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Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers

... “INDIA TODAY” it was reported that a high profile bank officer was asked to leave his job when he was detected to be HIV positive and he was detected to be negative on subsequent testing. He however couldn’t handle the trauma and is now mentally disturbed and on psychiatric treatment. In the U.S.A. a cu...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...r projects that will mainly benefit the rich. The bank has given the government of Maharashtra state an I... health campaigners in India are outraged that the bank is funding a private hospital rather than basic primary healthcare services for poorer patients. The...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...vironment and sustainable development. The world bank has given huge funds in support with this, to preserve rain water to filtering off pond water....

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...ction at the moment - from a website designer to a bank fraud investigator and a senior airforce officer - but many more are expected to join it. All were prescribed Paxil/Seroxat for mild depression or anxiety and none was told they might become hooked. When they tried to stop taking it, they suffered vi...

The essence of cosmetic surgery

...o long as it doesn't cause too much damage to your bank account....

New Drug to Stop Gambling!

...ering things up or making excuses and draining our bank account. So, it's changed it in many, many ways." And that's something he can bet on. However experts say the drug can cause liver problems if mixed with other drugs, such as over-the-counter painkillers....

Aggressive Tobacco taxation policy can reduce cigarette smoking

...is aggressive tobacco taxation policies. The world bank estimates that a price increase of 10% on tobacco can reduce demand for tobacco products by 4% in high income countries an by 8% in low and middle income countries. Government should increase annual price increase by 50%, which would help to reduce d...

Blood Goes Down the Drain in Bihar Hospital

...nit comprises 350 ml blood) was discarded by blood bank officials of Sadar Hospital in Begusarai district, Bihar. This became evident during a routine inspection of hospital records last week by the health authorities. It has been said that those found guilty would be taken into strict action after a de...

Scandals Can Affect Medical Research

... for research purposes and donations to a UK tumor bank from 1998 to 2004. Both newspaper coverage and tissue registrations varied greatly during the study period. However in late 1999, with the breaking of the organ retention story, coverage increased dramatically. This was associated with a significan...

A Move To Help Commercial Sex Workers Quit Their Business

...tive employment and skill development by arranging bank loans and setting up small businesses for sex workers.This initiative is hoped to help the sex workers quit the flesh trade on their own and to improve their standard of living. Source: IANS...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

...establish the world’s largest umbilical cord blood bank in Mumbai, India, to provide stem cells for transp... president Mike Shen, who signed the agreement. To bank the cord blood tissues that are traditionally thrown away as waste the donor’s family must give info...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...ts. One solution, says FICCI is to create a global bank that will compulsorily collect patent protected biological materials an offer these to industries at a nominal cost, clearly establishing ownership. Government reluctance to grant exclusivity of clinical trial data may also scare away companies, anal...

Controversy Surrounding The HIV Positive Reports Of One-Year Girl In Kerala

...had received a transfusion form the hospital blood bank has been tested positive for HIV infection. // According to the inquiry, one-year-old Reshmi, who is HIV-positive, was given blood, which had been taken from a person who was HIV-negative. The parents of the child are in deep shock as they are at...

Bird flu alert in Kaziranga Park

...osis of bird flu. The park, located on the south bank of Brahmaputra in central Assam, attracts over a hundred species of migratory birds between November and April every year. They fly from places like as far as Siberia, China and Tibet. The alert against the avian influenza has been sounded all over...

ADB Report Warns of Bird-Flu Catastrophe

...d, the Asian Development Bank has warned. // The bank examined in a report the likely effects on the reg...d would likely be hit hardest by the pandemic, the bank predicted. In its grimmest scenario, where the impact of a pandemic lasts a year, Asia could lose ...

Declining Rates Of Sperm Donors Over The Past 5 Years

...k of motivation among students to do so//. Sperm bank is a facility that collects freezes and stores semen sample for purposes of artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization or for research. The researchers believe that the fall is almost certainly linked to scrapping the right of donors to remain...

