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Over Five Million Illegal Abortions In India Every Year

...ntroducing injectable contraception. "India must expand the number of contraceptive methods to stop unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions," she said. ARC is funded by the international Packard Foundation and has technical support from the World Health Organisation and the UN Population Fund. Sourc...

Global Health Issues To Take Priority In The Current G8 Summit In Russia

...pledges to provide antiretroviral drugs to Africa, expand trade and increase aid....

Varied Applications of Adult Stem Cells to Treat Host of Disorders in Human

...yonic stem cell media could be used to isolate and expand a novel population of multipotent adult stem cells from human hair follicles. "Although we are just at the start of this research, our findings suggest that human hair follicles may provide an accessible, individualized source of stem cells," says Xu...

US Emergency Rooms ill prepared for Disasters

...ed to handle disasters. The need of the hour is to expand capacity//, address special needs of children and improve coordination before and after patients arrive. A series of three reports from the National Academies of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) have pointed out that overcrowded hospital emerg...

Developmental Delays in Infants Linked to DDT

... in the United States, officials in Africa plan to expand its use to combat mosquitoes that spread malaria. According to study author Brenda Eskenazi, a professor of epidemiology and maternal and child health at the University of California, Berkeley, the potential benefits of DDT use to reduce malaria mus...

Metropolis Health Plans Middle East hub in Dubai

... to invest Rs.1 billion over the next two years to expand its operations within and outside the country to raise its revenue from Rs.750 million currently to over Rs.5 billion by 2010. "That is the time when we may possibly look at going public (make an initial public offering)," said Velu. The Mumbai-h...

Teeth Reformation could be Possible with Ultrasound Technology

...rant from NSERC's ‘Idea to Innovation,’ program to expand on their prototype. Dr. El-Bialy first discovered new dental tissue was being formed after using ultrasound on rabbits. In one study, published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, El Bialy used ultrasound on one rab...

Ontario Addresses Shortage of Transplant Organs

...r cardio-circulatory death (DCD) could potentially expand the potential donor pool by hundreds. This move to permit donations after DCD came following the request of an Ottawa family to fulfill their daughters wish to become an organ donor she became hospitalized and on life support suffering from heart f...

New Variety Of Soybean Oil

...ith the two traits that can be grown by farmers to expand the market for their crop," Fehr said. Companies can order free samples of the new oil for testing by contacting Fehr at (515) 294-6865 or wfehr@iastate.edu. (Source: Eurekalert)...

Cancer Drug to Treat Scleroderma Lung Disease

...stricted breathing because the lungs can no longer expand as they should. Doctors measure breathing capacity with a device that assesses forced vital capacity (FVC). When FVC is less than 50 percent of the expected reading, the 10-year mortality rate from scleroderma-related lung disease is about 42 percent...

An analysis of pros and cons of health education at the workplace

...lth fields, HP/DP programs offer an opportunity to expand their role. By broadening their traditional emphasis on environmental health and safety, occupational health professionals can incorporate risk-reduction strategies into a spectrum of services supporting a healthy work environment and managing employ...

Quebecers To Choose Private Health-Care Insurance

...ore, if the provincial government should decide to expand the list it can do so with a simple rule change rather than amending the law in the national assembly. Couillard said, ‘The legislation is very heavy. It's a process that could take a year, a year and a half.’ Couillard’s suggestion that changes ...

Meditation may Improve Cardiac Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

...' the authors write. 'These current results also expand our causal understanding of the role of stress in the rising epidemic of the metabolic syndrome,' they continue. 'Although current low levels of physical activity, unhealthy eating habits and resultant obesity are triggers for this epidemic, the dem...

Amity Institutions To Launch Short-term Professional Courses In Oman

.... This is being undertaken by them in an effort to expand the educational facilities in the Gulf. Aseem K Chauhan, the Additional President, and board member of Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, which is the umbrella organisation of the Amity Institutions, said that they are seeking to boost the curren...

India Reaffirms Fullest Commitment In Fight Against AIDS

...t stigma // and discrimination against victims and expand its prevention and treatment measures, especially for women and girls. 'The soundness of India's strategy has been vindicated with decisive downward trend witnessed in Tamil Nadu which had high incidence of disease,'Minister of State Oscar Fernande...

Division Among Delegates To Dilute UN's AIDS Plans: Activists

... and gay men, empowerment of women and the need to expand definition of universal access to include prevention, treatment and support to the victims. Another major point of debate was over the procurement of funds -- whether the plan should clearly define the ways to get funds or leave it vague. Differenc...

Saket Hospital to get Multi-speciality Facilities from Max Healthcare

...ve years we plan to invest another Rs.6 billion to expand our facilities in the national capital region and are seriously contemplating expanding to other cities in the northern region,' Narottam Puri, executive director (medical services) Max Healthcare told IANS. Source: IANS News...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

...reasing. Tobacco use, it finds, also continued to expand most rapidly in the developing world, where half of tobacco-related deaths occur. By 2020, if current trends continue, seven out of every 10 tobacco-related deaths will be in the developing world, it said. 'Tobacco can kill in any guise, regardless ...

Singapore, India To Do Joint Research On Oral And Throat Cancers

Cancer centres in Singapore and India plan to expand joint research into oral and throat cancers, the city-state's leading cancer centre said Tuesday//. The cooperation between Singapore's National Cancer Centre (NCC) and the Kerala-based Regional Cancer Centre builds on a screening programme credited...

Developing Nations Should Reform Health Financing Systems: WB

...d serious concerns about current global efforts to expand the reach of healthcare systems to improve the health of millions of the world's poorest people by 2015, as called for in the Millennium Development Goals, stressing that the world community must live up to its promise to substantially increase its d...

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