Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Women Health - Infant insurance scheme to be launched soon 




Limited amount of HPV vaccine available locally 
Fairbanks medical practitioners have begun stocking a just-approved vaccine for cervical cancer and have already begun vaccinating patients. Gardasil, made by Merck & Co., is the first vaccine specifically designed to prevent cancer.
Source: www.news-miner.com

Evy Dubrow, Worker Advocate, Dies at 95 
Evelyn "Evy" Dubrow, a longtime worker advocate whom one U.S. congressman called "an American hero," died of a heart attack June 20 at George Washington University Hospital. She was 95.
Source: www.occupationalhazards.com

Monday, June 19, 2006 
PESHAWAR: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq on Sunday said that poverty and backwardness of a province should be the criteria of distribution of national resources, instead of population.
Source: www.pakistanlink.com

Women health tourists costing NHS hospitals millions 
LONDON: Thousands of pregnant women have flown to London to have their babies as "health tourists", new figures revealed yesterday.
Source: www.gulf-times.com