EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India
...ngavalli said the programme would go a long way in meeting the need for trained EMTs. EMRI in Andhra Pradesh has only 750 EMTs with two month training. It would require 25,000 EMTs to expand its services throughout the country, he said. The MoU between Stanford University, Andhra Pradesh government and EMR...Outreach Nations Stand United on Climate Change
... In a joint statement released after a high-level meeting of the outreach nations, Lula da Silva of Brazil, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Thabo Mobiki of South Africa reaffirmed their shared conviction that developing countries must...APEC Agree to Share Bird Flu Samples
...wns" the disease. The 21-nation group wrapped up a meeting in Australia by signing a declaration committing them to share samples of the H5N1 virus, which the World Health Organisation says has killed 188 people worldwide since 2003. Indonesia refused to share bird flu virus samples with foreign laboratori...Thousands of Keralites Under the Grip of Chikungunya
...e help of all social agencies and we have called a meeting of these organizations on June 11," said Sreemathi. The government is holding an all-party meeting Saturday where more concrete measures to tackle the disease are expected to be taken. It has asked...FAO Says Biofuels Threatening Food Security
...enetic Resource Commission during their June 11-15 meeting is scheduled to discuss the state of animal, vegetable and aquatic genetics and develop long-term strategies for world food and agricultural biodiversity....Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine
... this week at the American Headache Society annual meeting in Chicago, by Carl Dahlof, M.D., Ph.D, a neurologist and medical director and founder of the Gothenburg Migraine Clinic in Gothenberg. He said "It does seem that in most people migraine is not a progressive disease," Dahlof and his colleagues rand...New Developments in Rheumatoid Arthritis
...rted at Federation of Clinical Immunology Services meeting in San Diego to figure out what makes these people susceptible to the disabling inflammatory condition. Dr. Gregersen has finally closed the circle between key genes identified in his laboratory at the Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human ...A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug
...o the researchers at the international Alzheimer's meeting here Monday. Adding the Ketasyn to the regular medicine showed a small but important improvement in mental functioning. This was experience by people who do not carry the Alzheimer's gene called ApoE4. This improvement was seen in half of the 150 peo...Where Children Lead the Sanitation Drive
...r message. In some cases we give the added push by meeting the parents concerned to convince them," he pointed out. In addition, monthly meetings are held with parents at which issues like personal hygiene, safe drinking water practices and toilet hygiene are discussed. At Pandadah village, about 48 km a...Children from Low-income Families may Face Sleep Problems
...nday in Minneapolis at Sleep 2007, the 21st annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), compared the sleep pattern of 32 boys and 32 girls from low-income families. The children were on an average about 7 years old and didn't have chronic health problems. Parents completed a 35-i...Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia
...n Thursday south of Kuala Lumpur. The inaugural meeting comes as OIC countries try to become self-reliant in developing and producing vaccines deemed "halal", or permissible under Islam, a topic expected to be a major focus of the conference. Under the concept of halal, pork and its by-products, alcohol a...Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study
...sota. In another study to be presented at the same meeting Wednesday, researchers reported that extra sleep can help athletes raise their game. Investigators who tracked six men on the Stanford University basketball team found that the ball players were able to shave seconds off their sprint times and im...Different Causes for Childhood Brain Aneurysm was Revealed
... at the American Society of Neuroradiologys annual meeting in Chicago. For the study, the neuroradiology team reviewed epidemiological, anatomical, pathological and clinical characteristics of the 53 patientsall under age 19at Cincinnatis University Hospital, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and Columbus Chil...Insomnia Affects Job Performance A New Survey
...ults of a new survey this week at the annual SLEEP meeting showing the significant impact of our 24/7 culture is having on healthcare professionals job performance and patient safety. The survey of 2,082 nurses found that more than one quarter of nurses (27.23%) suffered from insomnia; 32.10% had difficulty...Equality Among Genders in Terms of Sex Dreams
...his findings on Thursday at Sleep 2007, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Minneapolis.He examined more than 35,000 dream reports from 109 women and 64 men. In a sharp contrast from the earlier researches conducted in the 6os where it was found that men had twice many more ...Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs
...e Muslim states. While speaking at an inaugural meeting of various OIC health ministers, Badawi was quoted... diseases such as polio and malaria. The two-day meeting is set to map out a common plan to face a possible influenza pandemic, fight polio and malaria and f...Flooded Oz Town Demands Beer to Quench Thirst
...tel, Matt Turner, said the pub had become the main meeting point for residents but had been in danger of running dry, until the SES dropped off the required supply, the Telegraph quoted him as saying....Chandigarh to Impose Spot Fine for Smokers from July
...ed an on-the-spot penalty on the offenders. At a meeting of the committee set up to work out details of implementing the proposal for a 'smoke-free' city, it was decided to empower police officials of the rank of sub-inspector to compound the offence of smoking in public places by recovering the penalty fr...Obesity, High Blood Pressure on the Rise Among College Students
...ressure, and more than two-thirds of women are not meeting their nutritional needs for iron, calcium or folate. The study also found that metabolic syndrome, a cluster of five risk factors, high blood pressure, excess abdominal fat, high blood glucose, high triglycerides, and low HDL or good, cholesterol, ......ash three years ago. Together they appealed at a meeting in New Hampshire for more funds for stem cell research, a move resisted by President Bush. Steve Walter, father of Alex, said he is a registered Republican but supports Clinton because he is frustrated with the Bush administration's stance on stem...