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US sets up world's largest face transplant programme for disfigured war veterans

Alisa Roberts — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:03:07 +0000

The world’s biggest face transplant programme is being set up in Boston for veterans left severely deformed after surviving horrific war injuries in Iraq and...

Mom fights, gets the delivery she wants

Danielle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:00:21 +0000

Seven months into her pregnancy with her fourth child, Joy Szabo’s obstetrician gave her some news she didn’t want to hear: Because she’d had a previous Caesarean section, the hospital where she planned to deliver was insisting...

'Dr Beetroot' dies of liver transplant complications

Johan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:49:49 +0000

Along with Thabo Mbeki, the former president, she bears key responsibility for the African National Congress government’s delaying for years the distribution of anti-retroviral drugs to patients with HIV and Aids. Mr Mbeki publicly...

Vaccination campaign against H1N1

Mohammed Taha — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:59:30 +0000

The first vaccination campaign against the H1N1 virus started on Wednesday in 69 health centres in Casablanca for free to all social groups. According to the Casablanca regional director of the health ministry, Fouad Jettou, this operation...

Malaria does not kill people but misguided policies do

Cian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:07:13 +0000

Malaria is a preventable and curable disease that kills nearly 1 million people, mostly children, every year. This disease continues to kill in large part because so many poor people living in Africa lack access to safe, effective and...

Full moon draws out "wolves"

Michael Kerjman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:53:42 +0000

An Australian hospital has identified a spike in violent “werewolf” patients when there is a full moon.

The ‘Under-Nourished’ Future of India

Ishaal Zehra — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:13:30 +0000

Ishaal Zehra A 27 year-old Russian man, Sergei Gavrilov, killed his 55 year-old mother because she refused to give him her pension money so he could go for gambling and partying. He was so infuriated that he smashed her head with a brick and...

Swine Flue and Our Medical Facility

Shyam Jaiswal — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:15:27 +0000

As we all know, protecting humanity from the deadly disease ‘Swine Flu’ is the biggest problem in front of the world. And when it comes to India, situation is not better than the other parts of the world. So far Delhi has accounted for 50.7%...

Uganda: Life in Prison For Circumcising Women

John — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:20:36 +0000

Christmas merry making may have come a little early for gender rights’ activists in the country after Parliament yesterday passed a new law that outlaws and criminalises female genital mutilation. The new law, a private member’s Bill drawn up...

Sale of contaminated milk rampant in Pakistan

Global Report — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:15:40 +0000

Packaged milk is widely used throughout the country, including a large number of children, each day. Selling contaminated milk has apparently been going on for a long time without any word of doubt cast over the safe consumption of...