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Keep Australia's GP Workforce Numbers Healthy, AMA Urges

... Manly today as part of Family Doctor Week, an AMA initiative to highlight GPs' important role in keeping Australia healthy. "It's important that the Government makes general practice an attractive career choice for young doctors," Dr Haikerwal said. "That means cutting the paperwork burden on family doctor...

Scheme for Combating Malnourishment in MP Children Yet to Pick Up

...ars." Shivpuri district officials maintain their initiative has been a success, and NGOs are too uncharitable. "Let them take up one block, and show us if they can remove malnutrition there before they criticise our efforts," Sharma said. (Source: IANS)...

Chennai Set an Example in Implementing Animal Birth Control Successfully

...rnment to support their animal birth control (ABC) initiative across the country.// As many as 50 municipal corporations across Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states have decided to implement a programme that was successfully tried by the Chennai Corporation, bringing to a halt the annual killing of 20,000 street...

India and China Agrees to Promote Healthcare Jointly

... termed as the Indo-China friendship year, such an initiative will certainly bring both nations closer. SGRH, a leading private hospital in Delhi, is co-organising the second International Stroke Summit from Aug 17-20 in Nanjing, in collaboration with the International Stroke Society, Jingling Hospital and Na...

More People Seeking Treatment for Mental Illness in Strife-torn Kashmir

...n in Security, Conflict Management and Peace -, an initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of ...and a founder member of the Women Waging Peace, an initiative of Harvard University's Kennedy School: "Eighty percent of those who seek help from mental health pr...

New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects

...of the Children's Discovery Institute, a major new initiative that Gitlin is heading as a joint venture between the St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University. Source: Eurekalert...

TN College Students Make Friends With HIV Positive Persons

...on, which organized the initiative, said that this initiative had evoked a tremendous response and they could sp...is often deadlier than the disease itself and this initiative gives hope to those affected....

MPs Demanded an Immediate Ban on Coke, Pepsi

...ds of the food and drink items. That's why we took initiative in passing a bill on food safety and standards - passed by both houses - and are waiting for the president's assent." But Dasmunsi's assurance did not satisfy the opposition members who walked out of the house along with the Samajwadi Party MPs. ...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...cted to their homes. The WHO is leading a global initiative to eliminate trachoma as a blinding disease by 2020 with a four-part strategy called SAFE: surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental hygiene. While the final three parts of this strategy are targeted at preventing the spread of trach...

Stroke Risk Higher with Gene Variations

...e. The study participants are part of a research initiative called the Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study, which evaluates both genetic and non-genetic risk factors for ischemic stroke in young women. These women are from Maryland, Washington D.C., and portions of southern Pennsylvania and western Delawar...

Face-lift: Essentials for a youthful look

...e is designed with the belief that any anti-ageing initiative has to be addressed from the aspect of what goes in. Consequently diet and eating habits are considered as important as the several beauty treatments or packs applied to the face. Finer points about ageing, which often escape attention, is the imp...

AIDS Challenge in India

...l Institute of Allergy. AVAHAN, the India HIV/AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also has her as a member on the board. Dr Solomon decided to start an ICU exclusively for those suffering with HIV/AIDS in Chennai in 2002, when Ashok Pillai, then president of the Indian Network of Positive...

Junk Food Promotional Ads To Be Restricted: Blair

...lth issues in the future unless individuals showed initiative in tackling problems of obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse, and urged Britons to take more responsibility for their health. It is worth pausing for a moment to consider the consequences that inaction will bring. The economic burden of chronic disea...

Are children living as well as they are meant to be?

...ascertain the exact status of children in UK. This initiative is headed by Prof Richard Layard, a former government adviser. Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of the Children's Society, said the sole purpose of this study is to 'challenge the misconceptions surrounding children and encourage fresh thinking abou...

Free Access to Taxotere Instills New Hope among Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients

...ate-stage breast cancer. Statistics said that this initiative would save more than 600 lives of patients suffering from breast cancer. The guidance comes nine months after the Scottish equivalent of Nice, the Scottish Medicines Consortium, approved the use of Taxotere for Scottish women in the early stages of t...

Norway Grants $80 mn to India's Health Mission

... of India and Norway also launched a multi-partner initiative Tuesday here for achieving the millennium developm...rding to a release by UNICEF. This multi-partner initiative will primarily focus on five states - Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa - w...

Community Based Organisation for Transgenders and HIV Affected

...and organiser of CBO, told reporters. This unique initiative aims at empowering the community by articulating its needs, sharing its day-to-day experiences and giving the member skills to collectively cope with challenges, Murali said. The formation of the CBO was not only a step towards enhancing the quality...

Sex Workers Adopt IT Solutions to Fight AIDS

... project began in July in the two districts at the initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in association with the University of Manitoba, Canada. It can be replicated in the rest of India if proved successful, Sushena Reza-Paul, assistant professor at the university, told IANS from Mysore. "When ...

Research Fund for FSU to Eradicate Dyslexia

...rnerstone of Gov. Jeb Bush's "Just Read, Florida!" initiative to have all schoolchildren in the state reading at their grade level by the year 2012. "Our hope is to develop ways of diagnosing dyslexia and other learning disabilities at a younger age so that these children have greater chances of leading a hap...

Spanish Initiative Looks At Inflammatory Markers To Predict Strokes

Around 52 hospitals in Spain are taking part in an initiative to gauge if any common inflammatory markers appear in the blood of people who have suffered a stroke recently//. The MíTICO study was presented at the IV International Meeting on Isquemic Ictus. The study included patients from different Autonomous ...

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