Bird Flu Likely To Reduce World Energy Demand

...over 1-million barrels per day,” the US investment bank said. Goldman Sachs noted that the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 had led to a sharp reduction in civilian airline schedules in Asia as demand for tourist and business travel declined. Goldman Sachs did not expect bird f...

Stem Cell Bank In UK Would Require 150 Embryo-Derived Stem Cell Lines

...s for the establishment of a therapeutic stem cell bank has concluded that approximately 150 embryo-derive... is being carried out. The world's first stem cell bank was established in Britain in the year 2004. Over the next two years, the amount of resources alloca...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...rest of poor rural women in groups of 10 to secure bank loans on easy terms for income generating activities, came to her rescue following some persuasion by officials of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA). Involved in an intense three-week campaign to raise the money was the district's 12,000 ...

IT Raids Target Chennai Doctors And Hospitals

...ng about 300 IT department officials. "The cash, bank balance and jewellery totalled about Rs.2 crore (Rs.20 million). Investment papers showed about Rs.6 crore (60 million) million in assets. We are yet to open and evaluate 15 lockers," the IT chief commissioner and director general (investigation) sai...

Australian Health funds stand accused

... Medicare Private has been finalised by investment bank Carnegie, Wylie & Co, and will be considered by ministers next year. Health Minister Tony Abbott is considering a range of reforms to make private health insurance more attractive, including a frequent flyer-style scheme that rewards members for go...

Drug Database Goes On Air

... a kind drug database available so far. The drug bank gives detailed information about each and every drug present in the market their brand names, chemical structures, protein and DNA sequences, links to relevant Internet sites, prescription information and detailed patient information. Today the pat...

Chinese Hospital urged to cater to the poor

...itals and their purchasing of large equipment with bank loans and public funds," Gao said. He urged hospitals and local health authorities to focus on providing affordable medical care to the less well-off: farmers, the unemployed, migrant workers, the elderly and children. "The patients in financia...

Countries Step up Battle Against Bird Flu

...s scrambling to stockpile the anti-viral drug, the bank has cautioned that its analysis was only an initia... health systems is likely to be considerable," the bank said. Funds will be needed for animal and human health alike, and to build stockpiles of the antiv...

FDA needs to be more vigilant in monitoring, tissue banks.

...tted $1 billion for the development of the tissue bank industry and asked the federal officials to more careful because these areas more pone to mistakes as it involves a large sum of money. Hence the FDA is taking various measures by registering all the tissue banks and routinely checking their conducts...

Blood Donation is the most priceless gift

...us service between their office and blood donation bank and this program will provide a free health checkup apart from blood testing which involves testing for HIV, Hepatitis Virus, Treponema bacteria, West Nile Virus and other blood transmitting diseases. It is estimated that 1 pint of donated blood ca...

Human Milk Center Caters To Premature Babies

... hospital's neonatal department. ‘However, this bank is only an interim support system and cannot be co...two cc of milk every two hours. In 2005 alone, the bank stored 895 liters of breast milk. Non-lactation can occur due to stress during pregnancy or durin...

Ossur Acquires the U.S. Orthopaedics Company

...nding of $40 million has been provided by Kaupting bank hf. Ossur is a trusted and global leader in the development, manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing of braces and support products and prosthetics. Headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, the company has operations and a distribution network...

Exposure to hazardous tissue, a fear of 21 Windsor surgery patients

...ith unscreened products, obtained by a U.S. tissue bank known as Biomedical Tissue Services Limited, based in New Jersey. The patients were informed by the administration of Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital. The major concern is that the body parts were unscreened for HIV 1 and 2, hepatitis B and C, syphilis ...

Biotechnology Initiatives Planned In Hyderabad

...ility for primates. An umbilical cord stem cell bank and bio-medical research center and state-of-the-art maternity hospital to be set up by the Pacific Health Care Holdings, Singapore; an agri biotech park at International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)) at Patancheru on the c...

Monday Morning 'Blues' Hit 'Sick' British Workers

...very popular time for taking a 'sickie', the first bank holiday still seems a long way off, the days are gloomy and many people are still feeling the post-Christmas blues,' said Cary Cooper, a professor of organizational psychology and health at Lancaster University and lead researcher of the study. The s...

