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Harvard to Develop Medical City in Islamabad

...HMI) is a subsidiary of the Harvard Medical School set up to help improve the quality of healthcare through better medical education, clinical medicine and biomedical research. Since its inception in 1994, HMI has created several partnerships with healthcare organisations, academic institutions, gover...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...men who buy sex face six months in jail or a fine, set in proportion to their income. No one has yet gone to prison for the offence, but one person was fined 50,000 Swedish kronor (5,455 euros, 7,535 dollars), according to police. "The law has been very good," said Karin Svedlund, a detective inspect...

Lower Mortality Rates in Hospitals With Good Quality Care

...res had better patient outcomes. The researchers set out to determine whether performing well on HQA measures was associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality rates for AMI, CHF and pneumonia. (By adjusting for risk, the researchers made sure that hospitals that took care of sicker patients werent pen...

Queen Latifah Set to Open Burger Joint

Rapper/singer/actress Queen Latifah is set to open FatBurger fast food joint in Miami, Florida . The 37-year-old who plans to open the new South Beach diner revealed that she has been hooked to the idea of FatBurger since the time she was in college. "That was part of my L.A. education - ...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...ason is fighting the charges. A trial has not been set yet. The investigation began after Shelley Lauterbach, a former saleswoman for Orphan, filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2005 in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Lauterbach, who will share part of the $20 million settlement, said she was plea...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...nounced that the federal government is planning to set up hospices for HIV positive women . Minister fo...ue. She also revealed that a task force would be set up to review the educational module her organization had come up with. "There is no harm about tak...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...riff controls on fire and engineering insurance is set to have a far-reaching effect on the entire general insurance sector, particularly health insurance . This would be so as new competition is expected to drive down the premiums in marine, fire and engineering sectors which were hugely profitable ...

Final Potter Book Already Out on the Web?

...ordered the final Potter book, breaking the record set by the previous book 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' which clocked in 1.5 million orders. Amazon is expecting a surge in the number of orders as the release date of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' approaches....

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

...islation. The bill also would authorize the FDA to set national standards for tobacco products to control how they are made, as well as force the disclosure of their ingredients, including compounds and additives, and in what quantities. That, supporters claim, should help expose and ultimately limit the...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

...t neither of the two major parties had bothered to set any greenhouse targets or provide details of an em... heading a Liberal-National Coalition, refuses to set any emission reduction targets until 2008. On its part the opposition Labor is committed to reduci...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...ected before they speciated," Wertheim said. "So I set out to perform a rigorous test of that hypothesis." He extensively sequenced the mitochondrial DNA genes of the four species of African green monkeys. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to child. The four green monkeys he studied are the saba...

Meet the petroholic Boy of Kanpur

...m. He, however, used to get furious. So we used to set him free at night or early morning hours. He used to drink and empty the tank of vehicles that were parked at nearby market area." One of his routine victims is Junaid, the owner and caretaker of the nearby parking lot, who has to stay on an extra ...

Reason Behind Sleepy Feeling During Sickness Found

...of Zurich, Switzerland. The protein was known to set off inflammation in response to infection and some chronic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis and was linked to fatigue. Cancer patients, for example, treated with TNF-alpha sometimes reports severe lethargy while patients wi...

Harmison Ruled Out Off Test Series Due to Hernia

... match against Sussex at Hove last week and is now set to miss the remainder of England's summer. Harmison retired from one-day internationals last winter so his next action with England is likely to be the December Test series in Sri Lanka.Harmison's misfortune means Leicestershire paceman Broad looks...

Implanon,norplant,Jadelle - Vary in Side Effects

A Cochrane Systematic Review that set out to assess the effectiveness and tolerability of subdermal implantable contraceptives compared to other reversible methods of contraception found that they were all good at preventing pregnancy. No one subdermal implant was found to be any mor...

Anticoagulants is Better for Atrial Fibrillation

...ple at lower risk. A team of Cochrane Researchers set out to compare the relative benefits of these two treatments. After searching the medical literature, they drew on data found in eight trials that together involved a total of 9598 people who had AF but had not suffered stokes so far. The results sh...

Fortis Plans Multi-speciality Hospital in Jaipur

Fortis Healthcare plans to set up a super speciality hospital in Jaipur as part o...He added that the healthcare company also plans to set up two or three, 100-bed hospitals in the state as part of its expansion drive. "We are also keen ...

World's Biggest Condom to Take Off to Spread Safer Sex Campaign

... biggest condom - a huge pink hot air balloon - is set Friday to fly above a Dutch festival to increase safe sex awareness . The balloon - which organisers hope will enter the Guinness Book of records - was commissioned by seven local branches of the public medical services GGD at the Black Cross Festiv...

Group Therapy and Willpower can Help Smokers to Quit

...fect in several European countries, and Germany is set to join their ranks next month . There has never been a better time to kick the habit, but smokers should be warned - without professional help the task is likely to be much harder. Statistics show that only 1-2 percent of smokers manage to quit on ...

India Grapples With First Bill to Stop Workplace Sex Harassment

...he workforce of its booming economy. A draft law set to go before parliament when it resumes next month...member of the National Commission of Women, a body set up by parliament in 1992 to safeguard women's rights. "Sexual harassment, especially in the unorga...

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