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Head Injury Awareness Day

This day, March 20, we celebrate head injury awareness day. This ‘celebration’ acquires specific signifi...preventing damage to brain in a crash. Despite awareness drives by government agencies and the law enforcers in India, emphasizing the need to wear helmets w...

Garlic Plus Vitamin C may Reduce Blood Pressure

... cardiovascular benefits for garlic, with consumer awareness of potential health benefits already high. This has benefited the supplements industry, particularly since consumers seek the benefits of garlic without the odours that accompany the fresh bulb. Garlic supplements are worth more than $100m (€79.5m)...

Prevalence of AIDS Cases in UAE is Low

... accurate. A committee has been formed to create awareness about the disease and help removing the social stigma associated with it, he added. A latest report of the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that the UAE had one of the lowest numbers of reported AIDS cases in the world over the past few ye...

World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidney

... for transplantation and there is a need to spread awareness among the public regarding kidney donation, especially from deceased donor or cadavers. The elected governments must play a larger role in regularizing the activities surrounding kidney donation. A combination of all these factors would definitely ta...

Well-known Kerala Actor, Mohanlal, Turns AIDS Activist

...ys invited to join the campaign in order to create awareness and remove misconceptions about AIDS. <BR...

Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers

...parate boxes of their own," said Rani, now an AIDS awareness community worker. Source-IANS...

Kidney Disease In Children: Common but Treatable

...tors from the Children’s Center. March is kidney awareness month. On March 8, World Kidney Day, doctors want to remind parents that timely detection of kidney problems in early childhood and adolescence is the best way to curb kidney damage and even reverse some of it. These telltale signs of early kidney ...

Dialysis Trust Set Up in Bangalore by End-stage Kidney Patients

...rust of Bangalore with the main idea of increasing awareness about kidney diseases. It is estimated that about ...ocus of Bangalore Dialysis Trust is to enhance the awareness of this disease and most importantly spread the information that kidney disease is manageable, if de...

Rare Gonorrhea Strain Makes Diagnosis Very Difficult

...chers, the most important factor is to enhance the awareness of gonorrheal strains worldwide. This would also call for changes in the manner of detection of this disease in many geographical areas, where it has spread....

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...sing on this issue through several programmes like awareness camps, sensitisation workshops and recommendations to the government. Source-IANS...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women’s Sleep Issue

...iagnosed and untreated, due, in part, to a lack of awareness of sleep disorders among health-care professionals and the general population. “Healthy sleep habits are essential for our physical and mental well being,” said Mark J. Rosen, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. “We are...

Five Million Indian Women Suffer Mental Illness

... NCW is all set to conduct workshops, seminars and awareness camps across the country to dispel the stigma associated with mental health throughout 2007. To start with, the body will organise a two-day mental health conference beginning Thursday to be inaugurated by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. According ...

Free Kidney Check Up Camp in Kasturba Hospital on World Kidney Day

...eatinine. World Kidney day is observed to create awareness among public on the importance of kidneys. Kidney does an astounding job of filtering around 180 liters of our blood every day. It also regulates salts in our blood and keeps our body temperature and blood pressure under control. The intention of W...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women's Sleep Issues

...t shows health-care providers are lacking in sleep awareness and education, a gap that is leaving a significant...iagnosed and untreated, due, in part, to a lack of awareness of sleep disorders among health-care professionals and the general population. “Healthy sleep habi...

UNESCO Launches HIV/AIDS Education Kit in Nepal to Combat Epidemic

...d Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today launched an awareness and prevention kit aimed at halting the spread of the disease, particularly among the under 40 age group, which are the most at risk. “Prevention is the only way to limit the spread of HIV and education is the foundation for developing the behaviou...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...is one of the few women in India fighting to raise awareness about the disease and also belongs to an even smaller category of people who have publicly declared they are HIV-positive. Although Assam is one of the few Indian states to have set up Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centres (VCTC) in almost all ...

75 Filipinos Afflicted With TB Die Everyday

...stered on them. There is also a need to conduct awareness program in this city's 98 barangays, especially in areas with high TB incidence, he said. Tan said his office and other agencies concerned are targeting to cure at least 85 percent of patients afflicted with TB in this city. Source-Bio-Bio Techno...

Chemicals Used To Make Synthetic Color Can Cause Cancer And Permanent Blindness

...re several organizations that are trying to create awareness on how to make your own safe colors. It is quite ironic how we spend the whole year round taking the utmost care of our skins and bodies, and on Holi we do not take the time to be safe and play safe. Source-Eurekalert RS...

Study Examines Negative Reactions to Sexual Assault Victims

...rventions with formal support providers and public awareness campaigns may help to change professional responses and community norms to enhance women's recovery from sexual assault," said Sarah Ullman, UIC professor of criminal justice. Ullman and her colleagues surveyed a diverse group of women age 18 and o...

Discovery of Cell Pathway may Help Colon Cancer Patients

...ase have been declining due to earlier screenings, awareness of symptoms, removal of polyps, and improved treatments through advances in research discoveries -- like today's genetic breakthroughs. In a recent study, researchers identified a cell pathway critical in the development of colon cancer and also lun...

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