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Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...executive assistant, insist that Canadas long-held policy on asbestos has been kept in place by successive federal governments because they do not want to risk endangering their political prospects in Quebec as a result of potential job losses created by any mine closures. Every year about a third of Sask...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...al among prostitutes' support groups who argue the policy will make sex workers more vulnerable . Men who buy sex could face up to six months in jail, pay a fine or face both, under proposed legislation currently under consultation with relevant interest groups. The law will outlaw the buying of sex, bu...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...ded benefit is that if a policyholder has kept the policy for long, it may serve him even better. For instance, a fresh policy does not cover any pre-existing illness. Says Mukesh Gupta, director of Wealthcare Securities, a fi...

Katrina Evacuees Made To Remain In Toxic Air

...kening." He said the documents "expose an official policy of premeditated ignorance," and added that "senior officials in Washington didn't want to know what they already knew, because they didn't want the legal and moral responsibility to do what they knew had to be done." About 66,000 households affecte...

Artificial Trans Fat Banned in Chain Restaurant in King County

...cas calories than ever before, said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan. The King County Board of Health is empowering restaurant patrons to make informed food choices for their kids and themselves. I hope chain restaurants respond by putting nutrition information on menus everywhere, not just wh...

Life Insurers in India to Launch Health Insurance Policies

...0 per cent depending on the age. Its new mediclaim policy has also increased the time frame for covering exclusions from second to third year of the policy, and has put a cap on the daily room rent at one per cent of the sum insured and two per cent in ICU, and increased the minimum sum to Rs 50,000 from Rs...

US Aid Ship to Visit Latin America, Caribbean

...George W. Bush announced in a March 5 speech on US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean, spokesman Scott Stanzel said in a statement. Volunteers from non-governmental aid groups will join the Comfort's medical crew and "will provide free health care services to communities in need," Stanzel said...

The Danger in Candy Cigarettes

...ch as the Wal-Mart chain, which has a company-wide policy banning the sale of cigarette look-alike products to minors in all 50 states. Candy cigarettes cannot be considered simply as candy....

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

...approach to the conflict, admitted Monday that the policy had failed to improve the situation, which has in fact "deteriorated" in recent months. The deep south was an independent Islamic sultanate known as Pattani for hundreds of years before being conquered by Bangkok in 1786. The border provinces came ...

Breathalyzer Tests for Cops Involved in Shootings

... wounded friends praised the new police department policy Monday. "It is positive change. It is a first step in the right direction," said the lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein.He said New York's Legislature should require the same alcohol testing statewide of all officers involved in shootings. The Rev. Al Shar...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...methamine treatment responses in children provides policy makers with a clearer understanding of the value of different IPT regimens with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy in the context of increasing sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine drug resistance, the authors write. Reserving the use of sulfadoxine-p...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...on of marriage should remain the number one social policy priority. There are already quite a few people who are keen to see their children immunised. As a former nurse practitioner and the chief executive of a private primary healthcare group, for example, Sarah Dean is intent on using every tool at her ...

Parents are More Concerned on What Their Kids Watch

... appeals court in New York dismissed the FCC's new policy of punishing the momentary use of the "S-word" and "F-word" on broadcast TV. The ruling has thrown uncertainty in the justification behind government regulation of broadcast content....

SKorean University Seeks to Bar Smokers

... told Thursday's Korea Times that a new admissions policy would give extra points to non-smoking applicants. "I will definitely introduce the new system to remove smoking students from our school," he was quoted as saying in an interview. "Although we cannot exactly tell smokers from non-smokers during ...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...ners and to their wives. The study has important policy implications. Several international AIDS organizations have begun to provide funding for male circumcisions as a deterrent to AIDS. The research is published in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE....

Childrens Health Program Covering More Adults Than Children

...ook to the streets in Washington put a face to the policy debate on the floor of Congress. They share two th...oved so that "all children are covered with proper policy matched with appropriate funding." Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)...

60% of Infertile Couples are Okay With Allowing Unused Embryos for Stem Cell Research

... This has significant implications for potential policy change on stem cell research, said Anne Drapkin Lyerly, M.D., an obstetrician/ gynecologist and bioethicist at Duke and lead investigator on the study. Previous research indicates that there are approximately 400,000 frozen embryos stored in the Unit...

WHO to Implement New Strategy on Diseases of Poverty

...and remote populations, and fostering research and policy leadership in countries where these diseases create significant health problems. The Board on Thursday approved the new ten-year strategy and vision. The Board includes the four TDR cosponsors - UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank and WHO - as well as 30 ...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...et billions in aid could be wasted because current policy is failing to respond. The STEPS Centres new app...ography of science and innovation. Andrew Scott, policy director at charity Practical Action, also speaking at the launch, said: The STEPS centre will help ...

Everest, Five Other World Heritage Sites Face Climate Change Risk

...tural sites. "The committee will discuss a draft policy document on climate change. We are asking the Committee to recognise the need for substantial emission cuts," explained Peter Roderick, co-ordinator of the Climate Justice Programme. The sites the groups want added to the "in danger" list are: Gr...

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