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Addition Of Folic Acid In Flour Proposed To Arrest Birth Defects In The UK

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition in the UK has said that many babies could be spared the trauma of being born with birth defects if folic acid were to be incorporated in flour. //Folic acid plays a vital role in reducing commonly found neural tube defects like the spina bifida. The Committee also maintained that medical termination of pregnancy could be avoided if this simpl...

Harvard Proposes Drug Disposal Plan

Harvard Medical School has reported that more care has to be taken while disposing unused and expired medicines. Harvard advices public to start disposing old medicines as old medicines looses its pharmacological action overtime//. Proper disposal of old medicines has to be done as disposing them in toilets or dust bins can lead to development of antibiotic resistance in environmental mic...

Government Organisation Proposes Strict Guidelines For SubStandard Medical Devices

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in India has decided to prepare a set of guidelines for uniform action against the manufacture// of not of standard quality (NSQ) medical devices, diagnostic reagents, diagnostic kits etc. The guidelines drawn out would prescribe the exact procedures to be followed and action to be taken against the manufacturers by every state drug...

A new study by John Hopkins University proposes formula for good health

A healthy diet that replaces some carbohydrates with either protein or monounsaturated fat can substantially reduce blood pressure and cholesterol levels, resulting in a substantial reduction in overall risk of heart disease, // according to government-funded studies by researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. The Hopkins team found that shifting about 10 percent of calories from ca...

San Francisco Mayor Proposes An Alternate Plan For The Uninsured City Residents

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that he has a plan that will enable the uninsured in the city to have access to health care facility. // The taxpayers, employers and the recipients of the insurance coverage, will cover this insurance. His plan has the potential to benefit tens of thousands of city residents. Supervisor Tom Ammiano who is a member of the health care legislation sai...

Valentine's Day Attraction: Sale Of Condoms In School Proposed

The exciting Valentine’s Day proposal to sell condoms in school through installation of condom vending machines has been suggested by the third largest political party in Australia.// Kate Reynolds, who represents the Democrats in South Australia's state parliament, said the issue was health, not morals. "The facts are simple - high school teenagers are having sex," Reynol...

President Bush proposes HSAs scheme for the benefit of both the workers and the country

President Bush in his State of the Union address encouraged Americans to open health savings accounts (HSAs). He said that it would help to fight the nation's out-of-control medical costs. It was // well received by many lawmakers. But the local employers say that HSAs are the means by which the doctors cure the country's health finance ills. Gary Laugharn, regional client leader in H...

Medical Students Protest Proposed Tabling of Reservation Bill

Students of B J Medical College today organised a public gathering here under the banner of 'Youth For Equality' to protest against the tabling of the reservation bill in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning tomorrow.// The protest was part of a nationwide programme, Youth For Equality said in a release adding that protest gatherings were held in 18 states. "The mess...

Uproar against the Government’s Proposed Quot

In the capital of India medical students are striking against the government proposed quota system. This has taken a new step when the students said that they are going// to conduct a huge demonstration on Tuesday. They were persuading school and college students to participate in the demonstration against the government’s proposed move to increase the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota...

AIDS Sufferers Protest against Proposed Patent for Tenofovir

About 150 people which included some AIDS sufferers, held protests today against the proposed move of US biotech company to patent its anti-HIV drug, Tenofovir, in India. // The demonstrators alleged that this move could halt the local production of the generic equivalent. The company, Gilead Sciences Inc., has applied for an Indian patent on the drug tenofovir. The drug has been avai...

V P Singh Proposes Doubling Of Medical Seats

Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh has suggested that doubling the number of medical seats is a possible solution to the quota row//. "The health minister told me this is possible," said Singh, the architect of the Mandal quota system in 1990. "The long term solution can be provided by implementing a neighborhood school scheme on the lines of one such programme in Britain. Under this sc...

Govt Proposes, Medicos Disposes, Strike To Intensify

In a fresh bid to end the anti-reservation medicos strike in India, the government on Sunday night proposed to examine their key demand for an experts committee on quota in central educational institutes// but the students and doctors rejected the overture and decided to intensify the agitation by calling a bandh in Delhi on May 31. On a day of hectic negotiations, the medicos held ta...

Prime Minister Visits the Proposed Super Hospital Site

The Prime Minister visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to meet with staff and patients and also to view the premises of the proposed super hospital.// Seizing the opportune moment, the Prime Minister was targeted with questions about accusations from members of his own party and the privatization plan of the health service. To the volley of questions, Mr....

Bush Administration Proposes End of Funding of Anti-AIDS Program in Swaziland

Swaziland will soon see an end to the funds that was provided by the US administration towards the anti HIV program through // subsidized circumcisions to men in Swaziland. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development it had only recently learned of the program and that it violated government policy supporting study of circumcision but not services offering the procedure....

