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Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

... convicted, the football star faces a possible six year prison sentence and 350,000 dollars in fines. "It does go with the gang culture, in every urban area," said Laurie Maxwell of the Humane Society. In recent years, animal shelters have been "inundated" with injured or scarred pitbulls, she said. T...

New Treatment Boosts Survival Chances for Child Leukaemia

... infants from 22 countries who were aged under one year and had been diagnosed with the disease. In addition to the standard drug for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia -- a treatment called Prednisone -- the children were given tiny doses of drugs usually designed for treating a related form of cancer, acut...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...reated in Chinese society." China estimated last year that it had 650,000 HIV cases, although UN officials estimate the actual number is now higher. A recent paper in British medical journal The Lancet praised China's adoption of schemes such as needle exchanges and awareness campaigns among gay men, ...

Mens Sexual Prowess Not Affected by Prostate Cancer Drug

...hey surveyed the subjects three times in the first year and then annually for seven years. Was this average decrease (in sexual function) an important difference? We concluded it was not, Moinpour said, adding that there were much larger differences due simply to individual variation among men in the tr...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

... affected by HIV/AIDS. UNITAID was launched last year by Brazil, Britain, France, Chile, Norway as an international drug purchasing facility for poor countries, partly funded by airline ticket levies. At least 34 countries have signed up as donors to the 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to hel...

New Book Pays Homage to Madrid's Eclectic Culinary Traditions

..."Un Ano de Gastronomia de Vanguardia en Madrid" (A year of innovative cooking in Madrid). Rincon came up with the book after the capital hosted the Madrid Fusion gastronomic summit in January last year, inviting top chefs from around the world to show off their skills. "Madrid has in recent years beco...

Ivana Trump to Marry Toyboy Beau Next Year

...p revealed her plans to become Mrs. Rubicondi next year in America's Globe magazine for which she writes a weekly advice column. The 58-year-old insisted that the marriage to her 35-year-old beau will prove that the best is still to come in her life. "My motto has been, 'The best is yet to come,' and ...

Shakira Set for Kids' Charity Gigs

...a social emergency: 350 thousand children die each year due to avoidable causes, 40 million children work and live on the streets. We want an active Latin America, that doesn't give up, united for our children," Contactmusic quoted Shakira, as saying....

U.S President Defied-Senate Votes To Expand Child Health Insurance

...ed the most important vote Congress will take this year on health insurance. The program began 10 years ago. It was generally designed to help families whose income does not exceed 200 percent of the poverty level, or $34,340 for a family of three. But several states have extended coverage to children w...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

... a major cause of strokes and heart failure, every year and it has been calculated to cost the National Health Service (NHS) almost one percent of its entire annual budget. Numbers are expected to increase even more due to an ageing population, a rising number of people with chronic heart disease and b...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

... When she told her parents about the abuse about a year ago, her guilt-stricken father had lamented that the two branches of the family were too deeply enmeshed for ties with the abuser to be severed. But with counselling, she said, life has become easier. "I used to look at him like I'll kill him, an...

Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Patient-friendly

...ockhardt Hospitals, Bangalore. In December last year a UK team of doctors performed a live hip and knee surgery at the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. The Joint Replacement Unit of Apollo Hospitals had developed a team of specialised surgical consultants, anaesthetists, physiotherapists and counsellors, w...

Young People And Doctors Building A Healthy Relationship

... devoted GPs. The Family Doctor Week theme this year is Your GP: Part of the Family. All this week the AMA will be highlighting the key role that GPs play in the life of every Australian family in all stages of life....

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...m of reducing infant mortality. Started almost a year ago, the competition evaluates mothers' weights during pregnancy, the kind of medication they are taking, food intake and hygiene standards at home. The criteria are evaluated by a couple of doctors from nearby hospitals, NGO members working in the...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

... labelling had been updated based on data from one year of post-marketing experience and five additional clinical trials completed since June 2006. "With this updated labelling, Acomplia is now contra-indicated in patients with ongoing major depressive illness and/or ongoing anti-depressive treatment," ...

Life Insurers in India to Launch Health Insurance Policies

...frame for covering exclusions from second to third year of the policy, and has put a cap on the daily room rent at one per cent of the sum insured and two per cent in ICU, and increased the minimum sum to Rs 50,000 from Rs 15,000 besides introducing several other restrictions....

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...an fails a breath test, he loses his licence for a year and has to pay a hefty fine. He also loses a job that depends on being able to drive, and probably his girlfriend. The departments researchers tested responses to various drink-drive advertisements. We changed our tactics because we realised it...

Government to Toughen Its Anti-smoking Laws

...y to enforce a ban on smoking scenes in films last year met with stiff opposition from filmmakers. A blanket ban is yet to come into effect. The Health Ministry has also been trying to stipulate a pictorial warning on all tobacco products. Manufacturers say the proposed skull-and-crossbone illustration ...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...the study reported injuring themselves in the past year on multiple occasions, said Lloyd-Richardson. Furthermore, 60 percent of these (or 28 percent of the entire sample) endorsed moderate/severe forms of NSSI including cutting skin, burning skin, giving self a tattoo, scraping skin, or using a pencil...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

...290,174 nurses and a huge number of paramedics by year 2012. "Unfortunately, at present there is a lack of regulatory framework and the sector attracts sub-standard private healthcare providers and quacks, there is slow implementation of the accreditation process that impacts the quality of healthcare,...

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