 | Indian public health experts are not at all excited by the news that American scientists have created genetically modified mosquitoes to help fight malaria, saying it had been tried here before and abandoned as a failure.
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 | Some 5,600 chickens of three poultry farms were culled Friday in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka after detection of bird flue at a poultry farm.
Officials of the Livestock Department destroyed the chickens by using carbon dioxide gas and then... More |
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 | An alarming 20 percent of the people availing re-treatment of tuberculosis are at the risk of developing drug resistance in India that witnesses nearly 1.8 million fresh cases every year, a leading global health advocacy body said here Friday.
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 | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged governments to join the anti-tuberculosis global plan, which would save 14 million lives in coming years as the disease has become extremely drug-resistant.
Ban's message aimed at stressing the importance... More |
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 | Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is threatening to reverse the gains made in the control of the disease in the Asia-Pacific region unless bolder steps are taken, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
In a statement ahead of World Stop... More |
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 | An Indian American cardiologist in Wisconsin is running a pioneering trial of using stem cells to treat heart diseases, the initial results of which have been "encouraging".
Amish Raval, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his team of... More |
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 | China's Minister of Health, Gao Qiang, is encouraging foreign investors to open joint venture hospitals in which they can own as much as 70 percent of the private medical facility.
"Foreign invested hospitals will be strictly supervised by the... More |
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 | More cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu were confirmed in the Pakistani capital after dead crows found on the streets tested positive for the virus, a senior official said Thursday.
A month after Islamabad zoo was closed due to an outbreak,... More |
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 | The Rajasthan High Court Thursday issued notice to the state government on a public suit demanding protection to mineworkers from silicosis.
The public interest litigation (PIL), filed by an NGO, Health, Environment and Development Consortium... More |
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 | The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that all private hospitals, built on subsidised government land, must treat the poor free of cost both at their indoor and outdoor facilities or face contempt of court proceedings.
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