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India’s Life Expectancy to Go Up to 75 Plu

...llion to 1.65 billion, making it the most populous nation on earth by 2050. <BR...

90 Brands of Pet Food Recalled from the Market Following Death of 10 Animals

... sold in cans and pouches, are marketed across the nation by popular retailers - Wal-Mart, Safeway and PetSmart. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to refrain from using the products which have been listed at menufoods.com/recall. Further, owners have been cautioned to rush their pets ...

New School of Public Health in Chennai

...8.6. Dr. Premila said Sri Lanka was a healthier nation owing to free education and health services, food subsidies and welfare programs and multi-disciplinary approaches to public health. Richard A. Cash of the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University, US, who also spoke o...

Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots

...ensus on the matter would have to be reached after nation -wide debates and discussions involving the teenagers themselves, among other relevant authorities. Currently, teenagers are offered only a booster jab to the diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccine that they receive in childhood. Yet, a decision o...

Could Estriol Be Used as a Therapy for Treating MS?

...kuhl. In all, seven institutions from around the nation will be involved in the two-year study. The investigators plan to recruit 150 women who have not previously been treated for MS. They will be given either estriol along with Copaxone, an MS drug currently in use, or a placebo along with Copaxone. "Th...

Debate in US: Who Should Decide for Disabled People?

..." Though the US is supposed to be the wealthiest nation on earth, Ashley’s parents could not be provided simple medical devices like a simple hoist or mattresses that prevent bedsores. Or the assistance of home healthcare workers. Such things could have precluded such painful invasion of the body, regrets...

Fashion Fraternity Turns Socially Conscious

...also has a heart.// Several designers across the nation have caught the bug of social consciousness. Well-known designer J.J Valaya has launched the Valaya Magic Foundation to help support the cause of the girl child. "There is great need to take care of girl children in the country and the Valaya Magic ...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

... Hospitals for Patient Safety continue to lead the nation in providing safer care…resulting in much lower costs to society. We believe that Distinguished Hospitals have deliberately chosen and maintained patient safety as a top priority." SRM...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

...ms. There are at least 200,000 people across the nation living more or less permanently on the street, enough to fill a thousand public libraries every day. Worse most of the "chronically homeless" are mentally ill, say activists. The published data on how many homeless are considered mentally ill var...

U.S. Navy Offers Intralase No-Blade Lasik for Servicemen

...llo Russo was one of the first eye surgeons in the nation when he introduced the new Lasik method in February 2002. He has performed 20,000 no-blade Lasik procedures to date. Source: Emediawire...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

Eritrea, a small East African nation and very poor, has banned the life-threatening practice of female circumcision, the country’s information ministry has said//. Anybody involved in female genital mutilation (FGM) would be punished with a fine and imprisonment, it said. The move...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...the way ahead. Bhutan is set to become the first nation in the world where the citizens will have a constitutional obligation to preserve the environment, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). As representatives from 24 nations of Asia gather in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu on Tu...

Household Guns Associated With Higher Rates of Suicide in US

...nd stored separately from secured ammunition. In a nation where more than half of all suicides are gun suicides and where more than one in three homes have firearms, one cannot talk about suicide without talking about guns," he adds. The bottom line, says Miller, is that "people are less likely to die fr...

Britain’s Mental Health Scene Encouragin

...being taken to ensure that suicide attempts in the nation are reduced by 20 percent, within the next three years. At the same time there are concerns by the organization for those patients registered with them, who are not compliant with their mode of treatment. Another problem area identified is of thos...

Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

...day summit in Johannesburg, capital of the rainbow nation South Africa, has resulted in a chorus of voices calling for Africa to produce// its own versions of low-cost generic drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Mamadou Diallo, chief pharmacist in the A.U. commission's medical s...

Come Summer, Lawnmower Injuries Increase in US

...ch. He and his colleagues throughout the state and nation are alerting parents and other child caregivers to the dangers and providing tips for preventing such injuries. * Keep children under 6 years old indoors while a power mower is in operation. * Let no child under 12 use a walk-behind mower. * Kee...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

...ore than 100 brands of dog and cat food across the nation since March 16 this year. Although many different types of pet food are affected by the recall, the recalled products represent only about one percent of the total pet food available for purchase, according to the Pet Food Institute, the trade asso...

Junk Food Ad Overkill Shows Urgent Ban Needed

...y receive from their parents or teachers. 'In a nation with an escalating childhood obesity problem, it is unacceptable to allow these ads to air during children’s prime-time TV.' The study, by the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Health Promotion, found that 65.9 per cent of advertisement...

New Bill Introduced in US to Promote Public Health

...ne and Public Health Training Act, will ensure the nation has a continuous supply of highly trained preventive medicine and public health physicians. It will provide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the necessary funds to train highly specialized public health physicians in the skills...

MEND - Child Obesity Programme Records Success

... both immediate and long term health. It costs the nation ￡7 billion a year. This popular community-based programme has the potential to underpin effective national strategies for obesity treatment and prevention." The programme envisages assisting 26000 children across 300 areas. /...

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