Category Health Care
Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN | Jun 3, 2014, 10.54 PM IS The US port city of Seattle enacted laws on Monday raising minimum wage for workers to $ 15 an hour, the highest in America, thanks in large part to a movement led by Kshama Sawant…. Continue Reading →
By Mary Cronk Farrell WeNews guest author Sunday, June 1, 2014 More than 100 U.S. military nurses were stationed at base hospitals in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1941. As the U.S. entered the war, Frances Nash and Peggy Nash faced deluges… Continue Reading →
Ekal Nari ka Rajya Sarkar ke Samaksh Shakti Pradarshan Jaipur, 2 June 2014: Over 500 single women from all over Rajasthan convereged today at the Udyog Maidan here to celebrate Women’s Empowerment Day. Speaking of the congregation’s significance, Ginny Srivastava,… Continue Reading →
NMDC’s plan for a new iron ore mine gets clearance from the Centre but runs into protesting locals in the Maoist-hit region. Priyanka Kaushal reports Priyanka Kaushal 2014-06-07 , Issue 23 Volume 11l Stop mining 2,500 tribals protested outside the NMDC’s Kirandul… Continue Reading →
BY DANIEL HOUGENDOBLER In early 2011, a CIA-recruited Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, entered Osama Bin Laden’s compound posing as a Hepatitis B vaccination worker. His real intention was togather samples of the Bin Laden family’s DNA to aid the CIA in locating the… Continue Reading →
Putting patients first NALINAKANTHI V This year, on International Clinical Trials day, India has a reason to feel satisfied with the progress made in regulating the use of humans to test drugs. In August last year, the Supreme Court had batted for… Continue Reading →
POSTED BY MOHGA KAMAL-YANNI ON MAY 20TH, 2014 IN ACCESS TO MEDICINES | 0 COMMENTS TAKE 1: CLACKET FIRST TIME OF PHARMA FILM It is 1996 and the scene is starting with the plight of HIV hitting the news. By 2000, it was clear for… Continue Reading →
May 21, 2014 12:59 PM , By Anumeha Yadav One of the two under-construction sites at Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College, where the infant was crushed to death under the contractor’s car. A week after a construction worker’s five-month old daughter was crushed to death under a contractor’s… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Srestha Banerjee Date:May 18, 2014 Asks state to consider all mine renewal applications at the earliest and dispose them of within six months Estimated at over Rs 59,203 crore, the mining scam in Odisha surpassed that in Goa and… Continue Reading →
KALPANA KANNABIRAN The HinduIllustration: Deepak Harichandan Where prison facilities are not equipped to deal with the specific needs of persons with disabilities, arrest and detention in custody should be a measure of last resort We have a slew of cases… Continue Reading →