Steps

Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

India has finally decided to get its act together on improving quality of plant-based drugs. It promises not only to get a large number of laboratories activated on testing them, but also seeks to start registering farmers who produce medicinal plants to ensure the raw material itself meets standards. The first meeting of a recently constituted Medicinal Plants Board listed a series of measures t...

Few Simple Steps to Lower The Incidence Of SIDS

The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS, could be significantly lowered by taking simple precautions // say researchers according to a recent study. Researchers conducted studies in 20 centers in Europe, looking at 60 variables from the medical records of 745 SIDS cases and 2,411 healthy infants to identify risks for SIDS. About 48 percent of all the SIDS cases were...

Simple Steps To Help Fight Asthma

An intervention program designed to educate parents about allergens and tobacco smoke could help reduce symptoms of asthma in children // say researchers .More than 900 children with asthma were studied. The children were allergic to at least one indoor environmental allergen and lived in low-income areas. Previous research shows children who live in these areas suffer from the disease at a dis...

WHO Steps Up To Create A Public Awareness About The Consequences Of Exposure To Radon

Radon is a chemically inert, naturally occurring radioactive gas// without odour, colour or taste. Radon is a natural radioactive gas that emanates from the ground into the air. Radon gas in the air is present worldwide, its concentration depending on the highly variable uranium content of the soil. Radon gas escapes easily from the ground into the air and emits heavily ionizing radiation called...

Initial Steps In Spread Of Cancer Identified

Scientists have now discovered how cancer cells are able to spread to distant parts of the body. It was previously though that these cells spread to the target site via the blood or the lymph// and then started forming a new tumor there. It has now emerged that certain chemicals secreted by the tumors do the job of preparing the potential "landing" site by altering the conditions to mak...

Vermont Governor steps in with a new health insurance plan.

James Douglas the present governor f Vermont has come up with a new strategy for uninsured Vermonters. He said that about one third are still uninsured // because they can’t afford insurance. According to his new plan every individual will be assigned to a primary clinician who will analyze his or her health. The governor's plan segregates the 60,000 people who are uninsured...

Crucial steps taken by the Chinese government to protect its grasslands

China now has nearly 400 million hectares of natural grassland, the second biggest in the world. But 90 % of its usable grassland has degraded to various extents and hence the Chinese vice Premier Hui Liangyu// Friday called for greater efforts to protect the country's grasslands. He said that grassland is important for the nation's environmental safety and sustainable economic growt...

Its High Time the Australian Government Takes Steps against Diabetes

Statistics show that about1.4 million Australians have diabetes. New South Wales (NSW) has recorded a 300% increase in the number of people with diabetes// over the past 10 years. Experts have asked the health system and the economy to take some aggressive action against diabetes. Sooner if it continues it is expected that about 2 million will develop the disease. The main reason for th...

Steps Taken To Maintain Inflation Rates Says Chidambaram

The Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that the inflation rate had taken a dip to 3.9 % and hoped it would remain under control.// He said that various steps are taken to maintain the stability in the price. We are happy it is below four percent now. Anything under four percent can be considered under control," Chidambaram told reporters here. Asked whether the gover...

Government Takes Steps to Reduce Binge Drinking Among Britons

According to the recent survey it was found that Britons are Europe's top drinkers in bars and restaurants. The report from the market watchers Datamonitor// said that they consumed the equivalent of 2.2 pints of lager. Germans and Spaniards drank the equivalent of 1.9 pints, followed by the Swedes who were the most abstemious at 1.5 pints, below the European average of 1.8 pints. But when analy...

India: IT steps up security

A self-regulatory body is set up by the Indian information technology (IT) sector. This move has come up after the theft of data, by 3 employees of a BPO firm. // The main aim of the body is tighten security in the IT industry. The move is to bolster overseas clients that India is safe for business. A lot of instances have stirred the IT sector to set up a strict surveillance. One such incidence...

Medicos In Punjab, Haryana Contemplating 'Drastic Steps'

Medicos in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, who are agitating against hike in quotas in elite educational institutions // , said they were contemplating 'drastic steps' to draw the Centre's attention to the issue, as health services in the region today remained crippled causing immense hardships to patients. 'Something drastic have to be done to draw attention of the Government. Our pro...

MCD Takes Steps To Prevent, Control Dengue

In the wake of detection of the dengue spreading Aedes mosquito in some localities of the capital, the MCD at a high-level meeting today discussed steps to be taken for prevention and control of the disease. // Chaired by MCD Standing Committee Chairman Jaikishan Sharma, the meeting decided on various steps, including creating awareness among public to take measures to prevent breedin...

