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Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

...dermined. With 45% of Brahmins breaking the ground rules of their belief by consuming meat, and with ‘aggressive’ vegetarianism being used to coerce the ‘minority’, are we not becoming a land of the intolerant hypocrites? Is the proverbial Indian tolerance melting into a myth? Although a ban may help to c...

New Mad cow case confirmed in Canada

...ations into Canada's recent BSE cases. Under new rules announced in June, risky cattle parts will be banned from all animal feed, not just feed destined for cows. According to the CFIA regulations, are to be phased in over the next year, which would prevent "more than 99 per cent of any potential BSE i...

Sheer exhaustion makes a junior doc’ kill a patient!

...ill be made as a result of those pressures. "The rules are there but they are not necessarily being adhered to." The tragedy happened in December 2003. Dr Pike was supposed to have been working six 13-hour shifts, but as a result of working extra hours and exchanging shifts with colleagues she worked f...

Class 4 literacy to be attained by a Kerala village

...decided to have an examination in November. As per rules we are unable to make students above age 50 take the examination. However, many of them do attend the classes," said Konni Gopakumar director of the literacy mission. The state literacy mission is now planning to replicate this programme in three ...

Trans Fats Increase Coronary Heart Disease

...ood Authority is now considering changing labeling rules for trans fatty acids if they are found to be a common ingredient in the Australian diet. Lydia Buchtmann, from Food Standards Australia New Zealand, said "we're reviewing the trans fats in our diet at the moment as a matter of priority. For examp...

Unpasteurized Milk And Milk Products: Are they Safe for Health?

...il and in Washington State in December 2005. The rules regarding consumption or sale of raw milk are different in different states and are often circumvented by the suppliers. So, while drinking unpasteurized milk may have its own benefits there are also risks associated with it and it is safer not to i...

Drivers in Casts, a Threat to Others

...uld be instructed about driving. "Basically the rules state that you can't drive with any kind of arm cast on because you'll lose control of the wheel."...

Medical researchers being stifled by NHS Red tape

...everal desperate colleagues had opted to break the rules and bypass ethics committees. He said, "If they asked the ethics committee it would take six months, they may well say no for no good reason, and so there's no bloody point." Janet Darbyshire, head of the Medical Research Council's clinical trials ...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Rightly so, for a mother is truly the one that moulds her child from the moment of birth. //Enabling the child with the best right from the word 'Go' should not be mere wishful-thinking, and in this age of information, the goodness of brea...

British Doctors Hold Talks to end Impasse of Indian doctors

... have been adversely affected by recent employment rules that in effect make it virtually// impossible for ... to gain employment in the NHS. However, the new rules stipulated that doctors of non-EU origin would need a work permit to gain employment in the NHS. A w...

Murky Relationships between Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies Exposed

... to express his views are protected by both F.D.A. rules and the First Amendment. An assistant F.B.I. dir... cases Dr. Gleason has been trapped in the complex rules that cover what doctors and drug manufacturers are allowed to say about prescription drugs. He said,...

China Nominates Margaret Chan to Run for WHO Director-General's Post

...h management and has thorough understanding of WHO rules as well as challenges and opportunities for the global health system. Chan has systematic and mature thinking of WHO's development, Liu said, adding, "We believe Madam Margaret Chan would help the organisation play a more active role in the health s...

Joint Center for Molecular Modeling Instituted by Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego

...d Piotr Cieplak will develop novel ways to extract rules and trends of how structures change and evolve. They will use these tools to predict how, for instance, a human protein would differ from its counterpart in mice or bacteria. "Protein structures can be solved experimentally in a couple of months, s...

Valiathan Committee Seeks Documents from AIIMS

...Committee has sought details about the institute's rules and regulations. // The four-member committee, set up in the backdrop of the bitter row between Health Minister A Ramadoss and AIIMS chief P Venugopal, has sought deatils about the organisation, its various activities and reports of earlier committ...

Cigarette Packets to Carry Skull-and-bones Sign

...The ministry warned that non-compliance of the new rules would invite stringent penalty, including up to two years in jail and a fine of up to Rs.5,000 in the case of first conviction, as per the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules 2006. For the second or subsequent conv...

Inculcating Positive Thoughts Could Eliminate Depressive Mood

... says. "But those who are willing to follow simple rules for happiness will find that happiness can be achieved." (Source: IANS)...

'Smoking Kills' Warning Soon on Tobacco Products

...n a staunch advocate against smoking, has notified rules in this regard. "The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco...warning," an official release said today. The new rules would come into effect from February one next year so as to allow the trade and industry to make the...

Scotland's First 'Stand-Alone' Private Fertility Centre Established

...ternative, when compared to the strict eligibility rules and waiting times, which often go up to five years...ouples have fertility problems and the funding and rules of the NHS is very strictly regulated. It was explained that the according to NHS the maximum age li...

Ayurveda Massage Centres in Kerala to be Regulated

...e minister said that her department is working out rules and regulations that would have to be adhered to by all those engaged in ayurveda tourism. "We just can't spoil the huge advantage that we have as far as ayurvedic tourism is concerned. No other state has this advantage and if we do not have proper...

UK Government to Outlaw Sex Selection of Babies

...ner babies. Flint has also indicated a change in rules that allow fertility clinics to block treatment for single women as well as lesbian couples. Present regulations state the need for a father in considerations of the future child's welfare. Other aspects of the reform would include new criteria on wh...

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