Health (General) – Newsletter for January 21, 2011

Need to focus on palliative care, say experts

NEW DELHI – With only 1 percent of terminally ill patient getting care in India, medical experts Thursday emphasised on the need to focus on palliative care in the country so that people suffering from non-curable diseases could die without pain.

According to doctors, 90 percent of patients in advanced stage of their disease … Read more »».

Lethal virus not spreading in Gujarat, says minister

GANDHINAGAR – The lethal Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is not spreading in Gujarat with all the over 50 samples sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) testing negative and no fresh case coming to light, state Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said Thursday.

The minister said that of the four suspected cases of … Read : Lethal virus not spreading in Gujarat, says minister.

Pakistan Army, Afghan Taliban reject report about Mullah Omar’s surgery in Karachi

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Army has dismissed the report about Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s surgery in Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s spy agency as “unfounded and concocted”.

“An ISPR spokesman strongly contradicted the news item that appeared in the local and international media about the medical treatment of Afghan Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar at …. Original source  : Pakistan Army, Afghan Taliban reject report about Mullah Omar’s surgery in Karachi.

People with HIV ‘three times more likely to have a stroke’

WASHINGTON – People infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be up to three times more likely to have a stroke compared to those not affected with HIV, new research suggests.

For the study, scientists reviewed all stroke hospitalizations in the United States within the last decade. The number of stroke diagnoses in the general population … Original article on : People with HIV ‘three times more likely to have a stroke’.