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Parents' Permission Required For Tattooing

...iercing and tattoo studios will also be subject to mandatory licensing// to ensure better safety standards and regulate hygiene. This is applicable to all those who are less than 16 years of age. The object behind the exercise is to reduce the possibilities of blood borne diseases being transmitted through co...

Colon Cancer Patients Not Receiving Proper Treatment

...s of Health say that chemotherapy after surgery is mandatory in stage III colon cancer. Here the cancer has already spread to the abdomen and the surrounding lymph nodes. The researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing the data of 86,000 patients at 560 U.S. hospitals. They also found that the per...

HIV Positive Men in Singapore Exposed

... as part of the program has made screening for HIV mandatory for pregnant women. It is also planning to distribute HIV self testing kits. Rules for testing couples before marriage for HIV and severe punishments for those who spread the disease inadvertently are still in the pipeline....

WHO Intensifies Anti-Tobacco war

...application forms of the organization will make it mandatory for job applicants to state if they are smokers. The agency seeks to promote a tobacco free environment across the world. The WHO is also engaged in a campaign against the tobacco industry. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of WHO bans sale...

Effective family control measures and stem cell research focus of Indian Government

...of the family. The Minister is totally against the mandatory ‘one child per couple’ norm currently practiced in China and hopes to achieve population stability through reducing infant mortality and maternity mortality. Massive immunization programs and a new innovative plan called ASHA have been launched rece...

‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

..."coercive" policy on family planning” to introduce mandatory Chinese style 'one child per couple' norm to arrest the population growth of the country. // Mr.Ramadoss said India would lay emphasis on attaining "population stabilization" through a series of measures including awareness initiatives like 'ASHA'. ...

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

...ng out to enforce anti-flu controls, which include mandatory poultry vaccinations and twice-daily health checks for all villagers who live near the sites of outbreaks — 72,000 people in all, authorities told a news conference this week. At least 67 people have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu since 2003,...

Need For Social Churning Emphasized In CMC Meet On ‘Leadership In Healthcare

...phasized the need for the Union Government to make mandatory a comprehensive Universal Health Insurance System for the people//. She advocates the utilization of 9 % of the GDP on health and adopt a cross-sectoral approach which should include education, socio-economic growth and provision of basic infrastru...

Declining Rates Of Sperm Donors Over The Past 5 Years

... in the general UK population. With laws making it mandatory to consider only donors willing to be identified, strategies to target older men in established relationships has to be developed. Increasing public knowledge regarding the need for sperm donation seems a sensible approach rather than emphasizing o...

Northeast To Get Mega Rural Health Mission

...tor and adequate nursing staff. "We shall make it mandatory for all medical graduates who have completed their internship to serve in a rural area for one year. During this period they would be given a temporary registration and once they complete the yearlong tenure, they would be entitled for permanent regi...

High concentration of heavy metals in Herbal medicines

...an the regulatory standards. It has now been made mandatory that all herbal products should be tested for their heavy metal content prior to export. The notification has been issued by the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 194...

Compulsory testing for heavy metal content in herbal medicines

...sting of levels of such substances// would be made mandatory January 1, 2006. The Indian Government has already issued a notification to test products for heavy metals. However, this testing is only meant for products meant for export. It is likely to be extended to products sold in the country as well. The ...

Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

...ision, and remarked that it should be made legally mandatory to disclose the HIV status of the sexual partner. The police officer in charge of the case, Detective Constable Matthew Cleaver says the ruling means people should take extra precautions and also warned that people need to be careful before getting...

Testing For HIV/AIDS Compulsory For New Military Recruits

...s to the navy, army and the air force will be made mandatory from Oct 1," said the Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services, Surgeon Vice Admiral Vijay K. Singh. "This is one of the most effective ways to keep the armed forces free from the scourge and keep it fit for combat at all times," Singh said...

Dietary supplementation of Folic Acid Requires Critical Evaluation

...or for heart attacks and strokes. The FDA made it mandatory in 1998 to add 140 micrograms of the vitamin to each 100 grams of grains that are labeled as...

Making Fortification Mandatory In Order To Reduce Birth Defects

... introduction of some fortified foods or implement mandatory fortification as a means of stemming its high rate of birth defects. A new study shows that milk could be another application for increasing intake of the vitamin, as well as the bread and cereal products that are already enriched with folic acid t...

Condoms May not be safe Enough

...g Administration requires that condom boxes have a mandatory warning stating: "If used properly, latex condoms will help to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV infection (AIDS) and many other sexually transmitted diseases." Heather Boonstra, an official with the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group ...

Pre-pregnancy folic acid intake does not increase rate of having twins

...e of folate and multivitamin was recorded from the mandatory notification form of the country’s Medical Birth Registry. The results showed weak relationship between use of multivitamins and folic acid during pregnancy and having twin babies. The researchers are of the opinion that this could be due to increa...

Chicken-Pox vaccine not fool proof

...ren, even though it does not figure in the list of mandatory //vaccinations, and no comparative study has ever been conducted. Now they may have to do a rethink, after new studies in the US have raised doubts about its effectiveness. According to the study, published last week in The Journal of the American ...

Stronger Backing for Drug-Coated Stents

...asty.” He concludes that the next step should be a mandatory registry established by the Food and Drug Administration to report problems. ...

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