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Experts urging artery screening in the UK

A national screening program is in the offing for abdominal aortic aneurysm, a blood vessel condition which kills thousands each year in the UK, a magazine reports. This condition, a swelling // in the main blood vessel from the heart which can kill if it bursts, accounts fo...

Huge demand for high street chlamydia tests

...he initial response to the NHS Chlamydia Screening program at Boots stores in London. The stores are poised to provide around 50,000 screenings a year using the over-the-counter tests. By making this free service available in pharmacies on the high street, people will find it easier to call in for a screenin...

Gujarat Seeks To Scale Down Infant Mortality Rate

... during delivery in the State. Through this new program named Chiranjeevi, the government aims to bring the maternal mortality rates down from the present 3.89 to one. Similarly, the Health Department expects the infant mortality rate to come down to 30 per thousand births. The infant mortality rate at pr...

Sex Education, Need Of The Hour In Public Schools

...ormation on mere abstinence programs. At least one program on HIV/AIDS, during middle school and high school, was solicited. Majority of Californian adults are of the opinion that Sex Education in Public Schools is incommensurate with the need- Sixty-eight percent of adults feel that, local school distri...

No booster vaccine For every fourth child in Australia

...st pneumococcal disease got their shots before the program finished at the end of 2005, government figures show//. These children had received pneumococcal vaccination as a result of the...

U.S. Chicken Producers to Test Flocks for Bird Flu

... the birds are moved to processing plants, under a program announced today by the National Chicken Council, a... Jan. 16, council spokesman Richard Lobb said. The program will have “only a minimal impact" on costs to producers and will not affect poultry prices at the su...

Thailand had Fewer AIDS-Related Deaths, New HIV Cases In 2005

...0,000 low-income HIV-positive people under a pilot program that provides basic care to all Thai people. About 80,000 HIV-positive people now are receiving antiretroviral drug treatment through the government program. Thai Public Health Minister Pinij Charusombat said the ministry could further improve car...

Flu Shots Not Mandatory For Nurses

...50 employees had been excused from the vaccination program for religious reasons....

HIV/AIDS Awareness Info through Barber Shops, Salons

A Wilmington-based HIV/AIDS community outreach program in Delaware has thought of an offbeat salon approa...nrolled five salons and shops in Wilmington in the program and hopes to expand the program throughout New Castle County, Delaware....

AIDS Patients Deceived By Private Health Care System In China

...ng and huge medical bills. The free AIDS treatment program is being used to create profits", said Odilon Couz...pt to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, a drug program was launched recently, with a financial assistance of $95 million, from the Global Fund to Fight AID...

Breast Cancer Drug Should Be Made Widely Available

...le it is not available under a federal health-care program in some. Alberta is till reviewing the drug, while Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and B.C fund the drug. "Any drug that assists someone in achieving a longer life and better life, no question, should be covered. But there are so many sides to the issu...

France plans to protects its citizens from bird flu

...ection, the ministry has presented a proposed plan program to combat flu infection spread.// France has a pop...h could protect from bird flu infections. The plan program proposes free flu drugs and vaccines to infected and needy people....

Doctors In UK Have Reservations About NHS Plan

...tive cooperation of the general practitioners, the program may well become a non-starter. Deficits are alr...ed by the Government to the doctors. The NHS IT program is estimated at ￡6.2 billion. A research carried out by Medix has revealed that only 17% of the doct...

Smokers Encouraged To Give Up The Habit

...e of 18 years// will benefit from this scheme. The program is being conducted by the Smoking Treatment for On...h will also provide counseling free of charge. The program will also evaluate as to which quitting method is more effective, according to Center for Addiction ...

UN Fears Melting Of Ice Would Concentrate Toxins in the Chinese Water Supply

...illions of people were at risk. The UN environment program committee said that the Chinese government should take all possible steps to check the increase in the levels of chemicals during spring while the ice melts. It said that the pollutants which are frozen would become liquid and then move on to the g...

Debra Winger Wants Indians Abroad To Help Visually Impaired

...in Haryana 5 January 2006 to see a community-based program run by Venu, the Indian partner for Sight Savers - for visually impaired people. She visited camps for cataract operations and spent time with the patients and she was moved by the work of field workers. 'I met the field workers in Rewari District,...

Pill splitting program of University of Michigan can save money

Pill splitting program developed by University of Michigan could save lot...ut pharmaceutical companies are not happy with the program as they feel that the new program will cause them heavy loss in profits.// The University of Mich...

Indian Inc not proactive to HIV/AIDS threat: study

...n for voluntary testing, 45 percent had no condoms program and 67 percent no treatment program. What is more discouraging is that 74 percent of the Indian companies revealed they had no anti-discrimination policy for protecting the interests of HIV/AIDS infected workers. On the positive side, 14 percent ha...

US Government Calls For Better Drug Supplies

...ich is the responsibility of the prescription drug program of Medicare. The insurance companies are reportedly unable to identify the poor people who are entitled to extra help where the drug costs are concerned. Several hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries are reported to have switched plans. The prese...

Drug Name Confusion Makes Imports Dangerous: FDA

... does is prove the point that you need a regulated program for imported drugs.This is part of a U.S. government campaign to discourage enactment of legislation to import drugs from other countries," she added. However, Ilisa Bernstein, director of pharmacy affairs at the FDA, said systems were in place in t...

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