Ten years after the city’s public transport switched to CNG, air pollutionhas again become a major threat to public health in Delhi, say environmentalists. With 69 lakh vehicles plying on city roads, a growth of about 60 lakh in 20 years, experts say oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) are now at critically [...]
Facebook’s director of marketing, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of the social network’s billionaire-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving her brother’s company to start her own social media consulting firm. Randi, who has been with Facebook for the last six years, said she felt it was the “perfect time” to move outside Facebook to build a company focused [...]
Google, which purchased a leading flight software company earlier this year, has launched a new tool for finding hotels. Hotel Finder is an “experimental search tool” designed to help users locate and book hotels, according to an AFP report. Hotel Finder, which is restricted to the United States for now, lets a user refine their [...]
HEALTH workers have been reminded that germs from dirty hands can be transferred to equipment as well as patients. Bosses want to reinforce the importance of hand hygiene to reduce the risk of spreading superbugs such as MRSA and C.diff. Employees have been rapped in the past for not complying with hand-washing guidelines set down [...]
Our opinion: New York has a chance to get health care reform right, if it avoids many of its past mistakes. To be sure, New York has until January 2014 to comply with last year’s federal health reform act and put an insurance exchange in place. But it never seems too early to ask this [...]
Mysore, May 2 (DM)- District In-charge Minister S.A. Ramdas declared here that the construction workers will be covered under health insurance and they will be issued free health insurance cards from June 1. He was speaking at the workers felicitation function organised as part of May Day celebrations by the Mysore District Construction Workers Welfare [...]
A senior medical officer told Express that 26yearold Kavitha was admitted to the Corporation hospital with labour pain around 4 pm on Thursday. She gave birth to a 2.5kg baby boy through normal delivery after three hours. While the placenta was removed and the baby was healthy, the mother was bleeding heavily, she said. Denying [...]
By Lexi Bainas, The Citizen April 29, 2011 The Seniors Health Forum, organized by the Cowichan Communities Health Network, drew interested full houses to a series of sessions Saturday, April 2 in Duncan. One of the organizers, Lori Iannidinardo, said she was delighted to see such good turnouts to hear the speakers and take part [...]
As the weather gets warmer, Interior Health Authority has some tips for avoiding ticks when venturing outside. They say the best way to avoid ticks is to walk on cleared trails, wear a hat, long sleeves, and pants tucked into socks or boots, and apply insect repellent containing DEET on uncovered skin. While I-H-A [...]
Due to recent weather conditions, homes and businesses in the region may be compromised by flood and/or sewage water. Saturated ground conditions, continued rain, and possible power outages can cause city sewer systems, septic tanks and sump pumps to fail. According to Marina Sample, environmental health inspector for the Wabash County Health Department, flood waters [...]