Full coverage: Health

30.09.2005 The STS (Science, Technology and Society) Forum held in Kyoto during September 11-13 deliberated on many societal issues that could be addressed by science and technology. While no earth-shaking declarations were made, the conference brought together outstanding global talent across diverse disciplines, who identified six key issues.These key isuues were sustainability, life sciences,ICT, capacity building, science and technology for human security and finally on the new frontiers opened to science and technology.

30.09.2005 A Village Knowledge Centre by name, Vivekanand Gramin Gyan Kendra was opened at the Dhandhar village near Pilani on Sunday 25th September 2005.

30.09.2005 At the inauguration of the South Australian Film Festival at Chennai,South Australia Premier Mike Rann said the two States were working on forging a memorandum of understanding in various areas.

30.09.2005 In five years, every man and woman in the country will be in a position to access hi-tech healthcare with dignity, said Narayana Hrudayalaya Chairman and Managing Director Devi Prasad Shetty, accepting the Lifetime Achievement-Management Excellence Award conferred on him by the Bangalore Management Association.

30.09.2005 Grassroots organizations in China are using unique means from pen pals to skits to educate and debunk myths surrounding HIV/AIDS and other sexual health crises. With modest amounts of funding, these volunteer-based groups are making headway in a society where discussing sex is taboo.

29.09.2005 Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) denuncia, in un rapporto pubblicato oggi, l'escalation di violenza nell'applicare le misure per il controllo dell'immigrazione che accompagna l'aumento del fenomeno migratorio al confine tra Marocco e Spagna. Dal 2003 MSF lavora in Marocco a un progetto sull'immigrazione. Dopo 27 mesi di attività, grazie alla raccolta di dettagliati dati medici e testimonianze, l'organizzazione constata che circa il 25% delle visite effettuate tra aprile 2003 e agosto 2005 non sono legate a patologie correlabili alle condizioni di vita precarie in cui vivono gli stranieri, ma ad atti di violenza diretta o indiretta. Su un numero totale di 10.232 consultazioni mediche, 2.544 sono infatti dovute ad episodi di violenza. Secondo le dichiarazioni degli stranieri visitati da MSF, il 44% dei casi di violenza è imputabile alle forze di polizia marocchine e ben il 18% alle forze dell'ordine spagnole.

29.09.2005 Pointing to the spread of avian flu infections from Asia into the Russian Federation as a sign of a brewing flu pandemic, Dr. Lee Jong-Wook, WHO director-general, urged health ministers and governments to collaborate with one another in order to improve global readiness.

29.09.2005 At a cost of just 4 paise per litre, rural India can now have access to safe drinking water without the use of electricity.A high-technology membrane filter, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), can remove bacteria as well as viruses from water.

29.09.2005 Federally funded programs used in over a dozen U.S. states to teach students to abstain from sex until marriage are riddled with messages of fear, shame, gender stereotypes, and medical misinformation, according to non-profit organization that monitors U.S. sexual education curricula.

28.09.2005 The philanthropist George Soros is this year’s laureate of the prestigious “Andrija Stampar” Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Public Health. The award was presented at the 27th Annual Conference of ASPHER (Association of Schools of Public Health in The European Region), held in Erevan, Armenia.

28.09.2005 The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Vellore Range, Christopher Nelson inaugurated the telemedicine unit of the Trauma Care and Road Safety (T-CARS) Trust at the T-CARS Trauma Clinic in Thiruvalam.

28.09.2005 The International Labout Organisation (ILO) has said that nearly 2.2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year, adding that this number may be vastly under estimated due to poor reporting and coverage systems in many countries.

28.09.2005 Current efforts to prevent two lakes in north western Cameroon from releasing toxic gasses and killing nearby inhabitants, as they have done in the past, are insufficient, say researchers.

28.09.2005 Ten years ago in Cairo, 179 nations agreed on a plan to achieve universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015--and on the financial resources needed to make it a reality. While some progress has been made of late, donor countries have by and large not come through with the funding they promised, according to the most recent report card produced by Population Action International.

28.09.2005 Accurate information about family planning and reproductive health issues is difficult to come by in Afghanistan--for journalists as well as the general public. A 5-day workshop for radio, TV, and print journalists in Kabul earlier this month aimed to begin to change that.

27.09.2005 India has recorded its lowest-ever rate of transmission of the polio virus. Only 30 cases have been reported this year as against 54 during the same period last year. The north Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar reported the maximum number of polio cases.

27.09.2005 Departments within Dubai's Ministry of Health (MoH) are getting ready to switch over to e-processing to enable them to be fully integrated into the government's e-services.

27.09.2005 Design students who create products for disabled people are hoping to attract the attention of manufacturers at an exhibition in London this week.

26.09.2005 A new project managed by AfriAfya and supported by Exchange is using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to communicate about health and development.This health communication project engages the knowledge of marginalised people in Kenya. The main emphasis is on analysing what information can be exchanged to improve the communities' situations.

23.09.2005 Women NGOs from across India have organized the largest-every international conference in India that will focus on issues that impact women’s health. More than 800 participants – that includes activists, researchers as well as academicians - are attending the meet from all over the world, including remote regions.