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Pregnant? Check Your Thyroid Secretion!

...onsidering whether thyroid check up should be made mandatory in pregnant women, even if no symptoms of the disease are seen. Previous studies have shown that even a slightly under active or a hyperactive thyroid gland during pregnancy may result in premature births or miscarriage or babies with lower IQ's. 2...

Forge Ahead On Folate Fortification

...ay said the AMA is yet again calling for immediate mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid. // Food ...land (FSANZ) recommended in October last year that mandatory fortification be introduced in Australia, but implementation has been delayed until after the next m...

Ban on Non-iodised Salt Challenged

...ed countries, which had introduced iodised salt on mandatory basis, had to withdraw it and were compelled to make both types of salt available in the market. Source-IANS...

Trans-fat Foods to Vacate Room from the World’s Leading Hotelier

...nd Starbucks. In January 2006 the FDA had made it mandatory to label food products containing trans-fats. Since then New York had made moves to get it’s restaurants declared trans-fat free. If other companies follow suit the city will be the first to have all restaurants become trans-fat free zones. NN...

Walker Friendly Neighborhood Keeps Senior Citizen Active

...vey people preferred to walk to places where it is mandatory for them to conduct their daily business like the bank, post office, school or the grocery stores. This survey also highlighted the fact that women were 75% more likely to walk then their male counterparts. On the other hand, men consider this walkin...

HIV Tests to Be Made Mandatory for Karnataka Couples, Politicians

...is planning to enact legislation to make HIV tests mandatory for couples planning to marry and for politicians ... Ashok said. The legislation would make HIV tests mandatory for all couples before marriage. Karnataka has over 500,000 HIV positive people, accounting for nea...

Fertility Clinic Web Sites Doesn’t Adhere to Ad-Guideline

...nformation for patients. The guidelines, which are mandatory for membership in SART, require clinics to provide...eb sites that published success rates included the mandatory disclaimer statement. The researchers also evaluated Web sites for advertising specific services, ...

All Foreign-born Nationals In US To Be Tested For TB

... the US changed its guidelines// and made TB tests mandatory for all foreign-born nationals, irrespective of how long they have been residing there. Tuberculosis can only be eradicated if all foreign-born residents from high-risk countries are tested and, if necessary, treated for latent TB infection, they s...

Andhra Legislators To Undergo HIV Tests

...government is contemplating legislation to make it mandatory for men and women to undergo HIV/AIDS tests before...Os to arrive at a consensus before making the test mandatory before marriage and birth of a baby. Andhra Pradesh is one of the six high HIV/AIDS prevalent stat...

India to Set Up Nicotine-Mapping Laboratory

...CDC). Ramadoss said the government would make it mandatory for all tobacco manufacturers to mention the perce...king about the decision to make pictorial warnings mandatory on bidi packets, Ramadoss said his government was for a tobacco free environment and would continue ...

Poor Sanitation Causes 3.1 Million Child Deaths In Asia

...nt Minister Meira Kumar said she wanted to make it mandatory for authorities at schools and educational institutions to provide toilets for girls. "Without toilets, they don't feel like normal persons. In these conditions the question of their taking interest in studies doesn't arise. I am sure there will be ...

Skull and Crossbones on Bidis Likely from April

...day it would not withdraw a notification making it mandatory for bidi packets to carry a skull and crossbones picture //as a warning but said its enforcement could be postponed till May. Lok Sabha MPs from various parties protested the move saying it would affect the livelihood of millions of bidi workers. ...

Indian American Scientist at Work on Multi-targeted Drug

...o bring his candidate drug to the market after the mandatory clearances and clinical trials, he said it might take three years and about $10 million investment to reach the first phase of human clinical trial to test it for toxicity. The US FDA may require his newly founded company CDG Therapeutics, which ho...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...nd professional discipline structures, the lack of mandatory hospital accreditation and the absence of objective, hospital-by-hospital statistics on outcomes of medical treatment -- not to mention the relative infrequency of civil malpractice litigation -- enhances the social importance of criminal law as a wa...

Fear Factor in Toronto: health officials fight Hepatitis A outbreak

...after meals, before cooking and after ablutions is mandatory informed health officials. These measures will ensure that the epidemic is quelled. MST...

India To Register All Health Care Infrastructure: Ramadoss

...that, the nodal registering body will make the act mandatory for one and all. The act will be implemented through a three-tier structure with officers at the district, state and central level, said Ramadoss. The law will also standardise all medical facilities available either in government and private hospit...

Tasty Cosmetic Recipes to flavor your day

... passed a new regulation on 16 Nov, which makes it mandatory for all cosmetic products to exhibit the list of their ingredients on the container label. Dodson says that, the growing desire of the consumers to know what they smear on their skin is reflected in this new regulation. This will help companies using...

Bombay HC Refuses Mandatory HIV Tests

...bay High Court has refused to grant directions for mandatory HIV/ AIDS testing before taking up a job or before...tions that no individual should be made to undergo mandatory testing for HIV. The Joint Director of Health Services had filed an affidavit which stated that the...

Stop Exploiting Children ! Anti Obesity Charter On Junk Food Ads

...roducts with added fat, sweeteners or salt carry a mandatory health warning, otherwise the advertiser has to contribute to health campaigns. The WHO conference is being held in Istanbul on November 15. MAL...

Low Folate Diet increases Colorectal Cancer risk

...rs, corn meals, pastas and rice with folic acid is mandatory in both US and Canada. GYT...

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