Amsterdam - A Dutch national has died of Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, or mad cow disease, the Dutch Royal Institute for Health and the Environment RIVM said in a statement released on Monday.
The patient died in early January.
Post-mortem investigations performed by the Utrecht Medical Center, the teaching hospital affiliated with Utrecht University, and the Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease expertise centre in Rotterdam, confirmed the patient died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
Washington, Feb 02 : A new study, led by an Indian-origin researcher, has shown that sleep duration is linked to changes in the levels of specific cytokines that are important in regulating inflammation.
The results of the study, conducted by Dr. Sanjay R. Patel, assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and his colleagues, suggest that inflammation may be the pathway linking extreme sleep durations to an increased risk for disease.
New Delhi - At least five newborns were killed Saturday after a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a government-run hospital in India's northern state of Punjab, officials said.
The tragedy occurred at Rajendra Hospital in Patiala city, 60 kilometres south of the state capital, Chandigarh, city police chief Gurmit Chauhan told reporters.
A total of 10 children receiving treatment for jaundice were kept in phototherapy units when the machines caught fire, apparently due to a short-circuit, he said.
New York - Researchers in Canada have developed a blood test that could make it possible to detect mad cow disease in animals months before they exhibit symptoms of the illness.
"That would be a great breakthrough because then we would not have to examine the brain of the dead animal, instead we'd have a simple, quick test, similar to a paternity test," German molecular biologist Christoph Sensen of the University of Calgary told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa in an interview on Friday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia has imposed an indefinite ban on chicken imports from China following the deaths of five people from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus this year, news reports said Wednesday.
The ban, which has been in place since January 16, would only be lifted once China has been cleared of avian influenza by the World Health Organization, said Malaysian Veterinary Services Department director-general Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin.
London, Jan 27 : Think twice before choosing a window seat on the plane, for a new study has found that the view chair increases the chance of deep vein thrombosis.
According to researchers, those sitting by the window face double the risk of a potentially deadly blood clot.
The dangers are even greater for obese passengers, who are six times more likely to develop a blockage than if they sit next to the aisle, reports the Telegraph.
Amsterdam - A Dutch national has died of Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, or mad cow disease, the Dutch Royal Institute for Health and the Environment RIVM said in a statement released on Monday.
Washington, Feb 02 : A new study, led by an Indian-origin researcher, has shown that sleep duration is linked to changes in the levels of specific cytokines that are important in regulating inflammation. 
New Delhi - At least five newborns were killed Saturday after a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a government-run hospital in India's northern state of Punjab, officials said.
New York - Researchers in Canada have developed a blood test that could make it possible to detect mad cow disease in animals months before they exhibit symptoms of the illness.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia has imposed an indefinite ban on chicken imports from China following the deaths of five people from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus this year, news reports said Wednesday.
London, Jan 27 : Think twice before choosing a window seat on the plane, for a new study has found that the view chair increases the chance of deep vein thrombosis.
