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Australian Government Announces Survey To Tackle Childhood Obesity

...a national survey designed to tackle //the growing menace of childhood obesity. The Australian Health department said that about 25 percent of the children aged between 7 and 15, are either overweight or obese. This problem is increasing the incidence of heart disease and diabetes. Federal Health Minister...

Health Ministers Conference on July 30

...400 gram panchayats in the state to check mosquito menace following widespread outbreak of chikungunya. "The administration wants to ensure that panchayats are kept in preparedness to initiate preventive measures against communicable diseases like malaria, filaria and chikungunya," he told reporters here. ...

36 Children Die of Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh

...05," Singh told IANS. The disease is a perennial menace in several districts of the state, particularly along the Nepal border, where it had taken a toll of nearly 1,100 in 2005. According to Singh, things were much better this year and the health authorities were better prepared than ever in the past. ...

Postmen to Deliver Anti-malaria Medicines Along with Letters in Jharkhand

... the difficult geographical terrain and the Maoist menace officials and doctors cannot always venture to the remote areas. The postmen are posted in each block from where they cover more than a dozen villages. Sources said the postmen in future may also deliver newspapers. (Source: IANS)...

First confirmed Dengue death in Andhra Pradesh

... the post-monsoon season. To manage the mosquito menace and check the situation, a task force has been formed consisting of officials of various departments and is leaded by the principal secretary (health).The anti-larval operations have been increased by the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad after 2 co...

University to Campaign Against Female Foeticide in Punjab

...er the ever widening male and female ratio and the menace of drug addiction among the youth in Punjab, the Jalandhar-based PTU decided to take up the cause of creating awareness among the masses. Punjab has one of the worst sex ratios in the country with the number of females in the 0-6 years age group be...

CRPF To Issue Contraceptives To Fight AIDS

With AIDS a spiralling menace among its personnel returning from vacation, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has decided to distribute condoms before they leave for home.// "We have found that over 80 percent of the AIDS cases that have been reported were found in personn...

Cure of Cancer Requires Early detection

...lung, larynx and esophagus. Control of the tobacco menace could prevent large number of cancers in India." Dr. F.D. Patel, Professor in the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, lectured on the prevention and early detection of breast cancer and cancer of the cervix, two common cancers among women in I...

National Cancer Awareness Day observed

...lung, larynx and esophagus. Control of the tobacco menace could prevent large number of cancers in India," he asserted. A lecture on prevention and early detection of cancers of the breast and cervix was presented by Dr. F.D. Patel, Professor in the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology. Breast cancer a...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...ct has assumed a variety of forms including monkey menace in urban areas, crop raids by ungulates and wild pigs, depredation by elephants and cattle and human lifting by tigers and leopards. The Minister has also called for increasing financial assistance to the States for paying compensation to the villa...

Five Million Indian Women Suffer Mental Illness

...oural changes and mental illness is a major health menace that India's working population is faced with. The present definition of "mental disorder" is very vague. Anxiety, depression and many other problems should be incorporated, she stressed. "We are preparing a framework underlining our demand on th...

Government Allot More Funds for Revised TB Program

...rculosis cases every year and to tackle the health menace the government// has cleared Rs. 11.56 billion for the Revised National Tuberculosis Program (RNTCP)-Phase II. As per government estimates, nearly 40 percent of the population is infected with TB bacillus but only 10 percent break down to full-blo...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...this issue and will cooperate to fight this health menace together. We also urged them to continue to fund the TB control program in India," Jagannath told IANS after meeting the British MPs. Every year, India witnesses nearly 1.8 million fresh TB cases. "We have already talked to Prime Minister Manmoha...

HIV Drugs Unaffordable for Common Man: Kalam

...t mortality to less than 10 per thousand. On the menace on malaria, he said: "Italian scientists have recently found a bacteria that lived symbiotically inside the pest. They claim that such bacteria could potentially be genetically altered later to attack the Malaria parasite when it reaches the Mosquito...

Garbage Dumping Ground in Pune Causing Health Hazards to Nearby Residents

...on ailments people are suffering with, besides the menace of stray dogs. There is lot of percolation from the garbage dump. People are falling ill. The water is contaminated. Corporation officials had promised clean water. They have also laid a pipeline but there is no water, said Dnyaneshwar Admane, the ...

Doctors Stress on Cardiac Emergency Units to Save Lives

...ress, it cannot be denied that it is an increasing menace of the present times," said Bose. "It is a must that every chest pain or in fact intense pain in any part of the upper body, be it the arms, tooth, jaw, neck or stomach, be treated equally seriously because if not heart attack it might be a symptom...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...ediate measures to free the world from the tobacco menace and the sole effective step is by creating 100% smoke-free environments. This can be done, partially, by creating large-scale awareness , especially among the yet-to-be-initiated groups. The other method is to activate the long arm of the law and to...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...ng out of its protective sheath, Shimatsu says the menace can't be ruled out and once that happens, the waters of the Ganga, one of Asia's biggest and most sacred rivers, will be poisoned. The danger of a potential environmental disaster, he warns, has increased with the loss of a second radiation sensor ...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...take special care of sanitation. Polio is a health menace and has nothing to do with any religion and we appeal to all religious leaders to lend their support to wipe out polio from India,' he said. The ministry has also asked the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh governments to engage regularly with their distric...

Toll Free National Drug Helpline Launched

... to all of us particularly to youth to combat this menace of drugs. She informed that the Ministry of Social...as initiated a number of programmes to contain the menace of drugs. We are supporting over 350 de-addiction centres and over 40 counseling centres all over th...

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