5,700 presumed dead in June floods in India

LUCKNOW, India -- More than 5,700 people missing since last month's devastating floods that ravaged northern India are now presumed dead, a top official said Tuesday.

Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said Tuesday that the Uttarakhand state government would give financial compensation to the families of people who may have perished in the floods and landslides that hit the Himalayan region in June.

The government had earlier put the death toll at 600 but repeatedly stressed that it would be significantly higher.

Bahuguna said recovery operations would continue, adding the exact number of people who died may never be known.

"The search operations will continue till the family members of the missing are satisfied," Bahuguna told a group of survivors Tuesday as the state government began handing out compensation checks to the families of the dead.

The Uttarakhand government has announced that it will pay compensation of 500,000 rupees ($8,350) to the families of each victim.

Hundreds of thousands of Hindus visit Uttarakhand's temple towns during the summer. The state is also a popular holiday destination and droves of Indians head to the cooler hills to escape the summer heat.

Visitors usually leave before July, when monsoon rains make the mountainous roads much more treacherous, but this year unprecedented heavy rains fell around mid-June.

Roads, bridges and multi-storied buildings were washed away as flooded rivers rampaged through the state, burying entire villages in silt and debris.

Army and paramilitary soldiers and volunteers rescued more than 100,000 people who were stranded in remote areas cut off by washed-out roads and landslides.

The air force and private companies made thousands of helicopter sorties to pick up people stuck on rooftops or marooned on hilltops and to drop off food and drinking water.

Bahuguna said the government would rebuild the worst-hit temple town of Kedarnath, where hundreds perished on June 16 when a sea of silt and flood water roared down a mountain valley, sweeping away everything in its path.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/16/3502439/5700-presumed-dead-in-june-floods.html

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20,000 U.S. Troops Descend On Australia For Military Exercise

Stars and Stripes
July 17, 2013

20,000 US troops descend on Australia for training
By Matthew M. Burke

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan: Talisman Saber 2013 ? a joint U.S. and Australian military and humanitarian exercise ? kicked off this week as approximately 20,000 U.S. troops descended on Australia?s east coast.

The focus of this year?s exercise has shifted to amphibious operations as the training moved from the Northern Territory to Australia?s east coast and the Coral Sea. It also marks the first time the MV-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft will touch down on Australian soil. Federal agencies such as the FBI will also have an expanded role as they train with their Australian counterparts.

The fifth iteration of the bi-annual, bi-lateral, exercise is also the biggest to date.

?This year, the U.S. has come in strength,? exercise spokesman Australian Brigadier Bob Brown said Wednesday.

Brown said that the increased presence was most likely due to the U.S. pivot to the Pacific. Also, the USS Bonhomme Richard?s predecessor, the USS Essex, was unable to take part in the exercise two years ago due to maintenance issues.

?The U.S. was a bit more stretched at that time,? Brown said.

?For Australia, [the exercise] is important because we?re developing an increased amphibious capability,? he said.

The Australians plan to procure two amphibious assault ships in the next couple of years, Brown said, so there is an increased emphasis placed on training with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group.

The exercise will feature comprehensive amphibious, airborne and special operations training. The U.S. has sent 15 ships this year, including the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, which will be coupled with 11 Australian vessels. The exercise is being observed by representatives from Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Canada and the U.K.

Saturday will be the busiest day of the exercise, which ends Aug. 5, as U.S. Army and Australian paratroops take part in an air assault, while two major amphibious operations, including a beach landing, also take place. That same day, the FBI will be training with Queensland police on interview and crime scene techniques.

Talisman Sabre 2011 featured 22,000 troops from the U.S., Australia and Canada. The exercise two years ago featured paratrooper landings and amphibious operations as well as land-based training in the Northern Territory. Officials from the Departments of Homeland Security, Agriculture and Justice were also on hand to coordinate efforts with military officials.

The alliance between the U.S. and Australia has strengthened in recent years from the battlefield in Afghanistan to the deployment of U.S. Marines to Darwin. The Australian government announced in June that the number of Marines rotating in on six-month deployments would increase to 1,150 in 2014.

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Boy hit head ?multiple times? in fall from golf cart

PORT COLBORNE?-?

The condition of the 10-year-old American boy who sustained a traumatic head injury after falling from a golf cart at Sherkston Shores Beach Resort and Campground Monday night remained unknown late Tuesday.

