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Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...the DOTS had been that effective, why the disaster looming large on almost every front, he challenges. The Directorate General concedes, " The TB burden in India is still staggering. Every year, 1.8 million persons develop the disease, of which about 800,000 are infectious; and, until recently, 370,000 died ...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...noted and called for concerted action to fight the looming danger. GPL...

International Health Security to Be Tackled on World Health Day

...ries. "New outbreaks of avian influenza and the looming danger of an influenza pandemic, together with the severe health impacts of recent flooding in Indonesia and the Horn of Africa, underline the fact that now is the time to focus on international health security," Chan said. Governments, donors, civ...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

...ns of the research were even more important with a looming flu pandemic when a much higher percentage of the population could be expected to catch the illness. "In the majority of influenza epidemics (except for the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic) cardiovascular deaths surpassed any other causes of mortality, ...

Local Councils Should Be Responsible for Tackling Health Inequalities

...portunity to redistribute health, and quickly. The looming 2010 target for narrowing the life expectancy gap in England by 10% is focusing effort on pharmacological interventions, such as statins and antihypertensives, among people in their 50s and 60s. Although extending these treatments as widely as need...

RFID Use can Avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

...rs and nurses can be immediately alerted about the looming danger. If the device is thoroughly tested and found successful; it will revolutionize not only prevention of SIDS but many other similar conditions. RFID in the healthcare have found application in the healthcare industry in some of these areas-...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...h experts in the US are ringing alarm bells over a looming shortage of farm animal veterinarians. The shortage is arising at a time of continued outbreaks among// animals potentially endangering human health and risking the nation's food supply, they warn. At the moment though, the American Veterinary Med...

Alzheimers Incidence is Set to Quadruple by 2050

...ot very different from previous projections of the looming global dementia epidemic with the graying of the world's population. But they serve as a sobering reminder of the toll to come if scientists cannot find better ways to battle Alzheimer's and protect aging brains. "If we can make even modest advan...

New AMA Survey Finds Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors

...ess to enact legislation now that will replace the looming cuts with Medicare payment updates based on practice costs. "Congressional action is the only remedy that will help assure seniors' access to doctors," said Dr. Wilson. "We ask America's seniors, and their loved ones, to join us in calling for legi...

Bid to Save Medical Colleges from De-recognition

...ut as per standards set by the council. "But the looming threat of de-recognition has prompted the state's finance committee to loosen its purse strings to meet the infrastructure deficit in the medical colleges and hospitals affiliated to MCI," the medical department official said. In April, the state g...

Better Working Conditions for Nurses Might Decrease Patient Infections

... safety of our nation's sickest patients. With the looming nursing shortage, hospitals direly need to address working conditions in order to help retain current staff now and recruit people into nursing in the future." Researchers evaluated several measures of working conditions to assess their effect on h...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

... ways of the West , the human papilloma virus is a looming danger and one has to go all out to fight cervical cancer. But the multi-million marketing by the multi-national drug manufacturer has made experts uneasy. To give the impression that it could completely eliminate cervical cancer is quite mislea...

Urine is a Rich Source of Phosphorus

An Australian researcher has suggested that the looming global shortage of phosphorus can be dealt with by recycling urine. Associate Professor Cynthia Mitchell of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) reckons that the world's deposits of phosphorus may fi...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

... pointers for scientists poring over how to combat looming climate change . Rising global temperatures this century will stress almost every agricultural region of the world, according to the latest report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But for poor tropical nations, the ri...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...ere directed to take the drug whenever they felt a looming urge to drink. During the first three months of treatment, the average number of heavy drinking days was 8.6 to 9.3 for the people in the nalmefene group. The drinkers assigned to the placebo group had somewhat less dramatic reductions. They average...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

... the picture actually meant. Although some saw a looming threat, no action was taken politically, given the backlash against environmentalism in the era of former US president Ronald Reagan. Things changed in 1988, a summer of record heat and droughts in the United States, when James Hansen of the Goddar...

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