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High Court Upholds HIV Afflicted BSF Jawan's Termination

...ified that the termination was being upheld on the ground that the victim was disabled due to the ailment and not because of his contracting HIV. A Division Bench of Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice H R Malhotra, however, castigated the BSF for making public disclosure of the victim's disease and refusing ...

Drug Firms Competing to Produce Cheap and Effective bird flu vaccine

...ses of bird flu vaccine than its rivals the battle ground has been set to to create a cheap// but effective human bird flu vaccine. GSK is hoping to produce large quantities of the vaccine to challenge the H5N1 bird flu by next year following encouraging results in trials. Although most products are still...

Too Much of Air in the Lungs Results in VILI

...ently and too seldom,’ Bates explained. The middle ground -- two deep inflations per minute -- provides the most benefit to the mice we studied without injuring the lungs, he said. ‘We conclude that frequent deep inflation can safely improve gas exchange and lung mechanics and may confer protection from bio...

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

...esides exuding toxic wastes, which contaminate the ground water, these factories make use of impure water, l... of waste-management facilities. In our country, ground water, which is the major source of drinking water to our teeming millions, is subject to contaminat...

Global Warming Results In Increased Heat Related Illness

... house gasses which trap the heat and increase the ground temperatures. ...

Chikungunya Outbreak

...or weeks together. This can become a fine breeding ground for mosquitoes. The situation is similar in the districts," he added. ...

Fuel Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests In Nepal

...d the IOC expressing its inability to do so on the ground that it too has to pay interest to Indian banks. The resulting pressure as well as continuous persuasion by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund finally made the government give in, despite fears of public protests by student organisations...

Doctors at Andhra hospital strike work

...nconvenience and dozens could be seen lying on the ground outside the hospital building with no doctor to attend to them. Source - (IANS)...

Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

...t be undermined. With 45% of Brahmins breaking the ground rules of their belief by consuming meat, and with ‘aggressive’ vegetarianism being used to coerce the ‘minority’, are we not becoming a land of the intolerant hypocrites? Is the proverbial Indian tolerance melting into a myth? Although a ban may hel...

Importance of knowing the source of our food

...t a woman dead and several injured. They had eaten ground beef at a church potluck supper. Recent reports sa...rds with the distributor showing the source of the ground beef that was shipped to the retailer. ”It doesn't take a food scientist to know how foolish and d...

Religious Activities Could Promote Obesity

...f gluttony and obesity, and churches are a feeding ground for this problem," says Ken Ferraro, a professor of sociology who has studied religion and body weight since the early 1990s. "If religious leaders and organizations neglect this issue, they will contribute to an epidemic that will cost the health-ca...

Medical Guidelines to treat 9/11-related illness

...t is supposed to be very essential for hundreds of ground zero workers now scattered across the United State...construction workers and volunteers who slogged at ground zero. "Five years after the World Trade Center attacks, many New Yorkers have disaster-associated ...

Lakhs Affected As Chikungunya Sweeps Across The Nation

...water accumulate, as it could be an ideal breeding ground for the mosquito. It also has to be mentioned that as this species is a day-biting mosquito, the common mosquito nets would be of no help. It has been reported that 7 states have been badly affected by the virus, mosquito that also causes dengue. A...

Responders On 9/11 Face Health Risks

...was in an elevator// that day and was going to the ground floor to get a coffee when the planes struck, according to the National Post. "I got out of the elevator and felt intense heat at my back," he said in an interview. "I looked back and there was a huge fireball blowing out of the elevator which kept...

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

Kolkata: In a small dispensary on the ground floor of a nursing home in central Kolkata, an elderly British doctor is the last hope for a steady stream// of HIV carriers waiting for free distribution of exorbitantly priced second-line anti-retroviral drugs to prolong their survival. For the ...

91-year-old city man Falls Victim to West Nile Virus

...ate any standing water that can provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes and avoid being outdoors between dusk and dawn. NLA...

Pain in the Back? Try Acupuncture

... in the arm for acupuncture, which is soon gaining ground as a reliable pain relieving method for patients suffering unbearable back pain....

Cutting the risk of diabetes with a pill

... what the doctor ordered. A pill// is soon gaining ground for preventing type 2 diabetes for those under risk. A mere consumption of the pill once or twice daily, enhances the body’s receptive mechanism to insulin in aiding better glucose management, thus offsetting diabetes. The pill, named as rosiglita...

Pharmaceutical Companies Banned from Giving Gifts at Stanford

...rofessionals and scientists reclaim the moral high ground and avoid the appearances of conflict of interest." Cohen said, "The perception that industry is supporting (medical) education erodes the trust by the public that information used to educate new doctors is as unbiased as can be." Other academic ...

Kerala to Appeal against Lifting of Ban on Colas

...nged the order banning their aerated drinks on the ground that state government's action was unconstitutional. After hearing the arguments of all concerned, the bench consisting of Chief Justice V.K. Bali and Justice M. Ramachandran said that the state had no right to ban the products. 'This decision ca...

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