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Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...w ones to take away and treat waste from the three largest drains as well as to hook up unauthorised colonies. The river will be visibly cleaner in just three years, Mathur said, in time for the Commonwealth Games. But with the water board now suffering from a "credibility" problem, Mathur said the agenc...

Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the US, is believed to have agreed to pay sexual abuse victims around $660 million, the largest such settlement in recent history . The amount, which would average a little more than $1.3 millio...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...tre for sex workers in Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city. "We can focus solely on indoor prostitution, which covers most prostitution, whereas before all our resources were focused on street prostitution," he told AFP. He disagrees that violence against prostitutes increases when buying sex is ban...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

..., 000 crore rupees per annum. India is the third largest tobacco producer and consumer in the world after China and the US. India exports only one fourth of its total annual tobacco output, which is nearly 545 million kilograms. Tobacco victims in India out-number the AIDS victims, as one million of the 25...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...ad to shortness of breath and heart failure. The largest single trial included in the review involved more than 4,000 patients and showed evidence of raised cardiovascular risk, as well as increased numbers of broken bones in women. Existing treatment strategies concentrating on lowering of blood sugar a...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...sil campaigns is the PR giant Edelman. The world's largest independent PR firm, Edelman boasts more than 2,100 employees working in 46 wholly owned offices worldwide, plus the additional resources of more than 50 affiliates. Apparently Merck is hoping that most, if not all the states in the US, will mand...

Retail Health Clinics Start Shop

...25, the American Medical Association, the nation's largest physicians group, asked state and federal agencies to look into whether pharmacy chain-owned clinics in stores urge patients to get their prescriptions filled on site, which the AMA maintains would pose a conflict. It also said that insurance compani...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping projects in the world, and is the largest one dedicated to genetic analysis of childhood diseases. This study is among the first that our c...

UK Licensing Law Changes Have Trebled Overnight Alcohol Related Visits to Emergency Care

...ency care department at the hospital is one of the largest in the UK, and close to an array of licensed premises in central London. The figures showed that in March 2005, before the licensing law changes, more than 10,000 visits were made to the department. In March 2006, there were 3% fewer visits. But t...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

... effective than planting the seeds. However, the largest producer of stevia is not Paraguay, but China, which has 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) under cultivation. Paraguay's stevia pioneer, the company Emporio Guarani, grows the plant and extracts the sweetener in its plant in Luque, 10 kilometers (six ...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

... Conference to be held in Sydney on 2225 July, the largest scientific gathering on HIV to be held in Australia. The full article can be viewed online at www.mja.com.au The Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical Association....

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...t said. That means China should have the world's largest online population by the end of 2008, if not earlier, Wang Enhai, an official with the centre, was quoted as saying by the China Business News. China has become one of the world's fastest-growing Internet markets in recent years as its booming econ...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...ings to commence. Authorities in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, are seeking 2.75 billion dollars in a separate suit. A hearing in that case is due on October 3. The government alleges the tests were "neither humanitarian nor philantropic, but purely commercial in nature." Its earlier complaint accused ...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...nal charge of misbranding the product , one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case. Three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges that it had misled doctors and patients when it claimed the drug was less likely to be abused than traditiona...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

...a is manufactured by Sanofi-aventis, worlds fourth largest drug-makers. The drug is being appraised by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) for use on the NHS. However, it already has a European licence, meaning GPs can prescribe it to patients while they wait for final guidan...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...e president of General Mills, one of the country's largest breakfast-cereal makers. But consumers' organizations said they were not impressed by the self-imposed guidelines of the group. "Each company set its own standards. What I expect will happen is that companies will reformulate products to meet the...

Present Rate of Carbon Emissions Could Increase Number of Hot Days in Mediterranean by 500 Pc

...ese scientists. France would be subjected to the largest projected increase of high-temperature extremes, the study by researchers from the Purdue University and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, both US, and the National Climate Centre in Beijing, said. "Rare events today, like the 2003 ...

African AIDS Epidemic Slows Down: World Bank

...ded. South Africa, however, has the world's second largest number of people infected by HIV, approximately 5.5 million out of a total population of 47 million. The report suggested African countries strengthen and improve their social immune system, discourage habits which went against AIDS prevention, and...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

... the American E J Gallo Winery, one of the worlds largest winemakers, from the exclusive Club des Marques area by French champagne makers. They resented Gallo's labelling of a top selling sparkling wine as "Andre Champagne" when it has no connection to the actual region. This year the Club des Marques has...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...lls less prone to clotting. India is the world's largest tea producer with Assam accounting for about 55 percent of the total 955 million kg produced in 2006....

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