Railway in Medical News

Measures to Prevent HIV in Railway Employees

The following steps have been taken to prevent and control HIV/AIDs in Mumbai Division of Central and Western Railway:// - Collection of correct information about number of persons infected with HIV Virus · Testing Facilities – HIV testing facilities is available in Mumbai Division both...

Lovers Latest Hang Outs – Railway Platform

Mumbai lovers prefer the most crowded railway stations and bus stops to express their romance. Ranjit Narayanan, 27, hangs around with his girlfriend at the Andheri railway station//. He meets her three times in a week and is happy about the venue. As both work, it is the most easily accessi...

Safely on the move

...ign Technology IPK. Take for example travel assistance. A person traveling by train in the future could be directed to the right connecting train at a railway station via cell phone or PDA without having to explicitly operate the device. "This is possible through context recognition in the mobile device. We ...

North Texas LEAD Offers Unique Approach to Job Search Strategy

...s of our community can model their actions and behaviors against real BNSF executives," according to Matthew K. Rose, Chairman, President and CEO-BNSF railway Company. "Our goal is to help make North Texas the destination of choice for top diverse talent," according to LEAD President and Executive Dir...

LifeSynch Chosen to Provide Wellness Services to Norfolk Southern

...vide healthy lifestyle management, tobacco cessation, nutrition, weight management, fitness and health coaching services for the organization's 30,000 railway employees. Through its program called WellNS, Norfolk Southern provides an innovative support and communications infrastructure that allows for...

Exhaust From Railroad Diesel Linked to Lung Ailments

...se (COPD), which includes lung conditions such as bronchitis and emphysema. U.S. researchers studied the job and health records of more than 30,000 railway workers and found that those who worked on diesel trains (engineers, brakemen, conductors) were more likely to die of COPD than those who worked in ti...

Safety Threat to Rochester Still Remains Despite Approval Of Canadian Pacific's Railroad Acquisition Of DM&E

...uman tragedy a reality. It is unacceptable," said Dr. Dan Hankins, co-medical director of Mayo Clinic Medical Transport. In 2002, a Canadian Pacific railway train derailed near Minot, N.D., causing violent rupture to five tankers and spilling 220,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia. Roughly 11,600 people were...

TONIC Announces Every T Counts Project

...itation for one person in Nepal or Honduras. The School. Tee There are nearly half a billion children in India, millions living on the streets and railway platforms. One teacher saw most spending their days begging instead of going to school. So she is bringing school to them. Each Tee will help fund a...

Safe Crossing Week 2007 Teaches Kids How to Behave Safely Around Trains

...y presentations to more than 300,000 students and adults in schools and at community events in the United States and Canada. CN -- Canadian National railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries -- spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving th...

New report on mobile phone research published

...research programme has also funded some basic measurements of radio signals from microcell and picocell base stations such as those found in airports, railway stations and shopping malls. These have shown that exposures are well below international guidelines. Additional studies also confirmed that the u...

Trade Unionists Join Polish Nurses' Protest

...riday in support of hundreds of nurses who have pitched camp in front of the building in a two-week pay protest. The demonstrators, including railway workers and miners from Poland's southern Silesian coal belt, brandished banners reading, "We want a decent living, like lawmakers" and "We want to wo...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

...f blood donation. "Many patients may not be able to access the site. For them we are shortly introducing donor smart cards. These will be like railway coupons kept with the hospitals across the country. "When a patient is asked by doctors to procure blood, they can contact the hospital author...

Non-availability of Anti-rabies Vaccines Put Jackal Bitten Patients in a Fix

...h block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Gopalganj, the home district of union railway minister Lalu Prasad. But the unavailability of anti-rabies vaccines has added to the problems of the patients. "A mad jackal has cre...

Nearly 100 People Injured by Jackal

... block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Gopalganj, the home district of union railway minister Lalu Prasad. But the unavailability of anti-rabies vaccines has added to the problems of the patients. 'A mad jackal has ...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

... family welfare, nursing, junior red cross activities, preparedness and prevention of communicable and infectious diseases, relief operations in fire, railway and other accidents and events. Be it the winter in Kashmir, the earthquake in Gujarat, the cyclone in Orissa or the Tsunami in Tamil Nadu, t...

Chhattisgarh to Launch Polio Campaign for Laborers Kids

... of polio cases in the past four years." On Sunday, officials will pick up kids for immunization from fixed centers besides public places like railway stations and bus stands. On the last two days, they will make door-to-door visits to ensure that not a single kid below five years is left out. ...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

... The findings are based on more than 20,000 Swiss railway workers, who were monitored for 30 years. ...The researchers opted to study this group, because railway workers in Switzerland tend to change jobs infrequ...hecked the full employment records of 20,141 Swiss railway workers in employment or retired from post between...

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...migrant workers in July, Xinhua/People's Daily reports. The cards will be distributed among migrant workers employed at construction sites and railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou. Coca Cola also will work with the Chinese Foundation for the Prevention of STDs and AIDS to dis...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...aking arrangements to supply 100,000 murrel fish for the event. The state's Road Transport Corporation will ply special buses for patients arriving at railway and bus stations. The traffic police have also imposed restrictions on vehicular traffic around the venue. For the past 160 years, the Goud fa...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...tribute non- biodegradable wastes to it?' he asked. Be it the Shastri Park metro station or the upcoming Yamuna metro station of the Delhi Metro railway Corporation (DMRC), be it the Akshardham temple or the site for the Commonwealth Games 2010, various authorised structures are built on the Yamuna's f...

