Health minister faces two Indias, obese and hungry
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India plans to introduce yoga in schools to fight rising obesity among middle-class youngsters, even as the country continues to battle widespread malnutrition and "shameful" infant and maternal mortality.
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The health minister pledges to investigate claims of waiting list manipulation.
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US presidential hopefuls from both sides of the political divide are dishing out their plans for fighting obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions and is putting enormous strain on the health care system.
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had a rude shock at a Healthy Lifestyles event on Sunday. Shortly after encouraging a Gugulethu crowd to eat healthily and to do more exercise to avoid heart disease
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Epidemic of overweightness means monitoring is needed from infancy onwards, expert warns.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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India does not want waif-like young  women sashaying down the catwalk and acting as role models for  thousands of girls who are starving themselves to get svelte  figures, the Indian health minister said.
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Day two of the first ministers summit on health care carried on in the same vein as day one -- with both sides clinging to positions divided by billions of dollars.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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SINGAPORE : Parliament will be debating the AIDS issue and the fight against it, when it sits on November 24. The Senior Minister of State for Health, Dr Balaji Sadasivan, told
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Health problems related to obesity are hitting Asians harder than other ethnic groups because doctors using a one-size-fits-all diagnosis fail to pick it up, experts have said.
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counting carbs, watching kilos, and keeping an uneasy eye on the growing list of health problems linked with obesity. But it&#39;s not just the number
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Ireland's government launched a campaign to tackle obesity, with Health Minister Micheal Martin calling the nation's increasing weight "one of the most serious problems" it now faces.
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ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan said risky behaviours, socio-economic vulnerabilities like poverty and illiteracy and lack of effective use of resources highlights the need to act aggressively to limit the spread of AIDS/HIV in Pakistan.
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To fight obesity, the government should boost health education and help shield kids from junk food. And corporate support is needed, too.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
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Children are main focus of government's obesity strategy to pay overweight people to get slim