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Patna -
More than 100 children in the Indian state of Bihar -- home to some of the country's worst health indicators -- have now been killed by a brain virus potentially linked to lychees, officials said.
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Kolkata -
Doctors in India's West Bengal state on Monday called off a week-long strike after authorities promised better workplace security in the wake of violent attacks that had prompted a nationwide day of action.
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Nesconset -
Michael Kidd, now 84 years old, fought in the Korean War. His young German shepherd Millie helps calm him down when things start to swirl, usually at night.
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Kolkata -
Indian health workers have called a nationwide strike next week to protest over growing safety concerns at work, after three doctors were badly beaten in the state of West Bengal, officials said Friday.
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Berlin -
A German court Friday fined two gynaecologists for offering information online about their abortion services, rekindling an emotional row over a Nazi-era law banning practitioners from advertising pregnancy terminations.
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Berlin -
A German court Friday fined two gynaecologists for offering information publicly on how they carry out abortion services, despite the recent easing of a Nazi-era law banning practitioners from advertising of pregnancy terminations.
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Geneva -
The World Health Organization emergency committee will decide Friday whether to declare a raging Ebola epidemic an international threat, after an outbreak that began in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed into Uganda.
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Kanpala -
Uganda on Thursday recorded its second Ebola fatality since the virus spread from neighbouring DR Congo, where officials said a 10-month-old epidemic had now killed more than 1,400 people.
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Kanpala -
A 50-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola in Uganda has died, a health ministry official told AFP Thursday, the second fatality since the virus spread from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Kanpala -
A five-year-old boy in Uganda has has died of Ebola, the health minister told AFP Wednesday, as his grandmother and younger brother also tested positive for the virus after joining the child on a visit to neighbouring DR Congo.
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Patna -
At least 31 children have died in northern India in the last 10 days from a deadly brain disease believed linked to a toxic substance found in lychee fruit, health officials said Wednesday.
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Seoul -
North Korea is taking emergency measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever, its state media said Wednesday, weeks after confirming an outbreak in the isolated country.
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Paris -
People worldwide could be ingesting five grammes of microscopic plastic particles every week, equivalent in weight to a credit card, researchers said Wednesday.
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Kanpala -
A five-year-old boy is being treated for Ebola in Uganda, the first case since a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo 10 months ago, Health Minister Ruth Aceng said Tuesday.
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Washington -
US authorities are scrambling to get to the bottom of a rash of deaths of US tourists in the Dominican Republic, with the number of reported fatalities over the past year now rising to six.
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Dekoa -
The scratching of crayons on paper fills the air as the children at Lazare camp in war-ravaged Central African Republic draw scenes from daily life.They draw armed men. Armoured vehicles. And they use red. Lots of red.
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Apo -
European authorities are seizing record quantities of increasingly pure cocaine, the EU drugs agency said in a report published Thursday, also warning of a growing use of synthetic drugs and dealing via smartphones.
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Butembo -
More than 2,000 people have been infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the health ministry has said, and aid agencies expressed concern over the accelerating spread of the disease.
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Paris -
The Paris health authorities have urged children and pregnant women living around Notre-Dame cathedral to have the levels of lead in their blood checked amid concerns over the impact of the fire.
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By AFP
Apo -
DR Congo's health ministry said late Monday that it had recorded more than 2,000 cases of Ebola, two-thirds of which had been fatal, since the disease broke out in the country's east 10 months ago.
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Paris -
The genetic mutation given to Chinese twins last year rendering them immune to the HIV virus may significantly reduce life expectancy, scientists said Monday in a fresh warning against human gene-editing.
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Johnsonville, LLC., a Sheboygan Falls, Wis. establishment, is recalling approximately 95,393 pounds of its ready-to-eat jalapeño cheddar smoked sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically hard green plastic.
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By AFP
Paris -
The French government said Friday it had filed an appeal against a Paris court ruling ordering that life support be resumed for a man in a vegetative state for over a decade, the latest move in a long legal fight over his fate.
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Caracas -
Gilberto Altuve places his son Erick's toys on a white cloth alongside cards from friends and the mask he used while waiting for a desperately needed bone marrow transplant that never came.
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Washington -
The United States risks losing its measles "elimination status" if current outbreaks continue, US health authorities said Thursday.
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Los Angeles -
A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245 grams (8.6 ounces) -- the same as a large apple -- when she was born.
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Paris -
Men whose mothers suffered stressful events such as divorce or job loss in early pregnancy are more likely to have fewer and less active sperm, researchers said Thursday.
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Geneva -
The World Health Organization on Wednesday condemned efforts by the world's biggest cigarette vendor to rebrand a day dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of tobacco use.
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Paris -
Rivers worldwide are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times, according to research unveiled at a conference Monday.
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Islamabad -
Pakistan said on Sunday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in the southern Sindh province.
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Could inhalers be adapted for a wide range of medicines in the future? NIAID (CC BY 2.0)
A picture of a nurse hanging some chemotherapy drugs. Wikimedia Commons
An ambulance travelling through a London street.
Indian woman with child Emilio Cordón Fernández
The Aedes aegypti - or yellow fever - mosquito Wikicommons
Seniors occupy Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne's Office to protest changes to the seniors drug plan. Doug Brinkman
A Primary Health Care center in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Berlin: "We are the Champions"
Graphic from the final briefing held this year on the ACHE Act. Earth Institute
www.breadandbutterskincare.com Bread and Butter
Tender Beef braised in Burgundy Wine with Portabella Mushrooms, Onions, Rosemary and Thyme served over Egg Noodles and Asparagus
15m protesters in Málaga, Spain against cuts to the social health system Carlos Matesanz
An emergency medical delivery vehicle in London. The type of activity suitable for blockchain technology.
Bo Webb describes his experiences with mountaintop removal at a Congressional briefing in April, 2013. Bo Webb
Harvard School of Public Health
Variety of healthy food on the street market in Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Aedes Aegypti mosquito From the USDA website
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