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Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

...had an international market in the range of Rs.400 billion and China manufactured 70 percent of such toys. "It has found a new market in India, now officially since HLL is purchasing the product from it. "The sale of such toys will lead to severe consequences in society. And they should be banned. But the ...

Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO

...esistant TB, or XDR-TB. The new plan will cost 2.5 billion as it will help poor countries tackle issues including disease surveillance, diagnosis and treatment. They said More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements the two-year strategy to stop the growing problem of drug-resistant tuberc...

Childrens Health Program Covering More Adults Than Children

...he poverty line and add additional funding from $5 billion to $15 billion a year. Republicans oppose the increase, saying that it is a drastic deviation from the actual obj...

Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe

...es that have been available since 1982. Of the two billion people who have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, more than 350 million have chronic (lifelong) infections. These chronically infected persons are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, diseases that kill about on...

Oral Anti Viral Tamiflu A Cost Effective Treatment

...0 dollar per 1,000 population which would save 21 billion dollar in the US alone versus no intervention. Adding other strategies such as school closures further reduces the attack and death rate and provides a health benefit at a reasonable cost. The research also showed that pre-pandemic vaccination progra...

US FDA Wants Vitamin Manufacturers to Test All Ingredients

...ments pills, liquids or other products are a $22 billion industry in the US. But it is not exactly well-regulated. But now, addressing concerns over the ingredients that go into the making of these supplements, the Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is phasing in a new rule making for ma...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...time health-care tab for these troops will be $250 billion to $650 billion a wide range but a huge sum no matter how you slice it. Who are the wounded? Lee Jones, 24, of ...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...tation and other sources. Of the approximately 8 billion tons of carbon emitted each year, about 40 percent...cate that northern forests are taking up about 2.4 billion tons. However, ground-based studies have tracked only about half that amount, leaving scientists to ...

Australian Government Charged With Under-funding Public Hospitals

... under-funding public hospitals by a whopping $1.1 billion a year. That means 350,000 hospital admissions les...0 years ago Australians spent the equivalent of $9 billion out of their own pockets on health care, but now that was up to $15 billion. "Costs of health are ...

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...lion people who own automobiles, and the world's 2 billion poorest people." Already there are signs that the food economy is merging with the fuel economy. The ethanol boom has seen sugar prices track oil prices and now the same is set to happen with grain, Mr Brown argues. "As the price of oil climbs so w...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

...ing almost 13 per cent to reach nearly nine (8.74) billion euros and showing good progress particularly in the US and Asian markets. At Vinexpo, CEO Robert Beynat said international visitors -- read potential buyers -- rose two percent from 2005. Of those, 2,000 were from Asia -- 400 from China, three ti...

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...2006, when their gross sales ticked in at some 3.4 billion euros. The charities, well aware that they are in a delicate moral position, have agreed to cooperate with the government. "The slot machines were the cornerstone of our financial revenue," said Ingvar Johnsen, spokesman for the Norwegian Society...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...ine percent -- leading the government to wager six billion dollars in a push for large-scale, industrial farms. 'Small and marginal farms have become an unviable proposition,' said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, announcing the four-year investment in farm technology and infrastructure. 'T...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...ent Software Association, which represents the $30 billion global video game industry, said more research is needed before video game addiction should be categorized as a mental disorder....

Laura Bush in Senegal for Anti-HIV/AIDS, Malaria Campaigns

...'s empowerment. She is due to visit US-funded 15 billion dollar projects under the President's Emergency Pr.... Bush last month asked Congress to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst-affec...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

The Nigerian government took a seven billion dollar (5.2 billion euro) negligence suit against the world's biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer to court Tuesday, a...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...fficking has reached epidemic proportions: A $42.5 billion illegal industry. In one rural village, ABC News met 23-year-old Irina. When she was 19, she was promised her a job at a restaurant in Portugal. Instead, she was sold to into white slavery by a group of men who brought her to Dubai and forced her ...

Global Health Enriching the States Economy

...at the global health activities accounted for $1.8 billion in labor income and $141 million in state tax revenues. The study also the study combined international activities by organizations like the Gates Foundation with work in Washington State to improve the health of immigrants, refugees and Native Amer...

Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources

... underage drinking in the U.S. are as much as 61.9 billion dollars annually in medical costs, lost life years, and lost productivity. Little research has addressed the social provision of alcohol, added Toomey. One of the challenges is that there are several types of social sources. Each needs to be addres...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

... the problem of desertification. It said about 2 billion people, a third of the Earth's population, are potential victims of desertification, which is defined as land degraded by human activities like farming and grazing. If the problem is left unchecked, some 50 million people could be forced from their...

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