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India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

...anisation (NACO) have put the HIV caseload in this country of more than one billion people at 5.2 million, wh...ed 5.7 million cases. That figure made India the country with the highest number of people infected with HIV in the world. Indian officials were tightlippe...

A Lucky Number? 7/7/07

...estimates some 65,000 - 70,000 weddings across the country on July 7. Even those impulsive types seeking to elope in the US wedding capital Las Vegas are likely to be disappointed, with the city's wedding chapels all booked up, according to the media. One, the Chapel of Flowers, has 113 weddings planned fo...

Prof Samir K Brahmachari, Dr MRS Rao Jointly Win Bio-medical Research Award

... selected 31 biomedical scientists from across the country to be honoured for their outstanding contributions in research work for 2004-2005. The awards will be presented by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss later this week. Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Director Dr. Brahmachari is ...

Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past

...ame year, Buckingham almost invited a quarrel with country legend Kenny Rogers by saying that his make up seemed to be four inches thick. Oh, my God! Look at the [bleep]in' pancake makeup! It's gotta be four inches thick," Harris revealed. As, Harris prayed that her fairytale night shouldnt spoiled by a ...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ain's Sarah Brightman, and be broadcast across the country by the Shanghai Media Group. Steve Howard, chief executive of The Climate Group, a London-based campaign organisation supporting Live Earth, said: 'The US and China are responsible for half the world's carbon emissions. Live Earth will get huge att...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...ally because it is afflicted with bovine TB. For a country slowly recovering from the mad cow disease that took a heavy toll of the country's economy and prestige, sending the six-year-old Freisian bull to the slaughterhouse is but a logical step. But the "devout" Hindus of Carmarthenshire, a tiny hamle...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...filed the highest medical compensation case in the country against Kolkata's AMRI Hospital and three doctors for causing his wife Anuradha's death due to alleged wrongful treatment. The Supreme Court on March 31 had admitted a Rs.1.43 billion compensation claim by Saha after Delhi-based National Consumer ...

AMSA Launches General Practice Student Network

... alleviate this crisis. Its no secret that we as a country are in desperate need of more General Practitioners. The GPSN will serve as a positive support network for students interested in Community Practice. We look forward to working with the GPRA in making this General Practice Student Network a real s...

Brazil Opts for Indian Drugs Bypassing Merck

...resident Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has allowed his country to ignore US pharmaceutical giant Merck's patent on AIDS drug Efavirenz and opted for a cheaper generic alternative from India. With a decree he signed Friday, Brazil will be able to import generic versions of Efavirenz from three companies in Ind...

Experts Call for Warning Lables on Fruit Juice to Save Kids' Teeth

...y as 20 fillings and extractions, dentists in that country say. In the most severe cases, pediatric dentists are being left with no option but to remove all 20 baby teeth. "It's a tragedy when we see this, but it's not unusual," specialist pediatric dentist Philippa Sawyer said. At least 1000 childr...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

...ch had originally said she could not go out of the country for abortion, changed its mind. It told the court that it would allow her to go to the UK after all, but only with the consent of her mother and a judge. While the mother is with her, the judge part is slightly dicey. Still things have improved d...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...at skin cancer patients living in all areas of the country from big cities to small towns, in tropical climates and snowbelt states. Studies also show that intense, intermittent sun exposure which typically involves residents of colder climates vacationing in warm, tropical areas during the winter months ...

Health Budget Must Focus On Access To Medical Services, Fitness And Nutrition

...cess to medical services for older Australians and country people, and the AMA is also asking for funding to improve patient access to consultant physician services. We want to see a restructuring of Medicare items to allow more efficient use of the specialised services in geriatrics, general medicine, re...

Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants

...y 1930s, are now akin to a plague in areas of the country like Virginia and California. They are sighted in places like ranches, open pastures, croplands as well as urban lawns. Known scientifically as Solenopsis invicta , humans and livestock fear them for their stinging bites. The massive fire a...

Allocation Of Hospitals In Rural Areas

...tal number of government allopathic doctors in the country are 73557. There are 22273 numbers of doctors at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in position in rural areas as on March 2006. As on 1.1.2007, total numbers of beds available in the rural government hospitals are 132475 and 340308 beds are available in...

Bidi Workers Protest Against Using Skull and Crossbones Sign on Packets

...symbol, which will reach the remotest parts of the country will reduce sales, fears the Tamil Nadu Bidi Workers' Federation. "The future of bidi rollers have been put into uncertainty," said A. Abdul Hameed, president of the Federation, adding that bidi production is the highest in Tamil Nadu. The worker...

Focus on Paediatric TB

... the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) in the country which prevents severe form of TB in children. Management of paediatric TB is one of the activities under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. This information was given by the Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Pan...

Brazilian President Silva Issues Compulsory License for Merck's Antiretroviral Efavirenz

...late last month signed a decree declaring that the country would purchase from an India-based drug maker a ge... Temporao at a news conference last month said the country did not issue the decree "as a threat, nor to lower the price of other medicines, but to guarantee i...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

...ion. It has more than 100 blood banks all over the country under different states and district branches. On the same lines, they have also campaigned for prevention of blood transmitted diseases like HIV / AIDS. They have been organising VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTREs that provides opportunities to increase ...

Number of Syphilis Cases Rising Among MSM in U.S.

...000, MSM accounted for 7% of syphilis cases in the country but accounted for more than 60% in 2005. According to CDC, syphilis incidence in the overall population was 2.1 cases per 100,000 people in 2000, compared with three cases per 100,000 people in 2005, or 8,724 cases. Khalil Ghanem of Johns Hopkins ...

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