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31.01.2006
Humanitarnoto zdruzenie Horizont" od Kriva Palanka, soopsti deneska deka Ministerstvoto za zdravstvo pozitivno se izjasnilo po site baranja za prodolzuvanje na rabotata na medicinskiot centar vo Kriva Palanka.
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31.01.2006
Srbija nema dovoljno inspektora da kazni sve koji budu kršili novi Zakon o zabrani pušenja u zatvorenim prostorijama, ali će u narednih nekoliko godina prevenciju pušenja biti poboljšana, izjavila je pomoćnik ministra zdravlja Srbije Snežana Simić.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Serbia and Montenegro] Image: Stop Smoking
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31.01.2006
The Bureau of Public Health of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, in cooperation with four elementary schools from Mostar started a campaign to mark 31 January No Smoking Day. The official slogan of the campaign is No Smoking Life at Its Fullest. The campaign is organized under the Orkdal project, with support by the Nansen Dialogue Centre Mostar.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Bosnia] Image: Anti-smoking campaign starts in Mostar
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31.01.2006
Hundreds of severely mentally ill offenders in the US are mired within a healthcare system that is too slow to help and a justice system that is too quick to pass death sentences, a leading rights group said today.
Story linkFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [United States] |
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31.01.2006
The leprosy eradication mission, which started at Independence reached a milestone with transmission of the disease reaching negligible levels. For the first time in 50 years, less than one in 10,000 persons contracted the disease last year
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31.01.2006
Almost 8 million babies a year - around 6 per cent of total births - have a serious defect of genetic or partial genetic origin, according to a new report that says hundreds of thousands more are born with serious defects caused by exposure to alcohol, rubella or syphilis.
Story linkImage: Patients at Genetic Clinic in Johannesburg, 2004
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30.01.2006
The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce is organising a two day fact finding mission in February for British firms who want to find out more about selling into the fast-growing Dutch health ICT market.
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30.01.2006
Aravind Eye Hospital, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, provides an entire range of eye care services from primary eye care to the State of the Art tertiary eye care, through its network of five eye hospitals with a combined bed capacity of 3,500 serving primarily two southern States, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and partly Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh.
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30.01.2006
The World Bank approved today a US$46.7 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to support the Government of Pakistan's effort to eradicate polio. It is designed to help supply the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) for the country's Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs) during 2006-07.
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30.01.2006
One World South Asia (OWSA), an international civil society network online, has called for increased government role in turning integrated disease surveillance and preventive healthcare a success in the South Asian region.
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27.01.2006
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27.01.2006
Many students applying to university in UK to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UKCAT (UK Clinical Aptitude Test) will feature verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving questions; it will not cover academic subjects
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Europe] [Western Europe] [United Kingdom] [health & ICT] |
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27.01.2006
Asthma sufferers may not be able to buy non-prescription inhalers in the U.S. much longer because the devices contain propellants that harm the ozone layer.
Story linkFrom: Environmental News Network Related topics/regions: [United States] |
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27.01.2006
With mounting criticism of Greenpeace's opposition to arrival of French ship Clemenceau to Indian ship-breaking yard Alang, the organisation seems to have modified its stand on the industry. Read this press release by Greenpeace.
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23.01.2006
Albanska Vlada je parlamentu podnijela novi, bitno stroi nacrt zakona o duhanu i puenju. Ovaj zakon će u potpunosti zabraniti prodaju cigareta djeci i maloljetnicima i uvesti stroa pravila za duhansku industriju vezano uz prodaju i oglaavanje duhanskih proizvoda.
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22.01.2006
UNICEF is working with local organisations in quake-hit regions of Pakistan and is sending female healthcare teams to rural areas to meet the healthcare needs of the people. These healthcare teams have been specially trained in Islamabad.
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21.01.2006
Ombudspersonat e Federatės sė Bosnjės, Vera Jovanovic, Esad Muhibic dhe Branka Raguz i rekomanduan Ministrisė sė Arsimit ministrive kantonale tė arsimit nė Federatė qė tė siguronin tė drejtėn kryesore tė shėrbimit mjeksor nė tė gjithė universitetet dhe shkollat e mesme, si jė e drejtė e garantuar pėr studentėt me ligjin e shėrbimit shėndetėsor nė federate.
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21.01.2006
Environmentalists may be up in arms but many people in Alang are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the discarded and controversial French warship Clemenceau - for their bread and butter. Alang has for long been a booming graveyard of ships from the world over, a place where vessels are ripped apart for every little particle that will fetch money as scrap.
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20.01.2006
The Ombudspersons of the B&H Federation, Vera Jovanovic, Esad Muhibic and Branka Raguz, reccomended the Federal Ministry of ducation and all cantonal education ministries in the Federation to secure free access to primary healthcare to all university and high school students, a right guaranteed by the federal Law on Healthcare.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Bosnia] Image: Ombudspersons Jovanovic, Muhibic and Raguz
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20.01.2006
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration said that the rural health centres will be open 24 hours for improved medical services. According to an ICT spokesman, three female doctors and three male doctors have been appointed at Tarlai health centres.
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