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LCA Hails Congressional Front Against Pink Camel Cigarette Campaign

...rlier this year. The letter, signed by forty-one members of the House of Representatives, was mailed today to eleven major women's publications including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Vogue and W. "There is nothing fashionable about lung cancer," said Fenton-Ambrose, who pointed out that most women do not...

Outreach Nations Stand United on Climate Change

...ercent by 2050, compared to 1990 levels. But the members are resolute that they cannot hinder their development at the cost of emission cuts and these countries continue to blame the developed world for the increasing pollution....

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...es who participated in the study have lost several members of their family to meningococcal meningitis. Those who have not been directly affected know the terrible impact that the disease has on the community. There is a lot of support for the clinical study and the new vaccine in the Bamako community, said ...

Whooping Cough Spreads from a Massachusetts Hospital

...bable case. The hospital determined that the staff members may have been contagious between May 17 and June 6. Those who may have been exposed were contacted by the hospital on Friday. The list includes patients, family, friends and staff members. Anyone who was a patient in the oncology clinic at the hosp...

Maninder Singh Hospitalised After Suicide Attempt

... had allegedly tried to commit suicide, his family members maintained it was an accident. Police said they received call at around 1 a.m. that Maninder slashed his wrists and was brought to the hospital in a critical condition by his neighbour in Mausam Vihar locality of Preet Vihar. Police refused to s...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...perating room, when the plane crashed, killing six members of a Survival Flight team. The patient, a longtime...e donation option after being told of their family members death. Because the number of people who meet these requirements is far less than the number of peo...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...eks to find a private therapist willing to take on members of the military. The challenge appears great in ru... posts with heavy war deployments told task force members that it routinely fields complaints about the difficulty in locating mental health specialists who a...

Double Lung Transplant Man in Michigan Recovering

...d and heartbroken for the families of the six team members who died in the crash. A chartered plane transpo... to the health system's employees. He noted that members of the transplant team continued to work as they dealt with the loss of their colleagues. "This wo...

Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29

...pitals and health facilities, or for the 900 union members who lost their jobs when the Fraser Health Authority used Bill 29 to contract out hospital cleaning and dietary services. The Hospital Employees Union (HEU) wants the Victoria government to intervene now to stop several hundred more pending layoff...

Residents Of Gas Patch In Colorado Suffering In Silence

... the passage of House Bill 1341, new non- industry members will be added to the commission, including a representative from the state health department.Says Rep. Kathleen Curry, who sponsored many of those bills: "By giving the health department a voice on the commission, I think we have taken a major step f...

US Veteran Benefit System Needs Overhauling

...tem used by the Defense Department to rate service members before they leave the military to determine how they will be compensated for their injuries or diseases. The system was set up decades ago and needs urgent upgrading. "With troops being injured nearly every day, the VA's system for evaluating and ...

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...clinical trails. If approved it would compete with members of the triptan class of migraine-drugs. Researchers from St. Louis University presented findings showing that migraine sufferers forgo taking their medication when they need it because insurance companies often limit the number of migraine pills pe...

New Developments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

...iblings with rheumatoid arthritis (and some family members without it) in an attempt to single out those genes that are involved in the autoimmune process. In fact, in 2004, they identified a gene called PTPN2 that confers a two-fold risk for rheumatoid arthritis and a number of other autoimmune diseases. ...

Philippine Nurses Re-sit Scandal-tainted Exams

...7,000 passed. Virginia Madeja and Anesia Dionisio, members of the Philippine Board of Nursing, were charged on June 1 with corruption for leaking answers to the two tests. Madeja was the examiner in Medical Surgery Nursing, while Dionisio was in charge of Psychiatric Nursing during the controversial exams....

Where Children Lead the Sanitation Drive

...t open-air defecation," she said. "I, along with members of the self help group made countless door-to-door visits to sensitise the villagers. At one point we even took to snatching their lotas (water pots) to force them to use latrines," she added. The women found an unlikely supporter in Baisakhulal, t...

Social Worker in Jharkhand Spreads AIDS Awareness Through Music

...roblems 12 years ago. Initially, there were five members in the troupe but now the number has gone up to 14. They have succeeded in attracting a large number of people through music and providing them with information. The songs are mostly sung in local languages for effective communication. "We use fol...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...iums, however, Agarwal's pyre still allowed family members to congregate to perform last rites. "But no one used it," said Agarwal, even though it needed only about 100 kilos of wood and reduced the burning process to two hours. "We had to get religion on our side." Consultations with priests, bureaucrats ...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...rom about 800,000 tons in 1986. "A majority of the members of our cooperative say that they need space for processing fish to serve supermarkets' needs," Ito said. "If we don't have this, the wholesale market may disappear from this world."...

South Africa Facing Major Economic Shutdown as Health Workers are Sacked En Masse

...n general secretary Les Maseng said some of their members would join the strike while soldiers, whose collea... the retired nurses and trainee nurses, as well as members of the community, who were helping to ensure health facilities remained open and were able to delive...

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

...egal betting syndicate. There was also speculation members of the Pakistan team may have been involved. Mr Thomas said the Jamaica Constabulary Force had found no evidence "of any impropriety by players, match officials nor management". He said the force had carried out its investigation thoroughly and wit...

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