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Collateral Damage-Children Of Canadian Soldiers Suffer

...commendations to the province: That it immediately fund children's mental health services through the Phoe...nment immediately announced a $2-million emergency fund to provide children's mental health support for communities in crisis such as Petawawa, and committe...

Global Fund Provides $68M for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Programs in Cameroon

...for people living with the diseases, as well as to fund promotional materials for HIV counseling, testing and education, Urbain Olanguena Awono, Cameroon's public health minister, said. Mabingue Ngom, the Global Fund grants officer in West and Central Africa, said that government agencies and civil soc...

Groups Join Forces to Fund Promising Lung Cancer Research

Two health groups are joining forces to fund three promising lung cancer researchers. The LUNGe...ican Cancer Society// are contributing $370,000 to fund the first-ever LUNGevity Foundation and American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowships...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pledges $500M To Fund Anti-Obesity Programs

...according to the foundation. The RWJF money will fund programs that aim to improve access to low-cost, healthy foods and to increase physical activity in schools and communities. Other efforts could include education for adults to teach children about good nutrition and exercise, RWJF President and CEO ...

Vaccine Funding A Welcome Weapon Against Deadly Rotavirus

...MA has been calling for the Government to urgently fund the vaccine for the Australian children most at risk of contracting the deadly disease, so we’re very pleased that it will now be made available to all Australian babies,” Dr Haikerwal said. “Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea-related illn...

Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

... out of the mire as it has announced a contingency fund of 450 million pounds, gathered through cuts in training and public health budgets. David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, admits the system was "unsustainable and inconsistent". But he says the Department of Health could not afford to deal with...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...massive awareness drive and also seeking a special fund to develop a new anti-TB drug. It is stated that a...menace together. We also urged them to continue to fund the TB control program in India," Jagannath told IANS after meeting the British MPs. Every year, I...

Saudi Arabia to Set Up Hospital in Jamia University Campus

...he King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Health Center. The fund will be handed over to JMI in four phases, according to the progress of the work," university chief information officer Rakshanda Jaleel told IANS. The Saudi king had visited the university in 2005 and both parties were talking to each other over t...

Benevolence Linked To Laughter

...en money which they could either invest in private fund or a group fund. The money that was put in the private fund will be given back to them and the one that was put in the group fund will be doubled and split amon...

Drug for Blood Pressure also Treats Lung Cancer

....P.H., director of the Cancer Center, which helped fund the early development of angiotensin (1-7) as an anticancer treatment. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in developed countries, accounting for about 170,000 new cases each year in the U.S. In almost two-thirds of cases, the cancer has spr...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...billion over five years into the federal budget to fund the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), the federal program which, above Medicaid, expands health insurance coverage to the children of lower income, working Americans parents. Says Steele: 'S-CHIP currently insures more than 6 mil...

Gates Foundation, MMV Plan To Fund Malaria Research Center in UAE

...tion and the Medicines for Malaria Venture plan to fund the establishment of a research center //in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The center will focus on developing affordable, effective malaria drugs, Gulf News reports. Gates Foundation and MMV representatives on Wednesday met with officials from th...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...unds from us we would provide the same. We already fund the vasectomy of stray dogs," Dutta told IANS. According to Dutta, anti-rabies injections like Rabipol or Rabirix are distributed free among people who are BPL (below the poverty line) but the vaccines are not adequate to meet the demand. "We off...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

...re groups are calling on the Federal Government to fund a new oral vaccine designed to protect children// ...he Government $25 million to $28 million a year to fund it. However, she estimated the vaccine would save the health-care industry up to $30 million a yea...

Tanzania: African Malaria Institute Gets $4 Million for Health Research

...in health research// ethics in Africa (HRE). The fund will also be used to foster and promote discussion, research and publications that highlight African perspectives. AMANET's communications officer, Mr. Charles Wanga told Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week that the grant secured from the Bil...

Anoushka Joins Hands With WFP to Feed the Poor

...out this issue. I will also perform in a couple of fund raiser programmes," she said. Dominique Frankefort, WFP's India deputy country director, while thanking Anoushka for being a part of the programme said, "A quarter of the world's hungry are in India and the numbers are growing at an alarming rate....

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

...e U.S. government to renew a victims' compensation fund that expired in 2004 so that it can cover claims from people whose health symptoms developed years after the World Trade Center collapse. Bloomberg sums up his appeal in these words: Anything less and they (the federal government) would be turnin...

Record Donation to Children’s Hospita

...ounder of the Trimark Investment Management mutual fund company and his wife Sonia, have pledged this amount which follows a 10 million dollar gift given in 1997 to develop the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Center. Out of this, 25 million dollars will go to Sick Kids to aid in the develop...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...from the coming fiscal (2007-08). "The existing fund of Rs.7 million earmarked for the treatment of the affected cancer patients was insufficient. So it will be increased to Rs.30 million from the next financial year," said Gas Relief Minister Babulal Gaur. "Hospitals of the gas relief department wo...

More Money to Flow for First Responders at Ground Zero

... that more money will follow the 25 million dollar fund allocated to the// treatment of first responders, of the 9/11 attack. Caesar Borja, 21, the son of a police officer who succumbed to pulmonary fibrosis, supposedly brought about by exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Centre (WTC) has reported...

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