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India To Set Up A Faculty In Namibia

... seeks to bridge the digital divide and connect 53 nations of the African Union through an optic fibre project. A couple of memorandums of understanding are to be signed later. This will encourage India to play a more active role in joint exploration of minerals and in the energy sector in Namibia. SAD...

Antibiotics Used In Food Animals Causes Antibiotic Resistance In People

...fluoroquinolones on animals. Other industrialized nations have also realized the apparent benefits of restricting antimicrobial use in animals. It was found that both Sweden that had prohibited the use of fluoroquinolones for food animals in 1986 and Norway that had never licensed their use in food animals,...

Donor Nations Urged To Pledge More To Combat Bird Flu

An UN official said that donor nations should be prepared to pledge more money to combat ...how much funding they will need to help developing nations that lack proper resources to detect, prevent and contain outbreaks, David Nabarro, the UN bird-flu ...

Women Are One-upping Men in the Longevity Game!

... This change is particularly evident in developed nations and the gap seems to be narrowing in most Western European countries, with lifestyles and smoking patterns being almost equal between men and women. A recent report doing its rounds in the United Kingdom, speaks of 18-24 year old women in the UK givi...

Arab World Wakes Up To the Call of Science

...e by the Arab leaders at a summit of the 22-member nations of the Arab League in Khartoum, Sudan. They have a...cience and technology. This has called on the Arab nations to increase their research capacity, enact policies to promote quality in science, and encourage pub...

Americans Dissatisfied with their Health Care

...ison to their counterparts in other industrialized nations Americans were also more likely to have spent over $1ooo from their own pockets for their medical expenses. Care for patients suffering from chronic diseases was also glaringly inadequate. Some positive parts of the American health care system was...

WHO: Lives At Risk In Sudan As Diseases Soar, Call for Funding

...ming weeks. Currently, Sudan is dependent on other nations to help ease its financial burden worth 13.8 million pounds or $24 million. 'Adverse consequences for the health of millions of people throughout Sudan' has been predicted by the United Nations agency, unless funds flood in for the 20 health projec...

Britain's Bird Flu Contingency Plans Faces Criticism

... that the plan should concentrate on improving the nations response rather than a narrow focus on the health response. The main focus of the contingency plan is the increasing number of people becoming ill as a result of bird flu infection. Very little importance is being given to the functional disruption...

Children obesity has an option in the form of surgery

Childhood obesity is a grave problem in developed nations as well as in India now//. According to stats about a third of children in the UK are now overweight. In new development guidelines have being proposed by the NHS treatment watchdog has allowed stomach surgery for children. Guidance has been dev...

Cost-effective Meningitis Vaccine To Be Launched In Africa

...ategies developed by researchers in the developing nations represents a groundbreaking approach in the competitive area of drug development....

Military-based Research Labs Needed To Manage Bird Flu Threat

...ses from animals to human beings) stem from remote nations with insufficient scientific resources and ineffective surveillance measures, globalization of the research labs should be enabled through enhanced funding and an active participation....

Obesity enveloping children like the many headed monster.

...rweight and obese youngsters in the European Union nations would be 26 million. Over a million children will show signs of high blood pressure, raised cholesterol levels or early indicators for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Dr Tim Lobstein, of the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF), who analyze...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

...he World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that nations prepare for the threat of a pandemic situation by stockpiling anti-viral drugs. Oseltamivir and zanamivir are considered the first line of defence against the bird flu virus. They work by inhibiting neuraminidase, an enzyme essential for the relea...

Beware Of Bogus Claims by HGH Spray Internet Marketers

...dhealth.net), representing 17,500 physicians in 86 nations worldwide, has become aware that various spray and/or nutritional HGH product manufacturers, distributors, or resellers are now flooding the Internet with bulk-mail promotional advertisements that suggest that A4M and/or its president, Dr. Ronald Kla...

Bird Flu attacks the feline community

...off a human flu pandemic. Several other European nations were affected with the flu but the worst outbreak was in Russia, where it devastated a poultry farm in the southern region of Krasnodar. Gov. Alexander Tkachev said that more than 100,000 chickens at a farm in the village of Lavliniskaya have been cu...

Novel Test For Early Detection Of Gullet Cancer

...ssive increase in cancers of the gullet in Western nations over the past 25 years....

Poultry Ordered Indoors Following Bird Flu Suspicion In Germany

...c poultry be moved indoors. Four other European nations have reported outbreaks this week and the disease now appears unstoppable, at least among wild birds. The latest suspected infections were in four dead swans on the island of Ruegen, off Germany's Baltic Sea coast. Preliminary tests showed that tw...

WHO Forecasts Bird Flu Pandemic Among Birds

...prepared to face the worst, and all the 192 member nations have been called upon to improve their surveillance where the disease is concerned. Large-scale infections in Iraq have been denied by the WHO. During the last two years, several countries have reported outbreaks of the avian influenza caused by t...

Polio Continues To Haunt India

...-endemic country, according to an UN report. These nations are yet to stop the indigenous polio transmission, according to the report. // A new vaccine initiative to target remaining strains of the virus has also been announced. The report comes as polio eradication efforts enter a new phase with the next-...

How Lethal Is The H5N1?

...positive reports in Turkey. The outbreaks in Asian nations have already proved that the death rate due to the disease could be very high. The virus is believed to be carried in a very pathogenic form by wild migratory birds. This is reported to be how it was introduced into Romania and Turkey. The fact th...

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