Registration Compulsory For Nursing Homes, Clinics – Says A New Proposed Law By Health Ministr

Government-run health centres, hospitals, nursing homes, Diagnostic centres will soon need to be registered and also adhere to the minimum standards specified by law –// according to a new draft ‘Clinical Establishment Bill’ that has been finalised by the Health Ministry and is being sent to the cabinet for approval. The proposed law will apply to all recognised systems of medicines,...

FDA Proposes Availability of Experimental Drugs

Experimental drugs will now be made more easily available to critically ill patients. The Food and Drug Administration, U.S has made a proposition that will enable patients// who are extremely ill to try out experimental drugs when they are left with no other options. The FDA has announced that they will consider the prices that manufactures can fix for such drugs to be made available t...

FDA Proposes Stringent Warnings Labels for Pain Relievers

U.S. Food and Drug Administration have proposed that labels of commonly available painkillers should carry sterner warnings, that mention potential side effects. Drugs such// as Tylenol and Aspirin used as pain relievers are easily available to the public. The FDA has ruled that, the warnings will be compulsory and will have to be displayed prominently on the labels. The language has to...

Proposed Compulsory Treatment For Alcohol Addicts

The New South Wales Government, through a two-year pilot program would trial compulsory treatment for alcoholics up to 28 days at Nepean Hospital in western Sydney.// The government is drafting changes to the Inebriates Act 1912 to enable the trial to take place. The two-year plan, to be rolled out at Nepean Hospital, would allow a doctor to seek a court order to place serious substance...

Six More Quality Health Care Canters Proposed by Indian Government

The Indian government proposes to set up quality hospitals on the model of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in Patna//, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh under the Pradhan Mantri Swastha Sureksha Yojna (PMSSY), Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has said. In a written reply to questions raised by some members of the...

FSA Proposes Packaging of Fatty Food in Smaller Packs

The food standards agency has come out with a good idea to ensure reduction in the consumption of fatty food. With a view to encouraging// "portion size control" and improve the health of the nation, they have proposed that fat laden foods be sold in smaller packs. This move by the FSA seeks to encourage healthy eating while discouraging consumption of food stuff with high fat. Furthe...

Haryana Government Proposes to Set Up Medical University

The Haryana government Tuesday proposed a medical university in the state to provide better healthcare to its people. // Addressing the silver jubilee celebrations of the Government Dental College at Rohtak town in Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that setting up a medical university would help in providing better healthcare facilities for people of the state. <...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

The battle between consumer interests and those of the pharmaceutical industry has got sharper in the US. On Wednesday a US Senate Committee approved// a bill that would clothe the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with necessary powers to require drug makers to wait two years before advertising a newly approved drug directly to consumers. The measure would give health officials new po...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

Calling itself a responsible nation towards climate change, India will propose a dedicated global fund at the G8 Outreach Summit Friday to finance the development of clean energy technologies based on the resources available with the developing world. In a position paper on climate change circulated ahead of the G8 Outreach Summit, India has said it has in place comprehensive polic...

Cherie Blair's Boss Accuses Tony Blair for Proposed Smoking Ban

A British millionaire who has reportedly hired outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, to fight the New Labour Government's ban on smoking , described Tony Blair as an 'a***hole' on peak-time radio on Sunday. Sixty-three-year-old Dave West, a lapdance boss, resorted to the use of unparliamentary language after claiming that human rights lawyer Cherie Blair, 52, thought hi...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

Britain- The pub hopes to benefit from the ban on smoking and they are already stocking on nicotine patches and gums for the success of the ban. The Smoking ban, in public places, which comes into effect from July 1st, has ample support from the public of Britain. Three quarter of the population back it. Many leading firms are looking for an opening in areas where smokers are most lik...

Australia Proposes Comprehensive Plans to Protect Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse

Devastated by reports of horrendous sexual abuse of aboriginal children, the Australian government has announced a series of measures to protect them. Calling the situation a national emergency, Prime Minister John Howard vowed to combat the situation on a war-footing and said that the commonwealth would take control of the aboriginal communities for the next five years. Widesprea...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

An industrial body recognizing the downward trend of access to quality health care in India, has suggested two things needed to reverse the situation- more money and a significant private-public partnership. According to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India needs to spend around $203 billion (Rs 912,375 crores), if the mission of achieving 'He...

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

An international group of experts have proposed new criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as they feel that the existing criteria are out of date due to unprecedented growth of scientific knowledge in the field. "(These existing criteria) are the prevailing diagnostic standards in research; however, they have now fallen behind the unprecedented growth of scientifi...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

A S$25 million research project, described as the largest ever in Singapore, will focus on gastric or stomach cancer, it has been announced. In Singapore, gastric cancer (or stomach cancer) is the 4th most common cancer among men and 6th among women, says the Singapore Cancer Society. It occurs most frequently in men and women above 40 years old, and is more common in...