Monday, 28 November 2011

MALNUTRITION: New ways needed to grow food

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DURBAN, 28 November 2011 (IRIN)  Photo: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Agricultural production will have to be intensified, rather t...
Sunday, 27 November 2011

TUBERCULOSIS: Eurasia statistics

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Christoph Hamelmann The European/Central Asian region has the highest rate of multi-drug- and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MD...

TUBERCULOSIS: Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2010

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In 2010 there were 11,182 new cases of tuberculosis reported in the United States. In 2010, the reported number of TB cases decreased slig...

TUBERCULOSIS: WHO warns of untreatable strain of tuberculosis

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November 26, 2011 – NEW GUINEA – The World Health Organization is warning of the potential for an untreatable form of tuberculosis to devel...

TUBERCULOSIS: Vietnam reports high number of patients annually

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 Nov 24, 2011, T. Lam - Translated by Uyen Phuong According to the Central Lung Hospital and World Health Organization, each year around 6,...

TUBERCULOSIS: Angola: Over 1000 cases of tuberculosis recorded in nine months

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11/24/11 Huambo - At least 1.595 cases of tuberculosis were recorded from January to September this year in the central Huambo province. T...

TUBERCULOSIS: Resistant TB from inappropriate treatment

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 November 22, 2011 Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis lend further weight to the role of inappropriate treatment in the rise o...

TUBERCULOSIS: USA: Washington State statistics

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Nov 26, 2011King County continues to have one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the United States, because of the world-wi...

TUBERCULOSIS: Indonesia: Tuberculosis strikes orangutans in sanctuary

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 November 27, 2011 : Elly Burhaini Faizal, The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has reported that tuberculosis infections have d...

TUBERCULOSIS: Underfunding Of Tuberculosis, WHO Warns Of Consequences

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Grace Rattue : 26 Nov 2011 For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that the number of individuals who fall ill ...

MALNUTRITION: In remote areas, bush meat still plays pivotal role in people’s diet

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 Peter Reuell : November 21, 2011 Postdoctoral fellow Christopher Golden conducted a yearlong study in the northeast corner of Madagascar t...

MALNUTRITION: Sri Lanka Grapples with Child Malnutrition despite Major Improvements in the Health Sector

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November 20, 2011: Priyanka Jayawardena, Despite remarkable achievements in the health sector, malnutrition has been a persistent health ch...

MALNUTRITION: India: Women Malnutrition

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As per National Family Health Survey-3, 2005-06, the prevalence of chronic energy deficiency (measured as low Body Mass Index) is 36.4% and ...

MALNUTRITION: Indioa: Bid to check malnutrition through fortified flour

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22 November 2011 The Madhya Pradesh Government is all set to distribute fortified flour from November 22 in a bid to counter malnutrition. ...

MALNUTRITION: Pakistan: increasing at alarming rate across province

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November 24, 2011 : Staff Report LAHORE: The percentage of children suffering from chronic malnutrition in Punjab has increased to 39 perce...

MALNUTRITION: Ireland

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November 25, 2011 DUBLIN INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY: GIVEN THE coverage Ireland’s obesity epidemic receives and our standing as a still wealth...

MALNUTRITION: Malnutrition diabetes worries experts.

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Nov 24, 2011 Share3 Type 3 diabetes also called malnutrition diabetes is worrying health experts. The disease is predominant in sub-Saharan ...

MALNUTRITION: North Korea: Child malnutrition rising sharply in North Korea

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Nov 25, 2011 : AFP Three million people in North Korea will need food aid in 2012 and malnutrition among young children is rising despite...

MALNUTRITION: India: 6,600 kids at risk in Karnataka's Raichur

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November 26, 2011 DC Bengaluru Bread losing tablesThe deaths from malnutrition of five-year-old Anjaneya and her sister, two-and-a-half y...

MALNUTRITION: Ethiopia: Concern over high levels of child malnutrition in Ethiopia refugee camps

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Mark Tran, in Addis Ababa guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 Somali refugees at the Kobe camp inside Dolo Ado, currently home to a...