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Government Delivers On Emergency Medical Training For Rural Doctors

...005 extension left a geographic restriction on the initiative to Rural and Remote Areas (RRMA) 4-7 (in contrast ...at and Whyalla. “This is a welcome common sense initiative that recognizes the significant costs for rural GPs in maintaining essential skills that benefit the...

India to Collaborate With International Vaccine Institute

...s an International Organization established at the initiative of the United Nations Development Programme under the Vienna Convention of 1969 with the signatures so far of 38 countries and the World Health Organization (WHO).A major IVI strength is capacity building in vaccine research, development, production ...

Richard Gere Urges Truck Drivers to Have Safe Sex

...ed with the Heroes project - a three-year national initiative by him and Parmeshwar Godrej - that mainly aims at reducing stigma about HIV/AIDS by educating people and advocating for behavioural change.There are nearly five million truck drivers in India of which 40 percent are most vulnerable to HIV. The HIV p...

Indian Army Join to Add Strength to the Cadaver Programme

...onstitute one-sixth of India's population and this initiative would go a long way to do another great job for the country. "We will ask all our service people to donate their organs and of their family members in case of brain death. We should not take our organs to heaven, they are required on earth," Choube...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...thigh bone is largely intact. "This resurfacing initiative has interest because we're sparing bone,'' explains Sheinkop, a Rush University professor and joint replacement director of the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago. The operation hit the U.S. market last spring with Food and Drug Adminis...

U.N. Envoy Calls for E.U. Health Plan To Help Tackle TB, HIV in Africa

...berculosis, on Tuesday called for a European Union initiative that would aim to curb the spread of TB and HIV in Africa.// Speaking before the E.U. Parliament's development committee, Sampaio said that the two diseases are spreading rapidly across the continent and that African countries are unable to combat...

India Earmarks Rs.1.34 Bn to Fight Bird Flu

...g to an official release. The committee said the initiative would prepare the country to face an AI pandemic, reduce morbidity, mortality and social disruption and minimise the threat both to animals and humans. Besides, it would generate awareness and help procure emergency supplies of equipments and vacci...

FDA Announces to Companies to Stop Marketing Products Containing Trimethobenzamide

.... The declaration has come in the wake of on-going initiative to ensure that all marketed U.S. drugs have required marketing approval. These products are used to treat nausea and vomiting in adults and children. Drugs containing trimethobenzamide in suppository form lack evidence of effectiveness. These produ...

Integrated Trauma Care Facility in Mumbai

... casualty rate is at least 50 percent. We hope the initiative would reduce death by almost 90 percent," Damle added. Shah said they have unanimously decided to start the service with at least 17 ambulances. "Its an integration of the existing facilities. We have asked the government for 10 more ambulances." "...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

... and help the AANS reach out to the public. This initiative is phase two of ongoing Web site improvements the AANS has implemented over the last two years. The section entitled Conditions & Treatments has been completely revised and updated. The most up-to-date information is provided on more than 50 neurosur...

Mumbai to Have Integrated Trauma Care Facility

... casualty rate is at least 50 percent. We hope the initiative would reduce death by almost 90 percent," Damle added. Shah said they have unanimously decided to start the service with at least 17 ambulances. "Its an integration of the existing facilities. We have asked the government for 10 more ambulances." ...

Fashion Fraternity Turns Socially Conscious

... the country and the Valaya Magic Foundation is an initiative to support this cause creatively. We have already ...rking for the uplift of child laborers. "It is an initiative to discourage child labor. There are nearly 100 children studying in the school. We want the global ...

Art of Living's - 'Stress Free America'

...ople along with 20 Senators and Congressmen. The initiative envisages several programmes to foster human values such as compassion, friendliness, a sense of brotherhood, and an attitude of service to society. Several ambassadors and representatives of foreign missions in the US will also take part in the ce...

Children's Hospital Boston Presents at the Society for Adolescent Medicine Annual Meeting

...d the District of Columbia now have a safe schools initiative to prevent harassment based on sexual orientation, and a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 284) proposes amending the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs. Source-Newswis...

Vaccine Funding A Welcome Weapon Against Deadly Rotavirus

...ng children and infants internationally. “This initiative will create significant savings for the health system and, more importantly, it will save lives.” Infants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, and those living in tropical and semi-tropical areas, are most at risk of contracting the...

Rajasthan Launches Programs to Overcome Misconceptions About Childbirth

...hay Kumar. PSl has piloted this social marketing initiative to encourage and promote the concept of emergency contraception amongst local people. Emergency contraception is a concentrated dose of the hormone found in many birth control pills and can prevent pregnancy when taken shortly after intercourse. I...

Forsyth Scientists Wiping Out Tooth Decay Through School-based Cavities Prevention Program

...a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the ForsythKids program has already met and exceeded those goals in a period of 3 years. Healthy People 2010 Goals Reduce cavities by 10% · Reduce untreated decay by 5% · Increase ch...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...00 texts since its launch last month. A national initiative of the NGO Heroes Project founded by Hollywood icon Richard Gere and Mumbai socialite Parmeshwar Godrej, the help-line offers specific advice on HIV/AIDS by a panel of qualified counsellors while ensuring privacy. It works on the Specific Query Res...

India to Market Female Condoms

..., March 14 (IANS) India Wednesday launched a major initiative to introduce female condoms across the country, wi...ids Control Organisation (NACO) began a nationwide initiative in October to provide female condoms at just Rs.3 to NGOs working with female sex workers. The gov...

New Initiative to Combat Infant Mortality

...’s Health Ministry would soon be launching a major initiative to reduce infant mortality rate in 80 districts of the country//, it has been announced. Under the scheme called The Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), health volunteers, along with doctors and nurses, will be given ...

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