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Tougher Tobacco Rules Urged at Global Anti-smoking Talks

...lled Monday for tougher regulations on tobacco, as officials from 145 countries met in Bangkok to discuss ways of boosting global efforts to stop smoking. The week-long meeting organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to find ways of harmonising national laws to tighten tobacco controls, partic...

Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...southern Malacca state in March last year. State officials objected, saying it was "an insult" and would harm the tourism industry in Malacca which is a popular destination for foreign visitors. "We will rename the virus if we can as we do not want to tarnish the good name of the state," Health Minister Ch...

Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

...easures are being put in place for the Games, city officials said. International alarm over Chinese food exp... also the need to avoid panic." City and Olympic officials have already begun implementing rigorous, and occasionally extreme, plans to ensure Beijing's food p...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

... of measures to educate people about HIV/AIDS, but officials say it will be long before a sense of responsibility is instilled in the region's extremely patriarchal society. "Looking at the situation, one can say that number of HIV cases will rise in future. A lot of people work outside and they keep shift...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...deral select agent regulations. Roebuck said CDC officials will visit the Texas laboratory again in the next few weeks to gather more information about its procedures and protocols. "Then the agency will move forward with any recommendations to get them under compliance," he said. In a statement sent to Te...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...stitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Health officials need to determine why increased awareness of the dangers of alcoholism and improved therapies havent spurred more treatment, said Deborah Hasin, the studys lead author. The rate of treatment has been at a standstill since the early 1990s, Theres a...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... standing water all over the place, leading health officials to warn against the dangers of disease-carrying mo...outhwestern Medical Center. State and local health officials are working to control the mosquito population and educate the public on the dangers of the buzzing ...

US Traveler With Deadly TB Has Less Serious Strain

...to Italy for their honeymoon. By then, US health officials had realized just how serious the case was and managed to contact Speaker in Rome. A CDC official told him to turn himself in to Italian health authorities to be placed in isolation. "They told me I had been put on the no-fly list and my passport w...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

...la. The drive was started here recently by SPCA officials and veterinary doctors at the Mattancherry Veterinary Hospital by conducting keyhole surgeries on eleven stray dogs - seven female and four male. The dogs are first given vitamins vaccinations and devorming medicines a day before the operation. By...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...hiite power in Iraq. Doctors and law-enforcement officials struggled to explain what might have drawn these men into violence. Theres no explanation at this stage why theyre doctors, other than that its a perfect cover, a police official said, on condition of anonymity. It seems at odds with their professi...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...number of outdoor breeding grounds found. Health officials have been combing public housing estates in search of mosquito breeding sites. Dengue-carrying insects breed in tiny pools of water found in flower pots, discarded bottles or cans, or old tires. Only recently Minister for the Environment and Water ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...to hold polluters more accountable, administration officials recently signaled lawmakers that Schwarzenegger may not support a separate legislative crackdown. Lawmakers are proposing to prohibit the dirtiest equipment from being used on public works projects bankrolled with state bond money approved by voters ...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

... to the Seongnam city government's website pressed officials to stop the online sale of dogmeat. The business, ... be cooked. The sale of dogmeat is illegal." But officials in the health and agriculture ministries gave no clear-cut answer to the question of whether dogmeat...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...linic during the investigation but had "reassured" officials the procedures had been corrected. "Although the...ed for single usage on multiple patients. Health officials are still unsure how the disease was transferred. Director of Public Health for South Eastern Sydn...

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...imilar traffic problems to Shenzhen. In Beijing, officials announced this week that one million of the city's three million cars would be taken off the road for a two-week trial period in August in an effort to temporarily clean the city's notoriously polluted air. The experiment is a test run for next yea...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...ed to a spate of recalls and bans there. Chinese officials have blamed foreign media for 'sensationalist' reports. Authorities have seized a number of US-made imports on safety concerns in moves widely viewed as retaliatory. However, Sun admitted there was widespread use of dangerous chemicals in China's a...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...quatic ecosystems and taint organic farms -- state officials have argued that it's worth it to protect resident...has made it a point to speak out to the public and officials about the dangers of EEE. The state is entering its fourth year of battling Eastern equine encepha...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

... prove that they are, in fact, gay. "Immigration officials are very concerned about fraud and may be suspicio...n's petition was rejected initially by immigration officials because the abuse had been carried out in private, but an appeals court in Minnesota reversed that d...

Blunder Leaves Smoking Ban Up in Smoke in Stoke

... of prosecution in one English city's pubs because officials failed to introduce powers to impose a national ban, the local council admitted Wednesday . Stoke-on-Trent has been dubbed "Smoke-on-Trent" as cigarette addicts can spark up knowing that bureaucrats cannot impose the 50-pound on-the-spot fine. Th...

White House Hid, Minimized Health Reports: Ex-surgeon General

...er pill and sex education. Senior administration officials also delayed the publication of a major study on passive smoking for several years and then tried to minimize its conclusions, Carmona said Tuesday according to a transcript of his testimony to a House committee. The former surgeon general admitted...

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