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Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

...on with the healthcare industry. Specifically, the country hopes to provide innovative drugs, expand healthcare insurance, as well as provide modern medical equipment and better services. The government aims to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technology w...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...d flu at the weekend, taking the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 81, a health ministry official said Monday . Indonesia has seen its toll from the deadly H5N1 virus grow steadily since 2005 when the first confirmed human deaths occurred here. "A boy who died on July 8 has been confirm...

30 Dead as Dengue Fever Epidemic Hits Myanmar: Report

...ear, local media said Monday, making it the latest country in the region to experience a surge in the mosquito-borne disease. Than Winn, a senior Myanmar health ministry official, told the weekly Myanmar Times newspaper that the number of cases was soaring. "In the first six months of this year there ha...

Radical Change in the Lifestyle Might Bring a Greener Future for Brits

...ach year the free allocation would decrease as the country moves towards zero carbon, with the effect that th...at" and finds a green fuel. And the diet of the country would have to change to include much more organically-grown, locally-produced vegetables, and less m...

Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report

...ach year the free allocation would decrease as the country moves towards zero carbon, with the effect that th...at" and finds a green fuel. And the diet of the country would have to change to include much more organically-grown, locally-produced vegetables, and less m...

Indian Luxury Hotel Boss Calls for Major City Clean-up

...e of India's top luxury hotel chains called on the country Wednesday to launch a major clean-up of its filthy...of foreign investment has nevertheless allowed the country to break its image of an impoverished backwater. "India has a tremendous future if we get our act ...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

...emuneration is based on the economic status of the country issuing the compulsory license. Industrialized nations will be required to pay full market price, even during a pandemic. Developing countries would be allowed a limited free ride, with royalties based on the individual country's ability pay. Fina...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

...ng to official figures. Kenya is Africa's second country to introduce a partial smoking ban after Tanzania, which banned smoking in many public places in 2003. Norway, Italy, Ireland and Britain are among a number of European countries to ban smoking in the workplace and confined public spaces like resta...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

... this year have eclipsed fatalities in 2006 as the country battles one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in a decade , medical officials said Thursday. Some 182 fatalities have been recorded for the first half of this year out of 14,986 cases, said Ngan Chantha, director of the health ministry's dengue...

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

...ded to add folic acid to all flour produced in the country because formation of the neural tube in embryos is particularly intense during the first four weeks of pregnancy, which is before a lot of women even know theyre pregnant. Since half of Canadian pregnancies are unplanned and the human body cant sto...

Hundreds of Cyclists to Ride for Alzheimer's Cause

...in Reservoir and through the low rolling hills and country vistas of the Commonwealth's heartland. The route for Memory Ride runs through Devens, Shirley, Lancaster, Sterling, Rutland, Hardwick, Petersham, Templeton, Fitchburg and Lunenburg. All proceeds from Memory Ride Grant go to Alzheimer's research....

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

... the hospital, and was just among a handful in the country qualified to undergo the complicated surgery to clear a blockage in his heart. "We are getting Iraqi children for heart disease, for deafness, for which we are doing cochlear implants, paediatric surgeries, orthopaedics and spine. We treat them and...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...owth account for much of pollution. This costs the country an estimated 9.7 billion dollars annually in environmental damage....

Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case

...in Brisbane on July 2 as he attempted to leave the country on a one-way ticket. The Australian Federal Poli...nd those who support terrorist organisations, this country must continue to adopt a hardline uncompromising stance -- there are no alternatives," Rudd said. ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...females -- mainly due to selective abortion in the country where many people prefer to have male children. "This will check both foeticide and infant mortality," the minister for women and child development Renuka Chowdhury told the Hindustan Times daily. Officials said the data would permit the governme...

Spain Announces Cash-for-kid Payments to Boost Birth Rate

...t it remains below the 2.06 children per woman the country needs to maintain its population. Spain's 2006 birth rate was 10.92 births for 1,000 inhabitants. The new measure is set to cost the state some 1.2 billion euros a year based on the 2006 figure for live births of 481,000, according to the INE....

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...ded to add folic acid to all flour produced in the country because formation of the neural tube in embryos is particularly intense during the first four weeks of pregnancy, which is before a lot of women even know they're pregnant. Since half of Canadian pregnancies are unplanned and the human body can't sto...

New Zealand Authorities Concerned With Overcrowding in Hospitals

...he said happened largely because he was out of the country when the report arrived. The report arrived late on Friday and was hand-delivered to the Carroll family on Saturday, the earliest possible opportunity. A press conference was scheduled for Monday, Davies said. Board member Jo Kane said she was "r...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...rms near the village of Norin in the centre of the country where the virus was confirmed on Wednesday, he told AFP. The two farms are within an exclusion zone thrown up after the first cases of H5N1 were detected in domestic Czech poultry last month. "We are doing this preventively. It is a decision we h...

Doctor Protests may Hinder Portugal's New Abortion Law

...rt for change. The overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country previously had among the most restrictive laws in ... was malformed. Catholic Church officials in the country have called for continued respect for doctors who refuse to perform abortions and contend that abort...

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