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South Africa Increasing Efforts To Contain Drug-Resistant TB, Minister Says

...ews reports. In addition, Skweyiya said that the country is expanding hospital isolation wards and refining surveillance and detection methods in an attempt to contain extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis - TB that is resistant to the two most potent first-line treatments and some of the available secon...

India's Senior Citizens Number Nearly 77 Mn

...g to data available with the health ministry, the country has 76,622,321 persons aged 60 and above. With nearly 14 percent of the elderly population, Uttar Pradesh tops the chart with 11.6 million elderly. Maharashtra follows with 8.45 million senior citizens. West Bengal has 5.7 million, Bihar and Tami...

Biotechnology Will Dominate The 21st Century

...ial hearing. The entire research activities of the country that was at a standstill will get momentum and Genetic Engineering Approval Committee will be able to work speedily. Shri Meena assured along with treating this field as a priority area with investments, priority would be given to proper risk assessm...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

... is now the most widely used antidepressant in the country even though there are cheaper alternatives, including generic versions of Prozac. "Prozac is just as good if not better, and yet we are migrating to the expensive drug instead of the generics," Dr. Sharfstein said. "I think it's the marketing." It...

Britains Complacent Attitude To Uptake Of New Cancer Drugs Revealed

...ot accept that a standard of care available in one country is not available in other countries." Recommendations from the report include reducing the review time for the marketing authorization of new cancer drugs and ensuring that, once this is obtained, the drug is available without further delays. A D...

Government to Amend Birth Registration Act

...bout 100,000 government service centres across the country with the task of ensuring that birth registration is done. The government is also seeking to enhance the accountability of the state governments along with making special provisions for the registration of adopted children. "The government is als...

Government to Amend Birth Registration Act

...bout 100,000 government service centres across the country with the task of ensuring that birth registration is done. The government is also seeking to enhance the accountability of the state governments along with making special provisions for the registration of adopted children. 'The government is als...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

...d to be consistent regardless of age, sex, race or country of origin. It was also seen in individuals who had a close family relative with bowel cancer, which normally raises the lifetime risk two to four times. Professor Peter Rothwell, who led the research, said: "What we are saying is that for a sub...

GlaxoSmithKline, Brazil Expected To Sign Deal on Providing Antiretroviral at Reduced Cost

...ost of GSK's antiretroviral Abacavir by 27% in the country , an unnamed health ministry official announced on...late last month signed a decree declaring that the country would purchase from an India-based drug maker a generic version of Efavirenz if Merck did not offer ...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...arguably the most transgender friendly city in the country and home to the minority's largest population -- 6...black market hormones. She has criss-crossed the country and bought illegal hormones in California, New York and Texas. "Just go into any transsexual bar a...

National Rural Health Mission Project Requires 200,000 Nurses

... National Rural Health Mission project (NRHM), the country requires about 200,000 nursing personnel to provid...sonalities of nursing profession from all over the country who had come to receive the award, he said, undoubtedly, it was their hard work, commitment and pers...

Million Mentally Ill in India

...onals. He said that with a large population in our country on one hand and very few psychiatrists being avail... envisaged to cover the remaining districts of the country under DMHP. For proper and effective utilization of funds, a robust monitoring mechanism under NMHP ...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...es of beer every year. "Add 200 million cases of country liquor and a sizable number that is unaccounted for, and 500 million cases of liquor are annually consumed. This is the Indian paradox," he said. At the same time, wine, treated as part of food in the West, was shunned because of its alcohol conten...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...ic Health,said the food distribution system in the country was complicated and it may take the authorities several weeks to know full details. Hanif further cautioned Make sure that you're cooking your food properly to 165 degrees and don't eat raw ground beef....

A Stroll Along Countryside Could Reduce Depression and Raise Self-esteem

...searchers at the University of Essex suggests that country walks may help reduce depression and raise self-es...on, compared the benefits of a 30-minute walk in a country park with a walk in an indoor shopping centre. A group of 20 members of Mind, England and Wales le...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...ts people with mental health problems. A walk in a country park was compared with a walk in an indoor shoppin... * 90 per cent had increased self-esteem after the country walk * 44 per cent said their self-esteem decreased after window shopping in the shopping centre. ...

Six Towns in India Selected for Eco-City Project

Six Towns in the country namely Kottayam, Puri, Tirupati, Ujjain, Vrindavan and Thanjavour have been selected in the pilot phase of the Eco-City Programme . The projects undertaken under the pilot phase of the Programme for the respective towns are under various stages of im...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...week are killed by current or former partners. The country also has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe and having a baby at a young age means women are more likely to miss out on education and slip into poverty. There has also been a substantial rise in obesity in young girls in the UK, the repo...

Government Plans to Set Up Drug Banks in All Districts

...s to set up drug banks in all 604 districts of the country to provide essential medicines to the poor free of charge and a committee has been set up to study the feasibility of the proposal. Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan Tuesday said that the committee has been formed under the gu...

Yoga Should Not Be Patented: Ramdev

...oga cannot be patented as it belongs to the entire country and humanity. Also yoga cannot be run like a company," he said here late Tuesday. "I do not wish to name any individual, but how can yoga be taught at a controlled 45 degrees centigrade temperature when it is ideally taught in the cold Himalayas," ...

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