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US Experts Necessitated On An Action Plan To Curb AIDS In Blacks

...ational Minority AIDS Council backed by U.S. black lawmakers and medical leaders, have issued a report in advance of world AIDS day (Dec 1) stating a five-point strategy that helps in reducing the spread of the disease among black Americans. Distrust of the medical establishments, less access to medical ins...

Ad Campaign Targeting Republicans On Medicare Prescription Drug Program

...0,000 television and radio ad campaign blaming GOP lawmakers for not seeking lower prices for the Medicare pres...America on Tuesday. The ad campaign accusing the lawmakers for blocking provisions that would have required Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for the b...

AMA Supports Tax Penalty for Uninsured Americans

... about five million Americans. State and federal lawmakers have already been considering legislation towards this issue in Congress and state houses in America and the AMA's House of Delegates voting in favor of individual responsibility comes close on its heels. AMA’s new role has been a shift from its pa...

Pharmacy Board Says Pharmacists Have Right To Refuse Morning-After Pill

...traceptive in Washington//. But the governor, some lawmakers and women's rights organizations are furious with this decision. Rod Shafer, executive director of the Washington State Pharmacy Association had said earlier this year that pharmacists should have the right to decline to dispense medicine that they...

Misleading Health Claims On Food Labels No Longer Allowed in EU

European Union lawmakers decided on Tuesday that food companies will not be...onger. //The decision marks the first time that EU lawmakers have clamped down on misleading claims or health benefits on the food labels. EU is also looking to...

Extend Workers Compensation To Firefighters. Pleads Son

...nsequent to battling a fire in Plastimet has urged lawmakers to extend workers compensation //scheme to firefighters as well. Shaw says it's a shame that Ontario does not have a package for industrial diseases. New Democrat Andrea Horvath has introduced a bill seeking to rectify this glitch. Capt. Bob Shaw, ...

Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case

...n rights advocates, former FDA officials and other lawmakers claimed that the delays had resulted from politics. The FDA was sued by the Center for Reproductive Rights in federal court in New York over the delays. The case was allowed to proceed bestowing the center with the right to interview top FDA offici...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...id that doctors should take the lead and work with lawmakers in the US on healthcare// reforms that should include a reduction in fines to be paid in cases of medical negligence. Shastri Swaminathan, a psychiatrist who has served as president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, will take over as Chicago Med...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...id that doctors should take the lead and work with lawmakers in the US on healthcare reforms that should include a reduction in fines to be paid in cases of medical negligence. // Shastri Swaminathan, a psychiatrist who has served as president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, will take over as Chicago Me...

Madhya Pradesh Shows Indifferent Attitude Towards Infant Mortality

... voluntary group. The study says that even women lawmakers were not raising the issue effectively. The study notes that of the 1,483 questions taken up for discussion in the Madhya Pradesh assembly in 2005, not a single question was asked on the issue of maternal mortality or women's health. Only 10 quest...

Patients with AIDS Need More Support From the Govt

...people are encouraged to have more money then some lawmakers fear the disease will spread rapidly....

CHIP Includes Dental Coverage

...coverage were removed from this plan. Since then lawmakers have restored these services back, enabling children to meet a dentist from Saturday onwards....

Suspected Bird Flu Death Creates Panic In Hong Kong

...officials in China. The news prompted calls from lawmakers to tighten up border health checks on travellers and on poultry imports. Hong Kong has had no human cases of bird flu in the current outbreak, but CHP director Leung Pak-yin warned that the threat was increasing. "We expect there could be human c...

“Cheeseburger Bill” Goes In Favor Of Fast Food Restaurans

...panies liable for obesity by taking fast food. The lawmakers voted 306-120 in favor of the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act which will make people harder to put case on food industry for causing overweight. Most of the critics feel that it is the responsibility of the people who are taking foo...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

... of people addicted to this habit. It is time that lawmakers quickly adopt the suggestion and act accordingly. “Our research shows that reducing smoking initiation in youth is likely to offer the largest public health impact during this new century,” said Daniel Stokols, UCI professor of planning, policy and...

New Stem Cells lines will be required

...ient without causing an immune response. But some lawmakers would like to see so-called therapeutic cloning -- which, unlike reproductive cloning, will never result in a birth -- outlawed. A proposed measure by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., would outlaw the act of therapeutically cloning a human embryo. It woul...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...t-minute flurry.// Working until nearly midnight, lawmakers also approved a sales tax "holiday" designed to sp...een the versions approved by the House and Senate, lawmakers removed a $1.5 million enticement targeted at Virgin Atlantic Airways, which is contemplating a move...

A need for new stem cell lines

...ient without causing an immune response. But some lawmakers would like to see so-called therapeutic cloning -- which, unlike reproductive cloning, will never result in a birth -- outlawed. A proposed measure, would outlaw the act of therapeutically cloning a human embryo. It would also ban the importation of ...

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