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Corporates To Help Combat HIV/AIDS

...ss sessions. Access to Care and Treatment (ACT) project was launched by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in collaboration with four NGO firms which will help in spreading the awareness about this disease. Currently, in India there are about 5.2 million people affected with HIV/AIDS which has broug...

Massachusetts Leads The Way In Health Reforms

...ying costs of care in the country Karen Pollitz, project director of Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University stressed on the affordable health coverage that should be available everywhere. JYT...

Cellulose Nanocrystal Research Paves the Way for Newer Vaccines, Computer Inks

...n cancers. Ink jet printing was another research project for Roman. She experimented with using ink jet printers to deposit the crystals because the printers’ main focus is precision. Nanocrystals are tiny and pose many difficulties to the people using them. A typical remedy involves converting the nanocry...

British MP Stress the Need to Fight Against TB Jointly With India

...t week. The second phase of RNTCP - a World Bank project - has been approved by India for the period October 2006 to September 2011 for a total outlay of Rs.11.56 billion. This includes a credit of Rs.7.65 billion from the World Bank and a grant of Rs.1.99 billion for commodity assistance of anti-TB drugs ...

Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care

...f the day care center. The study, a $200 million project financed by the National Institute of Child Health...nprofit research group. The continuing research project of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, began in 1991. The investigators ha...

Hospital Projects to Take the Weight Off Overcrowded Ones

...any of which are overflowing with patients. The project estimated to cost 188-million-baht, is also intend...atment at the community centres. Saying that the project was aimed at creating better facilities so people in rural areas could have easier access to basic m...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

...n. Alejandro Fanjul Fernández has worked on this project for his graduate thesis, under the auspices of Mikel Sagüés García and within the remit of the MHProject research group of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Public University of Navarre. He focused his activity on researc...

Small Implant To Check On Cancer

... with a sugar called dextran are being used in the project undertaken by a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These tiny particles are coated with antibodies, immune system components which can attach itself to specific molecules inside cancer cells. These particles cluster together whene...

Rajasthan Launches Programs to Overcome Misconceptions About Childbirth

...ntercourse may not lead to unwanted pregnancy. The project primarily aims at encouraging the use of the contraception, by providing easy access to such products and services." Akshay, who was enthusiastic to attend the occasion, said: "I am here not to promote myself or just to be here with an illustrious ...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...ational program since 2006. “We believe that our project can become a model for the way that college campuses provide intervention services for risky alcohol use, both nationally and among campuses with high Hispanic enrollments,” Tomaka said. Tomaka said the model program was modified to better address...

Improve School Ethos to Combat Teen Evils

... found that students at schools taking part in the project were slightly less likely to report a range of risky health behaviours (such as regular smoking and drinking and marijuana use). Follow-up research suggested impacts might increase over time as the changes 'bedded down' in schools. This evidence ma...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

...operation of governments and other partners in the project to stop TB. But for all his brave words the Millennium Development Goal of achieving a decrease in the number of tuberculosis cases per year by 2015 will still remain a distant dream, it looks like. Such are the odds facing the authorities ever...

Siddha Medicine Texts to Be Published in English

A project to translate the ancient Tamil texts of Siddha sys...dha practitioners have worked on a Rs.500 thousand project of the state government for two years and produced six volumes, the minister revealed at a function ...

Energy Supplement Under Study for Parkinson's Disease

...sts energy production, later this year. Dr. Sethi, project director of the Parkinson Research Alliance of India, which is working to bring more clinical trials to his homeland, plans to incorporate these supplements into innovative treatment cocktails that will be studied there. Sorce-Eurekalert SRM...

Two New Anesthesia Positions Promise to Ease Surgery Queue

...ted measure to improve patient care. In a pilot project at the Ottawa Hospital, the positions of ‘Anesthesia assistant’ and ‘Nurse practitioner-anesthesia’ will test the efficacy of this approach. Anesthesia teams at eight sites across the province will include the two newly formed positions as well as an...

Scientists Develop Bacteria-resistant Fish

... scientists from India and Norway had taken up the project three years ago to develop a variety of fish that resists aeromoniasis - a common bacterial disease affecting hatcheries in India, Pramod Kumar Sahoo, one of the researchers, told IANS. Aeromoniasis is the most common bacterial disease of freshwate...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

... modality for this virally-induced lymphoma. The project involves scientists from two Academy of Finland National Centre of Excellence Programs, the Translational Genome-Scale Biology and Cancer Biology. The study will be published 15.3.2007 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. TP53 gene encodes a t...

India Begins Trial of Oral Vaccine for Stray Dogs

... Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has started a pilot project in cities and neighboring rural areas for introduc...O expert Francois-Xavier Meslin launched the pilot project in India this February. The union ministries of forest & environment and agriculture are jointly ...

Golfer Plans ‘lasting Legacy’ for Mothr

...cided that I want to concentrate my efforts on one project and to do something that has the potential to make...oughout the UK, and his energy and passion for the project will be an inspiration to us all,” Donnelly said. About 4,500 people a year are diagnosed with lun...

India to Market Female Condoms

...ids Control Society (TANSACS) official here. The project will reach out to 11,000 sex workers in the countr...ment) is supporting such a pilot project,' TANSACS project director Supriya Sahu told IANS. 'We are looking at the reproductive rights of women directly. Mos...

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