Disease
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills 300,000 people each year globally
India | Jul 11, 2015, 05:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) claims over three lakh lives every year, including those of 7,000 children, health experts said here on Saturday.They stated that SCA takes one life every two minutes, claiming more lives
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Cheating during exams is a disease: West Bengal CM
India | Sep 13, 2014, 07:17 AM ISTKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said copying and cheating during examinations are a disease and urged upon students to study hard rather than indulging in malpractices.“Everybody does not copy or cheat in
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Argentina issues chikungunya virus alert
World | Aug 06, 2014, 09:18 AM ISTBuenos Aires: Argentina has issued a virus alert on the emergence of chikungunya fever.The health ministry for Buenos Aires province, the country's most populous area, issued the alert Tuesday, reported Xinhua.The disease, which is transmitted
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1,336 dead in China by infectious diseases
World | Jul 11, 2013, 07:09 AM ISTBeijing, July 11: A total of 1,336 people died of infectious diseases in the Chinese mainland in June alone while AIDS proved as the most deadly among them, the country's National Health and Family Planning
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Uttarakhand: No outbreak of any disease, claims govt
India | Jun 27, 2013, 06:22 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 27: The government today said no outbreak of any water, food or air-borne disease has been reported from the flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand.A three-member high-level committee from the Ministry of Health and
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Now, a chip that detects disease in blood drop
World | Jun 25, 2013, 05:19 PM ISTLos Angeles,June 25: Scientists have engineered a cutting-edge sensor chip that can detect diseases from a drop of blood, says a new study.A new study describes how Reginald Farrow and Alokik Kanwal, researchers at the
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Did King Tut die of disease that gave him breasts?
World | Sep 13, 2012, 09:01 PM ISTLondon, Sep 13: Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen probably suffered from an inheritable form of temporal lobe epilepsy that gave him abnormally large breasts, according to the Daily Mail.Tutankhamen was revered as a living god, and is
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Potent form of common child illness deadly in Asia
World | Jul 12, 2012, 09:43 PM ISTVietnam, Jul 12: Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a
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Twelve Die Of H1N1 Swine Flu In Last 20 Days, 6 Die In Pune Alone
India | Mar 23, 2012, 09:52 AM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 23: The dreaded H1N1 virus (swine flu) is back with 129 cases and 12 deaths reported in the last 20 days from four states, official sources said . Six of them have
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India Free From Bird Flu : Govt
India | Jan 04, 2012, 08:45 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 4: The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas.Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a
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India Close To Wiping Out Polio
India | Oct 24, 2011, 06:30 PM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 24: India has not had a case of polio in nine months, raising hopes the country is on the verge of defeating the disease, health officials said Monday.Ridding itself of polio would
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Scientists Make Vaccine For Dengue
World | Jun 15, 2011, 08:46 AM ISTJakarta, Jun 15 : Scientists are optimistic they may soon have a vaccination for dengue fever, a disease that threatens more than half the world's population. A crucial final-phase trial has just ended in Thailand and
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Dengue Cases Cross 1,700 In Delhi
India | Sep 11, 2010, 06:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: 64 more patients tested positive for dengue in the Capital on Saturday, taking the total number of cases in the city to 1,716. The city has recorded over 460 dengue cases in the