Archive for the Health Category
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 13, 2010
A Ugandan pastor has said US President Barack Obama’s comments at a prayer breakfast in Washington condemning the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda signifies a disappointment to Africans.
In a statement to 256news.com, Sempa who heads the Family Policy and Human Rights Center, based at Makerere in Kampala said Obama, a descendant of Kenya in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 4, 2010
Aljazeera- A joint report into the handling of the H1N1 outbreak has found that some scientists who advised governments to stockpile drugs, had previously been on the payroll of big drug companies.
The scientists were working for the World Health Organisation, whose decision to name the flu a “pandemic” is also coming under scrutiny from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 10, 2010
(CNN) — As much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, according to a government study released Tuesday.
And sexually transmitted diseases of all varieties infect 19 million more Americans every year — a rate that costs the health care system some $16 billion [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Feb 17, 2010
Newsweek-
HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa
By Jaime Cunningham
In December, NEWSWEEK argued that new signs of life were showing in the AIDS activism movement. Let’s hope so. Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
December 13th, 2009
NewsRescue- Seriously, there’s no better advise I can give you to take into the new year, 2010, coming in a couple of days than this,- ‘Stop doing what you do not like!’.
So you don’t like your job? Then why do you keep doing it…and for how long are you still going to be [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
12/1/2009
Alcohol is now killing Russians in the prime of life at an alarming rate. Over a ten-year period, 52 percent of Russian deaths among people between the ages of 15 to 54 were from alcohol-related causes. This is one of many startling facts from a study conducted by Russian, British and French researchers, and recently [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September, 17, 2009
Earlier: NewsRescue- Largest class action ever brought before the British courts- Toxic waste dumping in Abidjan
Aljazeera- Trafigura, an international oil company, could be close to offering compensation to 31,000 people who said they became ill from toxic waste dumped in the west African nation Ivory Coast, the company’s officials have said.
Trafigura, along with Leigh Day [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 13th, 2009
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Part of Mohammed Salahuddin’s leg was removed below the knee after it was badly damaged after the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 9th, 2009
PressTv- New reports have surfaced on the arrest of yet another Jewish organ trading gang in the United States involved in the abduction of Algerian children.
Dr. Mustafa Khayatti, the head of the Algerian National Committee for the Development of Health Research, revealed on Sunday that the New York city police have arrested members [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 6th, 2009
NewRescue- Is India paying the price of rapid, careless development?
In study referenced below, 113 of 120 random children tested, had 50 times above normal levels of Uranium in their systems.
This is a global alert for all developing Nations in addition to the Indian Government. Development must be coursed in a disciplined way with [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 4, 2009
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.
Telegraph- The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NewYork Times- The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.
Blackwater security contractors flew over Baghdad in 2007. For years, Blackwater played a significant role in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NewsRescue; July 31, 2009
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Related: Credit Card, ID Theft Ring Busted in Queens
There was a crowded courtroom Thursday as nearly two dozen people faced a judge on Medicare fraud charges. The men and women in court were arrested during a nationwide Medicare fraud roundup Wednesday.
Read the indictments
US vs. Clifford Ubani, Princewill Njoku, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NYDailyNews- David Duchovny just checked out of sex-addiction rehab, and his lawyer says treatment was a success. But while the “Californication” star is doing better, the problem may be getting worse here in New York.
Local sex therapists are seeing an increase in patients from the finance field, and a link between the dipping Dow and [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CNN- Jared was forced to choose between a dying father and the love of his life.
But all three said their hands were forced by federal immigration laws that don’t allow Americans to sponsor their foreign-born same-sex partners for citizenship as a man may do for his wife or a woman for her husband.
“The problem [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Tube wells funded by development agencies provide water to millions of Bangladeshis [EPA]
They call it the devil’s water.
Much of Bangladesh’s water contains dangerous quantities of arsenic, a toxic element that cripples human organs and can eventually lead to death.
The country is now scrambling to reverse what the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls “the largest mass poisoning in history”, but it [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
ABC News’ Jim Sciutto reports from South Africa:
For the more than five million South Africans infected with HIV, there is a growing threat to their last, best chance of survival. We saw the extent of the problem on a recent trip to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
South Africa has one of the highest HIV infection rates in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Dutch Trafigura settles Ivory Coast toxic waste case
02/15/2007 | 03:52 PM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch-based oil trading company paid $197 million to secure the release of three executives from an Ivory Coast prison and settle claims that it dumped toxic waste that killed at least 10 people in the West African nation.
The three executives from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) — What started as a romantic Southeast Asia vacation for a Seattle couple ended with Ryan Kells preparing Friday to return from Bangkok carrying the ashes of his fiancee to give to her family in California.
“It’s such a shock,” Robert St. Onge told CNN about the death of his sister, Jill, who [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over “unusual” burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial
U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country’s top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used.
The American military denied using the incendiary in the battle in Farah province — which President Hamid Karzai has said killed [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
To bug chasers, HIV isn’t a ruthless killer. It’s a gift - the most beautiful a man can willingly receive - spread through a secret breeding ground
Gregory A. Freeman
Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his grande Caffe Mocha in a crowded [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Early in the epidemic, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed for relatively few women and female adolescents (although we know now that many women were infected with HIV through injection drug use but that their infections were not diagnosed) [1]. Today, women account for more than one quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. Women of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
February 13, 2005; CEI.org:
United States and Australia Dodge Kyoto Bullet
Washington, D.C., February 14, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute congratulates the United States and Australia for their leadership in refusing to ratify the fatally flawed and potentially disastrous Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, which is scheduled to enter into force internationally on Wednesday.
The United Nations’ Kyoto [...]