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 Mumbai (AFP) Aug 10, 2009 
The number of people to die from swine flu in India rose to six, health officials said Monday, as the government called for calm and people flocked to public hospitals for tests. The latest to die of the (A)H1N1 virus were an ayurvedic or traditional medicine practitioner in Pune, 120 kilometres (75 miles) from India's financial hub Mumbai, and a four-year-old boy in the southern city of Che ... read more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 11, 2009On a 104-degree Friday in July when sunlight bathed The University of Arizona campus, doctoral student Dio Placencia sat before a noisy vacuum chamber in the Chemical Sciences Building trying to advance the renewable energy revolution. As a member of UA professor Neal R. Armstrong's research group, Placencia conducts research aimed at creating a thin, flexible organic solar cell that could ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2009Raytheon will provide an electronic patient tracking system to a public health-led team of first responders and hospital personnel in Long Beach, Calif., that will improve the availability of patient information. The EPTS, an information technology solution, facilitates the triage, treatment and transport of victims during mass casualty incidents by providing selected patient data to all i ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 7, 2009China is to set up health records for its 800 million rural residents as part of an ambitious reform that aims to provide basic medical care for all by 2020, state media said. By the end of this year at least five percent of the rural population should have records under a pilot project to test implementation of the new system, Xinhua news agency said, citing a ministry of health plan announ ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009More than 200 people fell ill Wednesday in an ammonia gas leak at a pharmaceutical plant in northern China, state media reported. The leak occurred at 9:40 am (0140 GMT) when a tanker truck was unloading 30 tonnes of liquid ammonia at the plant in Chifeng city, in Inner Mongolia, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the local district government. Twenty-one people were hospitalised and 18 ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Jul 27, 2009A large attack on a major metropolitan area with airborne anthrax could affect more than a million people, necessitating their treatment with powerful antibiotics. A new study finds that in order for a response to be effective, quick detection and treatment are essential, and any delay beyond three days would overwhelm hospitals with critically ill people. The results of a computer simulat ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2009At least 178 foreign students and teachers were in swine flu quarantine in Beijing Monday, the British embassy and a US teacher said, with 10 hospitalised after testing positive for the virus. The school groups were put under seven-day quarantine beginning last week at a Beijing hotel after arriving separately for a study tour, but new arrivals have caused their numbers to swell. ... more 
Panama City (AFP) July 20, 2009The death toll from swine flu continued to mount throughout Central and South America on Monday, with Panama reporting its first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus -- a nine-month old baby. Panama's Health Ministry said in a statement that the infant died Sunday night at a children's hospital in the capital of "respiratory complications." So far, authorities in Panama have confirmed 541 ... more |
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