Delhi Kids to Be Immunized Against Polio

... of age. Around 30,000 workers and employees of the health department would be on the job from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The stalls would be stationed at railway stations, major bus terminals, public places like Appu Ghar, major temples, Delhi Metro stations, millennium park, zoo and McDonalds outlets. 'A...

Chemo Combination Improves Survival in Asbestos-Related Cancer

...hea, which decreased in both incidence and severity after the vitamins were added to the treatment. People who work trades such as shipbuilding, railway engineering, construction work and asbestos manufacture have higher rates of mesothelioma than the general public. The cancer may take 10 to 60 years ...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...ed going to school and went to work in a hospital, which fired me for dressing like a woman. I began working as a commercial sex worker near the Salem railway station, earning about Rs.300 a day, half of which I had to give to the beat police. "It was during this time that I was introduced by the NGO...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

... in 7,500 booths in Delhi Sunday. Nearly, 24,000 health personnel and workers have been deputed for the purpose. Polio booths have been set up at railway stations, bus terminals, 57 metro stations, airports, important parks, temples and the Pragati Maidan exhibition ground. International organisati...

Poverty Fuels HIV In Poor Indian States

...fficial poverty line against an all-India figure of 26 percent,” he added. “Use condoms," Rai tells the crowd. Awareness posters show a man at a railway platform, waiting for a train. The poster reads "I know about AIDS so I will stay true when I leave home for a different place."

Increase in Polio Cases

...e community participation and acceptance of polio vaccine by all children below 5 years of age. · Transit booths are being established at major railway stations, moving trains, bus stops and market places to cover the transiting children. · Bi-phasic house to house activities are being carried o...

West Bengal Performs 'Yagna' to Ward off Dengue, Malaria

...omen carrying water pots on their heads, the ritual was performed with the lighting of a large number of kundas (pyres) at the premises of the Eastern railway near here. The yagna, organised by NGO Gayatri Janakalyan Sangha, was to ward off dengue, malaria and other diseases. The organiser added that t...

Resort Mello Rosa Teams Up With Ayurvedic Natural Health Center

...llent location provides the perfect surroundings for relaxation. It is situated 15km (9m) from Panjim, 40km (25m) from the airport, 15km (9m) from the railway station and 7km (4m) from Mapusa, the nearest town....

Dengue Death Toll Rises to 25 in Karachi

...ever. In view of increasing number of patients, the Pakistan Medical Association demanded that anti-mosquito action should be carried out at all railway stations, bus stops and airports of the city. Anti-mosquito spray should also be carried out inside the trains, buses and planes to ensure exter...

Diwali lights put Dengue in the dark

...s might not be the end of it. "The cases have come down but the outbreak isn't over," said Medical Superintendent at AIIMS, D K Sharma. The Union railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav paid RJD MP Shahabuddin a visit at the AIIMS. Shahabuddin had undergone a spinal operation. Laloo, as usual, came out ...

Meeting to tackle Chikungunya

...s 3 from West Bengal, 4 from Karnataka and 3 from Gujarat. According to an advisory issued by the Ministry, people should be screened at airports, railway stations and bus stands and anyone suffering from fever should be taken to hospitals as part of the preventive measure. 30 hospitals in Delhi have be...

India registers 3,000 dengue patients, toll crosses 40

...etected in the hill state late Wednesday. The Bihar government decided to set up a dengue detection centre at the Patna airport as well as at all railway stations in the state capital. "Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is monitoring the situation and has asked top officials to take urgent steps to preve...

1.8 mn Delhi Children to Receive Anti-polio Drops

...e come from the western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh. On Sunday, anti-polio drops will be administered thorough 7,500 booths stationed at railway stations, inter state bus terminals, public places like Appu Ghar, major temples, metro stations, Millennium Park, Zoo and outlets of McDonald's. ...

Talk Show Host Shekhar Suman Plans to set up Heart Hospital in Patna

...t," he said. His father resides in a middle class locality in Patna. Suman is known for his comic takes on Bihar politicians, particularly railway Minister Lalu Prasad. Source-IANS...

Official Lapses Lead to NRI’s suicide in Londo

...and social workers. Sidhu, a former receptionist, had quit her job after marrying Indian-born post office worker Manjit. On that day, she told a railway worker at the station: "I'm taking my children to see the trains." In February this year, Sidhu's mother, Satwant Kaur Sodhi, 56, committed a si...

Drug Refused to Asbestos-Linked Cancer Patients

...a is a kind of cancer that affects the lung lining and nine out of ten cases are due to exposure to asbestos. People who are involved in shipbuilding, railway engineering and asbestos product manufacturing are at an increased risk. . A cure for the disease is not available and pemetrexed disodium treatm...

Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

... sleuths on March 14, 2003 when they were allegedly trying to deliver a consignment of 1.3 kg of heroin to an unidentified person at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway Station. The accused, who pleaded they were innocent and were being falsely implicated in the case, had earlier moved the Additional Sessions ...

College Student Commits Suicide After Failing In HSC Exams

... return home as he had failed in two papers. Later, he threw himself on the railway tracks when the fast Deccan Queen was passing by, they said. He was declared dead on arrival at a railway hospital, police added. Source:PTI News...

Doctors Urge Government To Roll Back Quotas

...he administrator said adding that scores of termination notices will be dispatched to resident doctors ‘anytime today’. Even though some army and railway doctors have started helping at government hospitals, patients have been suffering. ‘I came to the hospital this morning but no one was there in...

Patients Bear The Brunt Of Doctor’s Strik

...tors to join work at the earliest. "We have warned resident doctors that they will lose their jobs if they don't rejoin work. We have also asked railway and army doctors to lend their support to the hospitals in Delhi," Ramadoss said. Responding to the health ministry's direction, 70 doctors have...