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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 simple precau...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...