nation 1 9

Tag: "nation" at medical news

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...mia is an implementable, effective and sustainable nation building exercise with far reaching benefits in terms of safe motherhood and healthier future generations. Source-PIB...

Cough Up More for the Health of Afghan Women, UNFPA Urges

...wer and uplift women will benefit Afghanistan as a nation greatly. Putting an end to violence against women, by allowing the men to participate in such endeavors, will bring reprieve to the many who suffer violence silently. The UNFPA key agenda will be offer crucial services in healthcare to women that wou...

Syphilis Rate on Rise in US Gay, Bisexual Men

...s rise significantly in this decade. "The entire nation was caught unawares," said study lead author James Heffelfinger, M.D., a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "You’re concentrating on one population, but the next thing you know, you start seeing a large increa...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

...on in 2003 versus $899 in 1997. Says Yelin: "Our nation is going to have to confront this issue and see if we can do a good job with reducing the cost of drugs.” Murphy said she and her colleagues were surprised to find the cost increases were mostly attributable to people rather than procedures. "We ...

Dispirited Teens Work Up Team Spirit to End Their Lives

...uicide notes. This is indeed a wake up call to the nation to help the many teens in the throes of depression - who could take the extreme step of entering into a suicide pact with an equally depressed mate, to nip their own lives in the bud. Ebony has beseeched the case of depressed teenagers who need hel...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...g video analysis of the game long before any other nation started it. The players constantly benefited from the breakthroughs in technology, science and medicine in cricket through their institute and trainers. The congress, in the past, had discussed topics such as physiological and psychological demands...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...ate for a peacetime military is not adequate for a nation that's been at war," she said in an interview. The new hiring, which she said could begin immediately, is part of a wider plan of action the Army has laid out to improve health care to wounded or ill veterans and their families. It also comes as th...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...vels, wiping out the surging economy and leaving a nation of orphans. S. Y. Quraishi, then director of Indias National AIDS Control Organization, took offense, calling such projections technically incorrect and misleading. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss noted that the country was spending $2 billion to...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

Calling itself a responsible nation towards climate change, India will propose a dedicated global fund at the G8 Outreach Summit Friday to finance the development of clean energy technologies based on the resources available with the developing world. In a position paper on climate ...

The Rate of Accident Deaths Much Higher

...ofit group warned that if the trend continues, the nation could surpass the all-time high of 116,385 accidental deaths, set in 1969. From 1969 until 1992, the rate of accidental deaths steadily declined. The council credited seat belts and air bags in vehicles, smoke detectors in homes and stiff drunken d...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

... early 2006, but there were no human cases and the nation declared itself free of the disease last June. In March this year officials said the country was on high alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu following fresh reports of the deadly virus around the region. Neighbouring Indonesia, the country ...

Best Armed Forces Hospital Trophy Goes to Northern Command Hospital

...eace. He said AFMS has also brought laurels to the nation whenever deployed in UN or humanitarian missions in various countries. Shri Antony said the swiftness with which medical relief was despatched for earthquake victims of Indonesia has been appreciated all over the world. I have no doubt that the hea...

Humans Could Face Greater Bird Flu Risk, Indonesia Warns

...spread among fowl in Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation where poultry and humans often live in close proximity. Contact with infected birds is the most common form of transmission of the deadly virus to humans, experts say. Krisnamurthi cited a lack of public awareness as being among the main factors ...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

... emissions, leaving him isolated among other rich nation leaders who favour stronger action on global warmi...statement on global warming. Bush argued that each nation should set its own goals for cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases - mostly carbon dioxide from t...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

...here oncologists and hematologists from around the nation convened today for the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO). The ASCO Annual Meeting is considered the premier educational and scientific event in the oncology community. SearchMedica.com will exhibit at the Clig...

India Main Source of Counterfeit Medicines Seized in Europe

...reflect the developing industrial capacity of this nation and highlights the reality that counterfeiting is carried out at an industrial scale where a potential profit is perceived,'' noted the EU report. However, China remains the main source for counterfeit goods seized in Europe , with over 80 percent ...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...ird flu in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the nation worst hit by the virus to 79, a health ministry of... is widespread among birds in the vast archipelago nation where poultry and humans live in close proximity. The government had hoped to halt human deaths fr...

World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Secondhand Smoke

...dies released last week call attention to ways the nation can address the deadly toll of tobacco -- especial...a comprehensive blueprint detailing 42 actions the nation should take to address tobacco as the number-one preventable cause of death. In the United States al...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...of international health concern as it is seen as a nation of the world's most enthusiastic smokers, with a growing market of about 320 million dollars making it a magnet for multinationals. Chinese cigarettes are also among the cheapest in the world and a packet can cost as little as $0.08. 'The death tol...

Heart-Assist Device Gives Culver City Man a Good Quality of Life

...s among the top 10 non-university hospitals in the nation for its research activities and is fully accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP). Additional information is available at http: www.cedars-sinai.edu....

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10