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MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...re presented with health statistics of women, they began to involve in the health issues of women. Therefore, instilling this sense of ownership is sacrosanct to the objectives of the United Nations Programme, this World Population Day. Towards this end, many UNFPA programmes will be kick started to sow...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...ormally use HRT. In 1999, another trial (WISDOM) began to assess the long-term risks and benefits of HRT after the menopause. This trial was also stopped after the first WHI results appeared, but the WISDOM findings, published today, make an important contribution to the body of knowledge about HRT when ...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...lcano, located about 2400 km northeast of Jakarta, began releasing smoke and ash on Saturday and spewed it as high as 4000m on Monday. Mount Gamkonora is the highest peak on Halmahera Island. Indonesia is located within the Pacific Ring of Fire, a continuous line (40 000 km long) of volcanoes and fault l...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

Authorities in the Kenyan capital began enforcing a ban on smoking in public places on Wednesday as Nairobi became the latest world capital to reject its harmful effects . Smoking has been outlawed in restaurants, bars, offices, public buildings, markets, malls and theatres a year after ...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...ne, organs, skin and bones. Medical authorities began campaigns in the 1990s to tell women of childbearing age to take folic acid supplements, and in 1998 the Canadian government ordered grain products such as flour, breakfast cereals and pasta to be fortified with the synthetic form of folate....

AIDS can Be Prevented by Using Diaphragm During Intercourse

... Improving Reproductive Health in Africa, or MIRA, began in 2003 and was conducted at sites in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Soweto and Durban, South Africa. The trial was launched because previous data has suggested that the cells in the cervix are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection, and use of a diaphrag...

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

... The treatment of Iraqi patients at the hospital began on June 1 after an agreement was reached with the government in that war ravaged country. "When we were approached by the Iraqi Government, this was not something new for the Apollo Hospital. There were some specialized needs for these patients, an...

China Declares War on Unsafe Foods for Soldiers

...essing the problem. Friday's report said the PLA began phasing out the tradition of soldiers eating from common dishes following the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). '(However) non-combat forces and soldiers stationed in remote and mountainous areas still eat from a common dis...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...said the embarrassing behaviour of the other seven began on their flight to Sydney to meet the cruise ship. Describing the men as "really rough guys", Mr Slade said they commented favourably and unfavourably on the appearance of female passengers. He said he'd only come to know two of the men before he...

Now a Polio Scare for Air Travellers

...e student had been in Pakistan for four months and began showing symptoms in June, he said. Pakistan is one of four countries not declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This year, Pakistan has reported nine polio cases, Nigeria has reported 105, India 62 and Afghanistan three. Th...

Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

...n in the Merrimack Valley Hospital ER in Haverhill began pulling medical equipment out of a wall, kicking furniture, and biting staff. While he was biting a nurse, a staff member repeatedly punched him in the face. State investigators said the hospital did not properly train staff on how to restrain patien...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...trict of Baiyun. During the SARS epidemic, which began in southern China in 2003, authorities banned the sale of many wild animals including rats amid fear that the deadly disease could be contracted from contaminated meat. Although the scientific community is not in agreement over whether certain anim...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

... A trial has not been set yet. The investigation began after Shelley Lauterbach, a former saleswoman for Orphan, filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2005 in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Lauterbach, who will share part of the $20 million settlement, said she was pleased that Jazz had agreed to ple...

TB Traveler Underwent Surgery to Remove Infected Lung Tissue

...e hoods were indeed working. When the operation began speakers diseased part of the lung was immediately noticeable. It was not a healthy glistening reddish one with smooth border. Speakers diseased part had lots of bumps on it. The lung was much darker. It almost looked like some of the cells had died....

Joel Madden is Reluctant to Speak on Nicole Richie's pregnancy

...willing to share the news with the world. The DJ began to bring up the subject of Joel's approaching fatherhood, and led the question with, "I have to ask..." But realising the question that was in store, Madden replied even before Kelly could finish. "You don't have to ask, you want to ask. I won't ...

HIV Drug Combo can Boost Immune Marker in Long-term Patients: Study

...of less than 200 cells per microlitre) before they began therapy. Those who began with more than 500 CD4 cells per microlitre saw the least relative improvement. The upturn in CD4 ...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

...not all understood, government data show the trend began years before abstinence education became the multimillion-dollar enterprise it is today. Through a combination of less sex and more contraception, pregnancy and birth rates among American teenagers as a whole have been falling since about 1991. Tex...

Texan Battles Flesh-eating Bacteria Contracted While Swimming

...d. His leg became infected three days later and he began running a high fever, spurring them to head for the emergency room. "We figured he had some type of infection," Linda Gilpatrick said. "But we didn't, of course, realize the extent of it." Doctors quickly diagnosed the problem. Diseases caused by...

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

..., Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without Borders) began providing free health care services after rebels took over the cities in 2002 and government-paid doctors and nurses fled for their lives. But with efforts toward peace advancing, health workers have started returning to the region. MSF pulled out of...

U.S President Defied-Senate Votes To Expand Child Health Insurance

... take this year on health insurance. The program began 10 years ago. It was generally designed to help families whose income does not exceed 200 percent of the poverty level, or $34,340 for a family of three. But several states have extended coverage to children with higher incomes and to adults. The lat...

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