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Three-year-old Abandoned in Box Meant for Unwanted Babies in Japan

...e hospital for unwanted babies. The drop-off was opened by the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in the southern city of Kumamoto to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places. A small hatch on the side of the hospital has been set up to allow people to drop off babies into ...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

... Bijbehara on October 22, 1993, when bsf personnel opened fire on a procession demanding lifting of the siege on the Hazaratbal shrine in Srinagar. Before coming to the hospital, the doctors whom I approached used to tell me to give up worrying. They were treating me as if I was pretending an illness, Shahe...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...loss centres with more than 350 outlets. The first opened in London, Ont., in 1996 and the company serves about 40,000 customers per year. It has promoted a "lifestyle-based diet combined with herbal supplements and grocery store bought food," for the past decade with few complaints. An estimated 20 per c...

Lions Club Plans to Increase Free Healthcare for Poor

...ee year. "All the three healthcare units we have opened in Kolkata are still under-utilised by the patients. We have now set a target to reach out to more number of people by increasing our free services," Lions Club International's senior functionary K.N. Gupta told a press conference Tuesday. "We have...

Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB

UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has opened one of the few clinics in the nation dedicated to providing services to adult patients with Down Syndrome. Because of improvements in diagnosis, treatment and management of the condition while young, Down Syndrome patients are now routinely living i...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

... bi-curious, the films are amazing, the films have opened my mind," she added. Officials of UNAIDS say there is no data on the gay population in India as even collecting such information is illegal under Section 377. "The only estimates available are those of National Aids Control Organization and that,...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...instance, in Mecosta County, Michigan, where Nestl opened a spring water bottling plant a few years ago, locals have yet to see the promised economic rewards. "We've found that they mostly hire temp workers," says Donald Roy, who is involved with a citizen action group. "They pay many of them $10 an hour,...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

...ed Aeras to build a new facility in Rockville, MD, opened in 2006, that has the capacity to produce 150 million to 200 million vaccine doses a year of a modified BCG vaccine. Despite the very generous contributions from the Gates Foundation and others, considerably more funding is needed to create a vacci...

Ayurveda Resorts in Kerala Gear Up for the Monsoon Season

...tuated near Kovalam, said their ayurvedic spa that opened in February has already got substantial bookings for the month of June. "In this spa, spread over 14,000 sqaure feet, we have 10 fully equipped treatment rooms that have water bodies all around. This is believed to be essential for good results. We...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

... IANS on condition of anonymity. Some drugstores opened Monday although many are yet to resume business out of fear. The closure of pharmacies has led to panic across Manipur with doctors postponing major surgeries fearing shortage of lifesaving medicines. "We do not have sufficient stocks of medicines ...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...avadhan said 24 fish dispensing counters have been opened at the venue. For the first time, advance tokens were issued for the patients. He said over 8,000 advance bookings through tokens were registered till Wednesday. The distribution of the drug will begin at 9.10 p.m. Friday and continue the next day....

Autism Society of America Gives Top Honor to Treatment Pioneer in Phoenix

...in the autism field. CARD, which earlier this year opened its newest office in Phoenix, is one of the world's largest and most experienced organizations effectively treating children with autism and related disorders. "I am truly humbled and gratified to be recognized for the work that CARD does to help c...

Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

...e University Medical drugs Center researchers have opened up a new way to screen drugs for possible heart-related side effects and to develop new drugs. The Duke researches compared the actions of two breast cancer drugs in experiments involving human cells and rats. The drugs in question were the older ...

South African AIDS Delegates Issue Contraception Call

...lass citizens. "So I dream that our eyes will be opened and our cultures will be transformed. Women will freely be able to negotiate safe sex and fathers will not blame mothers for their HIV infections," said the archbishop. Female condoms which have been shown to prevent HIV and also put the onus of pr...

Quack of Gurgaon Confesses of Aborting 250 Female Fetuses

...sistant in the Army Medical Corps. He resigned and opened a small clinic, equipped with necessary medical fa... in 1994 at his residence, the officer said. "He opened the clinic some distance away from other houses, so as not to arouse any suspicion among neighbours,...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

Walmex, the popular retailer in Mexico has opened the channels to make available a line of 150 inexpensive generic drugs costing// as less as $3.50. This move has elevated the position of the shopping conglomerate as a great way to avail facilities under one roof. Last year, Walmex's parent compa...

Health Insurance Company Expands Product Range

...ommence operations when the insurance industry was opened to the private sector in 2000. For the 11 months ended February 28, 2007, the company garnered Rs 3,744 crore of weighted retail + group new business premiums and wrote over 1.5 million policies. The company has a network of over 540 offices, over 20...

Retail Clinics Becoming Increasingly Popular in US

... cent of clients. The first retail health clinic opened in 2000, and there are 300 in the U.S. today with ... says Peter Miller of Take Care Health Systems. It opened its first clinic in fall, has 23 in one region and plans to open 1,400 by 2009. GP/B...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

...alled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation. Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him w...

Black-Owned Hospital Receives Historical Commemorative Marker

...the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The hospital opened in Coatesville, Pa., in 1936 and was founded by Wh...ealth Services, federally qualified health center, opened a satellite clinic within blocks of the Atkinson center and was able to provide more services. With ...

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