[h=3]Zika's impact on children will require new medical approach - expert[/h] The spread of Zika virus through the Americas is likely to affect tens of thousands of children with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric problems in the next year, requiring a new approach to their care, a leading U.S. disease expert said on Monday. Dr. Peter Hotez, of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics that a host of pediatric specialists, including neurologists and experts in rehabilitation medicine "will need to mobilize quickly to get ahead of this fast-moving train." The current Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year, and public health officials estimate it could infect up to 4 million people in the Americas. Brazil has confirmed more than 1,400 cases of microcephaly linked to Zika, and is studying additional fetal abnormalities that may result from the virus.
Tiny mosquitoes causing big trouble!
The spread of Zika virus through the Americas is likely to affect tens of thousands of children with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric problems in the next year, requiring a new approach to their care, a leading U.S. disease expert said on Monday. Dr. Peter Hotez, of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics that a host of pediatric specialists, including neurologists and experts in rehabilitation medicine "will need to mobilize quickly to get ahead of this fast-moving train." The current Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year, and public health officials estimate it could infect up to 4 million people in the Americas. Brazil has confirmed more than 1,400 cases of microcephaly linked to Zika, and is studying additional fetal abnormalities that may result from the virus.
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Capital city leads in many forbidden practices!
Senior radiologist held for conducting sex test
A well-known radiologist, who is also an honorary secretary of the Delhi Medical Association, was on Saturday arrested along with five others for allegedly conducting sex determination tests at his Dwarka clinic. The arrested persons include touts, middlemen and two women who had come for a test. They were nabbed following a joint raid by the Delhi and Haryana government teams. It is alleged that Dr. V.K. Mutreja, who was running Vishank Diagnostic Centre in Dwarka’s Central Market, had been conducting these illegal tests for years. Most of his clients were women from neighbouring Haryana where the sex ratio is already skewed. Officials suspect that Dr. Mutreja could be part of a larger racket
The Hindu q
Another seed for a future controversy?? :noidea:
Chanting of 'Om' does not change anyone's religion: Ramdev ahead of Yoga Day
New Delhi: Amid opposition from certain religious communities over chanting of 'Om' and performance of 'surya namaskar' during yoga events, Ramdev on Sunday said these practices do not change anyone's religion and are "secular, universal and spiritual" in nature. He said at a yoga camp in Dubai on Saturday, which was attended by Hindus and Muslims, besides members of the royal family, he had given the gathering an option to chant 'Om' or 'Amin' and that they had preferred chanting 'Om' over 'Amin'. They "experienced a divine" feeling, he said at a yoga event at Rajpath, organsied by the Ministry of Ayush and attended by a large number of people, including Union ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Arun
Firstpost q
Belly dance is very famous even in India.
Only the babes (if we can call them that)
have Vinayaka like belly- hindering them
from performing the classical belly dance!
