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Shisha Owners Mobilise Against July 1 Smoking Ban in England

...ded day. What are we going to do after July 1st?," asked Ranna, a 21-year-old British woman of Iranian descent. "Smoking shisha, it's a social gathering. We meet each other to discuss, play cards, have a little bit of our home country atmosphere, listen to music. It's very multi-cultural, with a lot of n...

Indian Doctors Refuse to Help HIV-positive Woman Deliver: Report

...tance. "They came but simply stood in a line and asked me to pull out the baby and cut the umbilical cord," said the 28-year-old man, described as a poor painter, in Meerut town, 65 kilometres (40 miles) from the Indian capital New Delhi. The hospital "asked me to clean up all the blood and burn the wa...

Posh Puts the Spice Girls on a Diet

... The new ringleader for the Spice Girls gang has asked all the four members to go on a diet of edamame beans, strawberries and lettuce and all this combined with 200 sit ups a day. "Victoria has told the girls that her secret to getting in shape is 200 sit-ups a day and a diet of edamame beans, strawbe...

Unemployed Electropaths Threaten to Commit Suicide in Kashmir

...zoor, an electropathy doctor, said: The Government asked for our papers four months back. We submitted our papers, and now after four months, the government is saying that we are not registered. Therefore, they cannot provide us jobs under the new scheme. We have been sitting on hunger strike for the last...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...would take nearly a half-hour for a question to be asked and an answer to come back via radio. Astronauts going to the moon and Mars for long periods of time must contend with the basic health risks from space travel, multiplied many times over: radiation, the loss of muscle and bone, and the psychologic...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...lation of the country. The respondents were also asked whether they were aware of the illegal trafficking of transgender. "Most had little knowledge about this but said they had heard some transgenders in Mumbai and big metros were involved in trafficking," Isabel said. A large chunk of the communit...

Women Unaware of When Breast Cancer Risk is Greatest

...Screening Programme, surveyed 1,496 women who were asked "When is a woman most likely to get breast cancer?". Respondents were given a series of ten year age bands and 'age doesnt matter from which to select their answer. Of those surveyed, 99 per cent answered incorrectly. An increased media focus on yo...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

...he conventional wisdom. But on Wednesday the FDA asked makers of anti-depressants to expand the warning labels to include adults age 18-24. Eli Lilly and Co., the maker of Prozac, Zoloft manufacturer Pfizer Inc. and other pharmaceutical companies said they would comply with the FDA's request. "We b...

High Court Warns Medical Staff Against Misuse of Ambulance

...atients for medical treatment. The court further asked petitioner and counsel Varun Goswami to keep a wat...nces at much higher costs. The court had earlier asked the authorities to state the reasons behind the insufficient number of ambulances in hospitals and t...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...l rights only because they are foreign nationals?" asked Saha who has filed the highest medical compensation case in the country against Kolkata's AMRI Hospital and three doctors for causing his wife Anuradha's death due to alleged wrongful treatment. The Supreme Court on March 31 had admitted a Rs.1.43...

Kerala Health Minister Charged for Infant Deaths in a Hospital

...under the leadership of the district collector and asked the state-owned Hindustan Latex to immediately clean up the hospital. On Wednesday, the hospital's superintendent was removed for not informing the state government about the deaths. The hospital is attached to Kerala's premier Medical College Hosp...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...ers and their families across the province. When asked if the new law was a fitting legacy to his father, Bob Shaw, who died of esophageal cancer in 2004, he said: "Without question. For my father and all firefighters who have died after suffering a terrible illness because of their job." Bob Shaw spen...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

... Five years ago the Indian Medical Association had asked its members to refrain from conducting sex-determination tests and aiding female feticide. No support would be extended to practitioners caught in the act, the IMA had warned. The Indian authorities are wrestling with the problem, and here comes a ...

Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk

... other code date are not affected. Retailers are asked to pull-from-sale all unsold Galliker's Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk with the code date of May 13, 2007 and return them for full refund. Consumers with any questions may contact the company at 800-477-6455. This recall is being made with the k...

Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma

...w in one of 18 Indian languages. Respondents were asked if anyone in the household suffered from asthma, and were also asked about a personal history of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence. Researchers also accounte...

Republican Presidential Candidates Discuss Abortion, Stem Cells as Part of First Debate

...r becoming pro-life". All of the candidates were asked if the repeal of Roe would be a good day for the country. Brownback said it would be a "glorious day of human liberty and freedom" if Roe case were overturned, and Tancredo said it would be the "greatest day in this country's history". Gilmore said t...

ISRO Chief Concerned About River Pollution

...rmed and concerned about the river's health?" Nair asked Friday evening. Addressing the students, he said ISRO's future projects included an experimental space capsule recovery platform especially designed to receive returning space vehicles and capsules safely to enable their reuse. The present pract...

Brazil Opts for Indian Drugs Bypassing Merck

...lassified the drug as one "of public interest" and asked Merck to present another proposal within seven days. Merck offered a 30 percent price cut but the Brazilian authorities still considered it unsatisfactory because it was possible to buy the generic version of the medicine for as low as $0.45. Min...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

... Health Service Executive (HSE) since March and it asked the police to prevent her from traveling. Opening the case, Eoghan Fitzsimons, Miss D's counsel, said his client would be subjected to degrading treatment if she carried the baby for nine months. Fitzsimons said she would suffer mental and physic...

FDA Requests Recall of All Shelhigh Medical Devices

...turing processes. During the seizure, Shelhigh was asked to perform a voluntary recall of its products, but the company declined. FDA recommends that doctors and hospitals consider using alternative products. Physicians and patients concerned about Shelhigh devices can visit www.fda.gov/cdrh/safety/04190...

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