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Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!

...a researchers at the just concluded Indian science congress in New Delhi have called for a collaborative effort with agricultural scientists to combat anemia with iron fortification of crops. Almost 50% of women and 75% children under 3 years of age are anemic in India. While iron supplementation is expensive...

Chennai Plays Hosts To The Diabetes World Congress

The fourth world congress for diabetes begins in Chennai today. The theme for the congress is Prevention of diabetes and its complications //and over 1000 doctors and researchers will attend ...

Chennai Plays Hosts To The Diabetes World Congress

The fourth world congress for diabetes begins in Chennai today. The theme for the congress is Prevention of diabetes and its complications //and over 1000 doctors and researchers will attend ...

Popularity Of Homeopathy On The Increase

...inister Ulla Schmidt even wrote of a recent German congress on homeopathy, saying it took a "leading role because of its holistic approach". -(DPA)...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

The US congress is considering whether to temporarily ban the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using human tests to determine whether a pesticide should be marketed//. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will soon decide whether to place a one year moratorium on the...

Delhi To Host International Women’s Congress From Nov 2

...n from November 27. // The four-day international congress titled "WWH-2005" (women, work and health) will be... Stockholm (2002). Among its main objectives, the congress aims to discuss occupational health care, gender awareness, promotion of social recognition and a hi...

Government Should Restrict Junk Food Marketing

... in obesity in children’s. It is necessary for the congress to regulate the Television advertisements, as it is possible for the congress to restrict the Television broadcast. Instead of marketing Junk food the food industries can market ...

Stop spending on new treatments; allocate funds to improve the existing treatments.

...vided the existing facilities to the public. The congress allocates funds to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to improve treatment modalities of which only 10% of the money is actually spent. A misconception that by improving the medicines, techniques and other health facilities will facilitate hea...

Bush asks for complete ban on Reproductive cloning

... births. President Bush on its talk as urged the congress to approve a complete ban on human reproductive cloning as there six pending bills on human cloning and embryonic stem cells he as asked an unconditional ban on buying and selling of human embryos. He has urged that there as to be a change in medical...

New Test to Predict Birth Date

...t a Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand congress in Perth tomorrow. Along with Canadian colleague Stephen Lye, Dr Pennel found that up to 100 genes from a sample of 20,000 could forecast the birth date with an accuracy of about 90%. Although the development of a test was still at it infant stage...

Nurses Are Furious but the Exact Reason Is Not Clear

One of the nurses at the Royal College of Nursing congress last week shouted at Patricia Hewitt when she was addressing them. Nurses have become unnerving, demonstrating// their hostility to a government which was a great ally until a year ago. But the question is why and what are they furious about? There ...

Recd Number of Abstracts Submitted for Sci Cong on Osteoporosis

...oporosis (IOF WCO), the world's largest Scientific congress devoted specifically to the bone disease osteoporo...F WCO Scientific Committee, noted that this year's congress attracted 720 abstracts, more than twice the number of the previous congress held in 2004 in Rio de ...

IOF world congress to discuss osteoporosis: a multi group of experts to attend

The IOF world congress on osteoporosis saw a host of allied health profes...fessionals will be participating in this important congress as they form an important part of the team in osteoporosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The ...

Healthcare And Education Top Most Priority Of The Govt: Nitish

...he IGIMS which was set up with much fanfare during congress regime had failed to deliver the goods and the government was committed to improve the condition of the institution and bring it on par with all India institute of medical sciences (AIIMS). He said the IGIMS would soon have teaching facility too. ...

Goa to Host International Vegetarian Congress

...ian Vegetarian Union, said in a statement that the congress would help participants understand India as a country where vegetarianism is a way of life. The conference would also discuss issues like ecology, genetic engineering, environment, spiritualism and alternate therapies, Shah said. Source-IANS...

New drugs for resistant forms of TB

...ils Billo, one of the organisers of the 37th world congress of the Union for breathing health and executive director of the Paris-based International Union Against Tuberculosis and Breathing Disorders (UNION), 2 new methods of development of new drugs against TB are being discussed. "During the Paris confer...

A treat for nurses who chip in with tender loving care!

... years ago a resolution was proposed at the annual congress of the Royal College of Nursing that since more and more nurses are being reluctant about attending to patients by the bedside it would be a better option for health care assistants to take over the mainstream compassionate jobs whilst the senior nur...

Diabetes - An Increasing Threat to the World

...e the prevention of diabetes. Chairperson of the congress Local Organizing Committee, Francis Bonnici said that awareness concerning the seriousness of the effects of Diabetes is necessary in the African continent because of limited regional health resources. Rapid changes in the social and cultural habit...

Delhi to Host South Asian Neurologists' Congress

...dent B.S. Shekhawat would inaugurate the three-day congress at the India Habitat Centre here February 15. Nearly 600 neurosurgeons from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Kuwait would be actively participating in the conference, said a statement of the Neurological Socie...

Obesity - A Major Crisis

...ditions for the increase of obesity. At the 15th congress on obesity the doctor called for a novel approach and has judicious dealing with the obese people. “Obesity should be treated within the health care system as any other complex disease,” said Prof. Vojtech Hainer, president of the European Associatio...

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