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Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...ined as counsellors and posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. Among other steps, rotation of units and individuals has been ordered to minimise exposure to stress, and leave rules have liberalised to permit splitting of causal and annual leav...

Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk

...wed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. governments Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic 60 percent or greater reduction in cancer risk than women who ...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...ves have welcomed such initiatives but say that in eastern Europe as a whole not enough effort is being made to root out counterfeiting. "It's often difficult to get an investigation going," said Ashley How of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, a US-based industry group that works with police and in-co...

Four Malaysians in Hospital for Bird Flu Checks

...hua Soi Lek said the four were hospitalised in the eastern state's capital Kuala Terengganu after coming down with fevers and coughs. 'They have had contact with chickens and ducks which had died. They are currently in a stable condition and are being investigated for the avian flu virus,' Chua said in a s...

TB Super-strain Found in Myanmar Migrants

...known as XDR. Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Myanmar have been displaced by decades of fighting between the military government and ethnic rebels fighting for autonomy in their regions. Some live as refugees in Thailand in camps strung along the border, but many more are migrants who either cro...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...g nations such as Australia than most southern and eastern countries. "Our data suggest that infant swimming practice in chlorinated indoor swimming pools is associated with airways changes that, along with other factors, seem to predispose children to the development of asthma and recurrent bronchitis,''...

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...day of water-related diarrhea in Europe, mostly in eastern and central parts of the region, according to WHO. The WHO suggested that using gas or electricity for cooking, improving ventilation or keeping children away from smoke could reduce the number of deaths. In 53 countries in Europe an estimated ...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

...ained as counselors and posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. The armed forces witnessed 146 suicides in 2006, with 120 in the army, 24 in the air force and two in the navy and the coast guard. There were 120 suicides, including 15 failed a...

Yoga Helping Fight Autism Down Under

... and Katie Spiers, 28. Their yoga studio in this eastern Australian city and commercial centre is filled with candles, flowers and incense. "Everything in the Samadhi yoga studio is relaxed and peaceful," reported the journal. "We try hard to make sure this place has a relaxed feeling and looks beautiful...

Bolivian Glacier Melts, Dangerously Fast

...agic story. Studies show snow and ice cover in the eastern Himalayas has shrunk by about 30% since the 1970s. Melting glaciers have created lakes in the mountains, which could burst and cause widespread flooding. Of 150 glaciers that once stood in Glacier National Park in the northern US, only 27 remain. The...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...n falling sick after the immunization drive in the eastern districts of Jorhat and Golaghat. "These are abs...Assam vulnerable to Japanese encephalitis - all in eastern Assam. Source-IANS...

Apollo Opens Blood Cancer Clinic in Kolkata

...ncer patients// pouring in from different parts of eastern India. This specialty unit, opened Tuesday, will have all the state-of-the-art facilities to provide treatment for different types of hemato oncological disorder, commonly termed as blood cancer, said Soumya Bhattacharya, consultant hemo oncologist...

The Science of Happiness

...t cultures take a different view of happiness. The eastern culture harbors a fatalistic view of life, which enables them to accept happiness, and overcome unhappiness, with an inbuilt ease. The western culture, on the other hand, with its individualistic approach, and its insatiable urge to achieve, views ha...

Six More Quality Health Care Canters Proposed by Indian Government

...and the like are not available in the northern and eastern parts of India. Minister Ramadoss hoped that the new hospitals would significantly reduce the pressure on the New Delhi institute. Besides thirteen existing medical institutions have been identified for upgradation to the level of the AIIMS, the...

Armed Forces Introduce Yoga, Counselling to Counter Stress

...ined as counsellors and posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. In view of this, there was no proposal to engage NGOs for stress management as the armed forces "have enough infrastructure and expertise to handle the problem", the minister main...

WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Fight TB

...t a three-day WHO meeting on TB held in Malaysia's eastern city of Kuching on Borneo Island. TB control efforts in the region were intensified following the declaration of a TB crisis in 1999 and funding to affected countries was increased. However, despite the positive trend in eradicating TB, van Maare...

Call for Organ Transplant Regulations in China

... Chen Haixiao, head of Taizhou Hospital in China's eastern Zhejiang province. He suggested the law allow doctors to declare people brain dead so their organs can be used to save the lives of people. The Ministry of Health in 2006 had drafted a set of regulations on human organ transplant to the State Cou...

Bird Flu Once Again in Afghanistan

...eaks are located in areas of Kabul the capital and eastern parts of the country. Azhari added that the government has ordered the mandatory culling of birds and that stringent control measures such as quarantines, sanitization and monitoring of birds are being adopted. Last month Afghanistan had banned imp...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...gnancy, drugs, divorce or broken homes, while her eastern counterpart is a victim of gender discrimination and denial of several basic rights, like education. Yet there is a lot of common ground in women – related issues and a concerted effort is to be generated this year, to even out the differences on ...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

As vehicles whiz past E.M. Bypass on the city's eastern fringe towards the airport, a signboard on the left indicates the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's dog pound// now run by Maneka Gandhi's People for Animals (PFA). It is here that the adage every dog has his day comes true. This sprawling pound aim...

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