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A Village in Madhya Pradesh Achieves Total Sanitation

...he Guna district team will indeed go a long way in bringing positive results for the children of the district and the state as the scheme is being replicated in other districts,' said Hamid El Bashir, the Madhya Pradesh state UNICEF representative. Source-IANS/B...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...y of the policy “The Friedman team’s strength is bringing evidence-based solutions to the table,” says Gleason. “By utilizing our experiences in other countries and listening to the specific challenges of the Kenyan government, we can ascertain if policies that are successful elsewhere are adaptable for Ken...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...st one of a new generation of treatments which are bringing hope to sufferers of the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, such as gene therapy. Professor David Porteous at the Edinburgh University is pioneering this. Porteous hailed the announcement of PTC124 as "very exciting"."It will be very important to see i...

Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly

...to raise corporate environmental responsibility by bringing companies together with the UN and other agencies. "If you want to be a global player, these issues will affect your global competitiveness," Steiner said. "Every day we receive new evidence of the harm that human activities are inflicting on the...

Irish Nurses To Continue Their Protest

...al Implementation Body (NIB) on the possibility of bringing nurses and employers back to the negotiating table ended in failure. A source close to the talks was quoted: “It was not a good meeting. It was not a good atmosphere. It does not look very good in terms of dispute resolution.” Accordingly, the nur...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...d efforts to comply with the Montreal Protocol are bringing the ozone layer back to the healthy state in which we found it when it was handed over to us by our parents. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to transmit the best possible environmental legacy to them. These actions are leading to the reco...

Can Science Stop Cancer Before It Starts?

...ty of Michigan and other leading cancer centers is bringing us to that point. New genetic markers and proteins are being discovered that can identify early signs of cancer and predict who is most at risk. But what does this progress mean to the average person who has never been told “You have cancer”? And w...

Revised Cholesterol Guidelines Causes Concern Among Medical Community

...w panel of experts updated those guidelines again, bringing the number to 40 million Americans eligible for statins. In both of the latter cases, members of the panels also served as paid speakers, consultants or researchers to the world's major drug companies. So, who are the lower cholesterol guidelines rea...

Indonesia's Bird Flu Death Toll Rises to 72

...-year-old woman has died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the country's total number of human deaths from the H5N1 strain //of the virus to 72, the world's highest, a health official said Wednesday. The female was from Central Jakarta and died on April 1, several hours after being brought to Jakarta's Pers...

Teens Get Needed Access to Care With State Health Insurance

...l disparities in access to care among adolescents, bringing the percentage of all adolescents in the program seeking care with the same health care professionals up to about 95 percent -- an especially noteworthy boost up from 75 percent of black adolescents and 74 percent of Hispanic adolescents prior to enr...

‘Rip Van Winkle’ Treatment May Curb Cancer Cell Growh

A new research supports the theory that bringing about senescence in aged cells may help curb proliferation of tumor cells//. Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in European Molecular B...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

...then the body's inherent healing powers. "We are bringing together the best of the developmental biology world with the best of the stem cell world and starting the conversation, with the focus on how to get regeneration to work in a mammal," said Edward Scott, Ph.D., a professor of molecular genetics and d...

Schoolgirls Spark Court Cases Against Drug Giant

...e visited the company where they were thanked "for bringing it to our attention." Source-IANS...

President of an African Nation Claims Herbal Cure for AIDS, Experts Skeptical

... officials are worried that the president could be bringing false hopes to over 20,000 HIV/AIDS patients of Gambia. International agencies working on the AIDS front are calling for scientific tests on the herbal medicine of the President. But he won’t relent and his cure is being administered across the cou...

Health Benefits Of Cocoa

... Association, felt that the role of Epicatechin in bringing down the rates of the four major diseases should be investigated further. He also opined that the deficiency of Epicatechin could be the reason for people to be affected with these diseases. Epicatechin is a flavanol which is also found in tea, win...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...or female upliftment. This year, the focus is on bringing equality among women, despite their differences, and to eliminate violence against them. The International Women’s Day originated to commemorate the protest by female textile workers, against their working conditions, in the USA, during the 19th ce...

Ticking Time Bomb of Scotland-diabetes

... of walking,all these, have played their part in bringing diabetes to a status of being an epidemic. According to Dr. Sarah Wild, a senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health, who carried out the study:"The bad news is that instances of diabetes are going to go up in the future. We expect that by...

New Device Offers Hope to Children With Chest, Spinal Deformities

...rsity of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is bringing new hope to these children and their families. Called VEPTR, for Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib, this implantable device is designed to mechanically stabilize and lengthen certain deformities of the spine and torso, allowing normal lun...

AMA Wants Government Action To Make Models ‘Models Of Good Health

... AMA believes the Federal Government has a role in bringing together representatives of the fashion industry, the health professions, teachers and parents’ groups to discuss what images are acceptable or unacceptable. “Body image and self esteem among teenagers and young women in particular are heavily infl...

Chinese Province Offers Free Treatment to HIV/AIDS Patients

...aid the province would build more infrastructures, bringing the number of TCM AIDS treatment centres to seven. He did not disclose the size of the investment. "We hope more than 1,500 HIV/AIDS victims will be able to get free medical treatment at TCM centres this year," said the official. Yunnan, border...

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