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AMA To Combat Obesity

...ood by children is reportedly responsible for this state of affairs. Breast-feeding is recommended by the AMA during the first six months of an infant’s life, and junk food should not be sold at canteens at the country’s schools. A national nutrition survey that is comprehensive is also considered necessar...

India Marks World AIDS Day

...oyed there. The foreign militants operating in the state are also reported to be indulging in indiscriminate sex further raising the chances of spreading the virus. India's health delivery system would be restructured in the next two years to provide a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS preventive and trea...

WHO Intensifies Anti-Tobacco war

...ation will make it mandatory for job applicants to state if they are smokers. The agency seeks to promote a tobacco free environment across the world. The WHO is also engaged in a campaign against the tobacco industry. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of WHO bans sales of cigarettes to minors, i...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...train that has killed almost 70 people in Asia. A state of emergency has been called for by the Ukrainian ...le who had contact with poultry” Taking about the state people say that it is the first time it has been detected in Ukraine. However experts had issued a w...

Man Acquitted In Rape Case Due To Parasomnia (sleep disorder)

...man after a party when they were both in a drunken state in the same sofa. Jan Luedecke argued that he was not aware or could remember of the act. Parasomnia is a condition in which people do certain things without knowing what they are during and mostly do not remember their deed after they are awake fr...

‘Train The Trainers’ Health programme Inaugurate

...for district level trainers was inaugurated by the state health secretary - Mr RN Senapati//. The trainer...ers. About 12,730 ASHAs will be recruited in the state and posted in each Anganwadi centres. The district level trainers will impart training to block-le...

Bird Flu Infection Of Chinese Girl Prompts Fear Of Spread Across Asia

...ister Viktor Baloga during a debate on endorsing a state of emergency imposed by President Viktor Yushchenko in five villages in Crimea. Samples of bird tissues have also been sent to laboratories in Europe to confirm the viral strain, which has been detected in birds in neighbouring Romania and Russia. ...

Fructose is a tricker and not all that sweet!

...etty rapidly in people.' 'We cannot definitively state that fructose is driving the obesity epidemic,' said Johnson. 'But we can say that there is evidence supporting the possibility that it could have a contributory role - if not a major role.' 'It may well be we don't need to cut out carbohydrates but...

Shanghai To Tackle Hypertension

... posed by hypertension among its people, as a sick state ends up as a poor state. But very little is being done in reality at the ground level, even though a crusade has been launched against obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed that poverty is one among the reasons for obes...

US Officials To Discuss Effectiveness Of Plan To Face Bird Flu Threat

...cise would be conducted and participation of other state officials have not yet been released officially. The recent reports of widespread infection of millions of birds across the Asian Subcontinent have prompted fears of a pandemic. Although no case of human- human transmission of the avian bird flu vi...

Induced abortion results in years of trauma.

...life after the event was also dealt. The results state that women who had miscarriages were experiencing severe trauma for the first six months when compared to women who underwent induced abortion. But women who had abortions experienced the same traumatic conditions for a longer time (5 years). Hen...

Jharkhand To Have Mobile Hospital

...y will be charged for blood and urine tests. The state government had mooted the idea of mobile hospital in 2002-03. But it could not take off due to bureaucratic hassles. The mobile hospital assumes significance as 52 percent population live the below the poverty line (BPL) in the state. No fees will ...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

...he Institute for Health and the Environment at the state University at Albany's School of Public Health says although the toxin levels in wild salmon weren't high enough to exceed the health benefits, the same was not true for farmed salmon, which are raised on a diet of fish oil. The level of contaminant...

Condom Vending Machines Provoke Protests

...s and other political and social groups across the state to support them. “This rally is just the beginning. We will not rest until all these machines are removed. We will involve all the women's organizations, not just Muslim organizations, in our fight against this dangerous decision," said Fathima Jalal...

A cholesterol warning for young adults

...e idea is that cholesterol reflects the underlying state of the arteries," said study author Howard D. Sesso, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. High cholesterol levels reduce the elasticity of the arteries, making them less able to expand in response to blood flow, he s...

Panic and probe due to mysterious deaths

...range of other sources", Dr Givney director of the state Health Department's communicable disease control branch said. The deaths "do not necessarily relate to the hospital in which the two men died". Dr Givney said South Australia had "a history of problems" with processed meat. "Listeria can be the l...

Democracy Not To Be Forced On People

A Penn state researcher in his new book 'The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution' Dr. Steven A Peterson, professor of politics, says that Democracy should not or cannot be forcibly thrusted on a nation. Humans are social beings with...

Protein Complex prevents cancer

...ave proofing capacity which maintains the euploidy state in the cell and prevents the formation of aneuploidy state. Prof. Deursen has published the results of the work in the Journal Nature and they feel that the new discovery will help in the development of new approaches for cancer treatment as most o...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...or of DRDA, the agency that implements central and state government policies in rural areas. At a function attended by the rural women, West Godavari's district collector Lav Aggarwal presented a cheque for Rs.61,100 to Hemavati and lauded the women's determination to come to the aid of someone in distres...

Adult Stem Cells Can Fight Diseases

...a result scientists - particularly in the US where state funds cannot be used to fund embryonic stem cell research - have been exploring ways of treating disease with stem cells using adult cells. Previous research had shown that adult cells can be fused with cells from other parts of the body. IANS...

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