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Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

A new publishing partnership has been announced between Elsevier and Diabetes India. The partnership would be marked by the launch of a new journal, named Diabetes Research & Metabolic Syndrome in June 2006. // The journal would focus on the importance of the relationship between diabetes and metabolic syndrome with special reference to the causes of vascular damage and a glucose centered...

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

With rising gas prices and breakdown of electricity supplies, upto 90,000 senior citizens could die due to severe cold, charity organizations have warned.//As the Meteorological Office has issued its second severe weather warning, parliament debated the rising price of gas - essential to warm homes - while some experts feared a breakdown in electricity supplies during the winter. Cha...

Invest on gym memberships

Your attention please!! You will most probably get more benefit from investing in gymnasium membership and a exercise personal trainer than buying an machine. According to researchers at the Cleavland University // it is better to exercise at home or in the gym thatn to buy a machine Exercise machines are often advertised in a misleading way. For instance, they may need careful adjusting...

Cancer Treatment Harsh On Patients

More than 40,000 new cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, with 12,000 deaths annually.// Researchers say there are about 500,000 new cases worldwide each year.More than half of head- and neck-cancer patients surveyed in a new study say they are disabled by their cancer treatment. Researchers conducted a study where 384 patients were observed , of th...

British Healthcare Mission Explores Partnership Possibilities With Indian Healthcare Sector

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and British High Commission organized a seminar to explore the possibility of pushing medical tourism in India along with joint ventures in services and manufacturing. They invited the // United Kingdom Trade and Investment's (UKTI) healthcare mission to lead the discussion with Indian partners in Chennai on Wednesday. The British delegation w...

Need For Social Churning Emphasized In CMC Meet On ‘Leadership In Healthcare

The Secretary of the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, K Sujatha Rao, emphasized the need for the Union Government to make mandatory a comprehensive Universal Health Insurance System for the people//. She advocates the utilization of 9 % of the GDP on health and adopt a cross-sectoral approach which should include education, socio-economic growth and provision of basic i...

Betterment Of Health In Case Of Gay And Lesbian Civil Partnerships

Gay and lesbian civil partnerships (gay marriage) is thought to bring an increased number of health benefits. Researchers said that such marriage lead to betterment in the health of both sexes in a variety of ways. // Civil partnerships for gay couples also offer numerous advantages. Professor Michael King, of London's Royal Free and University College Medical School, in a study publish...

Valentine's Day Theme Overshadows Cricket in Pakistan

For once, cricket took a backseat as youngsters in Pakistan celebrated Valentine's Day with chocolates, flowers and gifts and the media too joined in by hosting special programmes for the day.// Even as the Indian and Pakistani cricket teams arrived here for the fourth one-day international to be played on thursday, the focus was on the Valentine's Day celebrations. India lead the five...

Priyadarshan’s New Ad To Boost Chicken Sale

Priyadarshan along with Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty and Fardeen Khan has come together to shoot an advertisement// that will promote the consumption of the chicken, which was down due the recent bird flu scare. "This bird flu scare has really hit the poultry business...and so unnecessarily. Like me, Sanju, Suniel and Fardeen believe chicken well cooked is harm free. So I'm shooting an a...

Private Public Partnership To Tackle TB, In Karnataka

The early detection and treatment of tuberculosis in the state would be achieved through an active partnership between the public//, private health care sectors and NGOs, said health minister R Ashok, at a function organized at Bangalore, as a part of the International TB day celebrations. The minister pointed out to ineffective reach of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Pro...

Courting HIV through Marriage or Partnership

While honesty and openness are the tenets that define ideal relationships, has anyone considered the extent of ‘baring’//, mandated from partners, especially about past sexual relationships? The need for such revelations, assumes importance in this day and age of HIV. Value system is one thing, but the dictates of law is another; the latter threatens dire consequences in the absence...

Foreign Fresher Students Offered Scholarship By Fudan

According to Fudan officials, Fudan University would be offering scholarships for foreign freshman students, granting them to take an opportunity //to take the general knowledge education with their Chinese peers beginning this fall semester. The objective of the Fudan foreign freshmen scholarship is to award 14 foreign students who have excelled in the university's entrance exam as well...

