officials 1 10

Tag: "officials" at medical news

Earthquake Kills Three, Injures 290 in Southwest China

... million yuan for relieving the disaster. Rescue officials from the China Earthquake Administration have been dispatched to help local rescue efforts...

25 Pesticides Banned in India, Others Face Partial Curbs

...ed to submit "complete data" about their products, officials said. In an RTI application reply to information campaigner Harikumar P. of Kasargod in Kerala, the ministry of agriculture's secretary S. Kulshrestha said the "main reason for banning" pesticides was that some "involved a health hazard to human be...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...sources that assist health, medical and government officials involved in refugee relief. "Ensuring the reproductive health needs are met for women from conflict settings is a challenge, but we believe this toolkit is a positive step forward in generating information that can quickly identify and better addre...

Smallpox Alert in Northeast

...of a smallpox outbreak in Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said Monday. "Following the centre's instruction...the West Bengal government also alerted its health officials about possible outbreak of the disease, which according to WHO was eradicated in 1984. "We have al...

China Repudiates Warning on Its Toothpaste

...a is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine with devastating results. Families have reported 365 deaths from the poison, 100 of which have been confirmed so far. With the onset of the rainy season, investigators a...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...errifying. Those who did this are crazy." Health officials pointed to a recent rise in HIV infections in Groningen from 14 in 2005 to 25 last year, out of a population of 185,000 as significant. "This doesn't mean that the rise is entirely explained by the orgies but it's probable that part of the rise ha...

New Studies: Commercials Aren't Making Kids Fat

...ising today." "It took scientists and government officials to tell us that a two minute commercial break doesn't brainwash kids to get fat," said J. Justin Wilson, senior research analyst at the Center for Consumer Freedom. "Food commercials have been around since Dick Tracy sold kids on Ovaltine. It's only ...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

...he fish consumed by humans. Many feel that local officials are nonchalant My father tells me that once he used to drink from the Dal Lake . Today, we think twice before dipping our hand into the lake, fearing infection. The tourists who stay in house boats on the lake, dump all sewage into its waters," sai...

Every Child Needs to Be Vaccinated to Lead India into a Polio Free Future - Ramadoss

...Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana and Gujarat and senior officials representing the States of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya ...n were present at the meeting. In addition, senior officials from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, representatives from WHO, ICMR, UNICEF and Rotary Inte...

Best Armed Forces Hospital Trophy Goes to Northern Command Hospital

... Singh and various other senior civil and military officials were present on the occasion. The Raksha Mantri's Trophy was instituted in 1989 to create a healthy competition among the Command Hospitals of the Army and its equivalent Hospitals in the Navy and Air Force. The best hospital is adjudged on the bas...

Hunger Awareness Day to Shed Light on Surprising Face of Hunger June 5

...or their time. They can also contact their elected officials to let them know about the needs in your community. There is something everyone can do to ensure no one in the United States goes to bed hungry." As the official cable media partner of Hunger Awareness Day 2007, Country Music Television (CMT) is als...

Controversy Spikes Over Anti-diabetes Drug Avandia

...was pressured to go back on her decision after FDA officials were contacted by GSK. FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, Nissan, and a GSK representative are expected to testify at the House hearing on Wednesday....

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...village on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital, officials said Wednesday. The virus was confirmed late Tu...e village and surrounding area. Wednesday night, officials in white protective suits were scouring the village collecting birds, including pets and geese, for ...

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...bilateral and multilateral trade relationships. US officials have already warned consumers against using Chinese- toothpaste. On Thursday Nicaraguan health authorities confiscated 40,000 tubes of Chinese- toothpaste after confirmation that they contained DEG. The Dominican Republic, Panama and Costa Rica hav...

Measles Outbreak in Canada, Officials Urge Vaccination

...cific treatment for the illness, the public health officials say that vaccination is very important. Not just o...t in the subways or in a convenience store, health officials said adding that they have found links between many of the cases but not all. Alberta has also recor...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

...ports last week saying that Indian health ministry officials were scrutinizing yoga-related patents and trademarks granted by the US. Indian yoga gurus have contended that yoga is intrinsic to Indian spiritual tradition where it is often used as an aid to meditation and has been practiced in this country fo...

Zimbabwe Receives 15m Dollars of AIDS Drugs from US

...ernment to bolster its fight against HIV and AIDS, officials announced . Under the deal, the United States will provide Zimbabwe with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) for 40,000 people as well as HIV rapid test kits for three years. Health Minister David Parirenyatwa commended the donation by the US government, ...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...g the scope of its AIDS problem, but Indian health officials dispute their conclusions. Richard Feacham, until recently the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said in early 2005, when South Africa was thought to have slightly more cases: The official statistics are w...

Whooping Cough Spreads from a Massachusetts Hospital

...mation on pertussis and the antibiotic. Hospital officials stressed they were being extremely cautious about the possible spread of whooping cough. Pertussis is transmitted by coughing during the first two weeks of symptoms, said Dr. Alan Sugar, an epidemiologist at Cape Cod Hospital in a Friday afternoon ne...

Five Malaysians in Hospital After Bird Flu Outbreak

.... Chua said checks have been conducted by health officials on 476 houses and 3,204 residents of Sungai Buloh and a neighbouring village where 60 chickens have died of the H5N1 strain. "So far, there's still no case which meets the definition of the avian influenza infection among humans detected," the mini...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10