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Kolkata Homoeopaths Offer Medicines for US Lunar Mission

...blems during Lunar Missions". "The presentation got tremendous response," Prasanta Banerji told IANS from New Jersey. The other speakers at the seminar were Harrison H. Schmitt, a lunar model pilot on Apollo 17, and astronomer David H. Levy. The Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements was organis...

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

...protect their skin well in sunny weather. 'We've got to get away from the false notion that being sun-t...sis, generally affects areas of skin that have not got accustomed to the sun. Its cause is high UVA radiation. Experts recommend sunscreens that give str...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

... old. Things, however, looked up when Padmavati got pregnant again. By then, she was part of a new awa...a few days ago the child had cold and cough and we got it cured with Didi's (aanganwadi worker) medicine." With the aanganwaadi worker's advice they wen...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...wal's Mokshda environmental group. Agarwal first got the idea for what he calls the Mokshda Green Cremation System after an unpleasant experience in 1992 at Haridwar on the banks of the river Ganges. While attending a funeral in the northern Indian city, considered holy by Hindus, Agarwal said he saw a...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

...re coming to these cinemas to watch porn films, we got in touch with these cinemas." According to Dinesh Prajapati, a member of the Sargam Manav Seva Charitable Trust, an NGO working on the project, many migrant workers who visit these theatres often pick up prostitutes hanging around the cinemas and t...

Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

...ours' sleep, and again after five nights when they got a mere four hours of shut-eye each night. The electrocardiograms revealed that all of the volunteers had a much faster heart beat and significantly less heart rate variability following the nights of sleep deprivation. Heart rate variability descr...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...rug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. But Speaker got plenty of press as he was ordered into federal quarantine, having crisscrossed the Atlantic on commercial flights while infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). In the 1970s, eradicating TB appeared possible. Now, the drug-re...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...t helps him in a way no modern medicine can. "I got fed up with the painkillers doctors were prescribing for my neck ache, so I decided to use hijama and it's great -- I urge others to try it," he said. Increasingly Iraqis are following this advice and the ancient technique is finding renewed populari...

Brazil Opens a 'green' Fashion Week

...shion Week, Latin America's biggest couture event, got underway Wednesday featuring eye-catching confections and celebrating the theme of ecological awareness. Nearly 50 designers incorporated environmental themes into their collections for this year's edition of the event, which highlights such issue...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

... strain of combat and insufficient training troops got before being sent to the battlefront. A report from a Defense Department task force released Thursday also found "current efforts fall significantly short" in providing help for troops. "The psychological health needs of America's military servic...

Indian Born Dr. Death Claims All Charges Against Him are Dropped

...o the Attorney-General (Kerry Shine) yesterday and got an update that extradition and everything is going ahead according to their plan, I guess, said Ms. Crosby. Dr. Patel fled to the US on April 1 2005 after allegations of medical incompetence were raised in state parliament. Last November, warrants ...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...ation and Rehabilitation Foundation said, "We have got to change the way our culture dances with alcohol or future generations will suffer the consequences. At the moment it's a bit like David fighting Goliath. Government revenue is directly related to the economy of the alcohol industry, and it has powe...

Hazardous Medical Waste Discovered Again In San Jose

...r office trash. Devincenzi says the present load got through the landfill gate because the source was not identified on the driver's records as a medical facility - it was delivered on behalf of the surgical center's landlord. "The source of the latest material was listed on the truck driver's record...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...lation, the onus was on firefighters to prove they got cancer on the job in order to get compensation from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). In March 1987, 69 Kitchener firefighters rushed into battle against a chemical fire some say spawned a legacy of cancer, Parkinson's disease and bi...

The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack

...etes. The worst thing would be to think 'I haven't got this, so I'm safe', or 'I've got this, so I'm doomed'. The effect of smoking is double the effect of having this gene. If you smoke a...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...s your health. But the best lesson would be if one got ill immediately after smoking every cigarette." Spada called for a brainstorming of new ideas about how to bring the message of collective change into daily life. Instead of relying on the momentary but only periodic shock of rising electricity and...

Capricious Climate in Indonesia Adds to Farmers’ Wo

.... The heavy rains were a wet blanket and all crops got washed away. Scientists do not know how much of this can be attributed to climatic change. But the really affected, do not have a clue what climatic change means to them. One farmer said, "We weren't told about climate change and the only news we...

Indian Doctor Based in California Bags NECO Award

...en did his schooling at the Sainik School here. He got his medical degree from the Trivandrum Medical College in 1976 and paediatric training at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana. His next stop was as director of a paediatric unit in the Agha Khan Hospital in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, in 1980. I...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

...tigation was conducted said, "We are chocca, we've got laboring women over here, and I've got someone in the bath and another being induced." She went to explain how the situation would get ‘da...

Rural Doctors Had It Enough

...which the Government drops off. The Government has got to provide the services and facilities for this work to be done.” The federal government has to focus on the rural community so that things could be improved before it decayed. After all a healthy doctor can only look after a healthy community. ...

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