Experts hunt for litchi link in virus

27 centres of the National Centre for Disease Control are proposed to be set up across the country under the 12th Five Year Plan to combat communicable diseases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said today.

A report from the office of the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that, in 2009 alone, 784,708 successful abortions were carried out in that country. "That's a breathtaking number, no matter which side of the ...

National centre for animal health report 2011-2012 showed H5N1 was the major outbreaks in the two years Livestock More than 2,500 domestic animals in the country have fallen ill or died in the past two years from notifiable diseases like rabies, ...

The Beijing Centre for Disease Control and Prevention compiled the report after monitoring 32 TV channels, 91 newspapers and magazines, and various Internet media, including commercial websites and micro blogs. Of the TV channels monitored, ...

TORONTO - Last October, scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control went to Saudi Arabia to help investigate a newly discovered virus that had killed one Saudi man and left another from Qatar gravely ill. The CDC scientists are still ...

1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Glostrup, Denmark 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark 3itracks, Aarhus, Denmark ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted $2 million to Duke University, Durham to start a new clinical research network focused on antibacterial resistance. Total ...

• Nigeria may ban its advertising, promotion, sponsorship • National Non-Communicable Diseases Plan ready • Foundation worries about rise in rheumatic fever, heart disease As part of activities to mark World No Tobacco Day 2013, the World ...

Health department won't release draft report on national comparisons The NL rates of Healthcare Associated Infections (MRSA and C diff) are higher than the national average, Cathy OKeefe, the province's director of disease control, said in a Jan. 28 ...