HHS’ Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina G. Carbonell announced a new Web site that will make it easier for consumers to get the information they need to plan for long-term care. The National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information Web site provides comprehensive information about long-term care planning, services and financing options, along with tools to help people begin the planning process.
Close to half the smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, a new study of lung cancer patients shows.
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced a new guide for Illinois schools that provides them the tools they need to proactively plan and prepare for a pandemic flu outbreak. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) jointly prepared the School Guidance During an Influenza Pandemic document.
Social stigma and feeling lifeless and/or alienated from one’s peers are some of the reasons why children and adolescents stop taking prescription stimulant medications used to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study published in the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing.
Health Minister Lord Warner today confirmed that over 18,000 additional specialty training opportunities will be available in England in 2007 to accompany the introduction of the new specialty training structure under Modernising Medical Careers.
The government, quoting a UNESCO report, today said that 13.5 million children in the country in the age group of 6-13 years were out of school in 2005 with Muslims being the most affected section of the society.
Making an impassioned appeal for eradicating illiteracy and ignorance among the children of the world, Britain’s Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has said an estimated 10 billion dollars were needed for this.
The Supreme Court today allowed the desealing of a school in East Delhi which was sealed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as it was operating on encroached land.
Observing that empowering women has a “profound and positive” impact on the survival of communities and children in particular, the United Nations has suggested steps like providing quota for the fair sex in legislatures in order to eliminate gender discrimination.
The Government today said preliminary results of a survey showed that only 36.7 per cent of women in the age group of 15-49 years have heard of HIV/AIDS.