A Healthy Partnership in the Pilbara

It has been a united effort from the Western Australian Government and BHP Billiton who have pooled in nearly $7 million to improve health services //in the Pilbara, spread over a six year time frame. This coalition will seek to institute a post-natal depression support service in Newman. The Port Hedland Hospital will also see a new emergency medicine specialist. While co...

India needs dental health leadership, says expert

India needs a dental health chief to give leadership and implement the ambitious global plan to eradicate dental caries among children by 2026, says a British expert//. "If we are going to implement the WHO's Global Child Dental Health Taskforce programme in India to eradicate tooth caries problem among children in the next 20 years, we need a good dental leadership," said Professor Ram...

Raids By US Marshals Uncovers Cache’ Of Unapproved Drug

US Marshals in a raid seize $55,000 worth of unapproved dietary supplements in the form of capsules.// It had been reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agency had requested for the raid. It was found that the Advantage Nutraceuticals L.L.C distributed the capsules. Sources have indicated that the seized capsules, which are supposedly in violation of new dru...

‘Healthy Stores’ Program Boosts Demand for Better Food in Marshall Islans

Heading straight to the source — the grocery store — can help improve and sustain access to healthy foods among poor people, found a new study conducted in the Marshall// Islands. By learning about shop owners’ business needs and shoppers’ eating habits, the researchers were able to foster an increase in the supply of and demand for nutritious foods. “Diet-related chronic diseases are...

Cancer Hope Network, ASTRO Partner to Raise Awareness of Cancer Survivorship

As part of its continued efforts to give back to the cancer communities in the cities visited during its annual scientific meetings//, the Fairfax, Virginia-based American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) is partnering with Cancer Hope Network, to raise awareness of cancer survivorship. The Cancer Hope Network is a non-profit organization that provides one-on-one sup...

Korean Varsities Seek Partnership With AIIMS

A clutch of Korean universities plan to collaborate with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in education, training, research and student exchange. // Representatives from the Korea University, the Korea Open National University and the Kyungnam Education council visited AIIMS Friday to discuss several aspects of a probable partnership. "The special areas...

Quarantine Sought For Harsh TB Strain

People infected with a deadly, virtually untreatable new form of tuberculosis should be isolated and confined -- against their will, if necessary -- to prevent// a "potentially explosive international health crisis," according to a group of Canadian and African scientists. These harsh measures are justified given the "extreme risk" posed by an ongoing outbreak of extensively drug-resi...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop “Next Generation” Vaccine Candidats

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative signed// an agreement today to address a major obstacle in AIDS vaccine development: the design of candidate vaccines to elicit neutralizing antibodies against HIV. A new Indian Medicinal Chemistry Programme, co-sponsored and co-funded by IAVI and the...

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

Securing its place as an indispensable defence against the development and spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), the Stop TB Partnership announced today that its drug supply arm, the Global Drug Facility, has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the past six years. "This is an important milestone, because getting anti-TB drugs to people wh...

Health Benefits Of Traditional Land Ownership

Handing back control over remote areas to the traditional Indigenous land owners could help improve the overall health of Indigenous peoples , according to health experts. Over the past 30 years, there has been a steady growth in research indicating that Indigenous people who regain ownership and control of their traditional lands enjoy improved health, says Ms Nicole Watson, Senior...

US Needs to Show Leadership in Cutting Emissions: Schwarzenegger

The US must begin to cut emissions of greenhouse gases before it can expect developing nations such as China and India to do so, US California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said. While a world framework on cutting emissions should involve both India and China, the US needs to take the lead in fighting climate change, Schwarzenegger said today in a press conference in London with...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative signed an agreement today to address a major obstacle in AIDS vaccine development: the design of candidate vaccines to elicit neutralizing antibodies against HIV. A new Indian Medicinal Chemistry Programme, co-sponsored and co-funded by IAVI and the D...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

After being the focus of national attention, USS Nimitz, the lead aircraft carrier of the United States, has sailed off the Chennai coast . While everyone talked about the possible radiation from the nuclear reactors powering the ship and debated over if the ship had nuclear weapons on board or not, very few knew of the F-16 and F-18 Hornets and Super Hornets, the world's best fighte...