India hotspot for new infectious diseases: ReportNEW DELHI: India is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), a study by an international team of scientists which recently published its findings in the journal Nature has warned.
Of special concern are zoonoses (diseases that travel from animals to humans) such [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 26, 2008
India hotspot for new infectious diseases: Report
February 14, 2008
A Valentine’s Day story: Women more perceptive than men in describing relationships
from http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/thuo-021308.php
Women are better than men in describing their feelings and those of their romantic partners than are men, while the latter tend to project their own feelings upon their partners more than women. This, according to a study undertaken by graduate student Dana Atzil Slonim and Dr. Orya Tishby of the Paul Baerwald School [...]
February 4, 2008
Doctors Told to Stop Giving Antibiotics for Colds
Parents know how frequently antibiotics are prescribed. Every time child or his class mate has a cold, the saga of convincing the kid to drink the antibiotics starts and stays for a week, in addition to the copay for the multiple doctor visits and medicine cost . Is this really [...]
February 4, 2008
Operation Desert Slaughter – Thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day
By Felicity Arbuthnot on January 27, 2008
It is seventeen years since America and Britain embarked on their ‘Final Solution’ for the population of Iraq. The forty two day carpet bombing, enjoined by thirty two other countries, against a country of just twenty five million souls, with a youthful, conscript army, with broadly half the [...]
