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DNA Directory Under Construction For Indian Criminals !

... is being circulated among ministries of law, home affairs and science. The final draft will be presented to the cabinet before it is tabled in the parliament. If passed, the bill will allow one to store, retrieve and use a DNA fingerprinting database of convicts and criminals. It is the need of the hour be...

Solarium use is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer

... or to the internal organs, it is time to put your affairs in order", say doctors . Once it has spread, there's nothing that can be done . There are treatments that might buy some time, but that doesn't cure anybody. In the study, researchers also found that the risk of melanoma from sun exposure was about ...

Pharma Companies May Influence The Decisions Of Medical Students

...researchers conducted a national survey of student affairs deans to measure the prevalence of school-wide policies on drug company–medical student interactions. The overall response rate of the surveys was 72.3 percent (826/1,143). The researchers found that average exposure for each student was 1 gift or s...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

...sizeable population, people sitting at the helm of affairs clearly have no inclination to attack encephalitis at its roots, simply because it would antagonise their vote bank. Says Health Minister Jaiveer Singh, "We cannot just think of eliminating pigs; after all, so many households are dependent on them....

Land of Kebabs, also reaps enormous profit in fast food

...r and fries every day of the week. It's a state of affairs that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and yet it's now the norm for many across the country. It's no surprise that, as the WHO report states, the non-insulin dependant variety of diabetes (type 2), with typical onset in late adulthood i...

Democracy Not To Be Forced On People

...failure. When America is showing interest in the affairs of other countries like Iraq and Afghanistan it has strained the internal democracy. This is a matter of concern not only to American people but also to fellow democracies. The author says that instead of concentrating on developing democracy in ...

Bad professional behavior dates back to medical school

... lead author on the study and the dean for student affairs at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, says, "We found that for physicians disciplined by licensing boards, the strongest association in medical school was unprofessional behavior," The study is the first to link doctor's profe...

Tourism Industry Affected By Bird Flu

...urists visit in large numbers. The actual state of affairs of the country’s tourism industry will be known only after 16 January 2006, at the end of the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice. Istanbul, which is a top historical site has not been spared either, as the poultry in the city are reported to have been inf...

Drug Name Confusion Makes Imports Dangerous: FDA

...d. However, Ilisa Bernstein, director of pharmacy affairs at the FDA, said systems were in place in the U.S. to minimize the risk of having confusing drug names. The American consumer needs to know that safeguards against confusion of names of medicines did not exist in many other countries. There are no su...

Fish Consumption Results In Higher Mercury Levels

...to the University of North Carolina. This state of affairs is largely due to the eating habits of the women concerned, and this is not a malady which cannot be cured. There have been several calls from environmental groups like the Sierra Club to bring down the coal-operated power plants’ mercury emissions. ...

UCI Closed Its Liver Transplant Program

...Kenneth Shine, executive vice chancellor of health affairs for the University of Texas system and a panel member said that due to the lack of transparency legitimate complaints of people were not addressed in an appropriate way. The closure of the liver transplant program was due to the fact that more tha...

Sex a commonplace in Chinese life

...arital sex were fired by their work units if their affairs were exposed. Hospitals did not have clinics for treating sexual problems or sexually transmitted diseases. During the Cultural Revolution, no mass media referred to sex. Sexual knowledge among the people was very poor. All this changed when the ...

Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug curbs the disease in mic

...am Thies, vice president of medical and scientific affairs at the Alzheimer's Association said that this research is the stepping stone to find the cure for human Alzheimer's disease. LaFerla said that in these mice models it was found that when the M1 receptors were stimulated there was a reduction in the t...

A Unique Train To Spread Awareness About AIDS

...ease in over 40,000 villages, according to a youth affairs ministry official. "With around 5.1 million HIV ... S.Y. Quraishi, secretary in the ministry of youth affairs and sports. "Earlier, we were pitching for four trains. But after discussing with the railway mini...

Consultation Conference to control HIV, TB and Malaria

...ander Spachis – the minister-counsellor, political affairs and co-ordination, at the EU's embassy, told reporters. A four-day consultation conference called 'Confrontation HIV as well as Tuberculosis and Malaria: An Asia Stakeholders Consultation' begins in New Delhi on April 3. Delegates will include publ...

WHO’s asking :Is There Light At The End Of The Tunnel In Tajikistan

The helm of affairs at the World Health Organization's (WHO) mission in Tajikistan, Santino Severoni, has an unenviable agenda in front of him. Tajikistan is reeling under a malnourished public health system, // bruised after the five –year civil war, and has left a tra...

Strange Theft Of HIV Infected Blood Leaves Authorities Puzzled

...ning. Dr. Akber Mithani, vice president of medical affairs at St. Paul's Hospital, reassured the public that the only way to infect someone is to introduce it into the blood stream. He said that as long as the vials are sealed, they pose no danger to the public. He further stated that, as it is not like an a...

Jealousy In Men Peaks When Partners Are Most Fertile

...at show that women may be more likely to have both affairs and be more attracted to alpha males during the fertile period of their menstrual cycle. They feel that this could be so due to the masculine features are linked to high testosterone levels. Rob Burriss, a postgraduate student at Liverpool Universi...

Britain Slaughters Chickens After Dead Birds Tested Positive

...Britain's ministry for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) said the measure was "precautionary". --Edited IANS...

India To Set Up A Faculty In Namibia

...ty-building in the education sector, said external affairs ministry spokesperson Navtej Sarna here. The inaugural session of the SADC Consultative Conference was opened by Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba Wednesday. Sharma discussed an entire range of bilateral and global issues with Pohamba, incl...

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