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Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...mpoverished Malawi, where health care is dogged by poor facilities and a brain drain . "Former president Clinton will perform a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the modern hospital which will cost 70 million dollars," Local Government Minister George Chaponda told AFP Thursday. The Cli...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...y as an international drug purchasing facility for poor countries, partly funded by airline ticket levies. At least 34 countries have signed up as donors to the 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world this year, and provide drugs a...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...cattered over a large geographical area, they have poor production conditions, and the quality of their products is not stable and even substandard," he said. Li, who recently condemned a US ban on several types of Chinese seafood products as "unacceptable", admitted on Friday that the products had inde...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...nglish-speaking backgrounds. For the millions of poor children who suffer sexual abuse, counselling of this nature is rarely an option, unless they make their way to child welfare shelters that are few and far between and of varying quality. New Delhi, a city of 14 million, has shelter space for just ...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...d have been the end of the matter. They had a very poor case, that's why they withdrew it." There was no immediate comment from the company about the new suit....

India Requires Over $200 Bn to Provide Quality Healthcare

...uately trained healthcare professionals leading to poor quality of service delivery," FICCI said. "Absence of infrastructure status and appropriate incentives restricts private sector entry into rural and semi-urban areas." The study also shows that even though 72.2 percent of India's population lives...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...l deliveries. "The health condition of the urban poor is a great issue. We have told them how they can save their children by taking small steps. We have told them that if they go to a hospital for childbirth, they will get money from the government," said Siddharth Agarwal, director of UHRC. "Our rol...

Older Women With Memory Problems at Increased Risk for Restless Nights

...ound an association between sleep disturbances and poor cognitive function. But our study raises the possibility that cognitive decline may increase the risk of sleep problems, rather than vice versa. This study does not mean that an individual with cognitive problems will necessarily develop sleep trou...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

...uately trained healthcare professionals leading to poor quality of service delivery," FICCI reported. To attract private sector investment in healthcare sector, FICCI has recommended tax holiday for 10 years for building new facilities and upgrading old ones, extension of exemption to companies creating...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

... health problems like malnutrition among children, poor sanitation and access to clean water. "We are giving more scholarships to our men and women to take up various health courses so that all Afghans can look forward to a better future ahead in regard to the health of their families", he said....

AIDS Patient Helps Others Lead a Positive Life

...cough and other infections," she said. Born in a poor Muslim family, Hina was educated only up to Class 10. She was married off at the age of 20. When she got pregnant, doctors diagnosed that she is HIV positive. "I did not even know what HIV positive is but doctors told my family that it is a dangero...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...vices, is located near crime hotspots, and serves poor and minorities in South Los Angeles. Predictably it has been going to seed for sometime. Complaints of incompetence and mismanagement have poured in and some periodical attempts at overhauling are made. The death of a woman on the floor of the ...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

... responsibility to promote polio vaccination among poor and marginalised Muslim populations. '(We) hereby strongly affirm that polio eradication is an urgent priority for all OIC member states,' the draft statement said. Polio, a preventable disease, has remained endemic in four countries, three of whi...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...atients with advanced-stage cancer experience very poor sleep quality and often have troubling staying awa... cancer, lung cancer also may be a risk factor for poor sleep. "While it's unclear what definitively causes cancer patients to have trouble sleeping and sta...

Diabetic Death Rate Drops in Men but Remains Unchanged for Women

...lar disease. Diabetes, often caused by obesity and poor diet, has struck wealthy countries on a massive scale in the past 20 years....

Filipino Mothers Go Bare Protesting Against Milk Formula Companies

...tudies up to 1.45 million children die annually in poor countries because of low breastfeeding rates....

Boffins Link Atkins Diet With Bowel Cancer

... a preventable disease, and there is evidence that poor diet can increase your risk," Telegraph quoted Prof Harry Flint, who led the research, as saying. The study conducted on 19 obese men, participants were given three diets with varied levels of carbohydrate- high, medium and low. The men on high car...

Kerala to Set Up Holistic Tourism Centre to Promote Medical Tourism

...ome generated through medical tourism for treating poor patients. The government will ensure that they practice responsible tourism," the minister said....

China to Overhaul Food Safety Rules

...etics to fish and herbal teas in recent months for poor hygiene standards. China retorted earlier this month by returning health pill and food shipments from the United States for not reaching minimum safety standards, while also rejecting American pistachio nuts....

Social Dealings at Three can Predict Future Academic Performance

...ng children who are at risk of behaviour problems, poor developmental health outcomes, decreased school readiness and higher dropout rates. The findings of the study were presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development....

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