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Kala Azar patients lack adequate diagnosis and drugs
Bobby Ramakant, Thu, 5 Feb 2009
At the fourth Leishmaniasis World Congress in Lucknow, India, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that there is a serious need to expand availability of effective treatments and diagnosis for visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar)
Edible oil in India unfit for health: CSE
NI Wire, Wed, 4 Feb 2009
The Centre for Science and Environment, a non-government organisation, in its latest study has revealed that all edible oils available in India are not healthy
Do gardening, boost stamina in bed
NI Wire, Sat, 17 Jan 2009
Men resorting to Viagra or any such pills for improving their bedtime activities need not to go for such unhealthy medicines which eventually affect health. They just need to spend half-an-hour in gardening that not only helps
Ansari expresses concern over poor health conditions in UP
NI Wire, Wed, 7 Jan 2009
The life expectancy at birth is 56 years in Uttar Pradesh as against 74 years in Kerala; this figure reflects that the 180 million population of UP is profoundly disturbing, said Dr. Hamid Ansari, Vice President
Culling continues in Siliguri after fresh outbreaks of bird flu
NI Wire, Mon, 5 Jan 2009
After confirmation of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Siliguri area of Darjeeling district, the administration has imposed ban in selling and farming of chickens & eggs in Siliguri subdivision and Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri districts.





