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'Diabetes Doctor is at Your Doorstep'
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:24 am | Bobby Ramakant
Recent studies have proved that diabetes has reached a pandemic stage, not only in urban India , but its prevalence rate in rural areas is also increasing rapidly. As of now, an estimated number of more than 20 million people with diabetes live ... More >>
World Diabetes Day (14 November):
Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:00 am | Bobby Ramakant
The theme of this year's World Diabetes Day (14 November) is diabetes in children and adolescents. The global awareness campaign aims to bring the spot light on diabetes and highlight the message that no child should die of diabetes. It also aims to increase ... More >>
Climate Change is Impeding Agricultural Production
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 3:00 pm | Bobby Ramakant
During the last one decade, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been witness to many climatic changes. Eastern Uttar Pradesh has faced severe floods, while Bundelkhand region has faced one of the worst famines of the last decade. Thus, the impact of ... More >>
public distribution system to reduce food scarcity
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 5:29 pm | Bobby Ramakant
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations has recently issued a report which reveals that currently there are 75 million (7.5 crore) people in the world who have fallen victim to famine and if the current crisis of price rise ... More >>
Special in lead up to World Food Day (16 October 2
Monday, 13 October 2008, 11:35 pm | Bobby Ramakant
‘Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,’ according to the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO). More >>
Uphold Public Health Over Corporate Interests
Friday, 26 September 2008, 10:01 pm | Bobby Ramakant
It is a pity that India's robust smoke-free policies have been challenged by those with vested interests neglecting the immense and undisputed proven public health benefits of implementing such policies for people at-large. More >>
Oxfam ups the response to Bihar floods
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 1:42 pm | Bobby Ramakant
Senior Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) leader and Union Minister of State for Water Resources Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav accused the Bihar government of massive flood in the state by being "totally negligent" in taking preventive measures. More >>
Pictorial warnings on tobacco products in India
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 10:03 am | Bobby Ramakant
All tobacco products will display approved pictorial warnings and nicotine-tar levels from 30 November 2008, as per a notification issued by the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (dated 27 August 2008), in accordance with the Cigarettes and ... More >>
Scaling up of MPOWER tobacco control needed
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12:03 am | Bobby Ramakant
New Zealand and other countries in the world need to scale up the cost-effective, proven and WHO recommended strategies to reduce the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use. The World Health Statistics Report (2008) of WHO released 10 days before ... More >>
Asthma control is appalling in most countries
Monday, 5 May 2008, 1:01 pm | Bobby Ramakant
More than 300 million people around the world have asthma, and the disease imposes a heavy burden on individuals, families, and societies. More >>
Democracy weeps in Nandigram
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:50 am | Bobby Ramakant
"The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) must take immediate cognizance of the violations in Nandigram and recommend stringent penal action against all those involved, including instituting an inquiry into the involvement of the CPI (M) leadership and ... More >>
Tobacco ban in prisons an uphill task in India
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:33 am | Bobby Ramakant
"One of the biggest dilemmas the prison administration is facing today is whether to ban the use of tobacco in all forms in the prison or not" according to ST Ramesh, Additional Director General of Police in Karnataka who is also the Inspector General ... More >>
Displaced people to stage massive protest in India
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 10:04 am | Bobby Ramakant
Both The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act , 2007 and The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill , 2007 are anti-people, asserts activists. More >>
Climate change has implications on public health
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 10:45 am | Bobby Ramakant
The World Health Day this year (7 April 2008) focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. The theme "protecting health from climate change" puts health at the centre of the global dialogue about climate ... More >>
Stars to not endorse tobacco, junk foods & alcohol
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 2:08 pm | Bobby Ramakant
Portrayal of tobacco use in Indian cinema has been on the rise. Despite of The cigarette and other tobacco products Act (2003), repeated requests and appeals by health activists and India's Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss to film ... More >>
Can New Zealand stop drug-resistant TB too?
Sunday, 23 March 2008, 3:43 pm | Bobby Ramakant
This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day (24 March) is another opportunity for people of New Zealand to review their TB responses. Drug susceptible TB is treatable, curable and with proper programme interventions, it is possible to believe in the theme of ... More >>
World Water Day: The Need For Basic Sanitation
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 3:27 pm | Bobby Ramakant
How will New Zealand and other countries in the world achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of 2.6 billion people who have no access to basic sanitation by 2015? More >>
Rising tobacco use among women
Monday, 10 March 2008, 8:37 pm | Bobby Ramakant
100 years ago in 1908, more than 15,000 women marched in New York demanding equal pay and voting rights. This day is commemorated as International Women's Day (8 March). This year the theme is: Shaping progress . More >>
Bobby Ramakant: Japan's Position On Illicit Trade
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 9:30 am | Bobby Ramakant
Negotiations toward a protocol on illicit tobacco trade to the global tobacco treaty, formally known as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), were held earlier this month. More >>
Bobby Ramakant: Reversing The Tobacco Epidemic
Thursday, 14 February 2008, 11:32 am | Bobby Ramakant
WHO's Global Tobacco Epidemic Report (2008) underlines not only the evidence-based fact that tobacco epidemic is worsening but also recommends a comprehensive package of six-effective tobacco control policies – clubbed as 'MPOWER'. More >>
