Whos Starting to Profit Online? Nonprofits.
What a difference a few years makes. In 1999, charities had raised only $7 million via the Internet, and almost $2 million of belonged to the American Red Cross. Last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which now publishes a yearly tracking for this sector, revenues were up to $124.5 million. Charities and their for-profit partners are getting more savvy about Internet...Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Urine Of Babies Whose Parents Smoke
Scientists warn that passive smokings from cigarette smoke of parents can affect their infants. The scientists have now detected the cancer-causing chemicals // , which are associated with tobacco smoke in the urine of nearly half the babies whose parents are active smokers. "The take home message is, 'Don't smoke around your kids,'" said Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., professor and Wallin...WHOs Plan of Global Stockpile of Bird Flu Vaccine Gathers Momentum
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it is working with vaccine manufacturers to move ahead on plans to create a global stockpile of vaccine for the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The announcement follows a request by the World Health Assembly in May for WHO to establish an international stockpile of H5N1 vaccine. WHO has also welcomed the announcement by G...A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List
In an otherwise bleak healthcare scenario has emerged a heartening development.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated Paromomycin IM injection manufactured by the US based Institute for OneWorld Health, a non-profit drug firm, for inclusion in its Model List for Essential Medicines. Paromomycin IM Injection is a cost-effective treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (VL),...Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared
On July 2, the five year-old HUGO Borbilas was leaning on the mailbox of his family's home waiting for a playmate to arrive when he lost his footing and became impaled on the cast-iron fence. An iron spike plunged fivecentimetres into his throat, narrowly missing his carotid artery, oesophagus, windpipe, all the major nerves in his neck and throat and just stopping short of his bra...