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Seven diabetics centres to be set up 
KANDY: Novo-Nordisk, an Indian company has decided to set up seven diabetics and endocrinology centres in the Galle, Colombo, Kandy, Peradeniya, Badulla, Batticaloa and Hambantota hospitals at a cost of Rs.50 million as a response to a request made by Health Care and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva, a Health Care and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.

Another benefit from breast-feeding found 
Researchers in recent weeks have given new moms even more scientific encouragement to breast-feed.

Three People Dead in Egypt, Raising Human Avian Flu Toll to 157 
Three members of an extended family have died in Egypt after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza, bringing the human toll in that nation to 18 cases and 10 deaths since February, and the total worldwide since 2003 to 261 cases and 157 deaths. “Our understanding is that there is exposure to sick poultry, in this case ducks, by the people that became ill,” John Rainford, a spokesman at World …