Delay in $ 260 M grant by World Bank to Kenya due to corruption allegations

...roved in October 2004, will not be disbursed until bank officials are certain that President Mwai Kibaki's administration is adhering to its pledges to fight corruption. So another social reform lies in doldrums due to degradation of social and work ethics....

Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries

...ng programmes. 'For financial advice I don’t ask a bank teller, I ask an accountant. For legal advice I don’t ask a policeman, I ask a lawyer. For medical advice I choose to speak to a doctor,' read a suggestion hosted on the website Doctors.net.uk. 'I would not have anyone who is not medically qualifie...

Poland affected by Bird flu through wild birds

...ion for a zone in Torun, in northern Poland on the bank of the Vistula River, the site where a dead swan was found. Polish vets confirmed the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus in that swan. // The swan was found near the German border but the vets did not confirm whether the bird had the potent strain...

A Bird-Flu Pandemic Is Detrimental To Global Economic Growth: Report

...ells doom for global economic growth. According to bank economist Sherry Cooper, it is estimated that a pandemic could cause a dent of two to six percentage out of global economic growth. // The effect could be felt in birth rate reductions and older populations, which will lead to continued labor shortag...

UK Biobank Set Up To Understand the Links between Genes, Lifestyle Environment and Illness

...he kinds and will gather, store and protect a vast bank of anonymous medical data, and keep blood and urine samples in two huge fridges. This would pave way for the scientists around the world to get their hands on the samples and study in depth how the complex interplay of genes, lifestyle and environ...

Cancer `Tumour Bank' With 7,000 Samples To Be Made Available For Research

...ing "the glue to hold it together." The new tissue bank will be known as CTRNet and is North America's first national tumour bank network. What this does is it creates a tumor cell network from where samples will be available to r...

Perpetrators of $20 Million Medicare Fraud, Brought To Book

...nt claims between 2000 and 2005 was deposited into bank accounts of fraud management companies. ...

New Network To Ease Blood donation In India

... India, it ensures that donors donate at the blood bank of their choice, which is closest to their place of work or residence. "We lost our child," Poacha says, explaining this was one reason why they put their energies into this venture. "Our site is doing well now. We help about 25 patients every d...

Mama’s milk on sal

..., the group’s board chair and director of the milk bank at the British Columbia Women’s Hospital in Vancouver. Jones said that they make sure that the mothers know and clearly understand who they’re giving their milk to and what we’re doing with the milk. The banks screen donating mothers for HIV, hepatit...

Investigation to identify the source of HIV infection

...ith the dreaded disease. The Medical College blood bank from where Reshmi had received blood for transfusion had followed the prescribed protocol to ensure safe blood. Hence Dr. Ramesh said Reshmi's infection could be a case where the donor was in the window period. Hence during the routine test the do...

Strained Economic Agreement Between Singapore And India

...masek Holdings to raise its stake in India's ICICI bank and the State Bank of India (SBI) // facing difficulties in obtaining qualifying full bank status in the city-state. The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) that was signed...

Steps Taken To Maintain Inflation Rates Says Chidambaram

...decide what should be the benchmark. The central bank sets the target. I think the present inflation rate can be considered good enough," Chidambaram said on the sidelines of the World Customs Organization conference on 'Outsourcing and offshoring of IT services'....

IMF considers Bird Flu to be a Dark Cloud

...stablish emergency committees that include central bank officials. The report was based in part on informal discussions with commercial and investment banks, securities firms, asset management companies and other elements of the world financial system. In other conclusions from the report, the IMF sa...

Antiviral Coating On Bank Notes, Photocopiers Could Help Check Epidemics

...ists have found that applying antiviral coating on bank notes, vending machines and photocopiers could be of immense help in fighting the epidemics//. Materials researcher Guagang Ren at Queen Mary college, University of London, has discovered a coating of metal, metal oxide and ceramic nanoparticles th...

World Bank Could Have Made A World of Difference to Fight Malaria, Yet It Failed!

...$500 million// to combat malaria. In addition, the bank is said to have manipulated data, with no adequate... statistics or paying for redundant medicines. The bank also confirmed that the program to fight malaria had been revived and rejuvenated in the past year. ...

