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Sewage Swamps River in Scotland

...ird-world technology", and said that they had been campaigning for years over the odour emanating from the plant. First Minister Jack McConnell has called for an investigation into the incident. The public is still being advised to avoid contact with the shoreline on Edinburgh's waterfront. Many residents...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

...cording to India Resource Center, an international campaigning organization that worked with students at the university to support the campaign. "Students have voiced their opinions loudly and clearly. We want ethical choices on this campus. We are breaking our brand loyalty to Coca-Cola and standing up for h...

Body Shop Founder’s New Project-against Hepatitis

...inesswoman who is well known for her indefatigable campaigning has decided to take on the government’s policies or lack of them, on Hepatitis C. She says: "I am astounded that the Government has spent £40 million on telling the public about the switch-over to digital TV, but only £3 million on raising awaren...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

...ce of Britain's Skilled Immigrants (VBSI), a forum campaigning against various changes to immigration rules affecting a large number of professionals, most of them Indians, said: "On the day when the verdict in the case initiated by Dr Imran Yousaf (and BAPIO) is to be announced, it is very saddening to have lea...

Study Urges Doctors to Go Easy on Antibiotics

...agement to infection control experts who have been campaigning for years to get doctors to cut back on antibiotic use, out of a fear that resistance is increasing at such a rate as to threaten the continued usefulness of these drugs and that yet more ‘superbugs’ will be created. Source-Medindi ANN...

Forge Ahead On Folate Fortification

... experts in Sydney that negative and irresponsible campaigning by the Australian food industry had led to unnecessary delays in mandatory folate fortification. Dr Yong said more than 50 nations, including Canada and the United States, already have introduced mandatory requirements for folate fortification of ...

More Money to Flow for First Responders at Ground Zero

...ath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Borja Jr., has been campaigning for more funds to be allocated for the treatment of those having respiratory disorders connected with exposure to toxic airborne particles at Ground Zero; the demolished site of the WTC. Borja Jr.’s case first became public when he was invited by ...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...came closest to the image of an active first lady, campaigning to get her husband released after he was jailed on a graft charge during the king's regime. Source-IANS...

Don’t Kill Your Skin With Bleachers, Warns Doctor

...Movate Cream among others.In addition to the heavy campaigning against bleaching, fines of 50,000 Jamaican dollars will be charged for the illegal sale of banned skin lighteners under the country's Food and Drug Act. Doctors list the side effects of bleaching creams as skin cancer, thinning of the skin, irreve...

Anti-smoking Programmes Should Increase

...a powerful way. They are found to sponsor a lot of campaigning activities. Hence it is but natural that such drives are very slow. The report released during this meet had graded all the states of America along with District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The parameters that were considered are taxes on cigarett...

Survey Reveals Rejection of NHS Database Scheme

...omise their privacy severely. No2ID group, is also campaigning against issuing of identity cards. A charitable Trust, Joseph Rowntree trust, is at the helm of the campaign. They released the ICM poll findings which showed that a substantial number of people are opposed to Whitehall's plans. The figures exhi...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

...eatment to 20,000 children. We have been intensely campaigning but have so far being able to identify only 1,500 children for treatment," the minister said. The state-run National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) estimates there are around 65,000 kids with HIV infection, out of an estimated 5.2 million HIV inf...

Yamuna Pollution Kills Thousands Of Fish

...ahal's doom," said historian R. Nath, who has been campaigning for the restoration of the river's old glory. "The dry river bed or the polluted contents of the river are a threat to the Taj Mahal and not the air pollution about which such a fuss has been made," he added. Source-IANS...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

...ssinated in this town on May 21, 1991, when he was campaigning during the general election.Expressing happiness that Sriperumbudur was emerging as the hardware capital of India with several world-class electronic hardware complexes being established by international firms such as Flextronics, Nokia, Motorola and...

US Senate Approves Embryo-research Plan Despite President's Refusal

...emocrats are seeking to capitalise on the issue in campaigning for mid-term Congressional elections in November. But it appears unlikely that the 100-member Senate would muster the needed 67 votes to override a presidential veto. (Source: IANS)...

NZ To Opt For Folate Fortification Of Bread

...formerly the Crippled Children's Society, has been campaigning for more than a decade for the folate fortification of foods. Considerable evidence supports the fact that increasing folate intake in pregnancy reduces the risk of birth defects by 70 per cent. Folate is referred to as folic acid in its syntheti...

Tobacco Consumption By Youths Will Hamper India’s Economic Growt

...eddy, who is also the coordinator of Hriday, a NGO campaigning against tobacco use, said the use of tobacco causes several diseases ranging from hypertension, cardiovascular problems to cancer. K.K. Aggarwal, president of the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) and president of the Delhi Medical Council, sai...

NICE Comes Under Attack

...ressurizing NICE. On the other hand groups that re campaigning for treatments such as Herceptin are not happy with the way NICE took its decisions. It was found that some drugs had still not been approved nearly three years after being given a licence. In conclusion the author says that NICE as an independent or...

New Breast Cancer Drugs, Not For All

...NHS. This has angered the patient groups who were campaigning for access to every new drug that appears to show an improvement over older, cheaper medicines in clinical trials. The two drugs were docetaxel and paclitaxel. According to a study in which women were given a drug combination of docetaxel, it was f...

Measles Rate Shoot Up among Nursery Children in Scotland

...ccinating their children. But now after a lot of campaigning rates of MMR vaccine uptake have begun to improve. But it is not expected to reach the levels required for population protection among young schoolchildren. As per the vaccination schedule the first MMR dose has to be taken around 13 months, with the...

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