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EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India

...0,000 lives. "On an average we are able to save 50 lives per day," EMRI Chief Executive Officer Venkat Changavalli told newsmen Wednesday. He was speaking on the occasion of launch of the two-year post graduate programme in emergency care in partnership with Stanford School of Medicine, USA. For extendin...

Drag Dad to the Doctor This Father's Day

...is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Founded in 1940, the Association provides services to hundreds of communities across the country....

Suicide Bids Tripled Among Denmark Asylum Seekers Since 2001

... or 0.6 percent of the total -- tried to end their lives in 2001, according to a study by the Danish Association to Help Refugees said. That contrasted with the 2006 figures, when 41 people of the total 2,415 people housed in camps tried to commit suicide. The figure corresponded to 1.7 percent of the to...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

... "This important study brings real hope that the lives of thousands of children, teenagers, and young adults will be saved by immunization and that widespread suffering, sickness and socioeconomic disruption can be avoided, said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization in a st...

Super Fruit Fly may Harbor Hope for Human Longevity

...ectacular. Flies with a blocked receptor saw their lives extended by a third, with no noticeable side effects. The same blocking strategy should work in all such receptors, known as class B GPCRs (for G protein-coupled receptors). Many GPCRs figure prominently in disease as well as in normal development,...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

...inics in the city would make a difference and save lives of cardiac patients. The hospital launched a number of Chest Pain Clinics here last week to address the need of preventing the loss of time in order to save lives. Anil Maini, president, corporate development, Apollo Group of Hospitals, said: 'T...

FPG Receives $8 Million for Autism Research

... if we intervene early, we can greatly enhance the lives of children with autism. This new work will help ensure not only that children are diagnosed as early as possible, but that when they are diagnosed they receive the most effective treatment by professionals who are prepared and knowledgeable,' said S...

Mozambique Set to Liberalise Abortion Law

...edged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa's most impoverished nati... who terminate pregnancy can expect to "live their lives in fear of divine punishment." The admonition has not daunted women's groups. "We should follow th...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

... international crime business that endangers human lives and generates billions of dollars every year through the sale of tablets and powders. Unlike drug smuggling, however, medicine counterfeiting is still not considered a criminal offence under the legal systems of a number of east European countries...

A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug

...ws the principle that when someone fasts, the body lives off stored fat. Ketasyn contains fatty acids that the liver metabolizes into substances called ketones, similar to what's produced during a fast. Brain cells can use ketones in place of sugar for energy. That's also similar to the high-fat, low-pro...

Boffins Find Link Between Common Sleep Disorder and Hypertension

...litating sleep disorder that adversely affects the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide. It produces an intense, often irresistible urge to move the legs because of creeping, crawling, tingling or burning sensations. RLS causes considerable discomfort, insomnia and sleep disruption in people of al...

Sweltering Heat in Madhya Pradesh Claims Fifteen Lives

...s of the state, as the heat wave claimed six more lives taking the toll to 15. The weather officials had no hope to offer, saying the hot weather would persist for the next two days. The six deaths include two each in Shivpuri, Morena and Damoh. The mercury soared to more than 46 degree Celsius at...

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...against the diseases that have claimed millions of lives in the world's poorest continent....

WHO Intensifies Work on Safe Blood for Mothers

...the availability and use of safe blood to save the lives of women during and after childbirth. The initiative is the beginning of a broader blood safety agenda redefined in Ottawa this week and aiming to work towards universal access to safe blood transfusion in support of the Millennium Development Go...

New International Health Regulations to Enter into Force Tomorrow

...ort affected States to contain the emergency, save lives and prevent its spread. WHO has already developed and built an improved events management system to manage potential public health emergencies. It has also built strategic operations centres at its Geneva Headquarters and in Regional Offices aroun...

Hormone Therapy An Alternative to Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

...ur treatment strategy could extend and improve the lives of women with cancer. Ovarian cancer is the most commonly fatal of gynaecological cancers, affecting 1 in 48 women. Nearly 7,000 new cases are diagnosed in the UK each year. Current treatment involves surgery and chemotherapy, but most ovarian canc...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...r cards, only 12 percent have one. "Thousands of lives are saved every year in Europe by organ transplants. Yet many more lives could be saved if we could reduce the current shortage of organs," said EU Health Comissioner Markos...

Women Risk Their Lives by Driving in High Heels

...ing and said that women are actually risking their lives by driving in heels. The survey conducted by women's car insurance concern Sheilas Wheels revealed that almost 80 per cent of female motorists wear improper footwear while driving. Sixty-six per cent admitted that they chose to wear high heels at...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

...itre basin. More than half of Kenya's population lives on less than one dollar a day with hundreds of tho...months until the tank is full," said Gachanja, who lives in a tin-roofed shack along one of Kibera's serpentine paths. But there are certain challenges to ...

Hillary Clinton Speaks Up Strongly for Stem Cell Research

...nt is really on the side of helping and saving the lives of their loved ones," she said. "Where we are now is, we're going backward. We're not just stalled. We're going backward." She was speaking days after days the House voted to ease limits on the federally funded research despite President Bush's vet...

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