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Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...taminated blood, he said. Saha is known for his crusade against the medical fraternity in India after his wife's death from alleged wrong treatment. He has now got a nod from Ana Palacio, senior vice-president of the World Bank, to go public with potentially damaging information about distribution of dud ...

China to "salvage" Reputation on Food, Drug Safety

...nounced revised methods... as part of the national crusade on restoring public confidence in the entire sector," the paper said in a separate editorial. Despite such hopes, other Chinese officials were not so upbeat in the prospects of solving the problems. "China is in a time of serious food safety risk...

JK Rowling Intensifies Her Disabled Children's Rights Crusade

...arry Potter author JK Rowling is strengthening her crusade for the rights of mentally ill and disabled children in East European mental hospitals, after setting the cause in motion last year. Rowling is carrying on her campaign to bring an end to the humiliation of children kept in cages in institutions i...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...to Information (RTI) Act in a case relating to his crusade against the corrupt healthcare system here. Kunal Saha, whose wife died of alleged wrongful treatment in India in May 1988, said: "I am going to appeal to my senators and congressmen in US and will ask them to raise this issue with the Indian gove...

Extremist Christian Preacher Dies of Heart Problems

...opened with stents. He carried on an unrelenting crusade against whatever he considered was a challenge to conservatism or right wing perceptions. I believe that homosexuality is moral perversion. I think it is a violation of the laws of nature, as well as the laws of God, he once said. Even President ...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

... While Gore's film was an account of his personal crusade to change American public opinion about the urgency of the pollution crisis one audience at a time, The 11th Hour attempts to tackle even bigger questions. DiCaprio brings in British physicist Stephen Hawking, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...to Information (RTI) Act in a case relating to his crusade against the corrupt healthcare system here. Kunal Saha, whose wife died of alleged wrongful treatment in India in May 1988, said: "I am going to appeal to my senators and congressmen in US and will ask them to raise this issue with the Indian gove...

The ‘depressed’ Protest Against ‘Delusional Calgara’

...government spokeswoman Stacey Jones-Oxner said the crusade was against oil-rich Calgary and they never wished to hurt those with mental sickness. "It was never our intention to offend anyone," said Jones-Oxner. "I think most people are understanding our intention, which was to inform Nova Scotians about th...

NRI Fights for HIV Child Who was Refused Treatment

...e medical system in India and in the course of his crusade set up PBT for people who suffer at the hands of doctors and health officials. Source-IANS...

Disclose calorie count on menu says NY Health Department

...their waistlines in retrospect. As part of their crusade to crackdown on obesity the health department plans to issue an order to all restaurants with regular fixed portions to list the calorie value of food items along with the menu cards at the table of the diners. This suggestion coincides with the de...

Drug addiction higher in rural Punjab: study

...duced the chances of addiction. Rodrigues said a crusade against drug abuse was required and recommended an "institutionalized mechanism" with legal, social, administrative and medical support to combat the menace. He also underscored community participation in the drive against addiction. A paper on t...

Shanghai To Tackle Hypertension

...done in reality at the ground level, even though a crusade has been launched against obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed that poverty is one among the reasons for obesity. ...

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