Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital
...lina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $100,000 of their money to help// construct the first modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan. They made the donation to the Duk Lost Boys Clinic through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, reports www.hollywood.tv. The clinic will open in the spring and serve more than 150,0...Private Clinics on Public Land Must Treat Poor Free: Court
...tment means both consumable and non-consumable. No money should be charged from the poor patient, who are below the poverty line," the bench said categorically in its ruling. The government and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) are at liberty to initiate action against the defaulting hospitals such as ca...Rest for Doctors to Ensure Patients’ Safet
...nfortunately, too many are more focussed on saving money than improving patient safety, and are withdrawing rest facilities." A Department of Health spokesman said, “Working patterns must provide a sensible balance between supporting patient services, doctors working lives and their training." PRI...Salivary Analysis for Early Detection of Breast Cancer
...nt. * Patients who may not have access to or money for preventive care could easily be tested through saliva. Source-Eurekalert PRI...Benevolence Linked To Laughter
... strangers. While playing the game they were given money which they could either invest in private fund or a group fund. The money that was put in the private fund will be given back to them and the one that was put in the group fu...Vanderbilt Performs State's First Stem Cell Heart Regeneration Therapy
...nly for the patient, but in terms of the amount of money a health care system could save. It would be astronomical.” Vanderbilt’s participation in this Phase I, industry-supported study highlights its role as a key player in stem cell regeneration in this country. For years, Europe has been the site for ...Feud Between Two Medical Publications
...h is expected to promote health is actually making money out of destroying health. Lancet is owned by the publishing group Reed Elsevier which also has an arms division. This division is said to hold at least 10 arms fairs in a year. According to Financial Times, Patrick Kerr the spokesman for Elsevier a...Outpatient Cancer Care Impressive in British Columbia
...atment in BC is very good. They also said that the money per capita on cancer control has been well spent. JYT...Health Expenditure on Illegal Immigrants
...mmigrants. The researchers are of the opinion that money could be judiciously spent to be able to afford quality preventive care. The study looked into the expenditure on emergency spending in North Carolina from 2001 to 2004 under the category Medicaid for fresh immigrants. The analysis revealed that mo...Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers
...t holders, say officials. "Though I wanted to save money in a bank, I had problems opening an account due t...at I would win the award with the small amounts of money I set aside. But now I find that my efforts have yielded results." Explained Jayashree, TAI's comm...Poison Control Training and Research Centre at Chennai
...tion had to be fought in a determined way and more money would have to be devolved to the sector, he said. SR...India to Beat Blindness Elimination Target by 2015: Health Minister
... job. "Under these programmes, 70 percent of the money goes to the private sector. Our government is pleased with the results," he said, adding that India is committed to reducing the burden of avoidable blindness. The minister, however, admitted that India has only 12,000 eye surgeons for a population...Cloning Ban Built into Stem Cell Research Bill
...he University of Minnesota permission to use state money on all varieties of stem cell research was revised...Rep. Dan Severson, R-Sauk Rapids, said using state money for embryonic stem cell research is the equivalent of government-funded abortion. "It's a wide-ope...Pichkaris Not So Popular in Jharkhand
... sale. "Till few years back we were earning good money selling pichkaris during Holi. The sale has declined by 20 per cent now," said Vikas Kumar, a shopkeeper from Lalpur in Ranchi. Another shopkeeper, Indu Bhushan echoed: "During Holi we would set up makeshift stalls outside the shop. Over the years,...An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite
...s.1,500 for a human, it is more advisable to spend money on vaccinating dogs for the sake of humans." Wit...ord. PFA suggests that the government spend more money on anti-rabies vaccination for dogs so that a dog bite in a locality is not cause for alarm among th...Think Twice Before Loading on Vitamins, Say Experts
...ege of Medicine agrees. “People should spend their money on multiple varieties and colors of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and lean protein and stop wasting it on supplements", he says. Keith Ayoob, of the department of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has similar vi...... her to Disneyland Paris and are currently raising money for the same purpose as this tumor could lead her to blindness slowly. Manchester's Christie Hospital is treating Ruby now and she has also been put on steroids which make the child a lot cranky. JY...Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects
...to exposure of their parents to MIC from the award money they got in 2004. The Trust organizations like the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh (BGPMSKS), Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha (BGPMPSM), Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA) and Bhopal Ki Aawaaz (BKA)...Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science
...reate one through funding. And if you put a lot of money into manufacturing ignorance, it can actually work. "We saw this in tobacco, and we've seen it in polluting industries and global warming," he added. "There are lots of people out there who'd rather have you not know what's really going on." Sour...Advertisements Telecast During Sexy Programmes are Most Often Forgotten
...implication is that advertisers do not spend their money well if they buy space during programmes with high sexual content. A second, less surprising, finding was that men recalled the brand of products whose adverts contained sexual images, than they did if the adverts were sex-free. Women on the other ...