After being fiercely criticized for not doing enough to support its staff, Wal-Mart at last has decided to offer more employees low-cost health insurance. The world’s largest retailer wants to expand its cheapest insurance scheme to half its US…
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A bacterium has been discovered in yogurt that could potentially neutralize the HIV virus! Yes, the HIV virus. A friendly bacterium has been found in humans and yoghurt, which the doctors in the United States have modified. And it led to the discovery –.
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Will anti-bird flu vaccination programs in France and the Netherlands be approved? EU veterinary experts have delayed the decision on this. Discussing on the implications of allowing country-specific vaccinations as part of efforts to curb the spread of..
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In the wake of outbreak of the deadly bird flu in Maharashtra, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and some Gulf countries Monday banned the import of poultry and its products from India. With India to prevent the smuggling of live birds or poultry products,…
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Now its turn for the birdflu to hit Russia. Two poultry farms in southern Russia’s Dagestan republic, near Chechnya, have been hit by birdflu. It is from January 15 to February 1, 350,000 bird deaths were registered at the Eldama poultry farm, in…
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Drugs for attention-deficit disorder carry a prominent warning about heart risks! This is a government advisory panel’s recommendation made this month. Patients are getting panicked by this recommendation, and making phone calls to psychiatrists. The…
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The next three-four months in India will witness an increase in the number of people getting free anti-aids treatment to 100,000 patients. Thanks to the Government. To spread awareness on the facilities being provided in the public sector hospitals, the..
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Just a day after Maharashtra reported its first bird flu infections in poultry, a man has died of suspected bird flu in western India, a top official informed on Sunday. In past days, 50,000 birds died in Gujarat, the adjacent state to Maharashtra. And…
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A 39-year-old man, who died in northern Iraq in January, was killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Iraqi health ministry has confirmed. It was on 18 January; Hamasour Mustafa developed symptoms of the virus and died on 27 January in the city of…
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