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Puppet Show, Music Gives Message - 'say No to Drugs'

...nothing makes me more happy than reaching home and meeting the smiling faces of my parents. No one takes any decisions in my home without consulting me. That's the confidence they have in me," Sampad related soberly to the packed auditorium. If Sampad's story touched one, so did the puppet show put up by c...

Experts to Discuss Climate Change Health Risks: WHO

...reats in the Asia-Pacific from global warming at a meeting to be held in Malaysia from July 2, the World Hea...erborne diseases, the UN health agency said. The meeting in Malaysia would discuss prompt action, it added. "With global mean temperature forecast to incre...

Cabinet Approves Bill to Regulate Clinics, Hospitals

...ls, private clinics and nursing homes. A cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday approved the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2007, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi. "The proposal would provide a legislative framework ...

Chilean President's Cousin Successfully Tests Allergy 'Knockout' Technique on Mice

...ring the Hebrew University Borad of Governors 70th meeting in Jerusalem recently. The award is given for "creativity and originality in applied research". The Ph.D student, who is working under the supervision of Prof. Francesca Levi-Schaffer, focused his research on mechanisms that regulate the function o...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

...." But, speaking to reporters at a WHO technical meeting on avian influenza, he warned that Indonesia was "where the risk is the higher of getting the virus at the origin of human pandemic, as it was in China, Vietnam and Thailand three years ago". "Same conditions in Egypt," Domenech added. "There is a ...

Sydney Opera House Wins World Heritage Status

...veted status by UNESCO's world heritage committee, meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The others added to the list were the Red Fort complex in Shahjahanabad, India, the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine in Japan and the Parthian Fortresses of Nisa in Turkmenistan. Completed in 1973, the Sydney Opera House was...

WFP Announces Food Assistance Plan for Timor Leste

...d plans to assist the Government of Timor-Leste in meeting the food needs of people living in communities affected by an ongoing drought. "There is a need for food assistance due to the persistence of the drought, and we will work closely with the Government to ensure that food is available through the le...

WHO to Call for More Progress on Tobacco Control at Bangkok Moot

Over 140 countries are meeting in Bangkok from Saturday to move forward the globa...k Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The meeting will take place from June 30 to July 6 2007 in the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok. O...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...present full details of his research at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, this week. We were able to extract oocytes \ using needle aspiration from very young girls, he told the European Society of Human Fertilization and Embryology conference...

National Pharmaceutical Policy Referred to Ministerial Panel

.... The policy was taken up by the cabinet at its meeting on Jan 11 and referred to the GOM which had its first meeting on April 10. However, 74 bulk drugs and their formulations, in accordance with the drug price cont...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...vice over the phone. Fortunately she also had a meeting with Dr Suzanne Colson, senior midwifery lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, who advises on this technique. "We tried lots of different positions, she told me to stand up, hold the baby and then lie back and get some pillows around me...

Distance Education By All Universities

...on Council (DEC) and other apex bodies. DEC in its meeting held on March 23, 2007 had resolved that it would not insist on territorial jurisdiction to be followed by institutions in offering programmes through distance mode and on that matter universities should be governed by their own Act and Statutes. A...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

... in the IPCC's third report of 2007. The Bangkok meeting has attracted 30 of the world's leading climate experts and more than 217 government representatives from 105 countries whose task it is to fine-tune the report, which seeks an international consensus on how to reduce greenhouse gases and, perhaps mo...

New Health DrinkCoffee

...ession" on coffee at the Experimental Biology 2007 meeting underway in Washington, D.C, . says "We're coming from a situation where coffee had a very negative health image." The study shows that coffee can prevent colon, liver and rectal cancer. The experts believe that maybe coffee reduces the amount of ...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...rday at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in Boston, showed that 24 percent of the children of mothers who took valproate had an IQ low enough to be defined as mentally retarded. This was against 12 percent for carbamazepine, 9 percent for lamotrigine, and 12 percent for phenytoin. The res...

Pain and Intensity Of Post-stroke Spasticity Decreased by Botox Treatment

...s who presented their findings today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Boston. Spasticity is a disabling condition that leaves the muscles and tendons permanently shortened and inhibits movement. In the clinical setting, limb stiffness and pain are the most commonly reported sym...

Exposure to Epilepsy Drug During Pregnancy Can Increase Risk of Mental Defects in Newborns

...ording to a study presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Boston, the New York Times reports. Kimford Meador, professor of neurology at the University of Florida, and colleagues examined 185 infants at age two using standard IQ measures. The mothers of the children ...

Biotechnology Will Dominate The 21st Century

...dominated the last century. Addressing the 10th meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of E...vironment and Forests, last night, he informed the meeting that the stay on Genetic Engineering Approval Committee has been vacated today during judicial heari...

Children Using Slide in Playground Treated for Exposure to Poisoning

...r Tony Zapia said the foreshore park was a popular meeting point for local youth and that security cameras would be installed in four to six weeks to monitor all activity in the area. There was a lead poisoning scare in US school a few years ago when cracked and peeling paint on some windows in some school...

Million Mentally Ill in India

... his opening remarks in the Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry, held in Delhi last week, said tha.... Members of Parliament who were present at the meeting were: S/Shri Chengara surendran, R. Chandra Sekar Reddy, Virendra Bhatia, Vikram Verma, Dr. Karan Si...

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