Urgent Steps Should Be Taken To Clear MMR Vaccine-Autism Link

Around 28 UK pediatricians and vaccination experts have written an open letter in the Scotsman newspaper saying that there would be 'more unnecessary deaths' over the rumors// that MMR Vaccine was linked to autism. The letter adds that if immediate action were not taken, the UK could face a serious situation with outbreaks of measles, mumps and rubella. The letter also says that quest...

Steps to End Discrimination of AIDS Patients

Steps would be taken to end discrimination towards HIV positive patients and ensure welfare measures to them, National Legal Service Authority Chairman //and Supreme Court Judge K G Balakrishnan said today. Delivering the keynote address here at the joint meeting of parliamentary committees to protect the rights of HIV/AIDS patients and prevent crimes against women, he said a comprehe...

Centre Taking all Steps to Check Chikunguniya

About 9.6 lakh suspected cases of chikunguniya have been reported from across the country and the Centre would provide all technical and logistic support to tackle the disease // , Union Minister of state for Health Panabaki Lakshmi said here today. The cases have been reported from 121 districts in seven districts, she said at a review meeting with the Andhra Pradesh government on th...

Consumers, Caregivers Taking Steps to Safer Surgery

Leading consumer advocacy groups have joined with the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to improve patient safety during surgery and increase communication between patients and their caregivers. // Of the 40 million inpatient and outpatient surgeries patients undergo each year, tens of thousands end up with associated postoperative complications. SCIP is working to prevent comp...

Government Announces Steps To Promote Ayurvedic Medicine

Inaugurating the second World Ayurveda Congress at the University of Pune on Sunday, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss, //announced a series of steps to be taken by the government to promote plant-based medicine in India and abroad. He said, 'In a scenario where the world was turning to plant-based system of medicine, India’s rich tradition needed to be tapped and...

Safer ICU’s: Cheap, Simple, “Low-Tech” Steps Wrk

Hospitals will quickly slash the rate of common, costly and potentially lethal catheter-related bloodstream infections in their intensive care units (ICUs) by using cheap//, low-tech, common-sense measures like hand washing, timely removal of unneeded catheters, and use of sites other than the groin to place lines when possible, according to a report. “There’s just no reason any more...

Simple Steps to Safe Guard Patients from Bloodstream Infections in ICU

Hospitals can ensure better safety for patients in ICU by adhering to simple techniques that can do away with potentially life threatening// catheter-related infections. ICUs can become thoroughly aseptic by ensuring a through hand scrub, prompt disposal of used syringes and catheters. A detailed report was made by experts on Safety measures at Johns Hopkins. The details of the report are publish...

Simple Steps to Safe Guard Patients from Bloodstream Infections in ICU

Hospitals can ensure better safety for patients in ICU by adhering to simple techniques that can do away with potentially life threatening catheter-related infections. // ICUs can become thoroughly aseptic by ensuring a through hand scrub, prompt disposal of used syringes and catheters. A detailed report was made by experts on Safety measures at Johns Hopkins. The details of the report are publis...

Steps To Prevent Out-Break Of Bird Flu

Government has information about outbreak of Avian Influenza in Pakistan. // In view of the reported outbreaks in Pakistan, the North-Western States bordering Pakistan were immediately alerted to intensify vigilance in the bordering areas especially to check informal/illegal trade of restricted livestock and livestock products; intensify animal disease surveillan...

Simple Steps can Boost Breast Cancer Survivors Eagerness to Exercise

A new study has found that simple steps like giving breast cancer survivors an exercise workbook or step pedometer, make them eager to exercise and can perk up their quality of life and fatigue levels. The study, conducted by University of Alberta researchers, found that these simple steps, together with an advice to exercise, helped breast cancer survivors exercise more than survi...

Pakistan Takes Steps to Contain Bird Flu Outbreak

Pakistani authorities have intensified monitoring of over 800 poultry farms in the capital following an outbreak of bird flu in five poultry farms there, an official said Saturday. The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in three farms May 22 and in two other farms the next day in Chak Shehzad, a suburb of Islamabad, state media reported, quoting Livestock Commissioner R.H Usm...

Three Steps To Better Health Care

Revised health care agreements and new approaches to funding are needed to support the rising numbers of Australians with chronic illness, say health policy experts. Providing quality health services that are economically efficient often ends in the blame game between Federal and State Governments, and public and private health care systems, they say. In their edito...

France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

France's health minister urged vigilance on Thursday after tests on three dead swans in the northeast confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which can be fatal to humans. "France is not threatened by a bird flu pandemic as there has not been, for the moment, a human contamination from the H5N1 virus," Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said. But she adde...