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China Unveils Green Plan to Revert Farmland to Forest

...in the State Forestry Administration, Beijing, the initiative involves safeguarding China's plant diversity by allowing 15 million hectares of farmland to revert to forest over the next three years, extending nature reserves, protecting biodiversity hotspots and setting up a plant monitoring system. A novel ...

Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

... cause. "I am so happy that CITCO has taken the initiative to create awareness among people, especially youngsters, regarding HIV and AIDS. There is nothing like safe sex," Pooja said after inaugurating the bar here. Pooja has two small sons, one of whom is also HIV positive. "The attitude of people reg...

Scientists Discover Rare gene-for-gene Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Host

...arch was supported through the Exploiting Genomics initiative funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)....

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

...id Jeff Kennett, who heads Beyond Blue, a national initiative to counter depression. Catherine - as she has been named by her temporary carers - was found blue with cold in a cardboard fruit box, dumped outside the psychiatric wing of Dandenong Hospital early on Sunday morning. She is now being cared for at...

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

...dertaking a large scale coordinated public-private initiative to fund additional GME positions, and is bringing this to the urgent attention of federal policy makers. The College is taking the lead by funding 20 allergy-immunology 2-year fellowship training positions from 2005-2009 at a total cost of $2 million...

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...d at covering as many as 48 milllion people. The initiative is being undertaken to counter the yellow fever, resurging in the region and is backed by a $ 58 million contribution from the GAVI Alliance. The Alliance (formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) is a public-private pa...

Innovative Education Scheme Sees Fewer Rugby Players Suffering Spinal Injuries

...l are much less predictable. Furthermore, as the initiative was introduced country-wide there was no control group which means it is difficult to assess the impact of other factors on the reduction in spinal injuries. There is no way for example to take into account evidence from international matches which i...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...). The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, an initiative that combines resources from those Institutes and other NIH components, recently provided additional funding so that the study team could collect brain scans by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a kind of MRI. While conventional MRI allows clinicians a...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...esa national, federally funded quality-improvement initiative launched in 1998. The program was designed to ma...perfect health. The diabetes quality-improvement initiative passed all these standards. Even at twice the price and with the benefits deeply discounted, the val...

World Cities Join Hands to Combat Climate Change

...world's largest cities have agreed on a $5-billion initiative with major banks to retrofit buildings in their ci...e. Former US president Bill Clinton launched the initiative to coincide this week with a summit in New York attended by mayors and governors from 40 of the worl...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... founder of the Work Less Party, a Vancouver-based initiative aimed at moving to a 32-hour work week. "As a society, we're working exponentially hard to decrease sustainability and it's making us miserable -- just look at how antidepressants are on the rise," he says. Americans work more hours than anyone ...

WHO Plans Global Campaign Against Alcohol Abuse

...umers of spirits. The move follows a similar WHO initiative against smoking in 2003 when the world body organized the anti-tobacco convention. The WHO estimates there are two billion alcohol consumers worldwide. Some 87 million of them live in Europe, that is 10 percent of the population. There were 2.3 mil...

Army Hospital Conducts First Multiple Organ Retrieval and Transplantation

..., retrieval and transplantation. As part of this initiative former Miss India Nikita Anand, Bollywood actor Gul Panag and many army officers April 14 pledged their organs for donation at the Army Hospital (R&R)....

Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...l Cornell Medical College who helped spearhead the initiative with UAEM. "Increasingly, 'Western' high-fat diets, tobacco use and urbanization have helped make heart disease a bigger killer than 'The Big Three' -- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- combined." Kishore and Ben Herbstman, UAEM members, petiti...

Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

... Global Smokefree Partnership, a new multi-partner initiative formed to promote effective smoke-free air policies worldwide, to coincide with the World Health Organizations World No Tobacco Day, which focuses attention this year on the importance of smoke-free air. 'Great progress is being made globally in pr...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

... people with chronic illnesses . Their first joint initiative is to help address the needs of teens and young adults with cancer by offering free of charge HopeLab's ground-breaking Re-Mission(TM) video game. 'Re-Mission works. It gives young people with cancer a sense of power and control over their disease,...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...ontaining masks, gloves and bars of soap, in a new initiative to fight the virus. About 100,000 leaders of villages will receive the kits, which also contain educational material about the virus, and urges them to take precautions when handling poultry. The first kits were handed out in Tenggulun Timur villag...

US, India Join Together to Improve Healthcare in India

...dent Ron Somers said Thursday while announcing the initiative of the body representing over 250 of the largest U...bout 25 of India's largest global companies. The initiative includes bolstering the protection of intellectual property and innovation, so that the best class o...

Diabetes Management in Schools Act Will Help Ensure Oklahoma Students With Diabetes Are Safe at School

...sociation. "I am proud that Oklahoma has taken the initiative and I hope it leads to other states doing the same for their children with diabetes." ADA credited a number of legislators for helping to secure the bill's passage. Speaker Cargill said, "As the number of American children living with diabetes gr...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

... Red Cross, emphasizes that the success of such an initiative is contingent upon his organization's role as an international actor. "Such challenges require solutions that transcend national boundaries," said Leverenz. "The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is uniquely positioned to confront t...

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