Jeevanjee gardens in Nairobi, smokers gather during their lunch hour to read, chat and light up.It is one of the few zones in the Kenyan capital where people can smoke in public, since the ban on smoking in public came into effect in 2007."I have often tried to give up by throwing cigarettes into the toilet, but I have not succeeded in stopping smoking."According to some researchers, tobacco addiction...
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CPI(M) flays IT Minister K. Venkat Reddy for ‘ turning a Nelson’s eye towards diseases’NALGONDA: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) State committee member Nomula Narsimhaiah has charged Minister for Information Technology K. Venkat Reddy with turning a Nelson’s eye towards the growing menace of epidemics in the district.Mr. Narsimhaiah participated in a dharna organised by the CPI(M) district committee...
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10 people in poll say the disapprove of how President Obama is handling H1N1-- Americans are starting to lose confidence in the government's ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic of the H1N1 flu, according to a new national poll.But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Tuesday morning, indicates a small majority continue to say that the government and private industry eventually...
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A(H1N1) epidemic is on a definite down curve in the State, Principal Secretary, Health, V.K. Subburaj, has said.“The dip has begun and clearly, we can say that the epidemic is reaching a milestone in Tamil Nadu,” S. Elango, Director of Public Health, told. Every epidemic has a down curve and the A(H1N1) has finally got there. The tapering off has taken place over the last month. The total number of...
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New Epidemic Of Sexually Transmitted Hepatitis C Infection In HIV-infected Men In NYCResearchers in New York City are reporting their work uncovering a new epidemic ofinfection. These authors have previously reported unusually rapid fibrosis progression due to new HCV in MSM who have HIV infection and now expand on their findings, demonstrating that sexual transmission rather than injection drug use...
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Brown University researchers have refuted claims of promiscuity and overlapping multiple sexual partners driving the HIV epidemic. Their study results suggest that there is not much scientific evidence to support the idea.Thus, they have said that more research is needed to prove that the sexual practice of concurrency has accelerated the spread of HIV in Africa."People have just accepted at face value...
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epidemic of flu and acute respiratory disorders has slowed down in Ukraine, officials said Monday, as the World Health Organization warned of a possible second wave of infections."In the last few days, the number of patients falling ill per day has fallen," Ukraine's deputy health minister, Vasyl Lazoryshynets, said at a news conference.The number of new cases peaked on November 4 when more than 127,000...
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federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) long anticipated revised estimate of annual new cases of HIV infections was revealed today in a paper published in the Aug. 6, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The revised estimated number of new infections suggests that the HIV epidemic here in the United States is more severe than current statistics portray....
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Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday. A further 1,000 members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela are believed to have caught the flu, the indigenous peoples rights group said.It is feared the flu could sweep through the area and kill many more Yanomami as the Indians have little resistance...
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VARANASI:While pneumonia is a common respiratory disease, some of its symptoms could alsosurface in the form severe diseases especially viral epidemic infections likebird flu and swine flu.According to Dr JK Samaria of department ofChest and Respiratory Diseases, Banaras Hindu University, epidemic and communityinfections witnessing pneumonia due to influenza virus takes a heavy toll asthey are difficult...
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