London, Apr. 28 : A woman has described how an Indian-origin doctor stroked her hair and massaged her breasts during a visit to his surgery with her young child.

According to The Telegraph, the woman told the General Medical Council (GMC) hearing that she had visited Dr Krishnan Prasad at the Springwell Medical Group surgery in Sunderland because her three-year-old son was unwell and had been experiencing pain and deafness in his ears.

Washington, Apr 28 : Children''s short sleep duration even without sleeping difficulties increases the risk for behavioural symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), says a new study.

The study, led by researchers at the University of Helsinki and National Institute of Health and Welfare, Finland, examined whether decreased sleep leads to behavioral problems similar to those exhibited by children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Washington, Apr 28 : Kids, who are born first or have had breech births or whose mothers are 35 or older at the time of birth, face a greater risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder, according to a new study.

Autism is a complex brain disorder that impairs social, communicative, and behavioural development and often is characterized by extreme behaviour.

A container for transporting swine flu virus samples exploded on a Swiss train, authorities said Tuesday, but stressed that there was no danger to the public. The container, which was filled with dry ice and carried samples of the H1N1 swine flu virus, was destined for Switzerland's national influenza centre in Geneva, exploded Monday night on board of a train.

A laboratory employee had picked up the samples in Zurich to transport them by train to Geneva, but the package exploded near Fribourg and Lausanne, after melting dry ice, which had been wrongly places, caused a build-up of pressure.

Hong Kong  - Hong Kong is at a "higher risk" of an outbreak of swine flu because the city of 7 million is so densely populated, its leader Donald Tsang said Tuesday.

Beijing-appointed Tsang made the remark after government officials held a teleconference with counterparts in Macau and the neighbouring southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

The former British colony has been on alert for signs of the virus and Monday announced that three people tested for swine flu had been given the all-clear.

Seoul  - South Korean authorities were investigating a possible case of a swine-flu infection Tuesday.

An influenza infection was detected in a 51-year-old South Korean woman who returned from a trip to Mexico on the weekend, the Korean Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The centre was testing whether the woman contracted the mutated H1N1 virus, the strain identified in the swine-flu outbreak in Mexico, which may have cost up to 149 lives so far. Test results are expected in one or two days, the centre said.