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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Polish Prime Minister Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski has ordered the pharmaceutical company Jelfa to halt production following revelations that Jelfa had placed mislabelled medication on the market, whose use could be potentially fatal.
Jelfa distributed vials labelled as Corhydron, a hydrocortisone used to treat allergies and inflammation, but in fact containing Suxamethonium chloride, a drug normally used to cause muscle paralysis during emergency surgery.
The Health Ministry has appealed to people suffering from asthma or allergies to check their medication and return any Corhydron ampoules they possess to the pharmacy.
Polskie Radio reports that the mislabelling was discovered a month ago, but Jelfa and the Polish Health ministry did not inform of the problem.
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski ordered Jelfa to halt production until it can assure the Polish Government that it can properly manage its production.
The Polish Outlook reports that that drug companies in Poland were operating unregulated since December, 2005 as the regulations has expired. The government was putting in place new regulations.
The owner of Jelfa is AB Sanitas, the largest drug producer in neighbouring Lithuania. The shut-down has been questioned by the Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, who expressed concern over the situation and said that he wants to try to settle the issue diplomatically.
Many women experience heavy menstrual periods every month in which they experience excessive and prolonged bleeding. This condition can cause a lot of discomfort, pain and weakness. Normally a menstrual period lasts about 3 to 5 days with a loss of 30 to 40 milliliters of blood on an average. In the condition of menorrhagia or heavy menstrual periods, one may lose about 80 milliliters of blood during the periods and it may last for 7 days or longer.
The symptoms of menorrhagia may include changing of the sanitary pad or tampon very often, changing pads at night, prolonged menstrual bleeding, bleeding in between the periods, irregular cycles, large blood clots, fatigue, shortness of breath and cramps in lower abdomen. These symptoms may be so severe for some women that it interferes with their daily routine. The diagnosis of heavy menstrual periods may be based on the symptoms experienced. The doctor may conduct a pelvic examination or certain tests like pap smear, blood tests, ultrasound or endometrial biopsy.
This condition may be caused due to various conditions like abnormal growths in the uterus, certain medications, recent surgeries, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, insertion of IUDs, medical conditions like diabetes, thyroid and pituitary disorders and hormonal imbalances. Some lifestyle changes such as weight gain or loss, changes in diet, travel, illness or stress can also be responsible for heavy menstrual bleeding. The treatment of this condition of menorrhagia depends on the cause responsible for it. Other factors are also considered like tolerance of medications, medical history and plans of pregnancy. The treatments may involve medications like non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs, iron supplements, oral contraceptive pills and oral progesterone. Other surgical methods are hysterectomy, hysteroscopy and endometrial ablation.
Home remedies for the treatment of menorrhagia are effective and safe ways to get relief from the symptoms. Some of the home remedies for heavy menstrual bleeding are as follows:
1. Parsley: Parsley is taken for menstrual disorders.
2. Cooked banana flower eaten with curd is beneficial for treating heavy bleeding. 3. Herbal teas like chamomile tea helps in this condition. 4. Eat foods rich in iron like green leafy vegetables. 5. Coriander Seeds aid in reducing the bleeding. 6. Indian gooseberry juice with honey is effective in this condition. 7. Healthy diet should be taken with enough vitamins, minerals and fiber. 8. Regular exercise will improve the blood circulation in the body. Avoid intense exercising during this condition. 9. Drink plenty of water to remove toxins from the body. 10. Avoid eating foods that are hot and spicy. 11. Include bananas, pomegranate and grapes in your daily diet. 12. Mustard seeds can be ground into powder and taken with milk before the periods begin. This is one of the effective home remedies of menorrhagia. 13. The juice of fresh mango bark is also effective. 14. Avoid eating refined products, sugar, sweets, tea, coffee and alcohol. 15. Yoga can be very beneficial in reducing the symptoms of heavy menstrual periods. Regular practice of yoga should be done but avoid doing it during the periods.
Follow these home remedies for the treatment of menorrhagia or heavy menstrual periods and take enough rest during that time.
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Tuesday, May 9, 2006For the first time in three decades, direct and at least partially public diplomatic communication will commence between the United States (US) and Iran. Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the U.S. president George W. Bush proposing “new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world”.
Mr Gholam-Hossein Elham did not say whether the letter mentioned the nuclear dispute, one of the diplomatic problems currently straining relations between Iran and the USA. This information arrived one day after the Iranian parliament announced that it might retract from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Western pressure over its programme was to increase.
