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Junk Food Advertisements To Be Restricted In All Forms of Media

... they have come down heavily against them. The IPA questioned the FSA’s right to call for such a ban as it is a single policy group and stated that it does not have the remit to consider wider social issues, such as exercise as part of healthy living, and thereby questions their legitimacy on the call for the b...

Police Summoned Apollo Doctors in Rahul Mahajan’s Cas

...official residence of the senior Mahajan. Police questioned Prasad Rao, who headed the team that gave medical attention to Rahul Mahajan, Anupam Sibal, medical director of Apollo, and Mukund Pandey, a senior doctor, said Nalwa. "We suspect the hospital had purposely hidden information about the treatment gi...

AIIMS Doctors Assists Police in Rahul Mahajan’s Drug Abuse Cas

...ating the case said the doctors of Apollo who were questioned by the police could not satisfactorily answer most of the questions. He said the doctors and staff of the hospital who were involved in fudging information had been identified. He said the police had also found evidence to prove that the medical re...

Music to Some, Torture to Others

...men have their answer as to why a man who has been questioned why he didn't do something, he always seems to answer, "I never heard you ask me to do that."...

Dispute in Findings about Radiation exposure

A former Army Major questioned a particular research, which revealed that there was no link between increased cancer rates among those who took part in British nuclear tests in Australia in the 1950s - and their exposure to radiation//. According to the he Federal Government com...

AIIMS Director Venugopal Sacked

... May. During this period, Ramadoss and Venugopal questioned each other's style of functioning blaming each other for flouting the sanctity of AIIMS. Venugopal raised issues like encroachment of the autonomy of the institute while Ramadoss accused him of converting the medical institute into a "political hub...

Canadians on a Very High Fat Diet

...The survey interviewed more than 35,000 people and questioned them about their food habits. Statistics Canada released a report which said that 15.9 % of the fat could be contributed to sandwiches which includes pizza, submarine and other sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs. About 8.5% of calorie is contrib...

Exercise Activities Helps To Avoid Heart Ailment

...ers of the age group 40 to 68 who had already been questioned on their habits and exercise patterns. It was explained that smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure, are all risk factors for heart disease, which were more common in the patients with the illness than in the healthy volunteers. The researchers...

Teens High on Mothballs

...nt's night table. He said that when the girl was questioned as to what she was doing with the bag, "she showed us how she used to breathe directly into the mothballs bag." Feuillet and his colleagues said in the Journal that although only three cases of getting high with paradichlorobenzene have been repor...

Boy Punished for being HIV positive

...nfectious patients. When hospital authorities were questioned as to why the boy was tied to the bed by media, they admitted they were not equipped to handle AIDS patients. Manvender Singh, ADM, Meerut said, "There are no adequate facilities in Meerut so we suggested that he be transferred to another hospital....

UK Recommendations On Painkillers Flaunted

...mendations are being contravened. The researchers questioned 107 people attending one major hospital emergency department for paracetamol poisoning between November 2001 and March 2003 as to how many tablets they had taken, and from where they had obtained them. In all, 77 of these patients said they had swal...

British Laboratory Certifies Coke as 'Safe'

...entral Science Laboratory (CSL) of Britain, Monday questioned India's Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) report of pesticides// in several soft drink brands of Coca Cola and said they did not "detect any such residues". John Gilbert, the science director of CSL, said: "We detected no residues of the pest...

Legislation to Prevent Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Victims

...abled in Parliament in the winter session." When questioned about the steps taken to check the spread of HIV infection in India, he said his Ministry was in touch with the Home Ministry on the issue of "needle exchange program" by which free disposable needles are supplied to drug-users. The northeastern Stat...

Need for Change in Social Norms to Prevent Spread of HIV

...atment and counseling to stop the disease.. When questioned about the results of prevention methods of the past 25 years she said, ‘HIV rates have decreased in countries like Uganda and Thailand and now in some countries in eastern and southern Africa. When people enroll in trials to test microbicides [topica...

Delhi Police Quiz Suspects In Girl's Kidnapping

... "We have registered a case of kidnapping and have questioned seven suspects. But we are yet to arrest anyone," said Rameshwar Khatri, the station house officer of Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi. "The girl had named one Amaan as the prime accused but she does not have any details of his residence or phone number. ...

Sheer exhaustion makes a junior doc’ kill a patient!

...e dosage was 10 times higher than usual amount and questioned Dr Pike, who took the syringe and administered it herself. Miss Dana-Brandt said: "Angeline decided she was not going to give the injection and I would not have given it myself without confirming the dosage was correct. I said to her 'are you sure ...

Rise In Childhood Allergies

...n the study and the parents of these children were questioned about the symptoms of asthma and allergy such as wheezing in their child. The same questions were put across to another 304, 680 children aged 13-14 years from 56 countries including Sweden, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Iran, UK, and New Zealand. ...

The fate of an accused in a murder case to be decided

...on information from the autopsy and lab work, when questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson was asked to acquit Rodriguez, by the defence lawyer Robert Hoy. According to him, prosecutors did not prove Sjodin was alive when she was abducted from the Grand Forks...

Estrens For Osteoporosis Might Have Adverse effects

...behind developing estrens for use in the clinic is questioned by Roland Baron and colleagues from Yale University. They showed that although mice with osteoporosis treated with estrens showed some improvement in bone strength, their reproductive organs increased in size. Furthermore, estrens induced the prolife...

Meth Use Increases Risk Of Underweight Babies

...ged 25 at an average for the study. The women were questioned whether they used meth and researchers checked up on the information. Around 84 women took the drug, and 1,534 did not take it. Babies exposed to the drug weight just about 7 pounds, while babies not exposed weighed 7.5 pounds. 'I would not want us...

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