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H5N1 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Via Japan Today.com: Firms draw up contingency plans to stay open amid new-flu epidemic. It does seem late in the day for businesses to be working on such plans. Excerpt:Faced with the possibility of mass absences as swine flu runs...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Kyiv Post seems to be offline this morning, but the blog What's Up, Ukraine? published an interesting post yesterday: The Miraculous Healing. Government is to declare the conclusion of flu epidemic in Ukraine, but what will be the next...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Swine flu has killed 540 kids, sickened 22 million Americans,” screamed USA Today’s page 1 headline, sub-headed “CDC: Cases, Deaths are Unprecedented.” “Swine flu cases in the U.S. are rising at the fastest pace for influenza in four decades,” breathlessly…
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Background In September 2007, an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) occurred in Keelung City and spread to Taipei City. In response to the epidemic, a new crisis management program was implemented and tested in Taipei. Methodology and Principal Findings Having noticed that transmission surged on weekends during the Keelung epidemic, Taipei City launched a multi-channel mass risk communications...
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Washington, D.C., beat all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control
back-report.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Back pain is a major problem these days for people all over the western world. It has been estimated that at any one time 20% of the population suffer from lower back pain and that doesn’t take into account all the other forms like sciatica, upper back pain, mid back pain and neck pain. It [...]
4 - Alzheimers (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hungarian health authorities declared a flu epidemic on November 17, saying the number of patients reporting flu symptoms to doctors had reached 22 100
Gawker (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Everyone's talking about swine flu, which means medical journalists are in high demand. But how do you come up with new angles on something so overplayed and relatively straightforward? This is the...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality Source: PLoS ONE Historical studies of news media have suggested an association between reporting and increased drug abuse. Period effects for substance use have been documented for different classes of legal and illicit substances, with the suspicion that media [...]
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Politics isn't the only disease rampant in Washington, D.C. It also has the dishonor of having higher rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis than any of the 50 states! The District's chlamydia rate of 1,177 cases per 100,000 people was almost three times the rate of its neighbors, Virginia and Maryland. For gonorrhea, D.C.’s rate was 451.5 cases per 100,000, almost twice that of second-ranking...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Budapest - Influenza has officially reached the level of an epidemic, an official at Hungary's National Epidemiological Centre announced at a conference on Wednesday. More than 22,000 people reported flu symptoms over the past week, up 30 per cent fr...
From The Rink (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
More photos » by Graham Hughes - AP Browse more photos » There is approximately $180 million worth of players injured right now. (I’m talking either LTI or just out for a few games. That’s more than 10 per cent of each team’s available cap space.) — Elliotte Friedman, HNIC It's a long list , there's no doubt, and you can't help but wonder if the condensed schedule...
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dniraromachandran | 12/03/2009
The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is no longer confined to high-risk behavior groups such as intravenous drug users and female sex workers and their clients. The clients, particularly married males, act as the bridge groups, aiding and abetting the spread of HIV/AIDS into...
dniraromachandran | 08/03/2009
The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is no longer confined to high-risk behavior groups such as intravenous drug users and female sex workers and their clients. The clients, particularly married males, act as the bridge groups, aiding and abetting the spread of HIV/AIDS into...
khairulalam | 23/02/2009
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been fuelled by gender inequality -Mohammad Khairul Alam- -Executive Director- -Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation- -24/3 M. C. Roy Lane- -Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh- rainbowngo@gmail.com www.newsletter.com.bd Tell: 880-2-8628908 Mobile: 01711344997 Worldwide, rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people are soaring: one-third of the 340 million new STIs each...
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