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China to Make Cuban Dengue Mosquito Killer

...hs, 95 percent of them in Africa. Cuba, the only country that produces Bactivec, struck a similar deal in 2000 with Amazonas state in Brazil, which produces and sells the biolarvicide to other countries....

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...ne million of the 250 million tobacco users in the country die every year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there will be more than ten million deaths a year due to oral cancer in the next thirty years with 70 percent of those occurring in developing countries like India....

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...services patients asking for confirmation of their country of birth. It's not clear exactly how many patients have slipped through the chink. Health board spokeswoman Mary Anne Gill said it was difficult to estimate the cost of various operations, with the cost of each case depending on the specific diseas...

Worms are Killing the Planet

...an carbon dioxide. Red worms appear naturally in country compost heaps but over the past decade or so a thriving trade has grown up in domestic wormeries which enable people with space as limited as a balcony to compost their kitchen waste. Domestic wormeries are dustbin-sized boxes formed from several t...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...rising from differing sign language usage from one country to the next when it comes to face-to-face appointment-making. The main aim of the congress, which is held every four years -- the last one was in Montreal, Canada -- is "to advance recognition of sign language in national legislations," says co-org...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...or Kerala is 15 per cent while for the rest of the country it is 23.8. Similarly, the death rate is 6.4 as ag... life expectancy also Kerala leads the rest of the country with 70.9 for males and 76 for women as against 61.8 and 63.5 respectively in the country. In add...

Health Sector Has to Keep Pace With Countrys Development: Ramadoss

...al Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Ramadoss said: The country is developing at a scorching pace. The health sect...ears and during this time the health sector in the country has seen far reaching changes, he said. A series of initiatives covering areas of infrastructure, ...

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

...of previous official estimates. And although the country reported its first case over 20 years ago, many still face acute stigma due to a lack of awareness and misconceptions about the disease. "I mean they (AIDS and Cancer patients) have equal rights to get educated. A disease shouldn't stop anyone from...

Millions of Births Still Go Unreported in India

...Convention, 1989 on the 'Rights of the Child', the country has a responsibility to ensure registration of all births, as registration of birth is the first right of the child. "Though more than 35 years have passed since the enactment of the legislation, the level of birth registrations is not satisfactor...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...tbreak as it moves around the world and across the country still needs considerable work, officials said.Just...t remaining challenge, officials said, is that the country has grown tired of pandemic flu warnings. They emphasized that the planning would help prepare for a...

Chief Medical Officer Urges Presumption of Organ Donation to End Transplant Shortfall

...on the list. There is a shortage of organs in this country and the situation is getting worse." Surveys show that, while only 20 percent of the population are currently registered as donors, up to 70 percent of people say they would be willing to donate if asked. The "opt-out" system has been introduced ...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

...ime, it is observed that teenagers throughout the country are both abstaining more, and, especially among older ones, more likely to use contraception when they do not abstain. While the reasons are not all understood, government data show the trend began years before abstinence education became the multimi...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

... impossible to keep an eye on all pregnancies in a country of 1.1 billion people. Encouraging people to abandon their babies was a "ludicrous" idea, Aravamudan said, because it would encourage a belief that girls were unwanted. "And most girls are killed before, and not after, they are born."...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...in international recognition as the stevia plant's country of origin....

Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

... knew that if you went into any particular African country that HIV rates among Muslim men were lots lower," Cooper told AFP. "But we were never sure that the Muslim men had lower numbers of partners than non-Muslim men, so people always doubted it." Cooper said the only way to ensure the link between lo...

Groundwater Levels Depleting Alarmingly in India

...n alarming depletion of ground water levels in the country and are proposing a model legislation to prevent f...he ground water level at various places across the country and identified about 800 areas that were in the danger zone on this score, a senior official said. ...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

...ver the past five years, but in other parts of the country the trend was upwards with Victoria now roughly eq...es, the person was born in or had a partner from a country with a high prevalence of HIV. Exposure to HIV from injecting drug use was infrequent. Prof Kald...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

...ompilation of data will be difficult as across the country people have multiplicity of cuisine and different ways of cooking, Sudha Vasudevan, research nutritionist, MDRF, said this giving an example of an Idli where the proportion of urad dal and rice is not the same in each house hold. M. Rema, MDRF vice...

Gaps In Food Safety Systems Must Be Plugged :UN

...onal UN experts, food safety is an issue for every country and ultimately, for every food customer. Speaking...alth impact. "Food safety is an issue for every country and ultimately every food consumer. All countries can benefit from taking stronger measures to fill ...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...althcare." Cooper cited China as an example of a country that had overcome its initial denial of an HIV problem but could go further if discrimination ended. "China is responding pretty well, their reponse has changed, they're putting treatment in place and doing research," he said. "But people are sti...

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