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New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...ave transformed the lives of the hard of hearing , delegates at an international congress of the deaf said Tuesday. "Technology is important for the deaf community. There's the internet, internet, webcams, email, SMS and chat systems," said Amparo Minguet, director of training at the institute for the deaf ...

Thousands Gather in Sydney for HIV Conference

...eveloping a resistance." Elaripe is one of 5,000 delegates from around the world attending the July 22-25 International AIDS Society conference in Sydney which will discuss cutting edge developments in HIV/AIDS research. Debrework Zewdie, Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Programme for the World Bank, said w...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...ional AIDS conference in Durban where he addressed delegates about his life and how he hopes to help others rep...k with AIDS," the diminutive youngster told 10,000 delegates from around the world. Nkosi, who was at the time the country's longest-living HIV positive child, d...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

... obtained concrete results. There was a stir among delegates to when copies of the Cuban Review of Communitary Genetics were distributed. Director of the National Institute of Medical Genetics in Cuba, Dr. Beatriz Marcheco Teruel, said the island was willing to contribute to the development of the specialty ...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...ving permission to hand over a petition. Nurses' delegates said that the four would not budge, because they were simply waiting for Kaczynski to meet them so they could give him the petition. Kaczynski accused the occupying nurses of breaking the law and signalled that they could face trouble. "This is a...

Back to Basics in Health in Advanced Countries Now

...ionate, patient-centred healthcare". Last month delegates at Unison's health workers' conference voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action, including strikes, as part of a dispute over pay. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) also announced it would ballot its members over industrial action, and memb...

Experts to Discuss Climate Change Health Risks: WHO

...lsius (42.8 fahrenheit) by the end of the century, delegates will be urged to take steps now to face the problem," the body said in a statement. "Millions of people could be at risk of malnutrition and hunger if arable lands become unworkable," it added. Representatives from 14 countries and WHO partners a...

Pope Benedict Supports Adult Stem Cell Research

...eneral audience, the Roman Catholic leader saluted delegates at a global conference on the use of adult stem cells to treat cardiac problems, organised by La Spaienza university in Rome. "On this matter the position of the Church, supported by reason and by science, is clear," he said. "Scientific research...

WHO to Call for More Progress on Tobacco Control at Bangkok Moot

...s, will participate as observers. In all, over 500 delegates are expected to attend....

Wild Bird Culls may Exacerbate Avian Flu Problem

...uture. Issuing a post-conference statement, the delegates stressed the need for an early-warning system to alert authorities to future outbreaks. They also raised concerns about the "continued misplaced practice of indiscriminate culling of wild birds in response to infection," reports the Scotsman. T...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...hash Arora, president of the Delhi Wine Club, told delegates at the three-day fair Wednesday. India already has a well developed domestic industry that also exports the commodity, he cautioned, adding, however, that there was scope for good brands of wine in the niche market. The best way to come to India ...

South African AIDS Delegates Issue Contraception Call

...national AIDS conference wrapped up on Friday with delegates issuing a call for contraception to be made more w...condoms both needed to be more readily obtainable, delegates said in a draft declaration document which also outlined new suggestions over the topic of testing. ...

Teenagers Do Not Heed to Sex Abstinence Talks

... Information and Education Council of the US, told delegates that a six-year study commissioned by the US Congress found that the hundreds of millions of dollars the government had spent on pushing sexual abstinence outside marriage had had no discernible effect on behavior. "It's an entirely ideological sub...

New on the Shelf

...GP centres. At its annual conference last year, delegates said supermarkets were inappropriate places to have health services as they sold unhealthy products such as alcohol, tobacco and junk food. While Hamish Meldrum, of the BMA's GPs committee, says he does not object to the contracts being offered, h...

Indian Doctors Headed to Lahore to Take Part in Gynecology Conference

...e conference and both are very happy that over 600 delegates will visit Lahore from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Myanmar," Malhotra said. The Indian delegation is carrying desi sweets like laddoos, Agra ka petha, mementoes and gifts for their counterparts in Pakistan. ...

AMSA Hosts International Health Conference

...ts from 98 member countries, the 500 international delegates will join 40 Australian students to discuss pertinent international health issues, with a particular emphasis being placed on rural and remote health. “AMSA is honoured to be hosting an event of this calibre. The IFMSA does fantastic work on a glob...

Global Homoeopathy Conference Underway in Agra

... place in this Taj Mahal city, attended by over 80 delegates from India and eight countries.// The four-day meet, which began Wednesday, will focus on critical areas like cancer, AIDS and "other difficult subjects which have proved a challenge to other (medical) systems", Alok Pareek, the organising secretar...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

... companies are part of the process," Ramadoss told delegates at the ongoing India Economic Summit here, jointly organised by the World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). "Initially we aim to provide free treatment to 20,000 children. We have been intensely campaigning but have so...

Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

...attended by more than 350 Indian and International delegates participating from 17 countries representing Asia Pacific Traditional Medicine Network (APIMNET), SAARC, BIMSTEC, IBSA forum countries and U.S.A. The Conclave would give a boost to traditional medicine by involving participants from bio-diversity ric...

PM Stress the Need to Protect Health of Children

...t this pandemic." Around 10,000 students and 270 delegates from 37 countries are in India to deliberate on issues ranging from smoking in schools to healthy gender relations at the five-day Global Youth Meet (GYM). Appreciating the effort of the HRIDAY-SHAN, an NGO headed by eminent cardiologist K. Srinat...

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