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Gender Equality, the Key Factor to Curb Foeticide: Dr. Ramadoss

.... The Minister added that Government of India is taking keen interest to improve the primary health care services in the country. The recently launched National Rural Health Mission would address the problems including the declining sex ratio. Law alone will not be able to solve the problem. Each one with...

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

...ientist at PIRE's Chapel Hill Center. "Sexual risk taking including having more than one sex partner, not having safe sex, and having regretted a sexual situation due to alcohol or drug use also was more prevalent among meth users." Additionally, about 16 percent of reported meth users had their own child...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

...ke theft and repairs -- that have kept people from taking up cycling and that have caused similar schemes to founder in cities such as Amsterdam. Despite a growing 400-kilometre (250-mile) network of cycle paths, the city of two million, which has one of the best public transport systems in the world, has...

Tumours in Dogs may Give Insight into Human Cancer Development

...t may be to the benefit of both. The benefits of taking a comparative approach to cancer research will be of mutual benefit to humans and companion animals. That is because cancer is cancer. It is a similar disease in animals and humans, Dr Mobasheri said. He presented these suggestions at the one-day s...

Bedingfield to Go for Rehab Stint Anticipating Great Publicity

...blicity it will get her . The singer seemed to be taking a pot-shot at celebs like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan whose time in rehab was intensively covered by the media. "Rehab sounds like a good idea. It seems like you get great publicity and you rest all day. I can do interviews all day long, but a...

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...d into the food chain than to focus exclusively on taking vitamin supplements," lead researcher, Dr. Philippe De Wals, said. The study included live birth, stillbirths, and pregnancy terminations among women living in seven of the 10 Canadian provinces from 1993 to 2002. On the basis of published results ...

Food Poisoning at the Chicago Food Festival

...id Mike Bamboyani, owner of the Pars Cove. "We are taking all the steps that we can." Salmonella infection causes fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea, which may be bloody. Most people recover from salmonella infection within a week. But some cases may be severe and even life-threatening. Babies, the eld...

Zeta-Jones is 'obsessed' With Smoked Salmon Sandwiches With Crushed Potato Chips

...uda] has been very great for bringing up children, taking them to school without any hassle and never being photographed," she said. However, she said that she misses her friends in LA and New York. "There are drawbacks. Socially you've got a lot of friends in L.A., a lot of friends in New York. We have...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...that buying sex is unacceptable. Men who do it are taking part in an international crime involving human beings who are trafficked for sex," Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget told AFP. "Criminalising buying sex will make it more difficult for traffickers to organise themselves," he added, because...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...e the medications were stopped. Among all patients taking inhaled steroids, there was a 53 percent increase in pneumonia deaths within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital. The investigators noted that these findings are particularly relevant, given that pneumonia is the third leading cause of hospit...

Right Foods Could Improve Drug Effectiveness, Lower Drug Costs

...pert comments after examining research that showed taking a breast cancer drug with fatty food, rather than ...ective but expensive drugs. The study found that taking the drug with a meal increased the bioavailability of the drug by 167 percent. Taking the drug with ...

Complaining Girls Faces Higher Depression, Anxiety Risk

... of a good thing. Some kids, especially girls, are taking talking about problems to an extreme. When that happens, the balance tips, and talking about problems with friends can become emotionally unhealthy," she said. Rose said adolescents should be encouraged to talk about their problems, but only in mod...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...cision can be challenged on the grounds of bias or taking into account irrelevant considerations in making his decision -- this includes political considerations," he said. Barns said he doubted Andrews' decision to cancel the visa could be considered "reasonable" -- the terminology required under the Mig...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...zation had come up with. "There is no harm about taking a second opinion on our module. But we want the message to be loud and clear for the senior secondary students to understand. There should be no shadowboxing about HIV/AIDS," she said....

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...e insured has a health condition existing prior to taking the policy and requiring medical treatment, the sa...hat any claims made during the first six months of taking a fresh policy will not be reimbursed. So, if an insured loses out on renewing the old policy, he wi...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

...volves relieving the itch with calamine lotion and taking an oral antihistamine or, in more serious cases, a corticosteroid. There are many other plants that contain chemical irritants, like capsaicin from chili peppers. This chemical is a mucous membrane irritant that causes the release of a substance ...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...s to the grade two category of malnutrition. "I am taking him to the Anganwadi centre, which provides him with special food," she says. Bhanu had earlier lost one of her children due to malnutrition as she worked for long hours as a labourer and couldn't look after him properly....

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

...t. They are not going to make it a safe product by taking out particular smoke constituents. The problem is the public is going to perceive the product is safe because the FDA has assumed jurisdiction," points out Dr. Michael Siegel, a Boston University School of Public Health professor. But at the very ...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...l Oncology. Researchers from Dartmouth showed that taking the breast cancer drug lapatinib (TYKERB) with foo... tablets on an empty stomach. The study found that taking the drug with a meal increased the bioavailability of the drug by 167 percent. Taking the drug with ...

TB Traveler Underwent Surgery to Remove Infected Lung Tissue

...ntibiotic course. He will still have to continue taking the medications prescribed by his doctors to fight the tuberculosis until cultures taken from him are negative for tuberculosis bacteria for eight weeks. The diseased part of the lung is now off to microbiology and pathology, where it will be cut u...

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