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IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy

The Indian Medical Association has asked its members to refrain from conducting sex-determination tests and aiding female foeticide. No support would be extended to practitioners caught in the act, the IMA said on Sunday. "We as an organisation should warn our members against aiding in such heinous crimes", said Dr. Vinay Agarwal, joint secretary, IMA headquarters, New Delhi. He was spe...

Debra Winger Wants Indians Abroad To Help Visually Impaired

Debra Winger, the Hollywood actress who is promoting eye care will be approaching Indians living abroad to help the visually impaired people living in India. Even though the country has a very high number// of visually impaired people, 80% of them can be cured, according to Debra Winger. Winger, who at the age of 17 met with an accident that left her temporarily blind, but she came ou...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

Balbir Singh, president of Down Syndrome International (DSI), is an Indian origin Singapore doctor who got involved in the Down Syndrome fraternity after the birth of his daughter Jaspreet 25 years ago who had Down’s syndrome. Down Syndrome Association (DSI) Singapore, founded by Singh// some 25 years ago, on talking in the Southern African Conference on Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disability...

Rolling Stones Guitarist Wants Chemotherapy

Washington: Desire to have chemotherapy - whether needed or not is a very unlikely request. Keith Richards, the guitarist for the rock band ‘The Rolling Stones’ has revealed that// he is seriously considering undergoing chemotherapy whether he needs it or not. Keith said that he had was seriously thinking about it after seeing its beneficial effects on ‘Brown Sugar’ drummer Charlie W...

Students wants to extent Tution waiver in Ontario

Ontario College and University will be stopping the Tution waiver which they were giving to their school students for the past two years. The Minister Chris Bentley announced that from next year the students have to pay their tution fees and he said that// the quality of education would be increased in all the schools. The students in protest to this announcement has posted thousands of postcards...

Catherine Zeta wants to give up nicotine cravings

London:: Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta Jones has made a New Year's resolution to get rid of her nicotine cravings, because she is afraid of the impact her deadly habit will have on her growing kids. // The 36-year-old beauty, is concerned because her two children, Dylan-five and two-year-old Cary are approaching an impressionable age, when kids become curious to know about every l...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty says he will have to beat his drug addiction if he wants to get back girlfriend Kate Moss.In September this year 31 year super model Kate Moss // was who I worth $ 30 million was caught snorting cocaine by The Daily Mirror newspaper in a drugs and drink session with her lover Pete Doherty. She had earlier in her press releases denied that she had ever used drug...

Vayalar Ravi Wants Health Education In Schools

Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi today said that he wanted health education to be made compulsory in primary school classes to help the coming generations to lead a healthy life.// Inaugurating a two-day 'inter-faith interface' on AIDS awareness in Thiruvananthapuram he said: "My personal view is that at least one hour a week should be devoted for health educat...

NHS Trust Wants Abortion Mother's Case To Be Dismissed

Hospital bosses are taking steps to see that the woman who sued them for ￡250,000 over failure to abort the fetus of a twin//. Stacey Dow eventually gave birth to her daughter Jayde and sued the Perth Royal Infirmary for negligence and asked for maintenance for the girl. However, the Perth Sheriff Court was told that Ms Dow then aged 16 was given no guarantees that the abortion would b...

Coraki Community Wants To Know About the Plans for the Campbell Hospital

The Coraki community is displeased with the way the head of the North Coast Area Health Service, Chris Crawford were treating them//. They said that he has denied telling the Coraki community about the plans regarding the town's hospital. Due to this the community staged a protest against the head of the North Coast Area Health Service. They said that they felt lik...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

Chicago: An Indian American physician, who is president-elect of the Chicago Medical Society, has said that doctors should take the lead and work with lawmakers in the US on healthcare reforms that should include a reduction in fines to be paid in cases of medical negligence. // Shastri Swaminathan, a psychiatrist who has served as president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, will tak...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

An Indian American physician, who is president-elect of the Chicago Medical Society, has said that doctors should take the lead and work with lawmakers in the US on healthcare// reforms that should include a reduction in fines to be paid in cases of medical negligence. Shastri Swaminathan, a psychiatrist who has served as president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, will take over as...

Eminent Doctors In UK Wants The NHS To Abandon Alternative Medicines:

On the very same day Prince Charles urges the World Health Assembly in Geneva to back the cause of alternative and complementary medicines alongside scientifically// proven treatments, some of UK’s eminent doctors are challenging the integration of complementary medicine into the NHS. Thirteen senior doctors who include some of the most eminent names in British medicine have written t...

Health Minister Wants Names of Uncooperative Hospital Consultants

Tanaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney has insisted that hospital consultants who are not referring patients to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) //must be named voicing concerns that the NTPF has only seen a fraction of patients from several hospitals that have long waiting lists. NTPF chairman Pat O'Byrne commented that there was no valid reason why people should be wait...

US Boy Wants the Right of Choice of Treatment

Abraham Cherrix suffers from Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Initially Abraham was diagnosed with a knot on his neck that turned out to be a swollen lymph node full of cancer cells//. Further tests revealed that he also had a tumor near his windpipe. Then he made repeated visits to the nearest children's hospital to undergo chemotherapy. Later in December, Abraham learne...

