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Kellogg Warned Against Its Marketing Strategies

...elevision characters. The proposed lawsuit would mark the latest attempt to battle the growing obesity crisis in the United States through the courts. This comes in the same vein as the lawsuit that brought Mc Donald’s to poor light. Parents are also unable to restrain their children from consuming such...

Setting Standards: Benchmark Medical Tests to Gauge Accuracy of Medical Tests

...sts. // Researchers use a Gold standard, a bench mark test against which is compared the medical test in question, to gauge the preciseness of the result or measure the deviation. Generally Gold standard benchmark tests consume time and are often an ex pensive proposition. Anne Rutjes and colleagues st...

Food Grains Project To Tackle Malnutrition In India

...added food grains. // This strategy is poised to mark a major shift in the national food policy by 2015. The first, experimental phase of the project is over and the trial phase is beginning. Iron and zinc deficiency are very serious public health problems in India,' said M.K. Bhan, secretary, biotech...

Blair Welcomes 11 Private Healthcare Providers into NHS

... new members at a summit held at Downing Street to mark the launch of NHS Partners Network. The partners signed a document pledging to work as partners towards 'future success' of the NHS. "Wherever people are treated - in a traditional hospital, an independent hospital, a new treatment centre or in the...

World population To Be Seven billion in Six Years

...s at 6.5 billion and will touch the seven billion mark on Oct 18, 2012, at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Tim...n March 2004, world population hit the six billion mark in June 1999. 'This figure is over 3.5 times the size of the earth's population at the beginning of ...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...ment launches programmes for women and children to mark International Women's Day Wednesday, the girl child in India struggles for survival even before she is born with incidents of female foeticide on a continuous rising graph. Ironically, child sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years has been inverse...

Cost-effective Meningitis Vaccine To Be Launched In Africa

...f the above plan were to be materialized, it would mark the first ever initiative taken for production of the vaccine, exclusively for use by the developing and underdeveloped countries. It would also ensure that the drug manufacturer receives an optimal level of profit. Currently, GlaxoSmithKline and S...

98.6 degrees no longer the benchmark for normal temperature

...98.6 degrees, and replaced the 100.4 degrees fever mark with fever thresholds based on the time of day. Research findings of another group form Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., have found that older people have lower temperatures, even when older people are ill, their body temperature may ...

India Needs To Get Its Act Together To Curb the Rise of HIV/AIDS

... cases, the figure touching a mammoth five million mark as per statistics in 2003, very little has been done ever since to bring down the number of AIDS/HIV cases, according to Prof Suzanne Crowe, Deputy Chairperson of Australia-India Council (AIC). Much to her consternation, the updated data on the nu...

Drive Against Malnutrition Among Children In MP Gets Kicked Off

...ive, while street plays and puppet shows will also mark the fairs aimed at reducing malnutrition," he said. O.P. Rawat, principal secretary of the women and child development department, said: "Under the drive, no area of the state would be left untouched." Efforts would be made during the campaign ...

Indonesia To Free All Chickens Of Bird Flu By 2008

...firms the presence of bird flu infection, it would mark the 17th human case of avian influenza in the world's most populous nation. Since 2003, nearly 194 people have been known to be infected with the deadly H5N1 virus. Out of this at least 109 have lost their lives according to official estimates of t...

Blood Pressure To Be Taken After Patients Settle Down: Nurse’s Stud

... blood pressure by a margin of 14 points or so can mark the difference between an inaccurate diagnosis and a clean bill of health. This first ever study conducted by nurses challenges the traditional approach to measuring blood pressure and recommend that the blood pressure should be measured after a peri...

New Born Breast Fed Babies Will Serve As Growth Yardstick

...rowth of babies will be measured. This will indeed mark a sea change from the practice of almost 4 decades, //where babies have always been measured against a growth chart formulated on the growth pattern portrayed by formula- fed babies. It is well known that bottle-fed children grow at a quicker rate ...

Students Divided over OBC Reservation

...ct Magistrate, which included lowering the cut-off mark for eligibility to take CBSE medical entrance tests for SC, ST and OBC to 40 per cent, exemption from mandatory interview for admission to technical institution in addition to the reservation for the OBC in medical and technical institutions....

UP medicos oppose OBC quota

...upt any patient care services but at the same time mark our protest against the atrocities of police against our counterparts.’ Under the Essential Services Maintenance Act strikes are banned in medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. The UP government had dissolved the Resident Doctors’ Association in Janua...

High Death Rate In UK Due To Melanoma Skin Cancer

A survey commissioned by Cancer Research UK to mark Sun Awareness Week found that the high death rate that is associated with melanoma is making it the most dangerous form of skin cancer. // According to the figures that were released, the male deaths in Britain from melanoma skin cancer have risen ...

'Mother and Child' Sculptor for Anti-Polio Campaign

...He unveiled the sculpture with two polio drops to mark the last phase of this year's Pulse Polio campaign that ends on Sunday. Thousands of tourists, among them many foreigners, thronged the beach in this former French town on the east coast to see the work that took Patnaik 36 hours to sculpt. "The ...

Agitating Doctors Call For Two Day Shut Down Of OPD’

...doctors would be requested to leave the OPD’s as a mark of support for the movement. On Saturday, agitators at Medical College and Hospital pushed the doctors and patients out of the OPD’s and locked the rooms. Authorities from both the hospitals emphasized that they would make sure that essential servi...

Drawing from Myth to Become Mistress of Spices

...ess of Madurai. The next morning the transvestites mark a period of widowhood, when Aravan goes to war and dies. In a society where myth and superstition make for a heady mix, the real mistress of spices is Mathana from Ukakadam. She took to cooking at a tender age of 12 but as her family discovered th...

Glaucoma Camp Held

...rganized by the Aravind Eye Hospital here today to mark the International Glaucoma Week//. According to a press release from the hospital, glaucoma would affect people above 40. There was a possibility of diabetic, blood pressure and myopia patients contracting this disease. There would not be any sym...

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