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Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...ment Program (UNEP). As representatives from 24 nations of Asia gather in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu on Tuesday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone, the Bhutan government will clearly create a landmark in the international drive to protect the environment. The government of...

'Invest in Health, Build a Safer Future': World Health Day

...al proportion. Increased collaboration among the nations of the world will help in the timely management of epidemic- prone disasters. There is also a need for greater co-operation between governments, corporate sector and citizens to ensure international preparedness and to provide a universal safety ne...

Health Workers in Developing Countries Undermines Essential Services

A chronic shortage of health workers in developing nations is undermining essential health services, includin... professionals have left their homes in developing nations in search of higher paying jobs in wealthier countries, Reuters reports. According to WHO's World ...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

...cy medicine at the Medical College, "Learning from nations that have experienced conventional weapon attacks ...cumstances. These commonalities can be used by all nations in their preparedness efforts." The disaster paradigm—Detection; Incident Command; Scene Security ...

Bird Flu Vaccine - Indonesia Attracts WHO Attention

...e to pandemic proportions. In the past 50 years, nations in the world have continually exchanged information with the WHO on new flu strains. This is being done with the motive of assisting scientists to be abreast with the genetic composition of the mutating virus. The WHO whets this information and creat...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

...elemedicine.At the 14th summit of the heads of the nations of the South Asian Association for Regional Corporation, slated to commence at New Delhi, the Indian capital on April 3, the member countries would commit themselves to a tele-medicine project. Under the proposal, two hospitals in each of the eigh...

Transplant Tourism on the Rise, Says WHO

...st the undesirable practice of preying upon poorer nations by patients from the developed countries of the We...t went on to note it was encouraging the developed nations to make use more of the organs of their own deceased people instead of letting their citizens buy th...

‘Nursing’ a Dream in Foreign Lans

...n trained registered nurses hailed from the poorer nations like Africa. The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, summarizes, "The prospect for higher wages overseas attracts talented local workers to the field of nursing, which may increase local and worldwide nursing supply." The r...

Pregnant Women Expecting Sons Will Do Well to Avoid Beef

...unts have been record low among men in the western nations due to their exposure to pesticides and industrial chemicals. The growth promoters used in cattle is thought to be behind the low sperm counts. The most recent study involving men in the United States born between 1949 and 1983, revealed that expect...

WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

... that sale of spurious drugs in some of the poorer nations account for more than 25% of the total drug sales. He said that this issue needs the intervention of experts to chalk out a strategy that is specific for a particular nation. Some of the measures discussed in the conference included bar codes, hologr...

'Pan'demonium Over Non -stick Pans

...f generations. Many companies in the developed nations have taken the responsibility of slowly doing away with PFOA. A paper published this year in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, explains how PFOA is released even when non-stick cookware and microwave popcorn bags are subject to normal...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

...e of atoms and molecules// - could give developing nations new ways to diagnose and treat disease. Nanotech...on in several developing countries, and that these nations are directing their nanotechnology innovation systems to address their more pressing needs. "Count...

Diabetes Threat Greater Than Feared

...dults aged 20 and over are now affected. Developed nations tend to have a higher prevalence but developing nations are fast catching up. There was a 69 percent increase from 5.2 percent to 8.8 percent in diabetes ...

Japanese Turn to China for Organ Transplants

...concerns over the medical expertise of other Asian nations as well as the 10-million-yen cost of the surgeries in the West have brought a growing number of transplant patients to China. Source-IANS...

Can Giving More Homework Improve Test Scores For Children?

...k has moved to center stage in the debate over how nations can improve their economic competitiveness by boos...nce Survey (TIMSS) for 1995 and 2003, selecting 18 nations to examine overall trends. They presented their findings at the annual Comparative and International...

Cheap Anti-malarial Drug

...isease kills 500 million every year and in African nations one child is killed due to malaria every 30 seconds. JYT...

Alarming Trend in Prescription Drug Abuse

...or such a trend is the unregulated markets in many nations which enable the illicit drug peddler to push these drugs via internet, courier service and mails. According to Philip O. Emafo, President of Narcotics Control Board, the drugs that are available through such routes bring more harm than benefit to th...

EU Commission to Set Up Rapid Action Team

...ected areas. The experts will be sent to member nations or other nations such as third world countries in the event of an outbreak. They are expected to provide expert advic...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

... if extra measures were adopted to help developing nations meet the sanitation target, there would still be problems maintaining the facilities after the 2015 goal passes. She highlighted the urgent need for developing countries to improve engineering capacity through training and education, and promote co...

WHO Passes Rotavirus Vaccine

... the availability of this vaccine in almost ninety nations across the world. Twenty percent of this vaccine market is held by Europe. JYT...

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