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AAPPO Launches ACT on Diabetes Initiative to Promote Improved Diabetes Care

... Provider Organizations (AAPPO) is launching a new initiative to help PPO providers offer the highest quality ca... practices in diabetes care. The ACT on Diabetes initiative will kick off with a series of conference calls for AAPPO members focused on diabetes care and preve...

EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India

...ency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), an initiative of Satyam Foundation, plans to cover the entire state by the month-end and then expand it throughout the country in the next two years. EMRI, which presently has 500 state-of-the-art ambulances in Andhra Pradesh, is serving a population of 65 milli...

Titan may Produce Glucose Watches Soon

...t spent nearly 1 billion dollars on nanotechnology initiative strategic plan. The sensors could be of single-walled carbon nanotubes tiny cylinders made from single sheets of carbon. Robust, nanotubes don't degrade under high temperatures. For this reason, they have long attracted the attention of researche...

Chandigarh to Become India's First Smoke-free City

...rmful consequences of tobacco and smoking, such an initiative will improve the global image of Chandigarh and will be helpful in promoting business and tourism," said a senior government official. The idea to make the city a 'smoke-free' zone was first mooted by Burning Brain Society, a NGO that pounded the a...

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...Africa was established in 2006 as a private sector initiative to raise funds for the continent in the fight against the diseases that have claimed millions of lives in the world's poorest continent....

WHO Intensifies Work on Safe Blood for Mothers

...Health Organization (WHO) is today launching a new initiative to improve the availability and use of safe blood ...ives of women during and after childbirth. The initiative is the beginning of a broader blood safety agenda redefined in Ottawa this week and aiming to work t...

Chandigarh to Impose Spot Fine for Smokers from July

...rmful consequences of tobacco and smoking, such an initiative will improve the global image of Chandigarh," the union territory's Home Secretary Krishna Mohan said. He said that the Chandigarh police have already written to traders' organisations and auto and taxi drivers' unions to comply with provisions of ...

Scientists Discover Rare ‘gene-for-gene’ Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Hot

...arch was supported through the Exploiting Genomics initiative funded by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (UK). Source-Genere.com MED/B...

India’s First ‘condom Bar’ Inaugurated by AIDS Patint

... 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...

Women Deliver Babies With Eye Defects in Jharkhand Villages

... to an eye hospital with severe eye defects at the initiative of the state health department. While two babies have no eyeballs, the other two have only one eyeball each. "The disease is known as micro ophthalmic and is caused by environmental pollution or hereditary problems," said Bharati Kashyap, the doct...

A Realistic Arm on the Anvil for Injured Soldiers

...thetics (DARPA) 2009 program. That program is an initiative to produce by 2009 a mechanical arm that closely mimics the movement and sensory perception of a biological arm. It would then be provided for military personal hurt in the line of duty. As of the end of February 2007, 897 service men and women hav...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

...negative" schizophrenic symptoms such as decreased initiative and social withdrawal. The mice also showed behaviors suggestive of anxiety, a symptom seen in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and increased sensitivity to amphetamine, also seen in many schizophrenia patients. Is it possible to ...

Tobacco Control Laws to Be Regulated in India

...nst cancer. It is my firm belief that the proposed initiative in leadership training for community based cancer control will go a long way in building the capacity for cancer prevention and control. The views shared by the leading experts and the participants will provide us valuable inputs so that we can inten...

U.K. Backs Program To Improve Drug Access in Developing Countries

...upport the Medicines// Transparency Alliance -- an initiative that aims to improve access to quality medical car...harmaceutical companies, the Times reports. The initiative also aims to increase efficiency, bolster drug procurement and fight corruption by making informatio...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...t in any country. Keeping this in mind 12 by 12 initiative is being launched in the country today with an ove...f 12 years has hemoglobin of 12g%. This innovative initiative is jointly being taken by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India; WHO; FOGSI and UNICEF...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan, also believes in. An initiative to save the Yamuna river from further pollution, the Abhiyan was to take out a candlelight vigil on the banks of the Yamuna later in the day. 'Since today is the world earth day, we want to use this as a platform to reach out to the common man as wel...

Armed Forces Officers And Other Dignitaries Pledge Organs For Donation

...ukla, also pledged their organs. Another unique initiative was also taken by the Army doctors in the form of launching Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority (AORTA). AORTA aims to increase awareness of organ donations, organ retrieval and transplantation. The efforts of this Authority wi...

Seniors Encouraged To Make Use Of Medicare’s Freebie

An initiative focused on motivating seniors and others with Medicare to make the most of Medicare’s preventive services, //was kicked- off by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The campa...

Hormones- The Same Regardless Of Packaging

...s for the products' benefits. Five years ago, an initiative study found that replacement hormones made by drug companies raised the risk of heart attacks, breast cancer and strokes. Research published this week offered the strongest evidence yet that the hormones can raise the risk of breast cancer and are ti...

Counseling to Mothers Against too Much Shaking of Children

...in Bethesda in Maryland, USA, has launched a major initiative against the Shaken Baby Syndrome. // It is now calling upon all mothers who deliver their babies at the Centre to attend a mandatory series of Shaken Baby Syndrome educational briefings. Shaking a baby too hard could result in permanent danger or ...

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