Health
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67Saitual becomes first Mizoram district to achieve ‘Surakshit’ HIV status
Saitual has become the first district in Mizoram to achieve “Surakshit” status under the National AIDS Control Organisation’s Mobilisation AIDS Suraksha campaign...
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165J&K’s fertility rate falls as doctors flag reproductive-health concerns
Doctors and health experts have raised concern over reproductive health problems in Jammu and Kashmir, citing delayed marriages, lifestyle changes and conditions...
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112Punjab H1N1 cases reach 220 as first suspected death reported
Punjab has reported 220 confirmed H1N1 cases this year and its first suspected swine flu death of the season as infections rise...
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48Genetically modified pig kidney bridges man to human transplant
The first known patient to transition from an animal kidney to a human donor organ was a man with end-stage kidney disease...
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135Inside the mortuary, Kashmir’s medical negligence cases hit a wall
Investigators say they can trace almost every stalled medical negligence case in Kashmir back to one moment: a family saying no to...
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57Scientists take first step towards universal vaccine against pneumonia, meningitis
Scientists have found common targets among strains of the pneumonia-causing bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, in a step toward a universal vaccine against the...
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56DR Congo reports 6,186 Ebola cases and 3,007 deaths
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 6,186 people and killed 3,007 since it was declared in May,...
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Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 6,000 cases, 2,911 deaths
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has become the second largest in history, with more than 6,000 cases confirmed and 2,911 killed, as the disease...
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219Ebola spreads to two new zones in eastern Congo, with 60 areas now affected
Democratic Republic of the Congo’s deadliest ever Ebola outbreak has now reached two more health zones in the east, the Ministry of...
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206Five suspected dengue deaths reported as Kenya outbreak reaches 1,678 cases
Health officials have intensified measures to control a dengue fever outbreak in the northeastern Kenyan counties of Garissa and Wajir after reporting...
