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Tag: "honour" at medical news

Our Attitude To Food Costing Us A Fortune

..., report it, publicise it, campaign, legislate and honour the food-efficient. Where food IS plentiful, there will always be a tendency to waste. But if we can establish the wise use of food as morally sound, and its wastage as the opposite, our planet and we all will end up the richer. ...

Another feather in fish oil cap: hope against retinal degenerative diseases

...as a new age elixir. So another research is in its honour is welcome.Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor// and Director of the Neuroscience Centre of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Centre in New Orleans, in a paper reports on the role that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil play in protecting cel...

Sati Raises its Ugly Head in Madhya Pradesh

...he society in ancient India. It was deemed a great honour for women to die on the funeral pyres of their hus.... Temples or other religious shrines were built to honour the sati," explained astrologer S.P. Shukla. "Initially, the custom of sati was believed to be a v...

Developer Of Vaccine For Cancer Granted A Prestigious Fellowship

... that though The Australian of the Year is a great honour but it is very much an honorary title, and now this fellowship will help him to build up his team and get new initiatives going in the way of research, specifically towards the vaccines that they have been striving to get for the last few years. De...

Google Supports Indian's Novel Literacy Drive

...ent's support, programme for programme. "It's an honour to be among the first few Google Foundation grantees," Kothari told IANS. "When a billion people are illiterate - two-thirds of them women, and nearly half of the world lives on less than $2 a day - we believe it is important to examine the link be...

White House recipes doing the rounds for commoners!!

...er head - plus the cost of food and wine - for the honour of making and serving the White House fare and spreading White House lore outside the famous presidential home. Scheib admits, "It's not cheap. But serving a well-educated, food-aware clientele and everything is unique. I don't want it to be OK bu...

Indians in Gulf to Get More Education Facilities

...n (AMUOBA), which had organised a reception in his honour Wednesday. The education of Indian expatriates' children is an important issue for the Indian government and it would take every step to ensure that they did not face any difficulty, Singh said, according to an official release issued here. The m...

WHO Warns, Female Mutilation Is Risky And Cruel

...frica this was being followed, as believed to give honour to girls’. Even performed by trained medical personnel, Joy Phumaphi, the WHO assistant director-general for family and community health explains it has to be stopped and it is against human rights. Egyptian doctor and Professor Munir Falsi deni...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

...igned several international agreements pledging to honour basic child rights, they are yet to be translated into action. According to CWIN, 462 children were killed during the decade-old armed conflict and 524 injured. Besides, thousands of children have lost one or both parents and tens of thousands have...

Shehnai Maestro Bismillah Khan Hospitalised

...warded the Bharat Ratna - India's highest civilian honour - in 2001, was presented a cheque of Rs.250,001 as ex-gratia grant from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday assured the shehnai wizard that the state government would bear the cost of his treatm...

Bismillah Khan frets over government ignoring request

...warded the Bharat Ratna - India's highest civilian honour - in 2001, says a gas agency would be useful for him to run his huge family, reportedly numbering around 70 that live together in his small house in this Uttar Pradesh city. The maestro was admitted to a private nursing home Thursday after he becam...

Marathon Boy Budhia Singh Facing Cash Crunch

...h had offered to adopt Budhia and has announced to honour the marathon boy on its National Sports Day. Source-IANS...

Indian American Surgeon To Be Honoured

... number of leadership positions. "We are proud to honour him for his extraordinary compassion, expertise and commitment to those in need of healing," Joseph P. Corcoran, president and chief executive officer of the Infirmary, said, according to the News India-Times, an ethnic Indian newspaper. Source-IA...

China Permits Anti-AIDS Campaigner to Accept US Award

...ices, founded by Hillary Clinton in 1997, chose to honour Gao for her work to "promote legal rights among women in China" and had invited her to a March ceremony in Washington. However, after refusing to comply with requests from health officials to decline the invitation, Gao was detained at home by prov...

Anoushka Joins Hands With WFP to Feed the Poor

...hting for the same cause globally. "It's a great honour to be a part of the World Food Programme which fights for such a noble cause. I will personally do whatever I can to raise awareness among people in the country about the issue of poverty and hunger and urge them to help the helpless," Shankar said i...

Tobacco Control Laws to Be Regulated in India

...bai going smoke-free by 2009… as India now has the honour of hosting the 2009 WCTOH Conference in February 2009 in Mumbai. The Ministry of Health and Family welfare have initiated the process of establishing a National Programme for Tobacco Control to ensure availability of adequate resources for impleme...

Fast Food Chains Face Ban from Malaysian Children's Television

...id reasonable time would be given for companies to honour existing advertising contracts. Malaysia has a wide range of fast-food chains including McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King, which are a popular choice for a quick lunch and often serve as venues for children's parties and weekend fam...

Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

...hnic minority groups, where the breach of codes of honour may be punished by violence. For example, it says, women in some Asian families may be expected to tolerate abuse by their husband rather than seek help or leave the family home. Domestic abuse can take place in forced marriages, where the partners...

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