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WHO Concerned About Growing Two-wheeler Deaths in Asia

...cohol limits, as well as introducing and enforcing mandatory seat belt, helmet and child restraint laws. Authorities can also provide safer routes for pedestrians and cyclists, construct speed bumps, separate different types of traffic and improve emergency services from the crash scene to the health facilit...

AMA Calls For Calm Approach To Aged Care Illness Outbreaks

...he evidence,' Dr Haikerwal said. 'Calls for the mandatory reporting of all serious illness outbreaks in aged care homes are not justified. 'It would not be practical to report every case and would not help in the management of such situations. 'It is inevitable that outbreaks will occur from time to t...

Foundation Stone Laid for Public Health Institute

...said the central government has decided to make it mandatory for medical graduates to serve in rural areas from academic year 2008-09. Ramdoss stated that the country has about 262 medical colleges that are rolling out 29,000 graduates every year. Source-IANS/B...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...formed via a test called the colonoscopy should be mandatory for all persons above 50, say doctors. "Everybody is supposed to get screened for colon cancer right after they reach the age of 50," says DuBois, "because the risk of cancer started increasing dramatically after that. Colonoscopy is very effective...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

...itorial published last year, The Lancet called for mandatory vaccination against HPV for girls in all EU member states once they are 11 or 12. The issue has been controversial, as some parents fear such vaccines against sexually transmitted viruses could promote underage sex....

African Americans Tend to Suffer More from Drug Abuse

...entence. And crack is the only drug that carries a mandatory prison sentence for a first time offence. (While the powder is obtained from the cocoa paste, the crack is obtained by cooking the powder.) The rationale for the difference in penalties is simply that the crack is more addictive and its users ...

Karnataka Wants to Make HIV Screening Mandatory for Couple Before Marriage

...te of Karnataka is examining a proposal to make it mandatory for prospective couples// to undergo an HIV/AIDS test before marriage. State Health Minister R. Ashok informed the Legislative Council on March 26 that the government had written a letter to the federal government suggesting such a legislation. ...

HIV Tests to Be Made Mandatory for Pregnant Women, Infants in New Jersey

... of Center for Women Policy Studies, which opposes mandatory testing -- said, "There's an important issue about privacy and the right to make certain decisions about one's self." She added, "What's really needed is good counseling, preventative education, and conversations with respectful medical personnel and...

Easy Money-NHS Trusts Make Millions from Parking Fees

...ent of Health says that the parking fees were made mandatory to ensure that only those visiting the hospitals used the park. They also added that it was up to individual trusts to decide on these fees. Says a spokesman: "Ultimately, it is a matter for individual NHS bodies to decide whether or not to charge ...

Lactococcus Strain may Offer End to Food Allergies

...2 listed allergenic foods as an ingredient. The mandatory inclusion on food labels of the most common food allergen ingredients and their derivatives covers cereals containing gluten, fish, crustaceans, egg, peanut, soybeans, milk and dairy products including lactose, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame seed, and...

Bird Flu Once Again in Afghanistan

.... Azhari added that the government has ordered the mandatory culling of birds and that stringent control measures such as quarantines, sanitization and monitoring of birds are being adopted. Last month Afghanistan had banned imports of poultry mainly from Pakistan, Turkey Britain, and Indonesia when bird flu...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

... the breast and cervix, should be universally made mandatory . Protecting the girl-child from societal evils should be another primary concern. Prevention must be the key to usher in the all -round growth of women. It must be remembered that it is imperative for the women of a country to be empowered and ...

Scientists Genetically Engineer Tomatoes With Enhanced Folate Content

... in 1998, the Food and Drug Administration made it mandatory that many grain productssuch as rice, flour and cornmeal be enriched with a synthetic form of folate known as folic acid. Folate deficiencies remain a problem in many underdeveloped countries, however, where adding folic acid is impractical or simp...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...dication, while many more are not even getting the mandatory opportunistic infection medicines with the authorities saying there is no supply. Many like us are suffering without any access to treatment," said Maniruddin Laskar, general secretary of the Barak Valley Network of Positive People in southern Assam....

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...n that vaccinations for hepatitis B should be made mandatory to professional// rugby players before they embark...sional sports bodies to make hepatitis virus tests mandatory at the onset of players' careers and also urge them to get vaccinated. The researchers conclude: 'Cl...

Massachusetts To Offer Free Cervical Cancer Vaccine

... goes through.// The shot though would not be a mandatory one though. The plan was unveiled on Tuesday in terms of a new budget and includes funding for a new rotavirus vaccine as well which would be for infants. Another inclusion in the proposal is a bacterial meningitis vaccine for children. Patrick s...

Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

...d adverse events and errors within a voluntary and mandatory event reporting system in stroke patients admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester. Adverse events are defined as an injury to a patient occurring during medical management, not necessarily becau...

US Health System Getting Worse, Says Expert

...nt will legislate to make insurance affordable and mandatory for all. What is clear is that the problem is getting worse, not diminishing, she warns. The fragmented, uncoordinated healthcare system is plagued by high administrative costs and missed opportunities to control chronic conditions and prevent life...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

...Britain was the increased frequency of holding the mandatory qualifying test called the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test. Every overseas doctor needs to pass this test before being registered for possible employment. Earlier this test used to be held twice or thrice a year. Now it is ...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

...changes abolished permit-free training and made it mandatory for doctors from outside the European Union to obt...erm expired. But from April 3, 2006, it was made mandatory for employers to obtain work permits before employing these doctors after making a case to prove tha...

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