Azad holds review meet to check dengue in Delhi Deccan Herald New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday is holding a review meeting to discuss ways to check the rising number of dengue cases in the national capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games, an official said. | "With the outbreak of dengue creating j...
Aussie swimmer Leisel Jones at ease amid C.Games chaos Breitbart | Australia's triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones (pictured in March) said F... | Australian swimmer Leisel Jones models at the unveiling of Australian Commo... | Australia's triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones said Friday she has no security or health concerns about competing at next month's New ...
Platelet separation machine made operational The Hindu | Special Correspondent | District Collector Peeyush Kumar enquiring about functioning of a platelet separation blood unit after inaugurating it at Red Cross Society blood bank in Vijayawada on Friday. | VIJAYAWADA: District Collector Peeyush Kumar o...
State witnesses emergence of rickettsial infections The Hindu | Staff Reporter | More than 10 children admitted to Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health | The children reported symptoms of fever, rashes and severe headache | Most of these infections spread through ticks, mites, fleas, or lice | Bangalore: Aft...
Keep your surroundings clean, Sriramulu tells people The Hindu | Staff Correspondent | For cleanliness:Students of St. Philomena's High School staging a street play in Bellary on Friday. | BELLARY: Students of St. Philomena's High School staged a street play to raise awareness among the people on the importance ...
Steps taken to stop spread of dengue in Uthamapalayam The Hindu | Staff Reporter | THENI: Preventive measures have been taken to stop spreading of diseases like dengue fever in Uthamapalayam block. A team of doctors and entomologists who visited Duraisamipuram near Kombai in the district on Friday identified 10 c...
It's dengue epidemic in Delhi The Hindu | Aarti Dhar | NEW DELHI: With dengue assuming epidemic proportions in the Capital, the Centre has appealed to the citizens to ensure that there is no collection of water that could become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. | As many as 6,978 confirme...
Liow: Lack of child nutrition a concern The Star | BENTONG: New mothers should breastfeed their babies for at least six months. | Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said there was a drop in the number of mothers who continuously breastfed their babies for at least four months, from 29% to 19...
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Fever rages for troubled Games The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE Commonwealth Games are continuing to experience that sinking feeling with monsoonal rains exposing several more subsidences at the centrepiece arena Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ...
Dalal Lama comes out against factory-style hen farming Zeenews New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has come out against battery hen farming and appealed to people to switch to eggs of chickens kept outside cages. | The statement...
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Stop 'nitpicking' about CWG preparations: Jaipal Reddy Zeenews New Delhi: Facing flak from various quarters, the Government today asked everyone to have some patience and stop "nitpicking" about the preparations for Commonwealth Games, whose r...
Fending off a potentially deadly bite Inquirer | ANYONE COULD easily survive dengue fever but not its lethal complication known as dengue hemorrhagic fever. | First recognized in the 1950s during a dengue epidemic in the Philippines and Thailand, DHF is characterized by a fever that lasts from tw...
Count crosses 1000, Delhi in dengue fight The Telegraph India New Delhi, Sept. 3: The Union health ministry today pledged to start a co-ordinated city-wide war on mosquitoes after Delhi reported over 1,000 cases of dengue just a month before the scheduled opening for the Commonwealth Games. | Health minister Gh...
Dengue alert Inquirer | NEARLY A year ago, in October 2009, Department of Health records indicated there were 5,212 cases of Influenza A(H1N1) infections in the Philippines, of which 30 people were confirmed to have died. | Back then, the fear and hysteria over the spread...
Cabinet doc’s Preparatory info under RTI ambit:CIC Zeenews New Delhi: Exemption clauses of the RTI Act related to Cabinet documents will apply only when proposals formulated are "actually" taken up for consideration by the Cabinet, the Central Information Commission has held. | The information which went int...
Isner lifts American spirits Sky Sports | John Isner raised the spirits of the New York crowd after American teenager Ryan Harrison squandered a fantastic opportunity to book his place in the third round of the US Open. | Qualifier Harrison failed to take any of the three match points he opened up against Sergiy Stakhovsky, and was forced to pay a heavy price by going down 6-3 5-7 3-6 6-...
US stocks soar after employment data The Daily Telegraph Australia | US stocks closed higher on Friday after a much anticipated jobs report lifted hopes that the US economic recovery is on the right track. | The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 128.36 points (1.24 per cent) to 10,448.46 at the closing bell, extending gains since Monday on mostly positive economic data. | The broader S&P 500 index gained 14.38 p...
