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Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...a company called Bryntsalov-A, which is owned by a member of Russia's parliament, was accused of counterfeiting and taken to court. The company got off with a 1,500-dollar (1,100-euro) fine for improper storage....

Social Worker in Jharkhand Spreads AIDS Awareness Through Music

... we feel we are succeeding in our mission," said a member of Nayak's troupe. "People in our village are now waking up to problems. They are realising the need to combat deadly diseases and maintain sanitation. We are grateful to the troupe for their efforts," said Ganpati Mahto, a resident of Gumla. M...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

...these cinemas." According to Dinesh Prajapati, a member of the Sargam Manav Seva Charitable Trust, an NGO working on the project, many migrant workers who visit these theatres often pick up prostitutes hanging around the cinemas and take them inside the hall or to a cheap guest house afterwards. "Here, we...

No Foul Play, Woolmer Died of Naural Causes, Say Jamaican Police

...rt had concluded that he had been strangled. Every member of the Pakistan team was fingerprinted before returning home, sparking anger among many in Pakistan. Jamaican Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas on Monday told a news conference that three different expert opinions had concluded that the original pa...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...Clift, professor of environmental technology and a member of the Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) advisory council has said, Biodiesel is a complete scam because in the tropics the growing demand is causing forests to be burnt to make way for palm oil and similar crops.He is expect...

Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia

...om the Organisation of the Islamic Conference's 57 member nations, along with the UN and other international agencies, met to tackle issues including polio vaccination, preparedness for bird flu outbreaks and outbreaks of other infectious diseases. The meetings are part of preparations for the OIC's first h...

Indonesia Facing Massive Hurdles Against Bird Flu

...encies to discuss major health concerns facing OIC member states, whose members, in 2005, accounted for 21 percent of the world's population. Bird flu has infected 312 people worldwide. The OIC health ministers are expected to issue a declaration at the close of the conference Friday southwest of Kuala Lump...

World Largest Hair Congress Convene in Vancouver

...t and emotional well being, adds Shapiro, who is a member of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) and clinical research director at the Hair Research Laboratory at the Skin Care Centre at VGH. Along with workshops and symposiums, experts will be trying to help patients from the University o...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...Pakistan. "Nineteen of those 27 countries were OIC member states," said Hamid Jafari, the WHO's regional adviser on polio....

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...nts in the lowest-risk group did. By age 70, every member of the highest-risk group had the disease, whereas two-thirds of patients in the lowest-risk group still were disease-free. Members of the highest-risk group typically developed Parkinsons more than 20 years earlier than the lowest-risk group. The ...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

...lling the public health services of most of the 56 member nations deplorable, Malaysias Prime Minister Abdul...k of funding, lack of vaccine production among OIC member states and concerns over the acceptability and quality of vaccines. "We have much to do as many of t...

HIV Drug Resistance can Be Identified by Genome Sequencing

...f research and development at 454 Life Sciences, a member of the Roche group. Ultra Deep Sequencing provides an essential tool for research on viral diseases and their treatments. The ability to use 454 Sequencing to detect rare viral mutations is a crucial research tool to better understand the early stage...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...uarter were beaten and 38 percent had had a family member or friend killed during the unrest between the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and government forces, the report said, according to an IOM press release. The affected Acehnese, if left untreated, could possibly be triggers for further violence...

Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice

..., MD, of NYU School of Medicine in New York, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. "We are now in the process of redesigning the vaccine so it can be used on deer and cattle." Wisniewski said much more work is needed before the vaccine could be considered for humans. "The human version of pri...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...striking in model organisms,” said Brenner, also a member of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Many benefits, explains Brenner, depend on a family of proteins called sirtuins—dubbed anti-aging gene products for the important roles they play in longevity and energy expe...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...ng laps. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times. CPS-3 will enroll men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer (important in studies that focus on the causes of cancer), and who are willing to make a long-term commitment to the ...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...fter only a short period of time," said study team member Yuxuan Wang of Harvard University. But contrast this with what is happening to Los Angeles. It has once again topped the American Lung Association's bad air list of most polluted cities in America. The association found that the Los Angeles-L...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

...ong with the pain and discomfort,” said study team member Romulo Leite of the Medical College of Georgia. “We’re hoping eventually this will end up in the development of real drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.” The research was presented at a poster session of the American Physiological So...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...ne system would stage an attack],” says study team member Emily Young. That also meant any results would apply only to an organism lacking an immune system. Instead, “we used regular mice and we implanted the mouse breast-cancer form into it,” Young added. There have also been many studies, which used ...

Canadians Despair for Family Doctors

... was so desperate she used the address of a family member in another city to find a doctor. "I have driven miles out of town for medical appointments," she said. Time and time again the issue of timely access has plagued the Canadian public health-care system. Public opinion polls put the length of waitin...

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