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Layla Grace Loses Battle With Cancer

March 9, 2010 Health

It is being reported this afternoon that two year old Layla Grace has lost her battle with Cancer.
I’ve been following developments on this story recently on Twitter and it’s a truly a very sad ending.
If in fact these reports are true, my prayers go our to her family. I can’t imagine what it must be [...]

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CT scans ‘increase cancer risk’

January 4, 2010 Health

Overexposure to CT scan radiations can increase cancer risk, according to a new study.
Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, from the University of California in San Francisco, claims that these scans may cause 29,000 new cancers a year and 14,500 deaths.
Also, previous studies suggest that the average American’’s total radiation exposure has almost doubled since 1980, primarily because [...]

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Rise in swine flu cases in Haryana, Punjab

December 27, 2009 Health

With mercury falling sharply in many parts of Punjab and Haryana, there has been a sudden rise of swine flu cases in the region, health officials in Chandigarh said.
“Cold wave conditions currently prevailing in the region have made H1N1 virus more contagious and people have become more prone to swine flu,” Chandigarh’s nodal officer for [...]

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India’s swine flu toll reaches 792

December 23, 2009 Health

Three swine flu deaths, including one in the national capital, were reported Tuesday, taking the country’s total toll from the HIN1 virus to 792, health officials said here.
Also, 240 new cases were reported in the country. With this, the number of people affected by the contagious virus is 24,210.
Apart from the capital city, one death [...]

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Woman dies of swine flu in Delhi, toll now 57

December 23, 2009 Health

A 23-year-old woman died of swine flu in Delhi Tuesday, taking the total number of deaths due to influenza A (H1N1) to 57, health officials said.
“The woman died in the Safdarjung Hospital Tuesday morning,” Anjana Prakash, additional nodal officer handling swine flu cases in Delhi, told IANS.
Delhi also recorded 125 new swine flu cases on [...]

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Depressed people can’t sustain positive emotions

December 22, 2009 Health

Depression can zap the brain’s ability to sustain positive emotions, according to a new study.
It also affects the reward circuitry of the patients, the study says.
The findings challenge previous notions that the depressed show less brain activity in areas associated with positive emotions. Instead, it suggests similar initial levels of activity, but the inability to [...]

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New medicine fights bird flu better

December 22, 2009 Health

A new drug on the threshold of final testing in humans may be more potent and safer for treating the deadly bird flu than the antiviral drug Tamiflu, scientists have found.
Known as T-705, the compound even works several days after infection, according to Yoshihiro Kawaoka, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) virologist and senior study author.
“H5N1 virus [...]

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Barack, Michelle Obama get vaccinated against swine flu

December 22, 2009 Health

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle have got vaccinated for the Influenza A/H1N1 virus.
“People need to understand that this vaccine is safe,” Obama was quoted as saying on the official White House website.
“Michelle and I just got the shots ourselves… we wanted to make sure nationwide that children were getting it before adults [...]

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Three die of swine flu in Chandigarh

December 22, 2009 Health

Three people died of influenza A (H1N1) at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGMIER) here, taking the toll to 37 in this union territory, an official said Tuesday.
The three people, including a woman working in a nationalised bank inside the Panjab University (PU) campus here, died Monday. This is the second patient [...]

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India’s swine flu toll now 789, nearly 24,000 affected

December 22, 2009 Health

At least nine more people have succumbed to Influenza A (H1N1) taking the national toll due to the contagious virus to 789, the union health ministry said Monday.
Of the nine deaths, five were from Karnataka, and two each from Punjab and Delhi. With these casualties, the number of deaths have gone up to 128 in [...]

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