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Tackling Drug Addition in UK

...ethadone. Mr. Hunter said that the large methadone programme is very effective. Professor Jason White, director of treatment services for alcohol and drug abuse for South Australia, said that these rehab programmes should be tailor made and should suit different people. People should be made to know that drug ...

Russia Initiates Mass Vaccination Of Poultry To Restrict Bird Flu

...lu vaccine. The initial focus of the vaccination programme would be targeted at delivery of the bird flu vaccine to farms, located close to ponds and other water sources. Such areas face an enhanced bird flu threat as migratory birds frequent it. It has been proposed to complete the project by July, this yea...

Social work by clerics in checking the spread of AIDS

...he National Aids Control Programme said,” When the programme was initially launched, it had met with strong opposition from religious quarters but now hundreds of religious scholars had become part of the programme.”br>...

NHS To Screen Newborn Babies For Hearing Impairment

...ial, therefore, that this is identified early. The programme does just that, enabling parents to access the app... chance to blossom, "The newborn hearing screening programme will help to achieve this by giving hundreds of babies born with hearing impairment and deafness the...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

...journal. The main target of the new tuberculosis programme would be towards expansion of the currently existing treatment programs in addition to improvement in the diagnostic procedure. The prevention of co-infection with HIV/AIDS would also be given utmost importance. 'The new Stop TB Strategy injects ne...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

...ht in schools and hospitals and founded a training programme in the 1960s for dance therapists at a New York music school. Chace believed dance was a form of communication, fulfilling a basic human need. "It was amazing," said Nilufer Chaulagain, who works with the Daywalka Foundation here. "There were t...

OpenMED Nominated For Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award

...ockholm Challenge is a prominent global networking programme for information and communication technology (ICT) entrepreneurs and its award is given away in the Swedish capital in the summer. It aims to show how IT "can improve living conditions and increase economic growth in all parts of the world". Over t...

NHS in Welsh under a huge debt of ￡70

... of Nursing told me that the new agenda for change programme for the nursing profession is under-funded to the tune of ￡24m." According to Jenny Randerson, the Liberal Democrats assembly spokeswoman on health, "I also think that we have to face up to the fact that there is a dramatic escalation in expectatio...

China Crowned the Diabetic Capital of the World

...mentioned India's initiative to develop a national programme for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). She believed that an integrated programme including diabetes, cardiac disease and some cancers, shared risk factors and methods of treatment....

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

...ficial documents revealed. L.S. Chauhan, country programme manager, TB, told IANS: "Since it is affecting the productive years of people, economic loss is a must. The disease is a hindrance to the socio-economic development of the country." "We are trying to reach out to the masses and treat as many people...

Private Public Partnership To Tackle TB, In Karnataka

...rol of TB in the state. He further stated that the programme was not followed by all section of the health care industry, making it difficult to eliminate the disease or offer a 100% TB cure. 'The Directly Observed Treatment, short course (DOTS) programme, where treatment is directly monitored, is recommende...

Web-Based Training Programme For Africa Vets

...joined forces to create an Internet-based training programme that will allow vets to study// for postgraduate d...elect from a wide variety of options to tailor the programme to meet their professional needs. The part-time and online nature of this programme makes it especia...

Country music legend Buck Owens dead

...olin as he was growing up, and had his first radio programme as a teenager. His first top 10 record, "Under Your Spell Again", was released in 1959. Best known for his 1963 chart-topper "Act Naturally", Owens had some 20 number one hits over the next decade that made his reputation as a country music legend. ...

Africa's vets to gain from web-based training

...joined forces to create an Internet-based training programme that will allow vets// to study for postgraduate d...elect from a wide variety of options to tailor the programme to meet their professional needs. The part-time and online nature of this programme makes it especia...

India to Implement National Action Plan against TB-HIV

...ccess rate has risen from 25 % to 86 % due to this programme being extended to almost all the states. In the re...ganization Report 2005 also appreciated the Indian programme against the disease....

Elephantiasis Is Eliminated In Egypt Due To Mass Drug Administration

...areas of the country. The mass drug administration programme mainly involved the administration of diethylcarbamazine plus albendazole. This drug was donated by British-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc.Chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier....

GlaxoSmithKline Agrees To Settle Paxil Claims For $14 million

...y Medicaid, the state and federally funded medical programme for low-income patients....

Delay In Life-Saving Bowel Cancer Screening Programme In UK

...tment of Health had proposed to introduce a health programme in April, targeted at screening all 60 to 69 year ...ant delay has been caused in implementation of the programme owing to lack of funding and preparation, according to reports of the Cancer Research UK. The health...

Chinese NGO To Popularize Sex Education For Youngsters

...has just concluded a five-year sex education pilot programme in 12 municipalities and two villages in China. The programme, aimed at youngsters aged between 10 and 24, has adopted the established way of sex education in Western countries. The association is currently promoting the 'successful experiences...

Exiled Tibetans In India To Adopt Organic Farming

...f Dharmasala.// 'Under an integrated development programme by 2007, $25 million will be spent on organic fertilisers,' said a spokesman of the Tibetan government led by the Dalai Lama. There are over 100,000 Tibetan refugees living in India and some of them have taken around 20,000 acres of farmland on le...

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