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Australia Proposes Comprehensive Plans to Protect Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse

...itory Aboriginal land for six months. He said 50 per cent of welfare payments through Centrelink to par...Effectively, the arrangements will be that that 50 per cent can only be used for the purchase of food and other essentials." Mr Howard also announced the c...

Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

... the product if it does not meet specifications as per the law or if it is found to be against our culture." Media reports claim that the Madhya Pradesh Drugs Control Department has already started an investigation into the sale of 'vibrating condoms'. However, the Controller of Food and Drug Admin...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...ons and 10 to 15 teleconferences between hospitals per month, with the numbers increasing over time. Tele...nes of healthcare delivery in Afghanistan, serving per month an average of 4,000 patients in the out patients department, 3,000 patients in radiology and 1...

Employer Leave Helps the Parents of Chronically Ill Kids

...es eligible workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year to care for ill family members without the risk of being fired. Only 30 percent of parents reported having employer-provided leave that could be used to care for ill family members, and just 15 percent reported having access to paid leave. M...

Cigarette Smoking Delays Ligament Healing

...h mice are placed inside smoking chambers six days per week. The mice don't actually have cigarettes in t...he equivalent of a person smoking about four packs per day. Mice were placed in the smoking chambers for two months prior to MCL surgery and then again ...

Southern England Far Healthier Than the North

... have the lowest number of smoking deaths with 147 per 100,000, while Knowsley in Merseyside had the highest with 366 deaths per 100,000. A North-South divide is also evident in terms of the health problems caused by over-drin...

Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO

...erculosis it costs as little as $16 for six months per patient. But it costs up to $15,000 to treat one XDR-TB case for several years - with no guarantee of a cure. XDR-TB is a threat to the security and stability of global health, said WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. This response plan identifies c...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...chet said the rise of BIBs, which now represent 15 per cent of French supermarket wine sales, has doubled Auchan?s sales in the last five years. On the international wine scene, the future holds higher quality wine in BIBs, lighter glass bottles, and light plastic bottles made from PET, or polyethylene...

'Hi, can You Hear Me? I'm at 30,000 Feet'

...erage price will be about 2.50 dollars (1.9 euros) per minute for calls and about 50 cents per SMS message. The revenue will be split three ways between OnAir, the user's mobile phone operator ...

A New Milestone in Stem Cell Research

...a already damaged. In 3-6 months after surgery, 20 per cent of patients develop a thinning of the walls of the heart, which in its most extreme form, can lead to congestive heart failure. Dr Raimondo Ascione, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, said: I am very grateful to the British Heart Foundation for fundi...

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...colon cancer alone causes more than 500,000 deaths per year in the West, and currently the only effective treatment is surgery. Despite this treatment, noted the researcher, between 40 and 60% of colon cancer patients die, and for this reason it is important that we seek out treatment based on genetic th...

Two-year-old Joins Mensa, Becomes Its Youngest Ever Genius

...eved an incredible 152, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent, or one in 500, of the population's most inte...nly adults or children who have an IQ in the top 2 per cent, asked Georgia to join and confirmed that she was the group's youngest current member, and the ...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...nd and Laos), which contribute to approximately 70 per cent of world's illicit poppy cultivation....

Oral Anti Viral Tamiflu A Cost Effective Treatment

... This equates to a cost saving of 70,000 dollar per 1,000 population which would save 21 billion dollar in the US alone versus no intervention. Adding other strategies such as school closures further reduces the attack and death rate and provides a health benefit at a reasonable cost. The research als...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

...stics survey found. Many feel that the ban is 75 per cent more likely to succeed if they use patches, g...en would be more at risk from chest infections (91 per cent) and asthma (86 per cent) from second hand smoke. Second hand smoking would increase a non smok...

Make Up Unhealthy for Skin

...bodies. Many use over 20 different beauty products per day while nine out of 10 apply make-up which is past its expiry date. It is also been seen that women have started using make up quite early too. Richard Bence, who advocates the use of organic beauty products, said people should question the produ...

One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report

...cutting production of major crops by as much as 30 per cent and leaving one-fifth of the population in ne...maize, Timor's most important crop, declined by 30 per cent to 70,000 tonnes. Output of cereals, cassava and other tubers dropped by 25-30 per cent while r...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

...isits annually and over 20,000 surgical procedures per year. It has one of the nations most extensive eye, ear, nose and throat clinics....

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...us public health threats, observers in US warn. As per a recent survey just 4 percent of U.S. adults are virgins and a fifth have tried hard drugs like cocaine and crack. What most alarms researchers is how young they start. "We have a public health problem in that we still see a lot of adults repor...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

... used for meeting, they may not be used for mating per se. Performing crosses and backcrosses between different pheromone races of this moth, they obtained groups of individuals sharing the same pheromone type but differing in their overall genetic relatedness with the "pure" races, and, conversely, grou...

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