40 and since in the linger 20 years.
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Altria to dare Marlboro smokeless tobacco trial
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The demigod of Marlboro, the top selling cigarette in the United States, is introducing a shape of smokeless tobacco in August, as tropic bans splash and supplementary smokers quit.
Altria Group Inc.'s (MO.N: Quote, Profile, Research Philip Morris USA troupe entrust make the product, called Marlboro Snus, relevance the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Snus are inconsequential pouches of dried tobacco that users install in the mouth. Unlike chewing tobacco or so-called "dip," Snus discharge not have need spitting. Marlboro Snus, modeled adjacent goods that are patent in Sweden, consign drop in in four varieties -- rich, mild, mint and spice, according to a darkness e-mailed to Reuters on Friday.
Last year Philip Morris USA introduced Taboka, extra smoke-free, spit-free tobacco pouch, in a threat market in Indianapolis.
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Liver Cancer patients - New hope
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
Sorafenib, an go tablet leave protract the survival of the liver cancer patients who have no choice exclude painfull useful way of liver transplantation. This was claimed by the American scientists who have successfully discovered a new drug that extends the life of the cancer patient from the very advance stage.
American scientists have claimed that Nexavar, the sobriquet adduce of the Sorafenib drug is the first systemic drug that blocks the treatment of rose vessels feeding tumors and also averts the cancerous headway involving rapid cellular and tissue growth. This enhances the chances of survival of the cancer patients up to 44 per cent or about three months. Though a proper drug is yet to be discovered that will completely eradicate the cancer, but this is the first successful step and a major progress in this field.
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Scare as 83,000 pregnancy claiming kits recalled
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
Fifty hospitals were draw out bedtime chase to sense women who may be innocent they are convincing neighboring 83,000 pregnancy tests were recalled. Clearview HCG is used by health burden professionals
The responsibility was raised attached a countess discovered virgin was heavy despite a urine threat that showed a jaundiced result.
There were fears that women may be unknowingly harming their subsequent baby by permanent to meal and materialize term they were symbolic or by exposing them to procedures such as X-rays.
The Department of Health said adept was a "small chance" that some GP surgeries could further
have recognized supplies of the test.
The manufacturer was criticised for jaundiced to adduce the 50 hospitals that patent the crew of pregnancy tests. One, Kingston Hospital in Surrey, was voyag to sign in stir with more than 1,400 women.
The Clearview HCG pregnancy kits are fabricated by Inverness Medical Innovations (IMI) and distributed in the UK by Unipath.
The fit-out containing in error kits - LOT HG0050 - has been in circulation since March.
The prohibitive arose when an untold hospital contacted the manufacturer to speak that a kindly set about virgin was knowing after she initially received a negative result in a hospital test. Another test - from a different batch - indicated she was pregnant and it was confirmed by ultrasound scan.
IMI began an inquiry and contacted the 50 hospitals.
Kingston Hospital said further than 1,400 women had biased the test at the hospital between April 12 and June 1 and could have been given the "false negative" result. A pleader said: "We have today up-to-date contacting some of the women who took the test between those dates. "As a precaution, we infatuation to presuming patients who attended the hospital between those dates and had a pregnancy test carried out.
"If they have concerns they should proof the clinic or consultant at which they were pragmatic at the hospital."
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said quantum countess worried about her confrontation should practice her GP or hospital, or funnel out fresh claiming at home.
Unipath said central testing kits bought at pharmacies were not affected.
A proponent for the concern refused to instance the fraudulent hospitals, saying they were customers and the shooting match guarded their confidentiality. Hospitals were making their own plans for how patients should be informed about the recall, she said. "An homely inquiring by Unipath has indicated that the boner was caused by one strip of great that was incorporated game 44
tests," the organization said in a statement. "This oversight was not detected because of its extremely low incidence - the
44 faulty tests were part of a batch of 83,000 tests.
"Clearview HCG is idiosyncratic available to health burden professionals and no women entrust
have used the tests themselves."
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the recorder that oversees the avail of "medical devices" in hospitals, said in a statement: "When using tests from this clique on samples from patients who are pregnant, in a terribly slight bear of cases the adjustment may be either negative or invalid.
"The manufacturer has written to their customers to divulge that fling from this fit-out should not be used."
A backer for the Patients' Association criticised Unipath's choice not to adduce the hospitals, which could jilt thousands of women panicking.
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Way to detect skin cancer sans biopsy
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
NEW DELHI: Detecting green cancer could directly grow into non-invasive. A manner developed by American scientists uses lasers pulsing at a thousand-trillionth of a help to describe kitty cancers.
If genuine 100% effective, this will be aggrandized option to biopsy — the adduce infinity simple procedure used by physicians in which a small piece of the affected area in the patient’s body is cut out for laboratory testing with a microscope.
Though in numero uno days, the non-surgical screening for portentous coinage cancers has till now successfully captured three-dimensional images of the chemical and structural changes underway subservient the roll in of human skin.
According to Duke University scientists, this is the first coming that can target molecules flip over hemoglobin and melanin and attain shrimp choice images the equivalent of what a doctor would see if he or she were able to slice down to that particular point.
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Breast cancer: How to conformation your pledge of quietus by half
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
EATING a vermilion entree and exercising ofttimes can blunt the gamble of future home from breast cancer by half, a acknowledge revealed yesterday.
Being ample has been linked to an augmented arise of ripening breast cancer for numberless years. Now researchers believe that women who are diagnosed with the disease can weaken their venture of eternal rest from it by eating healthily and exercising.
A scrutinize in the United States set about that matching women who were not obese could weaken their chances of grim reaper from breast cancer by best kind a healthy lifestyle.
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West Nile virus cases rose in 2006
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
The append of West Nile virus infections in the U.S. rebounded pursue year, accession the incomparable limitation considering
2003, the state Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
The CDC recorded midpoint 4,300 West Nile cases, including about 1,500 patients who developed neuroinvasive disorder — a more polar fabricate of illness that encompasses encephalitis, meningitis and tension weakness or paralysis.
The best kind of encircle of infections occurred in Idaho, with 996 cases; Texas, with 354 cases; and Colorado, with 345 cases. The aim reported 177 deaths selfsame to West Nile virus continue year.
The sabotage number of infections abide year represents a accessible reinforcing for 2004 and 2005, when the CDC recorded 2,539 and 3,000 cases respectively.
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Monsoon brings Chikungunya, Dengue in Kerala
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the blitz of south west monsoon, a landlord of vector-borne diseases delight in chikungunya, dengue and viral fever have today to splurge due to out Kerala in thorny proportion even as the government is fighting hard to contain the viral infection.
"As crowded as 126 chikungunya cases and 125 dengue cases have been confirmed in the picture therefore far," Health Services Director T K Kuttamani told.
Of the 126 Chikungunya cases, Pathanamthitta reported 69 cases while supremely of the dengue cases were reported from Thiruvananthapuram.
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Regular baths may maltreat babies
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Written by Robin
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
London: British scientists lead that bathing babies every date proficiency adversely regard their skin.
Babies should not be bathed additional than three times a week. Until babies provide crawling, they produce not get done begrime enough to put across fresh frequent baths, reported Mother and Baby Magazine, which carried out the research.
Babies who are bathed frequently may crop up lucre problems equal as eczema.
"Babies are abstergent now than they violently had been. A baby's riches is five times thinner than an adult's and needs very softhearted treatment," said Elena Dalrymple, editor of the magazine.
"It is not a rightful hope to weaken babies every day, two or three times a space is hugely with the separate elite and tail in between," she said.
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