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V P Singh Proposes Doubling Of Medical Seats

...the reservations to 50 percent and have undertaken nationwide protests. ...

HCV Spree in US

According to a nationwide study it was found that about 4.1 million people in the US are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). // The current rate of infection was found to be 1.6%. The Hepatitis C virus affects the liver and spreads through contact with contaminated blood p...

Nutritious Beverages to be Sold in School

...y to spread the standards to 75 percent of schools nationwide by the start of the 2008-09 school year, with full compliance by 2009-10, as long as existing contracts can be amended. Under the guidelines of the agreement: Beverages sold in schools could have no more than 100 calories per container, except f...

Nationwide Strike on May 2nd by Medicos on Reservation Issue

...students of the country are expected to organize a nationwide peaceful demonstration against the reservation quo... Government educational institutions, will be held nationwide and will be “Show of strength’’. ‘‘If the government does not even hear us, we will make the agitat...

Health Insurance Fueling Medical Crisis in US

...uston will be one of the 10 target markets for the nationwide campaign to promote plans to widen health insurance coverage in response to the celebration of the Uninsured Week. Already the nonprofit Harris County Public Healthcare System Council plans to spread the costs among uninsured low-income workers such ...

Lawn Mowing Injuries On The Rise

There has been a nationwide increase in the incidence of lawn mowing injuries, reveals a new study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School // of Public Health. As many as 80, 000 Americans seek treatment for injuries from lawn mowing which is regarded to ...

Nationwide Increase In Lawn Mowing Injuries

There has been a nationwide increase in the incidence of injuries as a consequence of lawn mowing //. Surprisingly, a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reveals that as many as 80, 000 Americans seek treatment for injuries from...

Older child’s dominance in intelligence over; younger siblings not far behind

A new study, based on a large, nationwide sample, suggests a critical flaw in that previous ...SY is a nationally representative survey of people nationwide conducted by Ohio State's Center for Human Resource Research. The researchers compared intelligenc...

Polio Strikes Again

Sunday saw yet another nationwide polio immunization drive. However, Family Welfare Minister Ahmad Hasan has come down hard upon officers in Western Uttar Pradesh// whose laxity he blames for the fresh 12 cases reported in U.P. Several officers have been punished in this regard. Su...

Technology Can Help Fight Health Care Costs

...untry. The company manages 28 acute-care hospitals nationwide and employs more than 30,000 people. The Chief Executive Officer Alan Miller told Forbes Magazine earlier this year that they are implementing the latest tools and equipment into the company's hospitals. He feels that's what makes them more successfu...

Chirps of Wisdom: Taking a Leaf out Of Vietnam’s Bird-Flu Sag

...he next priority that should be followed up with a nationwide education programme, ample information broadcast on national media and advertisement around the country. "It's important that people know to seek help at an early stage of the illness. In the first year of the outbreak there was a high mortality ra...

Japanese Encephalitis Immunization Programme in India

India will launch a nationwide Japanese encephalitis immunization programme for children from May, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said// here Tuesday. The health menace, which is caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, had claimed over 1,000 lives, mostly in Uttar Prades...

Supercomputers To Assist In Thwarting Bird Flu Epidemic In Future

...ge-scale, stochastic simulation model examines the nationwide spread of a pandemic influenza virus strain, such as an evolved avian H5N1 virus, should it become transmissible human-to-human. The simulation rolls out a city- and census-tract-level picture of the spread of infection through a synthetic population...

WHO Kick Starts Polio Immunization Drive in Somalia

... World Health Organization is beginning a five-day nationwide polio immunization campaign in Somalia, that will aim at vaccinating about one-and-one half million children, below the age of five. // The Head Honcho of WHO's Global Polio Eradication Campaign, David Heymann said, "In fact, we are seeing that the...

Pets As Disease Watchdogs

...n collaboration with Banfield, The Pet Hospital, a nationwide chain of veterinary hospitals to identify specific...ta included reports from VCA Antech Diagnostics, a nationwide network of laboratories used by more than 18,000 private veterinary practices. Medical records we...

Type I diabetes or juvenile diabetes delays kidney disease onset

...onducted a population study and used data from two nationwide registers, which include 12,032 cases of childhood onset of type 1 diabetes, to examine the cumulative occurrence of kidney failure caused by diabetes.After a maximum follow-up of 27 years, the researchers found that 33 (0.7 percent) of 4414 patients...

Increased Funding For AIDS/HIV Program In Africa

... people receive the ARV treatment as a part of the nationwide program. Africa has the largest population of HIV infected individuals in the World, with nearly 6 million of the 47 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS. With the proposed increase in the provincial spending on HIV/AIDS in Africa, the incidence ...

Food Grains Project To Tackle Malnutrition In India

In an attempt to provide a solution to the nationwide prevalent malnutrition, 13 premier research instit... that came to us and invited us to partner it in a nationwide pilot project to add iron and zinc in rice, maize and wheat,' Bouis added. The Danish Internationa...

Americans Not Interested In Choosing Sex Of Child: Survey

A nationwide survey conducted among Americans has revealed that most of them prefer leaving determination of their child's sex to a mere chance. The results of the study may not be applicable to other countries, // where concerns about sex selection may be preval...

Argentine Meat Export business gets a jolt from Russia.

...in cattle in the province. Following this jolt a nationwide sanitary alert has been sounded in Argentina, the world's No.3 beef exporter. This was to ensure that the disease doesn't spread further. The worst part is that Russia is the top importer of fresh Argentine beef. As per rules and a settlement Argen...

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