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Commemoration of World AIDS Day

...as the first of December approaches. //This day is meant to be observed as the international day of action against the HIV and AIDS epidemic around the world. The theme of ADRA's for 2006 is, "AIDS can be stopped only when we realize it's everyone's challenge," and it encourages people all over the world...

Mittal tightens grip on steel making giant, to be its chief

...year guidance. However, the drop in steel prices meant that third-quarter turnover slipped to 17.3 billion euros from 17.8 billion euros in the same period last year. Source-IANS...

Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims

...The company had supplied tens of thousands of kits meant for detecting infections 'such as HIV, Hepatitis B or C' in collected blood. Till August 2006, it had supplied the government over 140,000 kits for testing Hepatitis B and C alone, health officials said. Source-IANS...

Mercury-Based Vaccine Ban Temporarily Suspended

...dical groups said the delays in vaccine production meant that pediatricians have received only partial orders of mercury-free flu . Therefore they had to turn away patients, and young children could not be protected during the flu season.However, many doctors have flu shots available with thimerosal ( a m...

Writing on the Wall - Lead Poisoning Begins at Home?Paints Could Be Toxic!

...hat was worrying is that, lead was found in paints meant especially for children’s rooms, toys or playground equipments, crossing the limits set by the WHO High blood lead levels in children is harmful, it can cause a decline in IQ scores, hamper school performance, and in the worst case could lead to cog...

Portion Sizes in Restaurants Larger than Before

...lines is three ounces. While a serving of pasta is meant to be a half cup most chefs serve up one to two cups of pasta with a meal. Almost 1/2 cup of vegetables such as steamed broccoli are served by chefs in restaurants. "Not everybody is a plate cleaner, but as the size of the steak increases, you are ...

Standards of Home Care for Elderly Needs Change

...rvices on people with the most severe needs, which meant that others were left out. Home care appeared to be often beset with serious problems in recruiting, training and retaining quality staff according to inspectors. The report said that younger people were given little incentive to work in the care i...

A Family's Fight against Breast cancer

... She learnt that she carried the BRCA2 gene, which meant her risk of developing cancer again was 80 per cen...he latter procedure, an autologous reconstruction, meant the breasts would look and feel more natural. Nipples are removed because they contain ducts that ma...

Detention, Uncertainty take their Toll on the Mental Health of Refugees

...acing an uncertain future. The cumulative effect meant TPV holders were much more susceptible to mental health problems, said lead author Zachary Steel, a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at UNSW. “TPV holders exceeded PPV holders on all measures of psychiatric disturbance and mental disability,” Mr Steel...

Salmonella Bacteria Are Deceptive

.... This is ironical since macrophages are the cells meant to detect such bacteria. Just how Salmonella escapes detection by macrophages, turning predator cells to prey complicit in promoting infection, has seemed impossibly complicated, a needle-in-a-haystack proposition involving thousands of proteins, t...

FDA Approves Vectibix for Colorectal Cancer

Vectibix, a drug meant for treating patients with advanced colorectal cancer has been approved for use in cases where the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.//Panitumamab, which is being marketed as Vectibix by Amgen Inc has been found to shrink tumor size and re...

Pressing Need for Additional Staff Consultants at NHS

...n March changes to the way services were delivered meant we needed to replan how many consultants would be needed."...

China to make cheaper version of GSK’s flu dru

..." Stout added. Relenza is an inhaled drug and is meant to be a first-line defense in the event of an influenza pandemic set off by bird flu. It is approved in many countries around the world. GYT...

Compulsory Rural Stint for Doctors: Ramadoss

...in view of reports of large-scale leakage of funds meant for public health programmes. Some of the other changes proposed by the health ministry include giving more financial incentives to the accredited social health workers or ASHAS to motivate pregnant women to seek medical check-ups and delivery in h...

Mercy Killing Charge Refuted by Katrina Doctor

...gs before they had entered the seventh floor ward, meant exclusively for severely ill patients. At the time, plans were rife to conduct an evacuation of the Memorial Medical Center, due to the Katrina devastation, but the patients on the seventh floor were so ill, that it was simply inconceivable to eva...

Molecular Medicine And Diabetes

...having to monitor her closely and constantly. That meant glucose checks ten times a day, even at night, and three-to-five daily insulin injections, not to mention analyzing every bite she ate." Two years ago Lilly had two nighttime seizures, caused by low glucose. "It's sobering," said Jaffe, "dealing wit...

Abdominal Fat Linked To High Blood Pressure

...erwise healthy individuals, an expanding waistline meant high blood pressure. The findings of the study are published in the American Journal of Hypertension. Dr. Chen Huan Chen, lead author of the study told Reuters that regardless of the current status on blood pressure, abdominal fat always increased...

Vaccine Made from Live bird flu virus vaccine Offers Protection to Animals

...vaccines is the benefit of cross-protection, which meant that the vaccine protects against other, similar strains of the virus. This was useful especially because the current flu mutates a little every year, forcing vaccine makers to reformulate annually. Director of National Institute of Allergy and In...

Couch potato parents make couch potato kids!

...vision or computer screen. At a time when they are meant to be full of beans, kids are seen opting for laidback activities. Parents, undoubtedly, have a huge role to play in making or marring good habit formation, as children emulate parents in their ways. In the light of the alarming increase in childh...

Weird Protein Puzzles Researchers

...molecular biology textbooks. This discovery has meant a shift in the original thinking that relied on the information that the structure of a protein is fixed by the DNA template, but now researchers feel that a bit of rearrangement does happen after the protein has been created. Researchers say that...

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