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Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...h system 130th out of 191 countries, on a par with nations such as Peru and Honduras. In 2004, according to...mends at least 5 percent. This is one of the few nations in the world where life expectancy has declined sharply in the past 15 years. The average Russian ca...

US Needs to Show Leadership in Cutting Emissions: Schwarzenegger

...f greenhouse gases before it can expect developing nations such as China and India to do so, US California Go...al emissions-reductions treaty. Under the pact, 35 nations and the European Union committed to cut emissions by a combined 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

...ces. Funding is also a problem, with major donor nations cutting funding by 29 percent at the last Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2005, the report said. "What is happening is that policy makers and politicians are not aware of the gravity of the si...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

... of the permanent contact that many people in both nations have with domesticated birds. In Indonesia alone, WHO estimates that there are more than 13,000 poultry markets, where birds from many different places are exposed to each other, raising the danger of transmission. The situation is also critical ...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

..., large-scale rape of women in sub-Saharan African nations has increased the prevalence of HIV in that area ...according to a new study by UNHCR of seven African nations that was published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet. There are no data to show t...

Public Places in England Go Smoke Free

... England's entrance into an ever-expanding club of nations that bar the habit. From 6 am on July 1, all public areas, offices and other enclosed or partially enclosed places of work, and most company vehicles have become no-smoking areas in England. Individuals will, however, still be able to light up o...

Maverick Gay Ex-governor Turns a New Leaf - Accepted at the Episcopalian Seminary

New Jersey The nations publicized gay governor, James E. McGreevy appears to be knocking on a different door. This time he has managed to be in the news for the right reasons. He has been welcomed into the seminary and has become an Episcopalian. Former Gov. James E. McG...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

... Baker. "Specifically, 68 percent of adults in the nations capital disagreed with this statement versus 58 percent of adults polled across all cities." When asked whether "Getting a base tan is a healthy way to protect skin from sun damage," DC residents also rated significantly higher than average 66 pe...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...y of Di-ethylcarbamzine, which has helped affected nations fight the ugly scourge of filaria. "The tragedy of SubbaRow is that while he pioneered the research leading to the discovery of these molecules and helped synthesise the drugs, it was the people that came in later, after he died so young unfortunat...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

The childhood obesity epidemic has caught the nations attention. This epidemic continues unabated, accom...pels a nation such as ours for vast numbers of our nations children and young adults. One of the most troubling complications of childhood obesity is that i...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...l provide hope that mothers with HIV in developing nations will soon be able to more safely feed their babies as it can be easily applied in the homes of mothers in resource-poor communities. "HIV can be transmitted to the baby via breastfeeding. But for infants in developing countries where infant mortali...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...ow entering their late 70s and 80s, have been this nations most reliable blood donors. They are dying off. Younger people are not as committed to donating blood. Yet the demand for blood increases everyday. Americans undergo more bypass operations, organ transplants, C-sections, hip and joint replacemen...

Delivering Baby, the Natural Way.

...blishments in Britain and across other westernized nations have for years been "taking something that's natural and making it into a disease", and now, with freebirthing, "women are taking their power back". Free - or unassisted birth means having a baby with no medical or professional help. In Austral...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...evitable evolution of the developed and developing nations the world over, it must be noted that these discoveries must not be used to stigmatize the susceptible and great care must be exercised to implement it in a socially responsible way for the collective good of mankind....

UN Secretary General Urges G8 Summit to Act on Climate Change

...ed the G8 summit of the world's top industrialised nations to take measures to combat climate change, warnin...ndamm in Germany, Ban said the eight participating nations should "devise and implement a long-term global framework to tackle climate change that addresses th...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

...or myotonic dystrophy (DM) research. DM1 is the nations most prevalent inherited neuromuscular disorder, afflicting men and women equally. In general, parents with DM1 pass it along to half of their children. Affected sons and daughters usually begin exhibiting symptoms in their teens or twenties. Althoug...

China Reports Bird Flu Infection in Military

...uding 186 who died, in 12 mainly Asian and African nations by May 24, according to WHO statistics....

EU Pushes Asian Nations on Climate Change Goals

...es. The two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of 43 nations Monday was marked by a division between European c...emonstration, where radicals from several European nations rallied, was described by organizers as part of the build-up to the Group of Eight summit, to be hos...

Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA

...(and ratified) by the United States and almost all nations of the world," which "has the goal to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gases 'at a level that prevents dangerous human-made interference with the climate system.' " NASA says this new study thus helps "define practical implications" of that 1992 tr...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

..., severely limiting treatment options. At least 37 nations have reported cases of XDR. "TB is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world's most deadly infectious disease and is the leading cause of death among individuals infected with HIV. TB takes a victim every 20 seconds, which adds up to more than 1.5 milli...

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