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Lightning killed five schoolchildren when it ripped through a classroom in northwestern Cameroon and caused around 50 others to be treated in hospital for trauma, authorities said Wednesday. The children were killed instantly when a bolt of lightning flashed through their classroom on Monday, North West Region governor Abakar Ahamat told AFP. Around 50 other children were traumatised by ... read more 
Ottawa (AFP) Sept 16, 2009Aboriginal leaders said they were "horrified" Wednesday after receiving body bags from health officials as part of Canada's swine flu preparedness kits. Aboriginal communities in Canada's Manitoba province were hard-hit by the deadly A(H1N1) outbreak some months ago, and since then had asked Ottawa for medical supplies to prepare for a second wave likely to strike soon. Leaders of more ... more
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible. New technologies will be needed to meet the huge global market for artificial hips and knees, said Yung Shin, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Purdue's Center for ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 13, 2009Six workers died on Sunday after plunging 20 floors down a lift shaft in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper and the fourth tallest building in the world, police and local reports said. A police spokesman said emergency workers called to the International Commerce Centre in Kowloon's popular Tsim Sha Tsui area removed three injured workers, who were all certified dead on arrival at hospital. ... more  
Istanbul (AFP) Sept 13, 2009A Turkish textile worker whose minibus was swept away by devastating floods in Istanbul has died in hospital, raising the death toll in the disaster to 35, officials and local media said. The woman was seriously injured when her minibus was hit in the Halkali district on Wednesday. Seven other people drowned in the minibus which was deemed unfit to transport people. In the Istanbul ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 4, 2009Enterprising doctors saved the life of a young cancer patient infected by swine flu by making unlicensed use of Relenza, an antiviral drug, The Lancet reports on Friday. The 22-year-old patient's immune system had been weakened by Hodgkin's disease and chemotherapy, damaging her defences against the A(H1N1) virus. She was admitted in July to London's University College Hospital suffering ... more  
Algona IA (SPX) Sep 02, 2009Every minute has a life attached to it when you're a healthcare provider. That's why hospitals safeguard themselves from seasonal storms with diesel-powered backup generators. Unfortunately, most backup power systems only keep hospitals up and running for a limited time or at partial power and still leave critical care doctors wondering if the hospital will have what it takes until the ... more 
Port Moresby (AFP) Aug 31, 2009Twin outbreaks of a mystery flu and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said Monday. And a separate eruption of cholera in the Pacific island nation has killed seven adults and sickened 73 other people, provincial health adviser Theo Likei told AFP. Twenty-seven villagers in the Menyamya ... more |
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