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COAG Must Make Combating Severe Allergies A National Priority

...ildren with severe allergic reactions. 'Greater awareness and management of anaphylaxis should be a national priority,' he said. 'Severe allergic reactions can be fatal, as has been tragically demonstrated most recently by the death last month of a Melbourne schoolboy, believed to be from exposure to pea...

Ranchi Mental Hospital Has Added Dental and Eye Care

...al hospital," said a doctor. "We can even create awareness among people about mental patients. We are deeply concerned about those patients who are dumped here by their relatives and not taken back even after they are cured," said the doctor. Source-IANS...

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

... sun when they are on holiday. "We want to raise awareness of the danger of burning - especially when people take off for holidays in warmer countries where the temptation to spend too long on the beach can be great. "But it is not just a problem for those who go abroad. People, especially those with fair ...

TB Cases, Deaths Decline in Yemen Because of Awareness Programs

...ths in Yemen are declining because of an intensive awareness campaign about the disease and the availability of... he added. Further, the TB control program runs awareness programs about the disease on seven local radio stations and on television, according to IRIN News. ...

Sultans of Suntans Warned

...ntrol over tanning parlors and moves for spreading awareness on the risks of artificial tanning. The Cancer Council survey of Yellow Pages advertisements shows that the number of solariums in Australia's capital cities have swelled from 97 in 1996 to 406 in 2006 - a 320 per cent rise. Most extreme is noted ...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

... as a symbolic gesture that would raise the public awareness of the problem. Bushfires, drought, more frequent cyclones and storms, drying rivers, melting glaciers, each piece of bad news strikes home like a new entry on a casualty list in a long war, the newspaper noted and called for concerted action to f...

Indian Films With Smoking Scenes may Get 'A' Certificate

...ith active involvement of the government to create awareness against tobacco consumption and help in devising strategies to tackle the issue. "We have suggested awarding 'A' certificates to all movies showing smoking scenes. It's a unanimous decision and the health ministry has also shown its keenness about ...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

...risks and how to mitigate them. Further, community awareness and notifying authorities if something seemed out of the norm was found to be important, particularly by the Israelis who feel that their population is always alert and reports anything that seems suspicious. "This project provides an initial frame...

Corporates To Help Combat HIV/AIDS

...ed hands with the state AIDS control societies for awareness sessions. Access to Care and Treatment (ACT) pr...th four NGO firms which will help in spreading the awareness about this disease. Currently, in India there are about 5.2 million people affected with HIV/AIDS wh...

Figures on Substance Abuse in School Going Teens Released

... Flint added that a campaign was promised to raise awareness of sensible drinking. ANN...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

...lability of medicines to meet the situation. Worse awareness level leaves a lot to be desired, says Srimanta S...hese areas were improved along with an increase of awareness of parents, 48.94 percentage of blindness could be prevented. Dr Harsha Bhattacharjee, the medic...

Choking Game, Rage Among US Teens, Evokes Deep Concern

...cide or a suffocation game gone wrong. Greater awareness in the medical community is in turn leading to the first serious scientific research about the game’s prevalence. “Asphyxiation games have been with us for generations, but what makes the current generation’s execution of this game different is t...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...he country.// They have planned to start a massive awareness drive and also seeking a special fund to develop a...from both houses, to join the movement in creating awareness about the preventable disease in their constituencies. They have also decided to join the British Pa...

Rift Valley Fever in the United Republic of Tanzania

...urnalists and other media staff to increase public awareness about the disease and how to prevent it. In mid-...It is particularly important to increase community awareness as well as to improve the coordination with veterinary services to contain the outbreak. A WHO outbr...

Educational Video Increases Knowledge but Not Behavior

...d adaptive techniques exist, patient and physician awareness of these possibilities is alarmingly low," says Peli. Peli and colleagues from the New England Research Institute joined forces with the National Eye Institute to develop a contrast-enhanced video called "Hope in Sight: Living with Macular Degenera...

Postnatal Health and Sexual Problems Persist Even After a Year

...lth problems. "This, coupled with greater public awareness of these issues, will hopefully make it easier for women to get help for both short-term and long-term health problems." Source-Eurekalert...

Madhya Pradesh to Stop Sex Education in Schools

...e of AEP that would be an effective tool to create awareness about AIDS and HIV did not work," an official told.... The program is seen as a big help in spreading awareness about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, besides preventing unwarranted pregnancies durin...

Cross-country Mobike Expedition to Spread AIDS Awareness

...k a cross-country motorbike// expedition to spread awareness about AIDS among the masses. Starting February 2...Shyamala said that while delivering a talk on AIDS awareness among a group of young married women in Rajasthan, some said that they would like their daughters to...

Eat Fruits- Keep Diseases at Bay

...ry patterns where possible." Increases in public awareness of the importance of and recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption are yet to be accompanied by increased intake, demonstrating the need for a reinvigorated effort to promote fruit and vegetable consumption. On March 19, 2007 ??Fruits & ...

Stigma, Lack of Education, Prevent the Spread of HIV in Afghanistan

...implement needle-exchange programs and to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS, a wider program is needed. Stigma is the "most difficult" challenge in fighting HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan, according the Times. Health providers in the country say that HIV-positive people will face ostracism and possibly death if their...

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