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Puerto Rican authorities declared a public health emergency after the confirmation of 10 new deaths from dengue fever, which could cause record levels of fatalities in 2010 if the current trend is maintained.
Chief epidemiologist Carmen de la Seda...
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Concerns are growing for survivors of flooding in north-west Pakistan after the heaviest rains in a generation killed at least 1,100 people.
made popular Aug 2 2010
Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World...
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Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
made popular Nov 2 2009
A strange epidemic which hit parts of Adamawa and Borno states, has claimed 100 lives, leaving a thousand others hospitalised.
The disease, which started from Mahi...
made popular Oct 9 2009
The next wave of swine flu has arrived, and Mexicans are bracing for an outbreak that may be even larger than the one here last spring that became a pandemic. Daily...
made popular Oct 1 2009
The Australian Vaccination Network lobby group says more testing of the swine flu vaccine needs to be done before it is given to the public.
The Federal Government has...
made popular Sep 19 2009
More than 100 people have died and over 5,000 have been infected in outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in remote parts of Papua New Guinea since last month,...
made popular Sep 14 2009
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent...
made popular Sep 5 2009
Swine flu hysteria may be making a come back. The Center for Disease Control, a federal agency, has reported that 1 million Americans have contacted Swine flu virus or...
made popular Jun 26 2009
The practice of taking on several women by a single man has been practiced since time immemorial. It was also greatly encouraged by the community as well as you could...
made popular Jan 19 2009
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Malaria Research Institute at Macha Mission Hospital has been able to facilitate access to the world’s medical knowledge and locally-relevant content...
made popular Dec 15 2008
Diabetes affects 24 million Americans and an increasing number of children. It can lead to limb loss and heart attacks. Yet people are more afraid of snakes and...
made popular Oct 29 2008
The treatment of disease is obviously more important than deadly violence… in Zimbabwe, at least.
I was disgusted to read that UNICEF and Mugabe’s ‘government’...
made popular Oct 28 2008
Three people have died in South Africa from an “unknown highly infectious disease” believed to have originated in Zambia in over three weeks. The Star newspaper...
made popular Oct 10 2008
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
made popular Oct 7 2008
We all want to live in a Flat world. No, I am not talking about Nandan Nielkani’s open trade opportunities for everybody. I am talking about the growing waist and...
made popular Sep 13 2008
At least 38 Venezuelans have died as a result of a suspected outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
made popular Aug 27 2008
We all like chubby kids and go gaga over the baby weight as soon as they are born. She was 4.8 Lbs! Well we do take pride in this and for many more years to come,...
made popular Aug 14 2008
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Doctors are to begin clinical trials to investigate whether cancer patients should be given huge doses of vitamin C alongside conventional drugs after research...
made popular Aug 5 2008
When our world becomes as turbulent as this
Many keep saying the time is His,
When some people only hiss
While other passionately kiss,
When a wild wind carries away...
made popular Jul 29 2008
If you’ve been growing blue and red wires out of sores on your skin like hundreds of Morgellons disease sufferers have (pictured), then you may actually have a...
made popular Jul 12 2008
Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, have gained fresh insights into the mechanisms by which prostate cancer cells spread to the...
made popular Jul 11 2008
A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading better and earlier across the United States, and may thrive in hot American summers, researchers said on Thursday. The...
made popular Jul 6 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As more Americans get sick while health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak sweeping the country, consumer groups said on...
made popular Jul 3 2008
I sat enthralled to the TV as I watched a man called Dr. Beat Richner. I was watching a documentary called Dr Beat and the Passive Genocide of Children. You can read...
made popular Jul 7 2008
Today there was a scary reminder today in a newspaper about the increasing number of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) carriers in Thailand. HBV is a disease that cannot be...
made popular Jun 30 2008
A rare genetic disorder has left a two-year-old with a form of dementia, a disease more normally associated with the elderly.
made popular May 9 2008
India will account for 60% of heart disease cases worldwide within two years, according to new research. The study, published in the British journal Lancet, says that...
made popular Apr 26 2008
We have been face to face with this life threatening pandemic from the last few years, however, the battle still seems invincible. A virus that might mutate to a deadly...
made popular Feb 5 2007
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In this Aug. 14, 1976 file photo, George Foreman’s left connects with Scott LeDoux’s face, left, in the second round of their bout in Utica, N.Y. The Associated Press reports on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, that LeDoux, 60, has Lou Gehrig’s disease, also...
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