Wants To Live Longer? Stay Cool!

For the first time new research has revealed how change in body temperature impacts the longevity of warm-blooded animals, including humans. // Bruno Conti of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and other researchers were conducting studies on how to prolong life and found that the lifespan of warm-blooded animals could be lengthened by slightly lowering their core...

Andhra Wants Withdrawal of Warning Signal from ‘Beedi’ Packes

Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution urging the central government to withdraw an order that makes it mandatory// for 50 percent of the 'beedi' packet wrapper to be covered with a statutory warning signal. On the first day of the winter session, the house passed the resolution appealing to the centre to withdraw the order as it could affect...

AMA Wants Government Action To Make Models ‘Models Of Good Health

As Australian Fashion Week activities commence around the country, the AMA is calling on the Federal Government to work with the fashion industry and health professionals to// introduce guidelines to control the body image promoted by fashion models. Such guidelines would help prevent low self esteem and poor health among people who are influenced by unrealistic body images portrayed...

UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses

Children with congenital heart failure may be at risk because of discrepancies in doses of a heart drug, UK researchers have warned//. Consequently some children were perhaps not getting effective medication. That in turn could mean the children’s health is in danger. The findings over the prescription of Captopril were based on a survey of pharmacies linked to children’s spe...

Karnataka Wants to Make HIV Screening Mandatory for Couple Before Marriage

The Government of the southern Indian state of Karnataka is examining a proposal to make it mandatory for prospective couples// to undergo an HIV/AIDS test before marriage. State Health Minister R. Ashok informed the Legislative Council on March 26 that the government had written a letter to the federal government suggesting such a legislation. He said that there were severa...

Indian Pharma Industry Wants Customs Duty on Life-saving Drugs to Go

The Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) has demanded that the federal government scrap // the customs duty of 5 per cent levied on certain life-saving drugs. In the budget presented to the Indian parliament in February last, Finance Minister P.Chidambaram had proposed a five per cent tax on new life-saving drugs. The older ones were not touched, though. <br...

Australian Prime Minister Wants to Ban Entry of HIV-infected

John Howard, the hardline Prime Minister of Australia, has suggested that HIV-infected migrants or refugees be banned from entering the country//. Howard's tough stance over immigration of the HIV-infected comes in the wake of reports that the number of newcomers carrying HIV into the state of Victoria has more than quadrupled in the past two years. Health Department records sh...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The "developed West" has called upon the developing rest to get down to the task of reducing the emission of greenhouse gases// instead of "constantly blaming the rich countries" for global warming. But as it happened Los Angeles, a showpiece of American capitalism, has been branded the most polluted city in the US. On the other hand studies have shown that China has succe...

Arnie Wants to Team Up With Blair to Fight Global Warming

Actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger will call on British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the next fortnight to discuss climate change. The California Governor wanted to work with the Prime Minister on a new campaign against global warming, said a source close to Blair. Schwarzenegger would discuss a programme of globetrotting lectures and speeches for when Mr B...

Australian PM Wants to Prevent Entry of HIV Positive and Leprosy Affected People

As opinion polls predict a major defeat for the ruling conservatives in Australian federal elections, Prime Minister John Howard is stepping up his rhetoric, projecting himself as a tough man , who would do anything to protect the interests of his electorate. Only last month he had kicked off a huge controversy with similar comments following reports that the number of newcomers carrying HIV into...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

The US presidential commission investigating the plight of the soldiers wounded in the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan has focused on efforts to enable the GIs receive proper treatment in their own homes . During its seventh and last hearing Friday, the Commission admitted todays veterans are more likely than those of previous conflicts to suffer from polytrauma, including bu...

US FDA Wants Vitamin Manufacturers to Test All Ingredients

Dietary supplements pills, liquids or other products are a $22 billion industry in the US. But it is not exactly well-regulated. But now, addressing concerns over the ingredients that go into the making of these supplements, the Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is phasing in a new rule making for mandatory tests of all ingredients by the manufacturers themselves. <...

Punjab Wants Ban on Advertisements by Doctors

Taking serious note of doctors using advertisements to lure patients to their clinics and hospitals, the Punjab government Monday asked the state's medical council to take steps to ban such advertisements . Punjab's medical education and research minister Tikshan Sood said here that advertisements given by medical practitioners were not only unethical but also a violation of the Med...

Angelina Jolie Wants No Fewer Than 14 Kids!

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have four kids already but they plan to add to their family in a big way . On the Daily Show on June 14, host Jon Stewart inquired as to just how many kids Angelina wanted in all, to which the 'Tomb Raider' star replied that she wanted to have as many as 14 little ones. "Hmm, it fluctuates between seven and 13 or 14," the Us Magazine.com quoted J...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

"The beast" has felled her mother, her older sister, five of her aunts, one great, great aunt and six of her cousins . Another cousin in the United States has just found out that "the beast" has attacked her too. "I feel like I'm standing in the middle of the M25 waiting for a lorry to hit me," says Shirley McQueen, 44, who runs an upmarket clothes shop in Chelsea in England. <b...