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Meningitis Vaccine To Be Included In Childhood Immunization Programme

Health officials in Northern Ireland are about to launch a new vaccination project to protect children from a deadly form of meningitis. //The vaccination against pneumococcal meningitis will also be integrated into the childhood immunization programme. "Pneumococcal meningitis is very serious," Diane Mc...

Teachers are Creators of Enlightened Citizens in the Country- Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

...C Edusat network to the nation and inaugurated the launch of expansion of network in North-Eastern Region. This project was started in 1975 by Smt. Indira Gandhi. We are in a position today that we can disseminate education to the masses to the far flung areas of the North Eastern Regions and also receive t...

NHS Makes A Strategic Move For The Dentists From Leaving Its Services

...ald, the deputy health minister, had announced the launch of the scheme yesterday when he met the students at the Dundee dental school. NHS in Scotland according to reports is suffering from a major shortage of dentists, with many patients unable to register with an NHS practitioner. The minister announced...

Rae unveils Health-care Strategy

... to reduce wait times. "I know what it takes to launch an effort like this," Rae said, pointing to the Trillium prescription drug plan Ontario established in the early 1990s. A plan for promotion of healthy living among Canadians, a strategy to more promptly recognize the credentials of foreign-trained...

Sports Doctors too few for 2012 Olympics

... other demands. The Royal College is planning to launch a new faculty of sports and exercise medicine. Currently only three sports and exercise doctors are present on the register in London, Belfast and Nottingham although the specialty was backed by the government last year. Professor Charles Galasko...

AIDS Cases In Sudan Increasing

...n camps of returning refugees and at the same time launch propaganda campaign at evacuation sites. The youth and students die in a great number of HIV/AIDS and they need to be made aware of its dangers." Available data suggests that the rate of HIV in Sudan has reached 2.6 percent and it is feared that th...

Ranbaxy Launches Asthma Inhalation Capsule in India

...er, Ranbaxy stated Tuesday. "We are delighted to launch the world's first unique combination product Avessa in India, which reinforces our strong commitment to develop and introduce convenient solutions for asthmatic patients," said Sanjeev I. Dani, regional director of Ranbaxy for India and the Middle Ea...

India's First Stem Cell Transplant Center Launched in Chennai

...based Cryo-Cell Inc Wednesday announced// here the launch of the country's first stem cell transplant center at Chennai. Stem cells, obtained from cord blood cells during the childbirth, has the potential to cure over 75 diseases that humans face today as they can be used to repair specific tissues, accor...

Dengue Outbreak in the Capital is not an Epidemic: Government

...ify surveillance of potential breeding grounds and launch fogging of anti-mosquito drugs. Source-IANS...

Food Makers Pressurized to Reduce Salt

... salt intake to prevent high blood pressure. The launch of the campaign coincides with a World Health Organisation summit in Paris to discuss the role of salt in global health, which begins tomorrow. According to WASH the health implications of increased salt intake are backed up by research from a wide...

New polio cases detected in Bihar

..., the central government has directed the state to launch special immunisation drive from Oct 10 to 14 in all those districts, which were not covered in June-July. The World Health Organisation puts the total number of polio cases in India this year at 244 (till August) as against 66 in 2005. Bihar has t...

‘Schizophrenia’ term ought to be abolishd

...f the University of Manchester who recently helped launch The Campaign for the Abolition of the Schizophrenia Label (CASL), said, "There is no agreement on the cause of the illness or its treatment.According to CASL, the term schizophrenia is very harmful to those to whom it is applied and means unpredictab...

Impact of Mental Illness on Suicide

...ion has selected a theme each year in an effort to launch educational programmers based on the theme globally. The theme highlighted this year by the Federation focuses on " Building Awareness - Reducing Risk: Mental Illness & Suicide". Most cases of attempts to suicide can be retraced to certain emotion...

Australian PM’s Brush with Cance

...sing an august gathering of over 800 people at the launch of an all important national breast cancer report.Over the ‘Pink Ribbon’ breakfast meeting at Sydney this morning she exhorted women to ‘tend to their own health needs and those of their friends’. In a very dignified manner, Mrs Howard laid bare he...

Chemotherapy increases the demand for blood components

...90% goes for cancer patient treatment. At the launch of the life-saving platelet donation awareness campaign, Dr William Murphy, national medical director of the IBTS, said, “Platelets are an essential part of blood, enabling it to clot properly.” There are two methods by which the service collects p...

Partial-match cell transplants for kids with resistant leukemia

...mune cells respond to the recipient as foreign and launch an attack on the body. An additional advantage of this new treatment is that donor immune cells are likely to attack the leukemic cells remaining in the recipient, a reaction called a graft-versus-tumor response, according to the researchers. Dur...

University to Campaign Against Female Foeticide in Punjab

...he Punjab Technical University (PTU) is all set to launch an awareness campaign on these social issues. // ...5 km from here. Vice chancellor S.K. Salwan will launch the campaign, a university spokesman said. Concerned over the ever widening male and female ratio ...

Now A Computer Game To Battle AIDS

The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has announced the launch of a computer game targeted at young people aimed at helping them make better choices to combat diseases like AIDS.// Announced this week, the game is currently available in English and Swahili versions at unicef.org/voy/explore /aids/explore_1360....

Green signal for new drug for arthritis given in Canada

...egulatory officials have given the green signal to launch a novel drug for the treatment of arthritis// called Prexige which is described as a COX-2 inhibitor that seems to have no other side effects like cardiac complications which is associated with intake of other drugs used clinically for arthritis and ...

PM To Inaugurate World Youth Meet On Health

...n Nov 19, the meet will conclude in Delhi with the launch of the Youth for Health (Y4H) campaign. Y4H will enable youths across the participating nations to interact and exchange ideas among themselves for better health practices. Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the US, Russia, Argentina, Italy, France...

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