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Global community unites against tobacco industry
Monday, 22 November 2010, 2:22 pm | Bobby Ramakant
(CNS): As the host country for this week's tobacco control treaty meetings braces for a legal challenge from Philip Morris International (PMI) to its graphic cigarette warning labels, 172 Parties are uniting behind Uruguay in a declaration adopted at ... More >>
Integrated response to diabetes
Monday, 15 November 2010, 11:52 am | Bobby Ramakant
Diabetes is a leading threat to public health and, along with other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality globally. The largest burden -- 80% (28 million) -- occurs in low- and middle- income countries, ... More >>
Addressing poverty in TB control
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 5:59 pm | Bobby Ramakant
At the tuberculosis (TB) and poverty sub-working group meeting which was held recently in India (29-30 October 2010), the experience of Thailand in responding to TB particularly among those who were poor (or uninsured) was in the spotlight. The government of ... More >>
Challenge for TB vaccine development
Saturday, 2 October 2010, 11:44 am | Bobby Ramakant
Tallinn, Estonia: While progress is being made in the development of new vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), sufficient clinical trial capacity remains a major challenge, researchers reaffirmed at the Second Global Forum on TB Vaccines in Tallinn, Estonia ... More >>
Shorter and More effective MDR-TB treatment Needed
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 10:34 am | Bobby Ramakant
One of the main objectives of the "TREAT TB" research grant is to conduct a clinical trial to look at relatively shorter and more effective multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment than the current regimen for MDR-TB. "One of the colleagues had ... More >>
People with diabetes at risk from TB
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 12:52 pm | Bobby Ramakant
People with diabetes are at a high risk of tuberculosis (TB). "There are several studies that have been done, there are systematic reviews that have been done which indicates that people with diabetes might have 2 to 3 times higher risk of getting ... More >>
TB on IAC agenda as never before
Monday, 26 July 2010, 3:36 pm | Bobby Ramakant
(CNS): It was one of those defining moments in history of legendary AIDS activism at the International AIDS Conferences when the TB cough-in/coffin March began at the penultimate day of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Vienna, Austria. ... More >>
More needs to be done to save women's lives
Monday, 7 June 2010, 6:39 pm | Bobby Ramakant
(CNS): "At the global level we don't only have the issue of deaths of women and child, pregnancy and child-birth related situations, but it is the discrepancy between these deaths in the northern and more industrialized countries and in the developing countries. ... More >>
Invest in women, it pays
Monday, 7 June 2010, 6:20 pm | Bobby Ramakant
(CNS): The world's largest conference on women's health and empowerment in more than a decade opens on Monday, June 7, at Washington DC, USA, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health. The conference ... More >>
Smoke-free environment is a right
Monday, 7 June 2010, 6:18 pm | Bobby Ramakant
(CNS): Second-hand tobacco smoke is dangerous to health. It causes cancer, heart disease and many other serious life-threatening diseases in adults. "Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, which worsens their ... More >>
Say Yes To Life: Say No To Tobacco
Friday, 28 May 2010, 12:44 am | Bobby Ramakant
The theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is "Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women." It is designed to draw particular attention to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing towards women and girls. Controlling the ... More >>
High-risk diabetic foot in spotlight
Monday, 12 April 2010, 12:02 pm | Bobby Ramakant
High-risk diabetic foot is the theme of the mid-term continuing medical education (CME) organized by the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI), UP Chapter and Indian Podiatry Association (IPA) in Kanpur on Sunday, 11 April 2010. "This theme has been ... More >>
2010 Is Year Of The Lungs
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 10:26 am | Bobby Ramakant
The year 2010 was declared as year of the lungs to recognize that hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer each year from treatable and preventable chronic respiratory diseases. More >>
Health Advocates & Pharmaceutical Companies in Bed
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 11:55 am | Bobby Ramakant
Is it ethical for public health advocates to accept funding from pharmaceutical companies, or organizations directly/ indirectly affiliated to them? Should all direct/indirect engagement with Pharmaceutical companies should be declared openly and publicly? More >>
Charter for TB Care is in favour of doctors
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 11:13 am | Bobby Ramakant
It was not surprising to hear from a community activist at the World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Symposium before 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health opens in Cancun, Mexico, that when she asked TB programme managers on why are they not implementing ... More >>
Let Your Giving Be Gentle
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:25 pm | Bobby Ramakant
Somebody has come up with this beautiful idea of celebrating the ‘JOY of Giving Week’ from 27th September to 3rd October. The theme of this week is to give anything you have (in abundance) to someone who does not. Till now we have had Valentine’s ... More >>
Good health is India's basic need
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 3:09 pm | Bobby Ramakant
But this basic health need is denied to the millions of those disadvantaged in India. “India is fifth from the bottom in the world if we look at the government expenditure on health,” said Dr Amit Sengupta from People’s Health Movement (PHM) and All ... More >>
Pictorial Warnings On Tobacco Products In India
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 12:29 pm | Bobby Ramakant
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (MOHFW, GOI) had mandated that all tobacco products manufactured/ packaged/ imported in India on or after 31 May 2009 have to display pictorial health warnings, as specified in the notification ... More >>
Another jolt to democracy in Burma
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 4:05 pm | Bobby Ramakant
CNS Despite growing global pressure for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar (Burma), she was sentenced to another 18 months' house arrest by a court in Rangoon. More >>
India: human rights violations by police
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:44 pm | Bobby Ramakant
The Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Lucknow on 7 August 2009 at UP Press Club. For decades, successive ... More >>
