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Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...mended that HLL should pay an advance of 50 crores towards remediation and independent of this should also set up a health clinic and a non polluting employment center for the health and economic rehabilitation of the affected workers. Having suffered from HLLs lack of understanding of a well known toxin ...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...odel of human colon cancer. This is another stride towards the possible use of GDEPT for cancer patients."...

Scientists Map Genome Sequence Dengue Mosquito

... aegypti mosquito, thereby moving one step further towards the development of new strategies to prevent and control yellow fever and dengue fever. The genome sequencing was done by researchers from 24 universities and other institutions, led by Vishvanath Nene at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

The UK is moving towards making addition of folic acid to flour or bread mandatory in order to reduce the number of babies born with severe disabilities. After lengthy public consultations the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said that it would approach the Government with...

The Plight of Jharkhand's Mysterious deaf Village

... Minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi's attention was drawn towards the problem, he said: "I came to know about the plight of the villagers just two days ago. "I have asked the district administration to go to the village with doctors and investigate. If need be, we will send specialised doctors from Ranchi for tr...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

... the past couple of decades there has been a trend towards declining rates of disability in older adults. However, the dramatic increase in overweight and obesity in the U.S. may reverse these declines and may lead to an increase in disability among future generations of older adults as well as contribute to...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...search (CEPR) in Washington, D.C., if Europe moved towards a U.S.-based economic model, it would consume 15-30 percent more energy by 2050. This would impact fuel prices worldwide and boost carbon emissions, resulting in additional global warming of 1-2 degrees Celsius. Any reductions in greenhouse gas emiss...

Australia Contributes Additional Funds for HIV Prevention in North-East

...fforts of organisations such as the United Nations towards preventing the epidemic, said McCarthy. The project strategy includes engaging a community and social action to spread awareness among young people about HIV/AIDS. This includes the introduction of drug awareness programs for schools and the estab...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...ing the pattern of inheritance is the primary step towards understanding them. Alcoholism is the compulsive consumption of alcoholic beverages. This dependence on alcohol cannot lay claim to a single cause and is believed to vary with social, emotional and hereditary factors. 50% of the total risk for alc...

Is Presumed Consent the Answer to Organ Shortages?

... consent system which portrays a positive attitude towards donation, together with major financial investment and good organization. It also has the highest recorded donor rate in the world, at 35.1 donors per million population, compared with 12.8 in the UK. We cannot afford to wait another five years be...

Workplace Drinking Culture Influences Alcohol Intake Elsewhere

...ings on a detailed analysis of workplace attitudes towards drinking and drinking behaviors in over 5,000 employees in 16 different organizations, representing a range of different sectors. The employees were quizzed about how often they drank alcohol, and when and where they did so. And they were asked t...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

...gested how people can find out from their attitude towards exercise whether they have problems with over exercising. She says that some people may be exercising too much if they feel that they cannot miss their workout, and feel extremely guilty and uneasy whenever they miss a workout. Despite noticing tha...

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

...rough workshops, training sessions, etc., targeted towards health professionals, police officers, teachers, students, other women's NGOs, community leaders, etc. * Lobbying of public decision-makers and lawmakers. It has also been decided that member groups who take part in this three-year campaign (200...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

...ith countries and partners, we are moving steadily towards our target of treating 50 million TB patients betw...plete treatment with these drugs is the first step towards development of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Use of counterfeit or poor quality drugs also can re...

Bubbles may Pave Way for Producing Nanoscale Electronic Components

...nd nanotubes had become neatly lined up vertically towards the top of the bubble and evenly spread out across the surface. Varying the concentration of tubes or wires in the mixture altered the density of nanomaterials, but not their alignment, the researchers found. The team believes stress generated on...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...ound the world. But Nestl's irresponsible attitude towards children doesn't end there. As a leading exporter of cocoa from the Ivory Coast, Nestl has also been implicated in the ongoing abuse and torture of child cocoa laborers." McCloud is one small town that is part of a much larger problem with enormous c...

US, India Join Together to Improve Healthcare in India

...a populist trend is taking hold in other countries towards compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals - essentia...nd throughout the world," he said. CHI will work towards fostering the creative environment necessary for India to assume its rightful place as a world-class...

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

... like drinking it's a choice. "The money could go towards helping people with cancer, but then again, smoking is the major cause." Non-smoking barmaid Amber Calbo Mesalles, 19, from Westoe, South Shields, said: "Both my parents are smokers. "It seems to be a good idea if it works, so it is something I wou...

Neural Basis of Anxiety: Newer Insights

...s nothing might happen. Normal mice show less fear towards such ambiguous cues than to clearly threatening stimuli. A team of researchers led by Cornelius Gross at the EMBL Mouse Biology Unit now discovered that this response to ambiguous stimuli requires a specific receptor molecule for serotonin, a signa...

Laser-based System for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Skin Cancers on the Anvil

...kin. They say that their work is the first step towards non-surgical screening for malignant skin cancers. "The standard way physicians do a diagnosis now is to cut out a mole and look at a slice of it with a microscope," said Warren Warren, the James B. Duke Professor of chemistry, radiology and biome...

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