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Bird flu: 100,000 birds culled in Bangladesh
Dec 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Following a major outbreak of avian flu on the outskirts of the capital, around 100,000 birds have been culled and 250,000 eggs destroyed in Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday. The bird flu was detected last week in Gazipur area near Dhaka, Xinhua reported. An official from the fisheries and …
18 doctors sacked in Bihar for failing to join prison duty
Dec 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM
An official said on Wednesday that eighteen doctors have been sacked by the Bihar government after they failed to join prison duty. The 18 physicians and specialist doctors violated their contractual agreement with the government, an official of the home department said. The doctors were appointed …
Delhi gang rape: Victim flown to Singapore for treatment
Dec 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Even as the government ordered a commission of enquiry to probe the horrific Dec 16 gang rape incident and a controversy spiralled over the death of a policeman in the violent street protests that erupted in the city, the 23-year-old grievously injured gang rape victim was on late Wednesday night …
Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital
Dec 27, 2012 at 7:22 AM
The South African presidency announced on Wednesday that former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital. Having been hospitalised 18 days ago, he was treated for a lung infection and gallstones. Mandela will, however, continue to receive treatment at his home in …
Probe ordered into gang-rape victim’s first statement
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM
The home ministry on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the circumstances in which the statement of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim was recorded the first time Dec 21 after allegations of police interference in the process. The inquiry was ordered after Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit demanded …
Delhi rape: Police says constable suffered cardiac arrest after sustaining multiple injuries
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:13 PM
A Delhi Police constable who died after collapsing during protests against a gang-rape suffered a cardiac arrest after multiple injuries on his neck and chest, a post-mortem report released Wednesday said. ‘The cause of (constable Subhash Chand Tomar’s) death was multiple internal injuries …
Delhi Police orders probe into constable’s death
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:11 PM
Delhi Police on Wednesday assigned the probe into the death of a constable in the recent protests in the capital against the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman to its Crime Branch. Additional Commissioner of Police K.C. Dwivedi said that after a controversy had arisen over the death of 47-year-old …
Delhi rape protests: Docs confirm that dead policeman had no major external injuries
Dec 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM
A Delhi policeman who died after a gang-rape protest suffered no major external injuries, doctors said Wednesday, raising questions over police claims that he was brutally attacked by demonstrators. Constable Subhash Chand Tomar, 47, had ‘no major external injury marks except for some cuts on his …
Ultrasound safer than CT scans or X-rays to confirm or rule out appendicitis
Dec 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM
A recent American study reveals ultrasound scans relying on sound waves are a safer option than CT scans or X-rays which uses radiation to confirm or rule out surgery to remove the appendix. It is a finger-shaped pouch that extends from the large intestine. Infection or blockage of the appendix …
Low-cost treatment brings hope for kids with cancer
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Therapy workshops organised by the Tata Memorial Hospital’s (TMH) paediatric department offers low-cost treatment to 200-odd children fighting cancer. Saying that medicines helped cure 40% of AML (acute myeloid leukemia) cases, Dr Sripad Bhanavali, HOD of Medical and Paediatric Oncology at TMH …
Delhi rape: Victim still critical
Dec 26, 2012 at 7:51 AM
Battling for survival for over a week, the 23-year-old gang-rape victim continues to be critical and remains on ventilator support but is responding to treatment, doctors said on Monday. ‘Her condition is still critical. She is on partial ventilator support, but better compared to yesterday …
Cannabis makes pain more bearable!
Dec 26, 2012 at 1:48 AM
Cannabis can make patients feel less bothered about pain, says a study. Researchers from the University of Oxford have found the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis doesn’t reduce the intensity of pain, rather it makes it more bearable. Brain scans revealed the ingredient known as THC, …
‘Holiday binging could derail your internal food clock’
Dec 25, 2012 at 5:20 PM
The sinful excess of holiday eating could derail your food clock – a complex mechanism of interacting genes and molecules that keeps the metabolism in shape. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), are helping to reveal how this clock works at a molecular level, …
‘Blood transfusions harmful for anemic heart patients’
Dec 25, 2012 at 5:17 PM
A meta-analysis of 10 studies involving more than 203,000 heart patients suggests that major blood transfusions for those with anemia may increase their death risk. Saurav Chatterjee, cardiology fellow at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and his co-authors combined and analysed data …
