BEIJING: Almost 100 people in China died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in the first three months of the year, but the number of both fatalities and infections declined …
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WASHINGTON: Contrary to recent reports, America’s children are still struggling with obesity and there has been no decline in the epidemic among young people, US researchers said Monday. HunzaNews …
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BAMAKO: West African countries mobilised Friday against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea with more suspected cases in Mali, Liberia …
WASHINGTON: The number of calls to US poison control centers about accidents with bottles of liquid nicotine for refilling e-cigarettes — many involving children — has spiked in recent years, …
PARIS: At least 1.4 billion people worldwide require treatment for a group of “neglected” tropical diseases and almost two-thirds are going without adequate medical care, eradication campaigners said on …
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Paris: About a million children, double the previous estimate, fall ill with tuberculosis every year, said a study Monday that also gave the first tally of drug-resistant TB among the …
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KARACHI: One more dengue viral fever case was reported in Karachi on Saturday, increasing the number of confirmed cases this year to 128, said Focal Person for Dengue Surveillance Cell …
KARACHI: Another dengue viral fever case has been reported in Sindh on Friday increasing the number of confirmed cases this year to 135, said Focal Person for Dengue Surveillance Cell …
HELSINKI: The use of antibiotics in early childhood could increase risks of allergy to cow’s milk and asthma, said a latest doctoral dissertation published by the University of Tampere, Finland. …
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PHNOM PENH: An 11-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, a hospital official said Monday, the impoverished kingdom´s third confirmed fatality — all children — from the illness this …
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