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US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

...ds to promote understanding of the risk of nuclear war – goes to Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University, New York City. Jervis was chosen "for showing, scientifically and in policy terms, how cognitive psychology, politically contextualized, can illumin...

Book Seeks To Rehabilitate Soldiers

...s offering strategies for the Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans to cope with the community members, emplo...nd it is aimed to be of service to about 1 million war veterans who put in service in Afghanistan and Iraq. Armstrong, one of the coauthors of the book has...

A Potent Sedative Kills Great-grandfather

Kenneth Heaton, a great grandfather at 79 and a war veteran, having braved all odds, was suffering from cancer, but quite unfortunately, met his end at the hands of a// nurse, who by a quirk of fate injected a potent sedative purported to give him a good night’s sleep. Hull Crown Court has accused J...

Malaria Claims 35 Lives In Assam

...ed across Assam and medical teams are working on a war footing to check the spread of malaria," Assam Health Minister Bhumidhar Barman told IANS. Most of the casualties were reported from the eastern Assam districts of Golaghat and Lakhimpur, besides from areas bordering Bhutan. "Some 35 people have ...

Afghanistan Hosting A UN Funded Regional Health Conference

...ion (WHO). Afghanistan, which has been battered by war is largely dependent on international assistance, and is hopeful to secure regional cooperation in tackling different kind of diseases such as avian influenza, cholera, polio and tuberculoses. Hamid Karzai the Afghan President is also expected to a...

Epidemic Of Cholera Continues To Sweep Over Angola

...longer as people rarely travelled there during the war and the disease had little chance to spread outward from the urban slums. Richard Veerman said that the country is still rebuilding after many years of civil war, hence that he felt was why the response to the outbreak is slower than needed. Overcr...

20,000 Cholera Cases In Angola, 1,000 Casualties

...slow since Angola is still recovering from a civil war and has not reported a major cholera outbreak since a ecade....

An International Growth Standard For Childs Releases By WHO

...ed at an early stage. The WHO, which has declared war on poor diets, has blamed it for rising obesity. The WHO has estimated that at least 20 million children under five years and one billion adults worldwide are overweight. Another 170 million children are underweight, three million of who die each yea...

PTSD Risk Enhanced With Mild Neurologic Deficits

... on identical male twins has revealed that Vietnam war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their non-combat exposed, identical twins portrayed// slight neurologic deficits that veterans without PTSD and their twins did not have, suggesting that the existence of deficits may actually p...

Reaping the Benefits of Tomato

...redient called lycopene which could help us in our war against cardiovascular disease// . Lycopene, is ...offers itself as an easily available weapon in the war against heart disease....

Cholera Death Toll Reaches 1,156 in Angola

...ute health crisis ever since the 27-year-old civil war ended in 2002. Unsanitary living conditions mean that epidemics like cholera are easily started....

War Trauma Not Passed On To Partners And Children, Study

... contradicts the popular belief that the effect of war and related trauma can have a profound impact on t...ldier’s partner and children//. It highlights that war trauma is not necessarily passed on in any significant way. Psychiatrist Arend Veeninga, in the Du...

All State Run Schools Are To Ban Whole Milk To Children

...d. He further explained that most people after the war grew up on almost a pint a day and children then seemed very healthy then and there was no obesity crisis. He questioned as to what the gain would be by banning whole milk in schools. Jim Paice, Conservative farming spokesman, said stating that whi...

Healthcare System Remodelled - Iraq

...ities in reconstructing a healthcare system in the war spoiled country. A total of 744 surveys were collected from nurses in the Dohuk and Erbil regions of northern Iraqi Kurdistan by field researchers working on the project with Yale. The region has remained stable with only sporadic violence because ...

No Signs Of Any New 2003 War Syndrome In British Troops

...he armed forces personal who took part in the Gulf war in 2003 with those who took part// in the 1991 war, to see if there was a new ‘Iraq war Syndrome’. The study findings that are published in The Lancet report that they have found no evid...

Drawing from Myth to Become Mistress of Spices

...es mark a period of widowhood, when Aravan goes to war and dies. In a society where myth and superstition make for a heady mix, the real mistress of spices is Mathana from Ukakadam. She took to cooking at a tender age of 12 but as her family discovered that she was a transvestite, it shunned her until...

Malaria/Jaundice Claims 17 Lives In Arunachal

...h told PTI that the preventive steps were taken on war footing to bring the situation under control. Earlier on June four local legislator Wanki Lowang had claimed death of 20 people in 15 days and had sought assistance from the health directorate. Source:PTI News...

Survivors of Holocaust More Likely to Have Cancer

...re 1939 with those who arrived in Israel after the war ended in 1945. Those who had been in Europe dur... 'Girls who were less than 10 years old during the war were twice as likely to get breast cancer as those who were adults at the time,' said Barchana, who ...

INS ASHVINI Bags Trophy For Best Armed Forces Hospital

... role of AFMC for its yeomen's service in times of war and peace. The minister expressed hope that medical services in general and hospitals in particular would continue to strive to deliver best health care to its clientele. INHS ASHVINI with a capacity of 825 beds attends to all serving and retired a...

Swaraj concerned over developments concerning AIIMS

...ushma Swaraj today expressed concern over the turf war between Union Health Minister A Ramadoss and AIIMS Director P Venugopal// , saying it could "destroy the premier institution". "I am very sad at what is happening concerning AIIMS and the institution is being destroyed by the present union minister,...

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