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New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...keep an eye on all pregnancies in a country of 1.1 billion people. Encouraging people to abandon their babies was a "ludicrous" idea, Aravamudan said, because it would encourage a belief that girls were unwanted. "And most girls are killed before, and not after, they are born."...

Rorting Health Practioners Busted

...ion, while the PBS was estimated to have used $6.2 billion in the same financial year.The reviewers considered 313 cases of possible inappropriate practice, based on Medicare and PBS data, between 1999-2000 and 2005-06. Sanctions were imposed on 111 practitioners, including 84 who were ordered to pay back ...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...t, with countries like India and China that have a billion people each, that infection rates just have to track up a few percentage points and you're potentially looking at a catastrophe," Fauci told AFP. Cooper, the co-chair of the International AIDS Society (IAS) conference, said responding to HIV was co...

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

... program now costs the federal government about $5 billion a year, with states contributing additional money. Now, the Senate plan would add about $35 billion in federal money over five years, enough to cover 3.3 million more out of as many as 9 million unins...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...t US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claiming some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming f...rs after dropping its original suit claiming seven billion dollars in damages, government lawyer Babatunde Irukera presented a new complaint to the high court ...

India Requires Over $200 Bn to Provide Quality Healthcare

...e sector would need an investment of about $202.75 billion over the next five years, says an industry body . India's healthcare situation requires a much faster growth rate as it would require about 2.2 million beds and the investment needed for that is almost $77.9 billion, the Federation of Indian Chamber...

Russian Government Allocate Funds for HIV Vaccine Project

The Russian government will allocate one billion rubles (US$39.4 million) to develop a vaccine for ...government will soon issue a decree allocating one billion rubles to boost current research for a HIV vaccine," Gennady Onishchenko said Thursday. He said fo...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...ting campaign that helped the company sell over $1 billion worth of OxyContin a year. Purdue Pharma, based in Stamford, Connecticut, heavily promoted OxyContin to doctors like general practitioners, who often had little training in treating serious pain or in recognizing signs of drug abuse. But experien...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...ce in buying the snacks and cereals worth some 500 billion dollars a year. Under the BBB initiative the companies are setting their own collective standard for what is and is not allowed in advertisements, focusing on the nutritional content of the foods advertised and what is "better for you." "It's a g...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

...ndustry (FICCI), India needs to spend around $203 billion (Rs 912,375 crores), if the mission of achieving 'Health for all' is to be attained by 2012. The FICCI itself has put forward five models of public-private partnership (PPP), which are PPP options for primary and secondary healthcare, a network of ...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

... percent of world consumption, at a value of 22.75 billion dollars. At the moment the US is third, behind Italy and France. Although Vinexpo is in name a wine and spirits trade fair, spirits only take up about 12 percent of exhibitor space. However the survey contained good news for vodka, tequila, cognac ...

Genome Annotation by Mutation

..., C, G and T. DNA in each human cell has about 3 billion base pairs, arranged into 23 pairs of chromosomes. Those chromosomes include roughly 20,000 genes, which carry the code needed for cells to produce the proteins used to make body parts and carry out most functions in living organisms. Genes typically...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...ation Program, a no-fault system that has a $US2.5 billion ($A2.9 billion) fund built up from a tax on vaccines of 75 cents a dose. On Monday, an experienced heavy metals toxicologist named H. Vasken Aposhian presented a theory of how thimerosal could have damaged the girl's immune system in a way that set...

Inflamed Intestines Cost Australians Heavily

...flamed intestines cost Australians as much as $2.7 billion a year, according to the Access Economics study, first ever assessment of the economic impact of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines. It primarily causes ulcerations (breaks in...

Kerala Opposition's Unique Protest Over Fever Deaths

...andy. "This is indeed a shame and of the Rs.1.77 billion allotted, only Rs.250 million was availed. But when it was allocated here it went for other schemes. This is a serious lapse," he added. Chandy also criticised the government for not taking any action to appoint medical professionals in the health ...

Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

...e." Domestic abuse costs the country more than 3 billion a year. The report said that physical and psychological abuse has become a major health problem leading to heart attacks and mental illness. It calls for a Government-funded refuge building programme to deal with it. Professor Feder said abused wom...

New Device Developed to Eliminate Superbugs Within Minutes

...ts, in which we flooded the rooms with more than a billion bacteria, levels were effectively down to zero within an hour," said Macdonald. According to New Scientist, the device is now on sale in the UK and is being tried in wards at three hospitals. There are also plans to launch it in the US, where it ...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

...e 25 percent of its total water consumption of two billion cubic metres annually. "Desalination is one of the most effective and viable options to produce fresh water. Unfortunately, desalination accounts for less than one percent of our total supply," said Sriram Kulkarni of desalination firm Technochem A...

Go for Russia, Not China, Wine Experts Say

...tistics estimate that in 2005 imports totalled 1.2 billion dollars, more than double the amount only two years before. Russian visitors to this year's Vinexpo show are estimated to be about 700 by Anastasia Prokhorova, editor of Russia's Wine News, up from 500 in 2005, out of a total of about 50,000. "We are...

India's Wockhardt Launches Drug in US Market

...illion firm has a market capitalisation of over $1 billion and has major presence in the markets of the US, Britain, Ireland, Germany and France. It employs over 7,000 professionals both in India and abroad....

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