Differing reports have been made as to whether or not the letter will be made public, and if so, when. In its online report of 8 May 2006, 09:25 GMT, the BBC quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying that the contents of the letter would be made public once Bush had received it. The updated version of the report of 8 May 2006, 14:52 GMT, quotes Asefi as saying that the contents would be made public “at the right time”. An ABC report quoted Gholam-Hossein Elham as saying “it is not an open letter.”
Iran’s foreign affairs minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, delivered the letter to the United States’ interests section in the Swiss embassy in Tehran on Monday. The United States has not held diplomatic relations with Iran since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said “this letter isn’t it. This letter is not the place that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or anything of the sort.”
“It isn’t addressing the issues that we’re dealing with in a concrete way,” she added.
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, also read the letter, saying, “I think it is typical of Iran that when major decisions are about to be taken … that they have tried to throw sand in the eyes of the proponents of the action. That’s what this may be.”
The letter has since been put on an official Iranian website, and on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad said “the letter to US President George Bush carries the Iranian nation’s views and comments on international issues as well as suggestions for resolving the many problems facing humanity.”
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Safia Ahmed-jan, the director of the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs for the Khandahar province and an advocate of women’s rights and a strong critic of the Taliban‘s repression of those rights, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her home in Khandahar city in southern Afghanistan on Monday.
Safia Ama-jan, as she was known locally, is the first woman official to be targeted by the Taliban-led insurgency since it was deposed in 2001.
Safia Ahmed-jan taught at a girls’ school and was a high-school principal in Khandahar prior to the Taliban’s 1996 rise to power in Afghanistan. When the Taliban regime banned education for girls and forbade women from working outside the home, she ran an underground school for girls at her home, said her son Naqibullah, speaking to the Associated Press.
After the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001, Ahmed-jan became the provincial chief for women’s affairs in 2002, when the ministry was established and has since then held that position, worked for women’s rights and particularly, championed the cause of educating girls. Her secretary, Abdullah Khan told Associated Press that among her most successful projects were the vocational training schools she opened in Khandahar, where almost 1000 women were taught baking, tailoring and other skills.
Ahmed-jan has also been fiercely critical of the repression of women during the Taliban rule, in a region that has remained conservative and emerged as a hotbed of the Taliban’s insurgent activity. Her requests for personal security guards and transport went unheeded by the government, according to local media reports, though her nephew, Muhammad Asif told the New York Times that Ahmed-jan preferred to keep a low profile and used a taxi or public transport even though her office maintained cars and drivers.
Ahmed-jan was shot dead outside her house at about 7:30 a.m. local time (UTC+4:30) on Monday, as she left for work in a taxi. The gunmen are believed to have left scene on a motorcycle, and tyre marks have been found by the police, said the provincial governor Asadullah Khaled, who visited the scene of the attack.
Ahmed-jan was shot four times with a pistol, Muhammad Haidar, who worked in her office told the New York Times. Mohammad Nader, the head nurse at Khandahar’s main hospital where Ahmed-jan was taken to, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that she was shot four times, including once in the head.
She was about 65 years old.
Accounts of the shooting are sketchy, several reports suggesting no one witnessed it. However, one man, identified as Allaudin told Al Jazeera that he saw two men on motorcycles waiting on the road, who attacked Ahmed-jan as she left her house.
A spokesman for the Khandahar governor, Daud Ahmadi confirmed the death and said that Ahmed-jan had died on the spot. An investigation into the attack has begun, and local officials have blamed the Taliban.
Hundreds of men and women, including the Governor Asadullah Khaled were present at Ahmed-jan’s funeral on Monday evening, which took place in Khandahar’s main Shia mosque.
The killing has been strongly condemned by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai as well as aid and human rights organisations in Afghanistan.
Aleem Siddique, a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said that UNAMA was “appalled at the senseless murder” of a woman who was working to ensure a full and equal part in the future of Afghanistan for its women. He added, “We share the sentiment of the majority of Afghan people who are appalled at this killing.”
Abdul Quadar Noorzai, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) for the Khandahar region told IRIN News that Ahmed-jan’s death will have a “serious impact on women’s activities in the south where women are already suffering from … the deteriorating security and conservative traditions,”.
Fariba Ahmedi, a woman MP from Khandahar who was present at Ahmed-jan’s funeral told the Associated Press, “The enemy of Afghanistan killed her, but they should know it will not derail women from the path we are on. We will continue on our way,”.
