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Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

... One of Asia's largest healthcare groups, Apollo runs 41 hospitals in India and abroad. It has an annual turnover of Rs.6 billion....

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...f view of the pocket," said Amir Singh Bhatia, who runs the city's Seva Samiti Swarg Ashram cremation ground. Mokshda hopes its projects will eventually be registered under the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism, which encourages green projects in developing countries. It allows industrialised...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

... over the stress placed on children by a test that runs up to four days in some areas. A recent government survey said 95 percent of respondents support the gaokao system but 93 percent also want it reformed, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "Many talented students are excluded by very narrow ma...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...irector of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, which runs an orphanage and fights stigmatization of AIDS victims, said she was skeptical of any estimate as low as two million. But whatever the figure turned out to be, she said, The infection is here and we have a huge burden, adding, We are a very sexually ...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...nager of the NB international group which now also runs a listed biotechnology company in Hong Kong. As ...Taiwan when I first started my career'. Now Tsai runs a chain of more than 2,000 deluxe spas employing tens of thousands of young women across China. 'I...

Moon, the Best Place to Assess the Earths Climate Changes

...rument called CERES. Bruce Wielicki of NASA, who runs the CERES experiments, does not agree with Huang's findings, and says that the Moon is actually a very poor place to monitor the Earth's changing radiation signals. Using computer models to simulate Moon-based observations of earthshine, Wielicki f...

China Bans Smoking at Olympics

...and the government rakes in massive profits, as it runs a tobacco monopoly. "Fighting tobacco is not easy, especially when there is a state monopoly on tobacco production," Bekedam said. He urged authorities to raise tobacco taxes, ban cigarette advertising and issue stronger warning labels on tobac...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...ounseled other vets for more than 30 years, Meshad runs a toll-free support line based in Los Angeles. He was asked recently to help train counselors at the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles, where a spike in calls from veterans has been reported. One of the biggest challenges for troubled vets i...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...i Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times who now runs an independent documentary-making agency, is asking all SAARC countries along with China and Unesco to mobilise search and recovery operations on the slopes of Mt Everest and another Himalayan range, the Nanda Devi, to locate two radiation detectors ...

Invasion of Cicada Hordes Feared in US Midwest

...urbed since 1990. Freelance writer David Hammond runs the LTHForum, a Chicago-based Internet site devoted to culinary matters, and his "foodie" friends want to see what the cicadas taste like. The insects are eaten in other parts of the world, with descriptions of the taste ranging from shrimp to cann...

New Pill to Suppress Menstrual Bleeding Indefinitely

...f Washington-Seattle obstetrician-gynecologist who runs a website focused on suppressing periods. "Lybrel says, 'You don't need a period.'" Still, some women raise concerns about whether blocking periods is safe or natural. Baltimore health psychologist Paula S. Derry wrote in an opinion piece in the Br...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

... Indian "national water brotherhood". The Yamuna runs for around 1,370 km. Its source is in the Himalayan mountains at Yamnotri. It flows through the states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and merges with the Ganges at Allahabad. The cities of Delhi, Mathura and Agra lie on its banks. Said Nitya ...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...origin of all brain cells in a baby. The structure runs like an uneven coastline just below spaces in the brain called ventricles, and in premature infants it's enormously active, manufacturing new brain cells that wander and settle into other parts of the brain. "This is a very, very important part of...

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

...e criticize him and say he's too arrogant, that he runs over us," Romero said. "I say: Get over it." Whatever their thrust, the appraisals of others appear to have little effect on Sillen, who stirred plenty of anger during his years as chief of Santa Clara County's public health and hospital system. He...

Who Receives a Kidney Transplant First?

...tion to the system that may be perceived as unfair runs the risk of undermining patient confidence. Transplantation is the only technologically advanced field of medicine that is totally dependent on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply not exis...

Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Family

..., but important new findings suggest survival also runs in the family. Mikael Hartman from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden led an international team, identifying 2,787 mother-daughter pairs and 831 sister pairs among women with breast cancer diagnosed between 1961 and 2001 from Swedens nat...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...d benefit from that," he said. Peter Robson, who runs Ross Hill, one of Orange's pioneering vineyards, said rising global temperatures could hurt wine production in warmer parts of the country. "If these trends continue, the hot areas are not going to be able to grow white grapes," he said. "They are ...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...venting teen pregnancy. But Libby Gray Macke who runs the wide-reaching abstinence program Project Reality believes that HIV-prevention education might actually be behind the spike in teen pregnancy close to two decades ago. At the time, Macke says, kids were given a green light on sex -- as long as con...

First Gene Linked to Scoliosis Identified

...chers believe that the reason behind why scoliosis runs in families may be because the condition is likely caused by several different genes that work in concert with one another. Dr. Bowcock believes that scientists will soon come up with other genetic findings associated with the disease. The resea...

Afghan Refugee Gives Birth to Quintuplets in Pakistan

...rvi, who goes by one name. The proud father, who runs a small grocery shop in a suburb of Quetta, said the couple already had two older daughters while another son had died some time ago due to illness. "I prayed to God to give a son to me, and he gave me four sons and one daughters at the same time i...

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