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Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

...celerating because a global treaty ratified by 146 nations requires governments to protect the public from secondhand smoke. The report, Global Voices for a Smokefree World, was released today by the Global Smokefree Partnership, a new multi-partner initiative formed to promote effective smoke-free air pol...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...ore leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations are scheduled to meet in Heiligendamm, Germany, fo...cement will encourage other G8 nations, as well as nations that have growing economies, to make pledges. "The goal of universal access isn't a United States ...

G8 Members To Announce Plans To Increase HIV/AIDS Spending at Summit

Members of the Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to unveil their commitments to increase spending for fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic during their upcoming 2007 summit , which is scheduled to be held next week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesperson, Ulrich Wilhelm, said at a news confe...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...th care in their public health services. But many nations in the African continent are hard pressed for funds to rise to the challenge before them. Like elsewhere in the third world, visitors to Zambia could observe in the capital city of Lusaka hundreds of persons walking aimlessly along the roads, tal...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

... only to defend against missile threats from rogue nations such as Iran and poses no threat to Russia. Moscow has rejected the assurances and tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile in reply. Bush visits Rome next Saturday for his first audience with Pope Benedict XVI, telling reporters he looks fo...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...en to developing countries at cost, while the rich nations can access them on a commercial basis, the paper says, adding the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate presented some examples of this approach. The position paper says India's per capita emission of green gasses was only 23 pe...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...f epidemics in the meningitis belt, as 21 affected nations of sub-Saharan Africa are collectively known. The vaccine is expected to block infection by the serogroup A meningococcus, and therefore extend protection to the entire population, including the unvaccinated, a phenomenon know as herd immunity. The...

Milk Nutrients may Keep Cancer at Bay.

...te that more than 70 percent of the calcium in our nations food supply comes from milk and milk products. Additionally, milk is one of the few food sources of vitamin D, which is fast emerging as a super nutrient. Several recent studies have reported similar conclusions, suggesting that calcium and vitamin...

High Intake of Milk may Reduce Cancer Risks by 60 Percent

...te that more than 70 percent of the calcium in our nations food supply comes from milk and milk products. Milk is one of the few food sources of vitamin D, which is fast emerging as a super nutrient. Several recent studies have reported similar conclusions, suggesting that calcium and vitamin D may reduce ...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...mentalists as they denounced the G8 industrialised nations for failing to take action on climate change at last weeks summit. Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, accused the G8 of being little more than a talking shop. He said: The G8 has a record of putting the short term interests of rich cou...

Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia

...ay ahead of an inaugural health conference for OIC nations . Senior health officials from the Organisation...e conference on Friday. Members of the OIC include nations from Africa, Asia and the Middle East....

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...p to 10 times higher in developed English-speaking nations such as Australia than most southern and eastern countries. "Our data suggest that infant swimming practice in chlorinated indoor swimming pools is associated with airways changes that, along with other factors, seem to predispose children to the ...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

Muslim nations are aiming for self-reliance in producing "halal" ...en many Muslim countries," he said. He said Muslim nations should band together to develop and produce vaccines which were halal, or permissible under Islam. "...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

Member nations of the Organization of the Islamic conference (OIC...he public health services of most of the 56 member nations deplorable, Malaysias Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said seven of the 10 nations with the hig...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...nhouse gases, saying they must stop blaming richer nations for their own failure to act. Policymakers from around the world are meeting with scientists in Bangkok this week to adopt a blueprint for preventing global warming from having catastrophic effects. They are trying to come to terms with the guide...

Experts Congregate for UN Climate Summit in Bangkok

...climate experts and state representatives from 150 nations gathered in Bangkok Monday for a five-day meet on the UN's recommendations for curbing// carbon emissions to slow global warming. "The time is now," said Chartree Chueytrasit, deputy permanent secretary of Thailand's ministry of natural resources a...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...ment: Looking at statistics, * All test playing nations (except Sri Lanka) have scored their highest ODI scores in last two years. * They have scored 76 more runs than the highest scores for individual teams in 1980s. * There is a significant correlation between upper body strength and limited over ...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

...s skyrocketed in the U.S. and many other developed nations over the last 30 years. Diabetes is a major cause of heart disease and stroke, as well as the most common cause in U.S. adults of blindness, kidney failure and amputations not related to trauma. NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., said, "These...

Legalization of Abortion in Mexico City Raises Heckles

...uthanasia, and 'parliaments of so-called civilized nations where laws contrary to the nature of the human being are being promulgated, such as the approval of marriage between people of the same sex ...' he condemned what he called 'terrorism with a human face,' and accused the media of manipulating language...

Elderly Population on Rise in India, China

...) official said here Wednesday. "Many developing nations are in transition as well," Somnath Chatterji, team leader of multi-country studies at the WHO said, calling on policymakers in rich and poor countries to grapple with the challenges posed by this long-term demographic change. They are shifting - a...

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