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Heart Disease Bill For NHS is ￡16 billio

...ar disease, it is not surprising that it costs the nation such a large amount. The unfortunate thing is that we know that much of this disease burden could be reduced or even abolished with appropriate public health measures such as reducing smoking, increasing opportunities for exercise and improving the n...

India: Chicken and Eggs Safe for Consumption

...is fried in oil," he said. According to him, the nation had adequately geared up to face up to any crisis ...

Violence Erupts In A Pro-quota Rally In Bihar

...ntry too, after the anti-quota protests rocked the nation almost 10 days ago. The students from various medical colleges in Bihar alleged that the media and police were trying to "suppress" the Centre's proposal to introduce 27% reservations for OBCs in all the premier educational institutions. Meanwhile th...

All State Run Schools Are To Ban Whole Milk To Children

... fat and sugar in food, a new study shows that the nation is getting even fatter. The figures show that in only a year the proportion of boys aged 11-15 who are obese or overweight has risen from 26.9% to 36.4%, while the number of overweight girls has gone up from 29.3% to 45.6%....

Vermont Witness To A Progressive Health-Insurance Law

... the state to being the second in the whole of the nation to enable almost widespread health-care insurance// , which will cover nearly 96 percent of its residents by the year 2010. This is definitely relief for the 46 million Americans who are not under insurance cover. With employer insurance cover on t...

US $ 22 Billion Required Yearly to Fight AIDS: UN

United Nations. The United nation today announced that the world would require US $ 22 billion to fight the AIDS pandemic by the year 2008.// However, it is not sure from where the countries will get this huge amount. In its special session to address the issue of AIDS, UN members ...

Aamir Rules Out Apologising For Remarks On Narmada Issue

...de what it's future course of action is. The whole nation is watching to see whether it takes a concrete step, or whether it takes a weak step or nothing at all," he added. Source:PTI News...

Kalam Dedicates New Cancer Drug Developed By Biocon

President A P J Abdul Kalam today dedicated to the nation India's first indigenously developed drug for treating head and neck cancer. // Kalam congratulated Biocon scientists for developing the monoclonal antibody, BioMab EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor), which company officials said works by bin...

Bird Flu Campaign Kick Starts In Indonesia

According to an United nation official, a campaign to warn Indonesians about bird flu will commence next week,. This is a year after the virus infected //the first of 49 people in the country which ranks as the fourth-most-populous country in the world. According to John Budd...

Health Minister Inaugurates Institute for Diarrhea Diseases

...mani Ramadoss, will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation the four storey building named the 'Diarrheal Research and Control Centre' (DRCC) in the city tomorrow. Dr. Ramadoss will also inaugurate the International Symposium on Cholera and Other Diarrheal diseases being organized there. The Union Health & ...

Bpos Get New Growth Pill; Pharma Mncs Come Calling

...ries, and biopharma companies in the sub-continent nation have been increasingly active in securing their share of this interest and investment, the report added. The country would no longer be considered a developing country in the pharma R&D market, as its hubs acquire equal status with their European an...

12 Chinese Firms Appeal Against Court Ruling On Viagra

...er's patent rights // in the world's most populous nation which has some 80 million impotent men. In a last-ditch effort to protect their investment in Viagra-style drugs, the firms yesterday handed their appeal to the Beijing High People's Court. They are calling for a reversal of the June 2 court ruli...

Angola To Launch A Massive Health Protection Campaign For The Children

Health officials of the African nation Angola have announced their plans is mount a massive campaign to help protect more than 3.5 million children//, under 5-years of age from measles, polio and malaria. The representatives of the WHO, U.N. children's agency UNICEF along with the healt...

AIDS: Why the pandemic outpaces us

...ty to a global emergency, the question before each nation should be: why is the pandemic// outpacing us, or are countries acting too slowly to address the menace that has killed 25 million people and affected another 40 million worldwide? In early June, when heads of state gathered in New York for the rev...

Dr Reddys Launches New Drug In Its Urology Segment

...available in over 5,700 retail counters across the nation and marketed by over 100 scientific business officers, it added. The market size for the product as per April 2006 market data is valued at Rs 27 crore and the urology segment is estimated at Rs 65.08 crore. Alfuzosin provides rapid relief from sig...

South Australian health System In The Bottom Of Rankings

... as they are no longer the worst performers in the nation as was the case in 2003/04, where in reports had indicated that just 55% were being treated on time. He contended that the new SA Health Department's Elective Surgery Bulletin statistics had showed a 49% decrease in the number of people who were wait...

AMA Warns Of Inadequately Trained Doctors Due To Lack of Resources

...al Association (AMA) has issued a warning that the nation could be faced with insufficiently trained doctors //in the future due to a lack of clinical expertise. Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, the AMA president has written to the federal MPs and senators insisting for a strategy be put in place that would help to d...

Founder of Enron, Ken Lay Passes Away

... the company was ranked the seventh largest in the nation before the scandal and corruption had caused the company to collapse. Ken Lay and former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, were to have faced the judge for their sentence on 23rd Oct 2006. Legal experts were of the opinion that both men would face up to 4...

Phone Calls Lend Vital Support to Moms of Mentally Ill Children

...s of Health. That study is one of the first in the nation to examine social support systems, including a web-based program in which mothers and a psychiatric nurse communicate by e-mail. Scharer examined data from 63 phone conversations of 16 of the 46 mothers who are in the initial study. The women, whos...

Headspace to the Rescue of Mentally Ill Youngsters

...tremendous benefit to young Australians and to the nation as a whole. People like Ms.Gelmi, who has suffered from psychiatric problems are relieved and happy to see the emergence of such centers....

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