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New Method Equalizes Stem Cell Debate
MIL/NYT Nov 21, 2007 Author:
Washington: November 21, 2007 – There are mysteries about the embryonic stem cells. The question of cloning human being has been in debate for a long time. Though President Bush was not agreeable to this but he wanted some alternative.
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India bird flu free country, says world body
MIL/TOI/TNN Nov 20, 2007 Author:
New Delhi: November 20, 2007 - India is finally a bird flu free country. The France-based World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) officially sent the communication to India's department of animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries under the agriculture ministry on November 8.
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U.N. to Say It Overstated H.I.V. Cases by over 6 Millions
MIL/NYT Nov 20, 2007 Author:
November 20, 2007 - The United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency has chalked out plans to issue a report today acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic by over 6 million, and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.
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US: commonly used diabetes drug in danger zone
MIL/HT Nov 16, 2007 Author:
New Delhi: November 16, 2007 - The United States’s Food and Drug Administration has directed pharmaceutical major GSK to put a “black box” warning on its diabetes drug Avandia, stating that its use could cause chest pain or heart attack. Over two million people worldwide take the drug for Type-II diabetes.
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Smoking leads to lung cancer and heart disease
MIL/Hindu Nov 16, 2007 Author:
Bangalore: November 16, 2007 - Smokers beware! You may be aware that smoking leads to lung cancer and heart disease. But do you know it also leads to serious respiratory condition in which the airways get blocked?
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New technique in birth control for men
MIL/Agenices Nov 15, 2007 Author:
Beijing: November 15, 2007 - Chinese doctors have claimed to have developed a new birth control surgery for men as alternative to vasectomy that could be made available to the people beginning next year.
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Lakshmi is fine, though feeling drowsy
MIL/Agencies Nov 8, 2007 Author: IR Summary
Bangalore: November 8, 2007 – IR Summary -Two-year child Lakshmi, born with a partially formed twin, giving her four arms, four legs and four kidneys, was to undergo critical surgery on 09 November , 2007 in a super-specialty Hospital in Bangalore, is said to be fine and stable as per doctors.
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Doctors operated child Lakshmi successfully
MIL/Agencies/PTI Nov 7, 2007 Author:
Bangalore : November 07, 2007 – The two year child Lakshmi, who had parasiatic conjoined twin, has been successfully operated upon; the surgery took 27 hours for a team of doctors to complete and she is still under observation for 72 hours.
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Junior doctors at Safdarjung Hospital call off strike on Hosp. Assurance
MIL/Agencies Nov 4, 2007 Author: IR Summary
New Delhi: November 04, 2007 - IR Summary- The Resident doctors, Junior doctors and interns at Safdarjung Hospital called off their three-day-old strike here on yesterday (AN) following an agreement with the hospital administration
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Junior Doctors Go on strike in Safdarjung Hospital- demand security
MIL/IR/Z N Nov 2, 2007 Author: IR Summaryu
New Delhi: November 3, 2007 - Junior doctors went on a strike yesterday evening at the government Safdarjung Hospital on one of the grievances that relatives of a patient misbehaved with one of the doctors.
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Drinking milk useful to give birth to healthy baby
MIL/Agencies Oct 29, 2007 Author:
October 29, 2007 – It is a women’s day of ‘Karva Chauth’ a fast that they keep for the long life of their husbands. Those women who are pregnant should note that regular drinking milk may bless them with a healthy child
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Muslim leaders welcome SC Order to get marriages registered
MIL/IR/Agencies Oct 25, 2007 Author: IR Summary
New Delhi: October 25, 2007 – IR Summary -Some states had made registration of marriage compulsory for Hindu community and to make it a uniform law for all communities, the Supreme Court has asked all States and Union Territories to make the registration mandatory for all by introducing a proper legislation.
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Hindus in Kashmir gain confidence of safety-burnt effigy of Ravana
MIL/IR Summary/Agencies Oct 22, 2007 Author:
Srinagar: October 22, 2007 – After 18 years, the Hindus in Kashmir valley felt that they were secure and so their religious rights, they observed their Dussehrra festival and burnt a huge effigy of a Ravana to mark their belief that good always wins over evil.The Dussehrra celebrations always fall late at the end of the nine-days.
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Exposure to sunlight may decrease risk of advanced breast cancer
MIL/China View Oct 20, 2007 Author: IRS/(Xinhua
Washington, October 20, 2007 - A research team has given their finding that exposure to sunlight, which increases levels of vitamin D in the body, also on the other hand decreases the risk of advanced breast cancer, according to a study reported Friday in the latest issue of American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Durga Puja pandal in south Delhi burnt down
MIL/IR/Agencies Oct 19, 2007 Author:
New Delhi: October 19, 2007- A major fire broke out around 4 A.M on early Friday at a Durga Puja pandal in south Delhi but good news that there were no casualties. The fire broke out in a temporary structure built for the ongoing Durga Puja celebrations in Pocket 40 of Chittaranjan Park, South Delhi,a which is the central place of Bengalis.
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Onion and Garlic benefit health & heart
MIL/IR/TNN Oct 19, 2007 Author:
October 19, 2007 – Most the people even in India, where garlic and onion, have special place as essential ingredients in their curries, some people avoid them either due to a religious belief or due to bad breath. From time immemorial, in India it has served to help maintain good health, saving from various diseases and it is still getting strong by recognizing their medicinal properties..
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 | Deadly Bacteria is More Common
MIL/NYT Oct 17, 2007 Author: IR/Kevin Sack
Atlanta: October 17, 2007 – Around 19,000 people died in the United States in 2005 after being infected with virulent drug-resistant bacteria. The Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that such infections may be twice as common as previously thought, according to its lead author, Dr. R. Monina Klevens.
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Stampede led to over 20 killed, 50 injured in a temple in Gujarat
MIL/ Agencies Oct 14, 2007 Author: IR Summary
Ahmedabad, Gujarat-India, October 14, 2007 –IR Sumamry- The worshipping places do not seem to be safe in India, may be for any reason including undisciplined or uncontrollable crowd. About two lakh devotees had assembled today at the Pavagadh temple premises in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat on the occasion of Navratras and met with an accident
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 | Delhi Govt. seeks more time to phase out Blueline Buses
MIL/IR/Agencies Oct 12, 2007 Author:
New Delhi: October 12, 2007- (IR Summary)- The Delhi government today has submitted to the High Court that it might not be able to phase out Blueline Buses by 15 November, hence requires more time up to December to phase out the human killers to find some alternative.
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Husbands justify beating their wives in most cases: Women Survey
MIL/IR/Agencies Oct 12, 2007 Author:
New Delhi: October 12, 2007- In India, over 40% husbands beat their wives at some point of time, for various reasons such as disobedience, indiscipline, disrespect to their in laws, backbiting, anti social behavior etc. A nationwide nation-wide survey is reported being beaten by their husbands several times. More shockingly, around 54% of the women surveyed thought that such violence was justified on one ground or the other.
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