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		<title>Drug Firms Sign Up to New Tropical Disease Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key players in the pharmaceutical industry pledged this week to donate 14 billion drug treatments as part of a new, global push to eradicate tropical diseases. Thirteen companies including Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline have committed to the programme being led by the United States, Britain and United Arab Emirates governments, the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors ‘Should Check Blood Pressure on Both Arms’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Measuring blood pressure on both arms rather than only one can reveal an elevated risk of heart disease or even death, according to a study. In a review of medical literature, researchers at the University of Exeter found that a difference in the so-called systolic blood pressure between arms can be a useful indicator of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Bird Flu Death Reported</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health authorities have reported a second human death in Indonesia from bird flu this year, with the death of a five-year-old girl who recently lost her relative to the deadly virus. Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China in late December reported its first fatality from the H5N1 virus in 18 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Confirms Groundbreaking Advance in Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first use of embryonic stem cells in humans eased a degenerative form of blindness in two volunteers and showed no signs of any adverse effects, according to a study published by The Lancet medical journal. Publication in the peer-reviewed journal marks an important step for embryonic stem cells, which were hailed as a miracle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Car, TV Linked to Heart Attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car owners with a television are 27 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than people who have neither, according to a global study on physical exercise and heart disease published on Wednesday. More broadly, the study &#8211; covering more than 29,000 people in 52 countries &#8211; showed that working up a light sweat may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Dies from Bird Flu in Jakarta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the Health Ministry said Tuesday, in the country&#8217;s third fatal case in three months. &#8220;Test results from the man who died confirmed that he was infected with bird flu,&#8221; ministry head of communicable diseases Tjandra Yoga Aditama said. The man likely contracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV Still Increasing Sharply in Bali</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENPASAR Officials have expressed dismay that while worldwide HIV infections continue to decline Indonesia, including Bali, is in the midst of a sharp spike in occurrence of the disease. “Worldwide it is on the decline, in the United States and Australia, for example. But in Bali it’s increasing,” said Made Suprapta, secretary of the Regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probe into Bali Tattoo HIV Infection Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesian authorities are investigating the case of an Australian who is believed to have been infected with HIV while getting a tattoo in Bali. &#8220;We received a report about this case from the Health Ministry yesterday and officials will be visiting tattoo parlours today to verify this claim,&#8221; Bali Health Department chief Nyoman Sutedja said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists Say Support Lacking for HIV Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENPASAR A senior activist has said that there is not enough government support provided for children suffering from HIV-AIDS in Bali. Novita E Wuntu from the Citra Usadha Indonesia foundation (YCUI) said there was no developed continuous funding system for the care of HIV-positive children in Bali. “We have been searching for continuous donations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island’s Hospitals Have Domestic Abuse Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENPASAR Bali’s hospitals are now equipped to deal with cases of domestic violence and child abuse, according to officials. IB Putu Alit from the team that handles such cases at the main Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar said all major state-run hospitals in Bali now had a similar dedicated team. “The team records the cases, reports [...]]]></description>
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