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'Expedition Everest' Finds New Species

...sort, included: * a giant hornet so deadly, locals call it the 'Yak Killer'; * a beetle that buries birds and small rodents in subterranean crypts to feed its offspring; * an endangered jumping mouse; * and several new species of amphibians, insects and ants.The scientific journey into the mountains...

Work Together For Better health

...y the Indian Medical Association (IMA) there was a call for all in healthcare industry to join hands to give better health to the society. // The state IMA secretary, Ajay Kumar Singh, said doctors alone are not sufficient in providing healthcare to the people. He appealed to everyone including doctors, ...

Africa: Traditional Knowledge of Medicine Needs To Be Protected With Due Legislation

...tential avenues of new drugs. This would obviously call for a legal framework that would effectively ensure the utilization of traditional knowledge and facilitate fairness in its dissemination. To facilitate this knowledge, the African Union and World Health Organization are in the process of ruling a l...

Jharkhand Faces Acute Shortage Of Life-saving Drugs

...and Druggist Association (JCDA) has given a strike call from April 17 if the state government fails to rectify the anomalies in the VAT. They are opposing imposition of VAT at multiple points. --Edited IANS...

African Union Launches A Programme On Acceleration of HIV Prevention

...s Sambo, said the launch should serve as a wake-up call for Africa to take concrete measures to stop all forms of HIV infection. Sambo said, they must promote widespread awareness of HIV and its cause, through media campaigns and education, as they are the best ways to do it. Africans he felt must now emb...

Government’s Latest Proposal Under Fire from IM

... of medical care in India. Plans have been made to call the attention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in this matter. A meeting of all IMA state presidents and secretaries has also been called for April 30, 2006 to decide the proper course of action. According t...

Madhya Pradesh To Concentrate On Better Rural Hygiene

...age the practice of women going to answer nature's call out in the open," he added. Statistics reveal that close to 30 million people in rural areas in India suffer from sanitation-related diseases. About 0.4 to 0.5 million children die of diarrhoea alone each year, with most deaths taking place in vill...

Another Twist to the Tale of Reservation of Medical Seats

...Minister appealed to medicos and junior doctors to call off their protests over the increased reservation for in-service candidates, realising the realities involved. ...

Construction Of A New Hospital In The Bega Area Confirmed

...SW Government. Mr Constance further said he would call on the Minister to ensure that the $100 million outlay for a new hospital is in this year's budget papers and that the five-year delivery of the new hospital is there in writing along with any other additional funds, which might be needed to upgrade ...

The Lancet Calls For Review Of Regulatory Process Of Drug Trials

...gulation of human trials of biological drugs. This call came after the trial of TGN1412 ended in disaster with six patients admitted in the // hospital in serious condition. The journal says that since the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorized the trial, it is the ag...

Boca Recalls Insulin Syringe Product Due To Contamination

... any question related to the case consumers should call 1-800-354-8460. The recall include the following product: Product Description – Ultilet Insulin Syringe 30g ? ccLot – 5GEXINDC # - 08326-3002-50 A single complaint and a reported event prompted a Company investigation, which is on going. The com...

Andhra Junior Doctors Call Off Strike Partially; To Attend Emergency cases

...octors in Andhra Pradesh have decided to partially call off their 10-day strike and attend to emergency ca...vernment are confident that the doctors would soon call off the strike altogether....

Drive Against Malnutrition Among Children In MP Gets Kicked Off

...e plans to organise rallies, hold awakening camps, call for drum-beating in villages to make announcements about the drive and display as much publicity material as possible for the promotion of the drive. "Mahila Mandals (Women's associations) will hold meetings and make home visits to create awarenes...

Suffering from computer ache: try forearm support

...ion interventions on the musculoskeletal health of call center employees -- a padded forearm support and a trackball; were evaluated in this randomized study that lasted one year. The forearm support is commonly called an arm board and attaches to the top front edge of the work surface. The trackball repl...

Childbirth On Road Drew Public Attention In West Bengal

...al doctor released her, raised public outcry and a call for probes here Tuesday. // Bengali news channel Star Ananda Tuesday beamed images of Basanti Mal of Nijhuri village in Birbhum district, about 180 km from here, lying on a road with her newborn baby after she was forced to leave a hospital in Siur...

Health Promotion Drives Waste Money, Claim Nurses

...sted. Furthermore, the health resolution urges a call to health officials demanding them to discuss if such resources allocated to health promotion campaigns could be utilized better through provision of direct care to patients who need it the most. The poster campaign about HIV/AIDS has spent more th...

NHS in the inquiry docks over hepatitis C infections

... controversy sparked off by a Holyrood committee’s call for a public inquiry into the infection of thousands of patients with hepatitis C through NHS treatments has created ripples.// This was the result of new evidence showing lack of resources was the reason for limited efforts to track down patients ...

New User-Friendly Mobile Device Launched For At Risk People

...d by the European Commission) would allow users to call to a service center, in case of an emergency. De...cy. The two large buttons on the side initiate a call to the service centre when pressed simultaneously. The device allows a user to make an emergency cal...

Rush Study Shows That Interactions with Friends and Family Prevents Damaging Effects of Alzheimer's disease

... and could talk to about private matters and could call upon for help. It was found that as the size of the social network increased, the same amount of pathology had less effect on cognitive test scores. The effect was evident across different kinds of cognitive abilities, but was most evident for sema...

Killer protein for anthrax bacteria discovered

...the scariest, easy to spread, kill effectively and call for special actions by the pubic health system. // E.g. anthrax. But there is hope by Vince Fischetti’s laboratory at Rockefeller University which suggests that a newly discovered protein could be used to fight anthrax infections and even decontamina...

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