Bank Refuses Services to Down's Girl

... the treatment meted out to them from the Barclays bank staff. According to Wendy Rusher the staff declared that the bank policies made it impossible to allow them to open a joint account, as her daughter was mentally inco...

‘Family Honour’ Hinder Pakistani Girls In Getting Educatin

...e safe transportation to schools. It's an idea the bank would like to propose to the government of Pakistan," said Tara Vishwanath, the lead author behind the World Bank report. "They are concerned about allowing a girl to walk outside her community alone. And that comes not necessarily from the fear of...

Prediction of a Collective Sneeze

... 29 most people will spend time outside as it is a bank holiday. Dr Morris said that usually pollen count is at the peak during June but many sufferers got caught out in late May because they did not start to take medication until their symptoms appeared. Dr Morris accurately calculated the time to be 6...

Are Babies Conceived By Fertility Procedures Safe From Genetic Disorders?

...he carrier of the gene, not the mothers. The sperm bank was informed of this evidence, and all remaining samples were discarded. The authors conclude that, because it is presently difficult to screen for all conceivable genetic disorders, it is imperative that potential mothers be properly counseled and...

BHU Hospital Doctors Continue Hunger Strike

...tion campaign on the issue at the Assi Ghat on the bank of river Ganga, a Resident Doctors Association office bearer Shashi Kumar Mishra said. The protesting medicos also launched a signature campaign against the proposed reservation which would be handed over to the Prime Minister and the President see...

Quota System: Diverting Attention From The Real Problem

...h and unconcerned political class to create a vote bank and help themselves. (Commentary by Bhamy V. Shenoy, an international oil expert, is a member of the India Development Coalition of America who is involved in several NGO projects in India. He can be reached at bhamysuman@hotmail.com) Source:IANS...

Bank of Stem Cells to Give Hope to Sick Children

...hope with plans for the development of a major NHS bank of babies' stem cells//. Stem cells are the buil...g.’ Prof Braude has called for a much larger NHS bank to provide a broad coverage and equitable access for those in need of the benefits that stem cell tr...

Crazy Shoppers Lose More Weight

..., this is not revenge on your husband or even your bank manager; it’s just the latest method to fight obesity. Department of sport and physical rehabilitation sciences lecturer and study supervisor Dr Andrew McKune said that the group of 40 students stumbled upon this finding when they were studying the...

YES Bank To Set Up India Health Care Fund

...rategy to target high-growth emerging sectors, the bank also plans to enter the sports segment by providing structured finance products for building stadiums and training centres. Source:PTI News...

Donation Of Blood, Organs, Act Of Great Humanity: Shekhawat

...organ donation. In India. Inaugurating the blood bank of Indian Red Cross Society, Bihar chapter here, t...rrying forward the work for expansion of the blood bank programme. Governor R S Govai, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Mod...

Cord Blood Stem Cells Can Now be Stored in India

...(India), told reporters here. The cord blood cell bank has been set up at Gurgaon where cells would be ke...years. The cells can be retrieved anytime from the bank to treat disorders. The cells can also be donated to the bank, in which case they would be used for...

First Cord Blood Bank in North India to be Opened in Gurgaon

... cord blood is a rich source of stem cells and the bank will facilitate to store them from any willing fam... and bone marrow transplant. He said the Gurgaon bank will have a capacity to store more than 100,000 units of cord blood, obtained from the umbilical cho...

The Fight Against Hepatitis

...ith simple precautions like : a) Effective blood bank screening, b) Hepatitis B vaccination c) Proper sanitation facilities. d) More Community educational Programs like stressing the need for boiling water etc. e) Prevention of alcohol abuse As far as India is concerned, we have included the hepatiti...

Sex Workers Adopt IT Solutions to Fight AIDS

... like an ATM card to deposit their earnings in the bank and produce it before the police like an identity card to avoid harassment. The multi-sectoral approach will help us prevent STI," said Reza-Paul, admitting that the scheme is not without its teething problems. National AIDS Control Organisation (N...