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Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

...international community has pledged more than $2.4 billion to deal with avian influenza. Researchers are working on a vaccine to prevent the deadly form of the disease. A long-term presence of the virus will require a long-term financial and political commitment from governments and the international co...

Leading Hospital in Andhra Plans Expansion

...desh, Thursday announced that it would invest Rs.2 billion during the next one year to set up new state-of-the-art hospitals in six states. The healthcare brand, which has just completed 10 years, plans to open new hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Orissa and Kerala. The e...

US to Detain Seafood Imports from China

...e US trade deficit with China, which stood at 19.3 billion dollars in April and 232.5 billion in 2006. Thursday's broad import control was imposed after regulators repeatedly found seafood shi...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...eatment Current estimates stipulate that over 10 billion dollars per year are spent on treating prostate cancer. Facing a rapid rise in the incidence of prostate cancer incidence - not just in the western world but also in developing countries - clinicians and the medical industry feel a responsibility to ...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...ng they may be the future of an industry worth 4.8 billion dollars in annual sales. Orange, near Mount Canobolas some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Sydney, does not have the viticulture history of the Hunter Valley, South Australia's Barossa Valley or the Margaret River in Western Australia. Bu...

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

... it. Last year, residents and tourists spent 219 billion Hong Kong dollars (28 billion US dollars) in the city's shops, principally on retail goods. Consumer power pulled Hong Kong from...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...zations fighting HIV infection now spend about $10 billion (7.4 billion) on treatment, prevention and care in...ng countries around the world. They would need $22 billion (16.3 billion) by 2010 to start to decrease infection rates, and half of the money would need to be ...

Europe Mulls Turning Its Excess Wine into Bioethanol

...t place. The European Union currently spends 1.3 billion euros a year supporting the wine industry. Up to seven percent of this, or 90 million euros, goes towards 'crisis distillation', where as much as 45 million litres of EU wine, often of undrinkably poor quality, is bought and distilled into ethanol fo...

Apple Launches IPhone; New Yorkers Line Up to Buy Gadget

...a one percent share of the worldwide market of one billion mobile phones within a year. The scene at a nearby ATT store was not so hectic as just six people sought to buy an iPhone during the late morning. "We'll have enough," ATT spokeswoman Ellen Webner said at the store, indicating that she did not ex...

Sanofi Withdraws Anti-obesity Drug in US

...Sanofi had previously forecast annual sales of 3.0 billion euros (4.0 billion dollars) for the drug. In a separate development, European regulators said they were reviewing dat...

As the US Population Ages, Hospital and Doctors Visits Shoot Up

...le with insurance. The report estimates that 1.2 billion visits were made to hospitals, emergency rooms (ER...physicians throughout 2005 for the study. Of 2.4 billion drugs mentioned in patients' medical records in 2005, 118 million were antidepressants, Burt found. ...

Public Places in England Go Smoke Free

...run National Health Service at between 1.4 and 1.7 billion pounds. The legislation is aiming to reduce the exposure of non-smokers to the health risks of smoking, such as lung cancer, and cardiac and respiratory illness. The World Health Organisation classes passive smoking as a carcinogen. Numerous Brit...

India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

...he next five years, officials say. Almost three billion dollars, including about a third from foreign dono... the HIV caseload in this country of more than one billion people at 5.2 million, while UNAIDS in 2006 estimated 5.7 million cases. That figure made India th...

China to Replace France as World's Top Tourism Destination by 2014

... Olympic visitors are expected to spend about five billion dollars, according to China's tourist board. Me...hina's tourism industry is expected to generate 78 billion dollars, 2.5 percent of GDP, a figure that could rise to 277 billion dollars by 2017, according to t...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...r music acts and drawing a worldwide audience of 2 billion people, making it one of the largest global events...00 concerts a year. We're doing 10, but touching 2 billion people about what I think is the biggest issue that's ever faced humanity.' Steve Howard of the env...

1 Billion People to Be Killed by Smoking

If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in ...trol and Prevention. There is an estimated 1.25 billion men and women smoke cigarettes now, according to the Tobacco Atlas....

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...nd one-sixth of the world population - including 1 billion people in Asia - will face severe water shortages by century's end. But despite the severe warnings, humans are reluctant to change. Roman Seidl, a fellow environmental psychologist at Kassel University, notes the widespread attitude: "My individ...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...e Supreme Court on March 31 had admitted a Rs.1.43 billion compensation claim by Saha after Delhi-based National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) dismissed the case in June 2006. Saha Wednesday filed a fresh appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court against the WBMC, which all...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...the pollution level. In the rural areas some 3.5 billion people still depend on traditional fuels such as f... and Healthy Environments. The WHO estimates 1.5 billion deaths each year due to diseases caused by the indoor pollution. In order to prevent such diseases...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Honors U.A.E. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

... The campaign began in July 2000. A more than $4 billion enterprise, Johns Hopkins Medicine unites physicians and scientists of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of the Johns Hopkins Health System. Its mission is to improve the healt...

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