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UN steps up assistance to displaced Pakistanis 8 Nov 2009 01:53 GMT
... emergency health kits and cholera kits. It has also given over 50,800 doses of polio vaccine to displaced children being hosted in these two districts. Among the key needs ...
This much I know: Nicky Haslam 8 Nov 2009 04:37 GMT
... Don't shatter the crystal. Hasn't always worked. despite – or because of – having polio as a child. I take after my mother: her answer to an ailment was ...
Disabled Koreans shine at NYC marathon 8 Nov 2009 04:40 GMT
... so far is two hours and 57 minutes. Kim Yong-ki, 34, who has battled polio since birth, cannot use his legs but began competing in marathons in a wheelchair. ...
'Depressed' lorry driver drew �16k in sickness benefits while working 8 Nov 2009 08:30 GMT
... anxiety - then claimed he had arthritis and was struggling from the effects of polio. He was ordered to carry our 200 hours of unpaid work after he admitted ...
100 cases this year, eradicating polio remains big challenge in Bihar 7 Nov 2009 13:06 GMT
... Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) Eradicating polio from Bihar continues to be a big challenge with at least 100 new cases ...

Bristol woman flies to India to fight polio 7 Nov 2009 07:10 GMT
... Bristol woman flies to India to fight polio A Rotary Club member from Westbury Park has flown all the way to India ...
Get, set, fly! 7 Nov 2009 05:56 GMT
... We have decided to dedicate this event to a noble cause - to end polio. ‘End Polio Now’ is a global Rotary initiative to eradicate polio from the face ...
Political crisis only sharpens daily hardship 7 Nov 2009 09:23 GMT
... • Chronic malnutrition has increased by 50 percent in the past five years • Polio-free from 2004 to 2008, Guinea recorded at least 16 cases of polio in 2009 ...
Voting ends, 65 percent turnout in Assam by-polls 7 Nov 2009 12:32 GMT
... on the turmoil for the past nearly a fortnight. Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) Eradicating polio from Bihar continues to be a big challenge with at least 100 new cases ...
Health Matters : What are Childhood Immunizations ? 7 Nov 2009 18:34 GMT
... influenzae type b (Hib), hepatitis B, measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), pneumococcal disease, poliomyelitis (polio), rubella (German measles), tetanus, and varicella (chickenpox). These diseases can cause serious illnesses. For ...

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Goodwill's new store opens in Rapid City 7 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... for 40 years. Villines, of Des Moines, uses a wheelchair for mobility after contracting polio at age 3. She was in town to help open the new store and ...
Making Health Care Better 7 Nov 2009 05:58 GMT
... “It transformed medicine, and it's easy to make the case.” Diphtheria, mumps, measles and polio were conquered, and pneumonia and heart attacks became far less deadly. In 1910, in ...
Commence Northwest Film & Video Fest! 7 Nov 2009 07:37 GMT
... amazed by the latter: A 38-minute documentary about stomping out the last embers of polio in India. Portland filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsy picks up the exceptionality of everything she ...
Frontiers of the future: In-gene-ous modifications 7 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
... onset of the disease. Conversely, vaccines use genetic pieces of a deadly microbe, like polio, to trigger the body's immune system and protect itself against attack. Recent discoveries show ...
Shari Candies namesake dies 7 Nov 2009 08:16 GMT
... was a young girl when the Shari Candies name was created. A relative contracted polio and the family was trying to find ways to bring in more money to ...
H1N1: The good, the bad, and the prickly 7 Nov 2009 13:20 GMT
... is that H1N1, although a pandemic, has been mild. This isn't smallpox, diphtheria or polio. Most healthy people will get over it at home. "It's a bit like being ...
The Day in History, Nov. 7 7 Nov 2009 14:16 GMT
... first time in Rochester, regular classes have been set up for children who are polio patients. They are being taught at Saint Marys Hospital by Ida Staehling. There are ...
Pulse Polio Campaign from Nov 8 5 Nov 2009 10:57 GMT
... of 0-5 years are targeted to be covered under the 3-day Sub-National Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization (IPPI) round to be conducted in 13 districts of Haryana from November 8,2009. ...
When polio scourge hit Nevada County 3 Nov 2009 09:03 GMT
... Valley in 1950. Photo for The Union by Bob Wyckoff Sixty years ago, the polio epidemic that had been traveling around the world for decades arrived in Nevada County. ...
Rotary officials ask public to join in fight to eradicate polio 5 Nov 2009 10:39 GMT
... Rotary International needs your help to eradicate polio once and for all. The service organization is making a push for people in ...

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Guest column: Help Rotary conquer polio 2 Nov 2009 14:27 GMT
... undertakings ever made by a private entity: An intense and relentless effort to eliminate polio worldwide by 1.2 million Rotary members in 32,000 clubs in 200 countries. Since the ...
National polio vaccinations underway 4 Nov 2009 14:42 GMT
... A child receiving polio vaccine in the Chad capital N'djamena (file photo) GOZ BEIDA, 30 October 2009 (IRIN) ...
Polio vaccine was socialized medicine 4 Nov 2009 21:36 GMT
... that began here in the United States in the 1950s. The story is... The polio virus which has been around since ancient times became stronger starting around 1900. Every ...
Imam's festive fatwa: Eradicate polio 2 Nov 2009 13:33 GMT
... imam of Aishbagh, has decided to use the Eid congregation for spreading awareness about polio and the need for its eradication. So, after namaz, he will read out his ...
Chad: National Polio Vaccinations Underway 4 Nov 2009 04:32 GMT
... A three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began on October 30 throughout Chad, including in the east where according ...