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Five Countries Plan Hike in Airfare Tax to Buy Drugs for AIDS Patients

...ent Bill Clinton also attended. Annan called the initiative to tax airline tickets an "innovative" way to raise money for AIDS patients. "It can provide a continuing source of funding," Annan said. "It is a real and immediate tool to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria." The plan, known under the acr...

Transfusion-Free Surgical Program Helpful for Liver Transplantation Patients

...the authors report. " ANH indicates a therapeutic initiative that involves simultaneously removing the patient's blood and replacing it with nonblood products." "In comparing group 2 with group 1, the mean (average) MELD [model of end-stage liver disease] score was statistically significantly higher, whereas...

Pharmaceutical Companies Banned from Giving Gifts at Stanford

...going on." This year the association launched an initiative to examine conflicts of interest between academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. According to a Jan. 25 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on conflicts of interest in medicine, of the estima...

Powerful Synergy: Botswana and Clinton foundation To Sign MOU

Gaborone – Furthering the initiative to improve HIV/AIDS treatment and evolve better prevention strategies, The Clinton HIV/AIDS Foundation and Botswana Government will// get into an agreement this month, to formally seal their synergy and take forward the vision, of an AIDS free nation...

Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...tian priests to involve them in the programme. The initiative draws inspiration from Uganda and Indonesia, where such messages are being propagated through imams. So far, seminars and awareness programmes imparting complete information about HIV/AIDS have been held for over 600 imams in the state. The JKSAPC...

Pet Project: Dogged Determination to Rid Vienna of Ubiquitous Dog Droppings

...n effectively deal with the menace. The earlier initiative in May had seen activists garnering support by way of 157,000 signatures on a petition, urging the city officials to initiate clear-cut strategies to cleanup the city. Laws entailing dog owners to be responsible in clearing the mess of their respecti...

NBA To Usher In Standardized Heart Testing

...ocardiogram and a stress echocardiogram. The NBA initiative gained momentum after what transpired between New York Knicks and Eddy Curry, who declined medical tests despite suffering from irregular heart beats. Barry Maron, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, praising the NBA for its timely effort ...

Leeds Hospitals to Outsource Medical Transcription Work to India

...y digital transcribing. "This is part of a wider initiative to increase efficiency and make the best use of our staff skills and experience. Taking away the burden of time-consuming administrative tasks will enable medical secretaries to focus on patient contact and provide more support to consultants." S...

The Daily Struggle with Salt

...salt as a preservative and flavor enhancer. This initiative has cast salt into forefront of public health concerns raising questions as to how attentive the F.D.A. has been to the problem of excess sodium consumption.The F.D.A. has responded to these demands, assuring that it will solicit comments for a heari...

Deadly Lung Disease Sends Patients on ‘Quest for Breath

...ain some hope for the future. They have started an initiative called Quest for Breath to help support IPF research, which includes an annual event to raise money for the fund named for their father, the Martin Edward Galvin Fund for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research at the University of Michigan Health Sys...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

...diately making available the NTPF and waiting list initiative to deal with a totally disgraceful situation.” This fund had been set up to treat people who have been waiting the longest for treatment in the country’s public hospitals. Their treatment can be arranged in private hospitals in Ireland and Britain, ...

Anti-AIDS Plan for 1,000 Tamil Nadu Colleges

...mil Nadu Saturday kick-started an HIV/AIDS control initiative to bring 1,000 higher educational institutions under the 'Red Ribbon Club' (RRC).// State Governor S.S. Barnala called on varsity vice-chancellors and principals to "take it as their personal and onerous responsibility to chalk out plans for RRCs in...

California: 'Go Ahead' For Drug Discount Initiative

...r the// low-income residents of the state. This initiative will require the prescription drug companies to enable discounts. All companies will be required to adhere to this by August 2010, failing which they may stand to be removed from Medi-Cal's preferred drug list. The governor said, "We are providing...

Britain's Support for India's Health Programme

...y launched a 252 million pounds (Rs.21.94 million) initiative to support India's reproductive and child health programme aimed at saving one million lives// every year. The 252 million pound fund being provided through the Department for International Development (DFID) is to be Britain's single biggest respo...

Calgary Couple Laud Health Review Process

...t an emergency room in Calgary, have commended the initiative launched by the health region to review emergency care.// The health quality council of Alberta is conducting the review and will begin the process next month. Rick Lundy had filed a complaint after a shortage of beds in the emergency room at he Pe...

Scientists Claim Encouraging Progress On Hereditary Diseases

...d greatly. Participants were introduced to a new initiative being undertaken by the Hereditary Disease Foundat...European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN). This initiative involves the development of new guidelines for the care of people with HD, based on the evidence of ...

A Princely Assistance to the Nepal Heritage

... pledged $100,000. The restoration project is the initiative of a New York-based non-profit organisation, the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, founded in 1990 by an American architectural historian, Eduard Sekler, who had first visited the valley almost three decades before that and fallen in love with the...

Proposal to Build Six new Hospitals Met with Rage

... will approve the plan for six new private finance initiative hospitals today, the proposal has enraged those hit by cutbacks// in their budgets. The announcement has signaled the government’s commitment to continue the largest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS but has infuriated public he...

Study Focuses on Women's Health After Breast Cancer

The “Women’s Health After Breast Cancer” initiative at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is investigating factors that may affect women’s health //after they are diagnosed with breast cancer, with a focus on both quality of life and prevention of cancer recurrence. The comprehensive study, under ...

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

...anisation says. Their Global Mapping of Pleasure initiative is a rich resource of projects and organisations that put pleasure first in AIDS prevention, and includes groups such as Kubatsirana, an HIV/AIDS association of 56 churches in Mozambique. The church programme includes training religious leaders and...

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