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Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...l has developed standards for organic exports, and mandatory domestic standards are in the works. This will make it easier and cheaper for farmers to get the kind of accreditation that is recognised abroad. But for now, the impetus for organic agriculture is coming not from small farmers in remote areas far ...

Workers Compelled to Stay in Shape to Avoid Pay Cuts

... an iPod. Community Health Network, which began mandatory health screenings in 2005 for all employees receiving health benefits, said its program has been a success, especially in fighting obesity. Some small and mid-sized companies also have stepped up wellness programs, tying participation in health ...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...99 percent said that HIV/AIDS testing must be made mandatory and 83 percent said they used condoms during sexual activity," said R. Isabel, executive director of the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS) that conducted the survey among 200 members of the transgender community. The MCCSS, which ...

Bidi Workers Protest Against Using Skull and Crossbones Sign on Packets

...ry making the skull and crossbones sign on packets mandatory from June 1 this year. Though the ruling DMK has supported the strike, its alliance partner PMK has obviously not with its man Anbumani Ramadoss at the helm of the union health ministry. The universal sign for danger has thus become the latest b...

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

...ght. Officials in southeastern Georgia issued a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for an area including the town of Moniac, saying that by early Thursday it may be in the path of a 107,000-acre blaze, or 167 square miles, in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, the largest recorded blaze since state record...

Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists

...ts. Labor has previously committed to pursuing a mandatory right to paid maternity leave. Barbara Pocock, the author of "The Labour Market Ate My Babies", says it is "absolutely shocking" that Australia continues to lag on something as basic as paid maternity leave. Australian Bureau of Statistics figur...

Exposure to CT Scan Radiation may Be Equivalent to That of Nuclear Bomb

...on recommends that medical students should receive mandatory training on the use of CT scans. It also stressed the need of conveying the risks of the scanning techniques to the public. "We're concerned and we're aware of it," New Scientist quoted Arl Van Moore, chair of the ACR, as saying....

25,000 Needless Deaths Each Year Due to Failure to Tackle Blood Clots in Hospital

...month, recommending that every adult should have a mandatory VTE risk assessment on admission to hospital and that core standards be set to ensure full compliance with these assessments. But despite the huge evidence base for preventative treatment, it remains poorly implemented in the UK, say the authors. ...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

...ds making addition of folic acid to flour or bread mandatory in order to reduce the number of babies born with ...iss the opportunity. Countries which introduced mandatory fortification have seen defect rates decline by up. The evidence has prompted the FSA board to ag...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

... was so serious that ministers should consider the mandatory immunisation of all school children. He added that general practitioners should offer screening to new patients who come from parts of the world where the disease is common, including eastern Europe. Mayur Lakhani, chairman of the Royal College o...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...rograms today. For example, the anthrax vaccine is mandatory for military personnel and civilians deploying to "high-threat" areas across the globe, including Iraq and Afghanistan, despite being linked to serious illnesses and even death among US service members. Quite conveniently, the quarterly analysis of m...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...is strongest European ally. The EU is committed to mandatory cuts and UN-sponsored talks to bring in the rest of the world; Japan and Canada also favour binding, long-term goals. US negotiators fought to remove any references to binding targets from the summit's 22-page draft statement on global warming. Bus...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

... Babies Coalition, "Since the government began its mandatory food fortification program in 1998, and public/private partnerships have been urging women to take a multivitamin with folic acid, we've seen a 27 percent decline in the number of neural tube birth defects in this country. The importance of women get...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...99 percent said that HIV/AIDS testing must be made mandatory and 83 percent said they used condoms during sexual activity," said R. Isabel, executive director of the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS) that conducted the survey among 200 members of the transgender community. The MCCSS, which ...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...r by fueling the development of new blood vessels, mandatory for cancer cell growth. Says Gu: “VEGF can promote the formation of new blood vessels. This suggests that alcohol can induce tumor angiogenesis." In other words, the scientists suggest the difference in tumor weight is a result of jacked-up growt...

Texas Passes Bill To Halt Order Mandating HPV Vaccine for School Girls

...HB 1098) a Senate-approved bill that would prevent mandatory vaccination for middle school girls in the state until 2011, the New York Times reports.// Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Feb. 2 issued an executive order that mandates that all girls entering the sixth grade beginning in September 2008 receive an HPV vacc...

Bill Passed Directing Prisons To Provide Inmates With HIV Testing, Treatment

...licy statement issued by the bureau, HIV tests are mandatory in some cases, and prisoners cannot refuse to be tested. Waters last year introduced a similar bill as part of a campaign to address HIV/AIDS among blacks, who account for a disproportionate share of the country's prison inmates. According to a st...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...f unsafe food being consumed. "We've got to have mandatory recall authority," says U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee. "It simply beggars belief that we don't have a mechanism in that regard. The industry itself has a stake in the ability to stop the loss of confidence is these products." There are also fears of nation...

HPV Vaccine – Should It Be Mandatory for Girls

...ble to evaluate the merits of its inclusion in the mandatory immunization programme for infants. According to statistics, about 250,000 Americans are down with Hepatitis B infection each year. One-fifth of these people would eventually become inevitable carriers of infection. Therefore it became crucial to ...

Counseling to Mothers Against too Much Shaking of Children

...who deliver their babies at the Centre to attend a mandatory series of Shaken Baby Syndrome educational briefin... seriousness of the problem in the military. The mandatory educational briefings are conducted before the birth of the baby, soon after, and again a third time...

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