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SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...of alcohol consumption at 20.1 trillion won (21.59 billion dollars) in 2005, he said, without giving a full breakdown of how this figure was reached. About 2.7 trillion won of this was spent to treat illnesses linked to excessive drinking, the ministry said. An earlier study showed that nearly 22,000 people ...

US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism

...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. The battle royal is a test case having wide ramifications. Since 1999, more than 4,800 families have filed claims with the government alleging their children developed auti...

Chinese Surname Shortage Sparks Rethink

With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese auth...the family name Wang. In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the ...

American Patriots Treated To Toxic Water

... administrative claims, which call for almost four billion dollars, as compensation for exposure to the toxins. The toxins include the industrial solvents T-C-E (tetrachloroethylene) also known as P-C-E, which are dry leaning fluids, and linked with cancer. One doctor told Congress that he was stunned to ...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...e WHO asked governments worldwide to pay up the $3 billion a year needed to fund existing TB programs and an additional $1 billion a year to combat XDR TB. In the U.S., Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and others proposed spending $300 ...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...ore the formal launch of the city. He said Rs.10 billion were already spent in creating the existing infras...re for the health city while another Rs.1.5-Rs.2.5 billion would be invested in setting up research institutes over the next six months. "Once Britain domina...

US Court Allows Teva to Deliver Disputed Drug: Novartis

...Novartis said. The drug had annual sales of 1.35 billion dollars in 2006. Novartis said it would release an evaluation of the potential impact of Teva's actions on full-year 2007 net sales, operating and net income results when it reports on first-half and second-quarter results on July 17....

Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...d indirect costs linked to heart failure exceed 33 billion dollars annually. In most cases, heart failure is the result of years of high blood pressure or damage from a heart attack. Over time, the heart becomes enlarged, misshapen, and too weak to effectively pump blood, a process known as remodelling. As a...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

...rst step was completed, the implantation of some 3 billion mononuclear cells, among which were the stem cells, was performed with a system of re-vascularization. This breakthrough technique combines a laser beam that opens canals in the left ventricle of the heart with a special device with three needles t...

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

...nt of the genome, or about 30 million of the three billion "rungs" in the DNA double-helix ladder. The data is being placed in the public domain to help medical and other research....

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

...an government has filed a lawsuit for almost seven billion dollars (5.2 billion euros) in damages from Pfizer over the drug tests. It says the children suffered various degrees of ...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

...ia and Kuwait to Somalia and Afghanistan, have 1.3 billion people. Abdullah, who has chaired the OIC since 2003, said although diseases such as polio had long been wiped out in Western countries, they continued to threaten Muslim nations. He said the problem was caused by lack of funding, lack of vaccine p...

New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval

...IDS drugs accounted for about 70 percent of its $3 billion in revenues last year. Although pulmonary arterial hypertension is a fairly rare disease, there are already several treatments available for it, including Pfizers Revatio, which contains the same ingredient as its impotence pill, Viagra. Gilead...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Heath 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...

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...

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...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...ll have a hard time surviving. Over the next 100 billion years, dark energy is expected to accelerate the m...e at half the universe's current age of about 13.7 billion years are already invisible from the farthest vantage points, and in about 10 trillion years, only t...

$3bn Rebate Scheme – Is Australia Making a Prudent Move

...overnment. The government is spending precious $3 billion dollars// to get more people to opt for private he...ies whereas the 30 per cent rebate costs around $3 billion per year.” Dr Walker felt the benefits of lifetime health cover has indeed enthused the younger lo...

Condom Promotion-Crucial To HIV/AIDS Prevention

...ncrease the number of distributed condoms from 1.6 billion to 3.5 billion over the next three years. ANNM...

Swami Ramdev to Hold Yoga Camps in U.S.

...ailments. The Swami's dream project is the Rs.1 billion Patanjali Yog Peeth coming up near the pilgrim town of Haridwar. To be completed in three years, it will include a yoga university, a hall for 5,000 people to practise yoga and a naturopathy (nature cure) facility. The Swami came out unscathed fro...

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