News archive for June 2006
Showing page 1 of 64
2006-06-01 03:28:28
... TA, Indonesia - Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country. ADVERTISEMENTThe latest death, announced Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus. It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's bureaucracy as well as the disease."We're tying to fix this leak in the roof, and there's a storm," World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson ...
2006-06-01 05:39:36
... ay, including the rapid mass use of the antiviral Tamiflu, for containing a bird flu outbreak if the virus starts to spread rapidly among humans.The “rapid response and containment strategy” has a chance of quashing the deadly H5N1 virus only if people in the zone at risk receive massive doses of the drug within three weeks of a confirmed outbreak, it said.“The success of a strategy for containing an emerging pandemic virus is strictly time dependent,” the WHO said in its latest containment report, based on recommendations by 70 international e ...
2006-06-01 06:09:56
In order to allow you to view this page, we need to verify that you are a real human being. Please type the letters you see in the image into the box.You maybe be seeing this page for one of the following reasons: Cookies are not enabled in your web browser.You have requested a relatively high number of articles in a short period of time.If you believe you are being redirected to this page in error, please email GoArticles Support.If you are running a search engine or directory that maintains t ...
2006-06-01 06:55:21
Relive Potency with Cialis by Antony VirgeseOf All the medicines discovered by man, Cialis must rate as one. In fact it would be better to call it a "wonder drug". It has helped to bring smile to millions of users and their partners. It not only helps to reduce an embarrassing condition but also allows millions of people to enjoy a healthy conjugal life. Cialis has been approved in over 120 countries over the world. It has been giving comfort to millions of users throughout the world. Although it is a simple medici ...
2006-06-01 07:05:52
Researchers affiliated with the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study have reported that aggressive treatment of prostate cancer in men over the age of 75 years was associated with significant decreases in quality of life measurements and little survival benefit. The details of this study appeared in the May 2006 issue of the American Journal of Medicine .Elderly patients with prostate cancer can be treated aggressively with prostatectomy or radiotherapy or opt for watchful waiting. Watchful waiting is an approach in which no treatment is adm ...
2006-06-01 08:11:35
... cut the number of multiple births resulting from IVF treatment. Dr Allan Pacey, Honorary Secretary of the British Fertility Society, said most UK professionals agreed using selected single embryo transfer as often as possible would have a huge impact in reducing the number of twins and triplets born as a result of IVF. However, he said the success of single embryo transfer in countries such as Finland had only been possible because IVF is so well funded by the state. "In the UK, where the majority of couples are paying for their own IVF treatm ...
2006-06-01 08:38:34
... TA, Indonesia - Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country. ADVERTISEMENTThe latest death, announced Wednesday, was a 15-year-old boy whose preliminary tests were positive for the H5N1 virus. It comes as international health officials express growing frustration that they must fight Indonesia's bureaucracy as well as the disease."We're tying to fix this leak in the roof, and there's a storm," World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson ...
2006-06-01 10:21:48
Public Health SiteEditor Wanted BellaOnline's Public Health EditorNoni Juice Health IssuesNoni Juice is juice from a mulberry plant found in Hawaii, Tahiti and other tropical locations. Like most berry products, it quickly became popular with nearby humans. The plant is known as Noni in Hawaii, and Nono in Tahiti. In both locations, as well as others, the leaves, berries and stalks have been part of traditional lore and medicines for centuries. It was only in recent years that marketers began pushing t ...
2006-06-01 10:43:55
... onesia is using band-aid solutions to combat bird flu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, warning more people could die if outbreaks among poultry are not contained. ADVERTISEMENT"The situation is that there is a leak in the roof, and the ministry of health is just mopping up the floor everyday. Until they fix that leak in the roof, it's not going to stop," WHO epidemiologist Steve Bjorge told AFP."And the leak in the roof is this continuing transmission of the virus from bird to bird," he said, following a joint press conference wit ...
2006-06-01 12:54:22
... having difficulty identifying the source of bird flu infection in a case where seven people in the same family died of the virus. ADVERTISEMENT The case in North Sumatra, Indonesia's largest cluster to date, has raised fears of human-to-human transmission of the virus, which has raised the spectre of a deadly global flu pandemic."There are three possible sources of infection, but there is no conclusion," WHO epidemiologist Steve Bjorge told reporters at a joint press conference with Indonesian health ministry officials in Jakarta Thursday."It' ...
You can suggest a news source.