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Australian Food Industry Plans to Phase Out Trans Fats

... day. “While we are certainly thrilled with the initiative Christopher Pyne has taken, we want to make sure that saturated fats are lowered as well,” she said. Companies including McDonald's, KFC, Krispy Kreme, Pizza Hut, Subway and Hungry Jack's attended the roundtable. <B...

Mothers in African Study Undereducated on Diarrhea

...st way to ascertain how a successful public health initiative might be launched against diarrhea in Ethiopia was to study how Ethiopian mothers handled the disease, and then compare their habits and methods to those of moms in Bangladesh, home of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research. “I ch...

Spain Launches Movement Against Skinny Fashion Models

...t the world's main fashion shows have followed our initiative shows that there is already a consciousness of the...ufferers and a nutritional institute. The Madrid initiative has the backing of the central government, which joined in with a study of the body structures of 8,...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

An initiative to increase polio vaccination in Nigeria has been ...say officials. The Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) initiative was launched in May 2006 by the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) ˉ a government initiative w...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

...ding health care, Singer and his group proposed an initiative called "Addressing Global Challenges Using Nanotec...oundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health, the initiative would be funded by national and international foundations, and from collaboration among nanotechnolo...

Ashley Judd to Visit Jaipur for HIV Cause

...ll be visiting the Rajasthan capital as part of an initiative by PSI/India. Ashley is a board member of PSI (e...assador for YouthAIDS, an education and prevention initiative of PSI. A not-for-profit organisation, PSI/India works in the areas of health and women's empowermen...

Cheap Anti-malarial Drug

...ssociation with the Drugs// for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), which is supported by global aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). This treatment called as ASAQ is a combination of artesunate and amodiaquine. The earlier treatment for malaria had two tablets which had to be consumed simultaneously....

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...a of vaccinating dogs against rabies, it feels the initiative should be taken by the state veterinary department. "If the veterinary department wants funds from us we would provide the same. We already fund the vasectomy of stray dogs," Dutta told IANS. According to Dutta, anti-rabies injections like Rabipo...

Married Women, Children Most Anemic in India

...of International Development (DFID) and Avahan, an initiative of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Similarly, the report says that 79.1 percent children between the ages of three to six years in the country in 2006 were anemic as against 74.2 percent in 1998-99. "There is more than one reason for this deve...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

...Child Traumatic Stress Network, a 40-site national initiative with the mission of increasing the access and quality of services for children exposed to trauma in the United States. Lieberman is active in several major national organizations involved with mental health in infancy and early childhood. She is p...

FDA Clears Breast Cancer Specific Molecular Prognostic Test

...of the MammaPrint test marks a step forward in the initiative to bring molecular-based medicine into current practice," said Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs. "MammaPrint results will provide patients and physicians with more information about the prospects for the outcome of the d...

Stem Cell Banking Evokes Mixed Response

Cord blood banking initiative by Sir Richard Branson has received a mixed and varied response in Britain. While this was welcomed by the doctors and scientific community,// others opined that it may not be as beneficial as it sounds. The human blood extracted from placenta and ...

The Psychology of Skin Cancer

...r. The survey, at www.genomel.org, is the latest initiative by GenoMEL, a five-year international research consortium, coordinated by the University of Leeds, which is using a combination of genetic science and psychology to try and halt the alarming rise in skin cancers. Their main focus of the researchers...

Mega Project to Revamp Karnataka’s Healthcar

...and the rest is by us." "The main purpose of the initiative is to train thousands of healthcare professionals in the taluk (sub-district) and village level," Ganesh told IANS, adding that the scheme would remain operational till 2012. The scheme involves training PHC professionals, providing health insuran...

Cashing in on IT for Healthcare

...l and multi-ethnic workforce. We believe that this initiative will be instrumental in making our employees become internationally focused and fluent, with the ability to understand the needs of local cohort groups, markets and clients," Ramachandiran told IANS. So, H&M will continue to specialise in package ...

Today’s Teens Slacking on Fruit, Veggie Intak

...lines for Americans. The study, part of a larger initiative on factors influencing eating habits of adolescents, gathered information about fruit and vegetable intake among 944 boys and 1,161 girls in 1999 and again in 2004. During the transition from middle school or junior high to high school, teens decr...

Software Tools & Fonts in Seven Indian Languages

...ation Technology. Keeping in view the far-reaching initiative of the DIT, as also to bring about Language Computing technology revolution in the country, so far three CDs in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu were released. These language tools and fonts are also being made available on website: www.ildc.in and www.ildc.g...

Karnataka Chief Minister to Spend Night With HIV Positive Family

...of the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), an initiative of the state health ministry. "Kumaraswamy will have dinner at their home. The district administration is building a toilet at the house for his convenience," Mohan told IANS. "No chief minister of India has taken such a step. We welcome his ges...

Nurses Ease the Wounded Heart

...d for the Heart—Dr. Glass also is leading a unique initiative to reduce health disparities for immigrant and U.S.-born employed Latina survivors of intimate partner violence. In another Oregon-based four-year study, she and colleagues are using community-based participatory research methods to create partnershi...

Better ‘Nannying’ Now Than Nevr

...s hands and they can carry a range of bugs.’ The initiative to raise public awareness of hand hygiene will be supported with television advertisements, sensor-activated posters in washrooms as well as messages on cash machine screens. Research has shown that 17 percent of Scots do not understand the need of...

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