Despite several calls by The Tribune to Women and Children?s Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., where the boy was transported, an update on his status has yet to be released.

Port Colborne Fire and Emergency Services and Niagara EMS were dispatched to the private Port Colborne resort at about 7:10 p.m. Niagara Regional Police were not called to the scene.

Niagara EMS communications supervisor Andre Marcotte said the boy, who was visiting the resort from Buffalo, was standing on a moving golf cart when the incident occurred. The cart was moving through the resort grounds when it took a sharp turn and the youngster fell out, Marcotte said.

Witnesses, he added, indicated the boy hit his head ?multiple times? during the fall.

?He was unconscious when we got there and still unconscious en route to the hospital. There was obvious trauma to his head.?

Initial reports from EMS indicated the boy struck his head on a concrete surface.

Sherkston Shores general manager John O?Brien said the golf cart was being driven by a woman, though he did not indicate her relationship to the victim.

Golf carts are a popular mode of transportation at the resort, which has speed limits posted throughout the property. Security patrols the area to help enforce those limits, O?Brien said, stressing the importance of guest safety at the Lake Erie campground.

O?Brien praised emergency officials who arrived on scene quickly Monday and left for Buffalo hospital almost immediately with the young patient.

While an informal agreement has been in place for decades, a formal partnership was created about a year and a half ago that allows Niagara paramedics to transport patients across the border for treatment.

It?s a joint effort between Niagara EMS, Erie County Medical Center, Women and Children?s Hospital, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Centre for Paramedic Education and Research, and Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

The closest Ontario trauma centre is in Hamilton, but, depending on where the emergency occurs, it cannot always be easily accessed, Marcotte said. This is why the partnership was formally put in place.

There are guidelines set to help paramedics determine whether they need to head across the border or can get their patient to an Ontario trauma centre, he said.

If the ambulance can get to a Buffalo hospital within 30 minutes and the injury meets triage guidelines put in place through the agreement, the patient can be brought directly to the U.S. and treatment is covered by OHIP.

Border officials are alerted when an emergency is underway and a lane cleared for the ambulance to make its way through. Paperwork is faxed over by Niagara EMS that allows the ambulance to pass through without stopping.

Nine patients have been transferred for treatment over the border so far this year.

maryanne.firth@sunmedia.ca

Twitter: @mfirthTribune

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Early Diabetes Signs Often Missed in Alzheimer's Patients - Health ...

SUNDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) ? Undiagnosed prediabetes and diabetes are common in people with early Alzheimer?s disease, a researcher says.

Georgetown University neurologist Dr. R. Scott Turner made the finding when he began enrolling people with mild to moderate Alzheimer?s disease into a study last year. The study?s goal was to determine if resveratrol, a compound found in red grapes and red wine, might change blood sugar (glucose) levels in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer?s disease.

Turner said he was shocked by what he found in this group of patients because they were already under a doctor?s care, and those with known diabetes were excluded from the study.

?The number of people with glucose intolerance (prediabetes) was much higher than expected,? Turner said in a university medical center news release. ?I was surprised by how many people didn?t know they were prediabetic, and these are individuals who already get the best medical care.?

To join the study, patients were first given a fasting glucose tolerance test, and then retested two hours after eating. The blood sugar level increases during digestion, but the pancreas produces insulin to lower it. A high sugar level after two hours reveals glucose intolerance (prediabetes) or diabetes if the level is very high.

Five of 128 patients (4 percent) had impaired fasting glucose levels. Meanwhile, 2 percent had findings consistent with type 2 diabetes. Of the 125 patients who completed the two-hour test, 30 percent had glucose intolerance while 13 percent had results consistent with diabetes. The findings showed that 43 percent of the patients had impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes at two hours.

Turner said the results raise a number of questions: ?How does glucose intolerance or diabetes lead to [Alzheimer's disease]? Does the inflammation associated with Alzheimer?s trigger glucose intolerance? Or do both events create a vicious cycle of Alzheimer?s and glucose intolerance??

Although the study wasn?t designed to answer these questions, it may offer important clues. Although a glucose tolerance test is not typically ordered by neurologists, ?this result suggests that perhaps we should test all our patients with early Alzheimer?s,? Turner said. ?It?s a simple, inexpensive study that reveals critical health information.?

Turner was scheduled to present his findings Sunday at the Alzheimer?s Association International Congress in Boston. The data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about prediabetes.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/07/14/early-diabetes-signs-often-missed-in-alzheimers-patients/

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