Lifestyle diseases trouble urban Tibetans China Daily 2011-05-18 15:15:59.0Lifestyle diseases trouble urban TibetansTibet,Tibetan,lifestyle diseases,high cholesterol,fatty liver,eating habits,smoking, excessive drinking, unhealthy diet1158963Society2@webnews/enpproperty--> | LHASA - Born to a farmer's family, Phurbu never realized that eating too much ...
Best Week of May? (shifting weather pattern, finally looks like spring) Star Tribune | Late Frost. Some daffodils and tulips may freeze their buds off this morning. Odd, with the summer solstice roughly 5 weeks away. On average the Twin Cities International Airport sees its last 32 F. reading on April 29, but outside the metro area May frosts are not unusual. The last 32 F. reading ...
Salmonella outbreak tied to chicks, ducklings The News & Observer | ATLANTA -- Health officials say 39 people have been sickened from a salmonella outbreak spread through handling baby chicks or ducklings. | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the cases occurred from late February to late May and ar...
Cholera Breaks Out in Hoima District All Africa Four cases of cholera have been confirmed in Nkondo Parish, Kabwoya Sub-county in Hoima District. The district health officer, Dr Joseph Ruyonga, said on Monday that the patients were still undergoing treatment at Sebigoro health centre in Kabwoya, w...
Death toll in Haiti's floods, mudslides rises to 23 DNA India | The death toll from days of heavy rains that triggered flooding and mudslides in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has climbed to 23, an official said on Wednesday. The deaths and damage caused by the first major rainfall of the Atlantic hurricane season ha...
Haiti floods could worsen cholera epidemic Independent online Port-au-Prince - The death toll from days of heavy rains that triggered flooding and mudslides in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has climbed to 23, an official said on Wednesday. | The deaths and damage caused by the first major rainfall of the Atlantic hu...
Salmonella isn't going away soon The Los Angeles Times | Salmonella infections can come not only from contaminated foods, but contact with animals. African dwarf frogs have infected more than 200 people with salmonella since April 2009. (Christine Prue / Centers for Disease Control Public Health Image Li...
Rory McIlroy makes humanitarian trip to Haiti BBC News NI golfer Rory McIlroy has played on many of the world's most luxurious and well known courses, but this week he took a break from the game before the US Open to travel to Haiti. | It was his first official overseas trip as Unicef Ireland ambassador....
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Cholera epidemic kills thousands in Haiti The Examiner | It’s beginning to look like rain. | What’s good news for some is tragic for others. | In Haiti, the coming rainy season means more are likely to die from the spread of choler...
Haiti's cholera misery: 5,000 dead - and UN peacekeepers to blame The Independent | Five thousand dead, 300,000 ill, and a medical emergency that has already lasted six months; now the people of Haiti have someone to blame for the cholera outbreak which has swep...
MMDCE’s accused of not being active in environmental issues Joy Online The Principal Director of Accra School of Hygiene Henry Nartey Adipah has accused Municipal, Metropolitan and District Chief Executives (MMDCES) of not being active in environmental health issues in their communities. | According to him most environm...
Epistle To The Yutong Driver! Peace FM Online Good Morning, Mr. President. I guess you would not consider my letter an intrusion into your mailbox as your actions as the Number One Citizen of the land would naturally attract queries, comments, gossips and rumours. Being a very dedicated disciple...
Sacramento's nutrigenomics research The Examiner | In the Sacramento-Davis regional area, UC Davis maintains an institute in part for research in the relation of body type--length of limbs, torso, fingerprints, ancestry, family history, ethnic admixture, and blood type to how the human body respond...
Fish caught in sewage blamed for Ukrainian cholera outbreak m&c; | Kiev - Ukrainian health officials on Monday were blaming fish caught in sewage and served to tourists for an outbreak of cholera in an Azov Sea seaside town, near the Russian border. | Hospitals in Mariupol were treating 14 people for the disease, ...
"Fa Wo To Begye Stool" Peace FM Online Assiduous studies into the mindset of Kumawuman citizens reveal that they are unconscious enemies of themselves. Unlike their famous warrior Barimah Tweneboa Kodua I, and a one time group of concerned citizens calling themselves; "Ya te Asem", all el...
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Oregon woman develops foreign accent after surgery The State | SALEM, Ore. - Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, and her story has traveled around the world. | The 56-year-old tax consultant from Toledo, Ore. has found her life transformed by the dental procedur...
Travel-related diseases: Many vacationers underestimate the risk m&c; | Munich - Dengue fever is unknown by most travellers to non-tropical destinations, but it has overtaken malaria in many places as the most-feared travel-related illness. | 'Dengue is the disease most often carried back from Asia,' said Munich-based tropical disease specialist Susanne Pechel. | The Centrum fuer Reisemedizin (CRM) (Centrum for Trave...
