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The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has resurfaced in West Bengal, with the latest area to be infected being a small town, Sukna, in the tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling.
Two samples sent from dead backyard poultry found in a village near the town...
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Special properties of mouse urine are being harnessed to build artificial noses — devices that can sniff out trace quantities of explosives or pollutants, or pick out...
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Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn’t go downhill as we age — the golden years really are golden.
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I just can’t make this any clearer. Vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this, in multiple ways. The removal of the MMR (mumps-measles-rubella)...
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The quickest way to beauty is to sweat.” So goes the battle cry in a recent issue of Anan, Tokyo’s most influential women’s magazine. A year ago this...
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Inca surgeons in ancient Peru commonly and successfully removed small portions of patients’ skulls to treat head injuries, according to a new study. The surgical...
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Cat odour is seen to work as an aphrodisiac for mice
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Cigarette vending machines may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
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According to a global survey that looked at where mothers fare best and where they face the greatest hardships, India is ranked a dismal 66th among 71 less developed...
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Rhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it’s not just the routine growing pains of a toddler’s life that has affected him. It’s the fact that Rhett...
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For people with early cancer of the larynx, the standard treatment can be grueling: a biopsy in an operating room followed by a six-week course of radiation that may...
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is facing enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP’s platform on abortion.
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Leanne Nicholson is in many ways like any other 18-year-old. Slim, blonde, pretty, and planning a career as a youth worker, she is devoted to her pony Merrylegs and her...
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Having 18 children would be more than enough of a challenge for most women, but for U.S. mother Michelle Duggar it throws up an extra problem … she has to come up...
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Young people are using alcohol and drugs to increase their chances of getting sex, a study has found.
A poll of 1,341 people aged 16 to 35 in nine European cities,...
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Start eating like a caveman, for a study has revealed that a stone-age diet of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish can help reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular...
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Fitting in with the local culture is often the most difficult of tasks when traveling. But if you’re a young adult headed to Europe this summer, acting like a...
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Police in Haryana is spreading awareness about surgeries of Cleft lip and palate which can be undergone free of cost involving SMILE TRAIN
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A heart specialist has told a public inquiry in Vancouver into the use of Tasers that a shock from the energy weapon can be deadly.
San Francisco cardiologist Zian...
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Five more children have died of hand, foot and mouth disease in China, bringing the death toll to 39 since late March, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
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It’s a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.
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It’s a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.
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The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sickened thousands of...
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The death toll from a viral illness that is striking children across China has risen by four to 34, while the number of reported infections jumped to nearly 25,000,...
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The death toll from a viral illness that is striking children across China has risen by two to 30, health officials said Thursday, as the number of reported cases...
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New outbreaks in three Chinese provinces and Beijing put the number of children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease above 12,000 and the death toll has risen to...
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A viral outbreak in China has sickened more than 6,300 people and killed another child, raising the death toll to 26 children, authorities said Monday.
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A common illness that typically causes little more than a fever and rash has killed 24 children in China, and health officials fear the worst may be yet to come as...
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China’s Health Ministry is ordering a nationwide alert to control an outbreak of a virus that has killed 22 children in one province and shows signs of...
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An outbreak of intestinal virus in eastern China has claimed the lives of at least 21 children and the number of reported cases has risen to nearly 2,500, the official...
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AP, Beijing
An outbreak of intestinal virus in eastern China has claimed the lives of at least 21 children and the number of reported cases has risen to nearly 2,500, the official...
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A viral outbreak in eastern China has sickened almost 1,200 children, killing 20 of them, health officials said Monday.
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Bluetooth headsets are all the rage these days. But I guess in the frenzy of the handsfree mania we forgot what cellphone manufacturers warned us about when they first...
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Scientists at Yale University have developed a virus to kill another virus, the test was conducted on mice.
The researchers used a virus related to rabies called...
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Infections are caused by microscopic organisms such as bacteria , viruses and fungi and hence we can’t see them spread .There are billions of harmless micro oragnisms...
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of...
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Leave it to the genius of man to squeeze out the last trace of goodness from practically everything around him and use it to his advantage! They wouldn’t even...
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A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory...
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A child, possibly infected with an intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71 or EV71, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fuyang, in China’s Anhui province, Tuesday April 29, 2008. The number of children infected with a deadly virus in...