Sonja Bachmann, a U.N. political officer who knew Ahmed-jan well told the New York Times that Ahmed-jan “did a good job, she worked in a very low-key way and worked hard to raise awareness about women’s issues.”
Reuters and Associated Press received phone calls, claiming responsibility for the attacks on behalf of Mullah Sadullah, a regional Taliban commander, but no confirmation of the claim has been possible.
Another caller, who identified himself as Taliban commander Mullah Hayat Khan told Al Jazeera that Ahmed-jan was killed because she worked for the government.
The Taliban-led insurgency has stepped up attacks in recent months, killing hundreds of people this year.
Last week, 19 Afghans working for reconstruction projects in the region were killed after their bus was ambushed.The Governor of Paktia province, a close associate of President Karzai, was killed in a suicide bombing on September 10.
Attacks on schools have also been stepped up. According to the Afghan education ministry, there have been 158 attacks on schools this year, compared to 146 last year. The attacks on schools are believed to be due partly to the Taliban’s opposition to educating girls, as well as a way to undermine the Afghan government and it’s reconstruction efforts.
Twelve suspected militants and two Afghan police officers were reported killed on Monday in separate incidents which also left eight others and a U.S. soldier wounded.
“People are scared, of course,” Ahmad-jan’s co-worker Haidar said, “How can we feel secure when the head of our department is killed in front of her house?”
Things you should understand before buying a truck through commercial financing
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If you are in the market for a new or used commercial truck or commercial trailer, there are a few things that you should be sure you understand prior to making a purchase through commercial financing.
First, you should know that structure of your financial transaction will be prepared according to your credit score and your financial situation. This means that the rate that you receive will be determined based on your personal credit score and the amount of cash flow that you have flowing through your business. Many commercial truck lenders have set standards of credit criteria that must be met in order to receive financing. At a lot of the different commercial truck lenders the minimum credit score allowed is 650. With this in mind, you will be able to select a commercial finance company whose credit requirements you can meet. Another thing that you should understand is the age restrictions upheld by many commercial lending institutions. A lot of the commercial truck financing companies have age restrictions. This is really to protect their self interest in the vehicles, which is certainly understandable from a business perspective. Most the time, the age restrictions are as follows: Ten years or newer for a commercial truck; Seven years or newer for a commercial trailer. Age restrictions on commercial equipment are something that is important for you to understand when you are considering buying a truck or trailer by using commercial financing. You want to be sure that the equipment that you choose will fall under the age restriction guidelines of your commercial truck lender. Otherwise, you will have to select new equipment, or a new lender, and this could significantly set back your funding time frame. Another thing for you to know before buying a with commercial financing
is the difference between a commercial vehicle loan and a commercial vehicle lease. Many commercial lending institutions will offer both options, and you may be able to choose which option is going to be best for your business. A commercial vehicle loan will most likely require that you put down a hefty down payment, whereas a commercial vehicle lease will usually only require the first and last months payments up front.
Another difference between a loan and a lease is the way they reflect on your financial statement. A commercial vehicle loan will reflect the entire amount of the purchase as a debt, but with a commercial lease, all that is reflected as debt is your monthly payment not the entire amount of your lease. So, instead of showing that you have a debt of $40,000, your financial statement will only reflect whatever amount your monthly payment is, for example, $900. Before applying for commercial truck financing, be sure that you know how much per month you will be willing to pay for the new equipment because you dont want to over extend yourself. Also, keep in mind how much income you anticipate the new equipment to generate and weigh that against the monthly payment amount. You want to make sure that acquiring new equipment will be beneficial to your cash flow.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Local media reported on Tuesday that a gold mine collapsed in northwestern Tanzania on Sunday, killing at least twenty people. According to reports, the incident occurred at Geita region when the 100-metre-deep shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by heavy seasonal rains. Some media reports say that thirty people might have been killed by the accident.
“I know there is no hope of finding anybody alive,” said Kelega Chacha, a miner who left the site soon before the mine’s collapse. “We will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent burial.”
A local newspaper, The African, quoted Donald Mremi, the Geita District Mines Officer, as saying that rescue efforts were hampered due to poor equipment. The African also reported that a dozen of the bodies of the victims have already been identified.
Tanzania is the third largest producer of gold in Africa. Much of its output is produced by international firms running large operations. Smaller-scale mines, however, can be quite dangerous, and frequently lack proper safety equipment. Over 45 people were killed in a northern Tanzanian mine in 2008 after the mines they were working it were flooded. In another incident in 2002, a compressor used to provide miners inside the shafts broke down, causing those inside to suffocate.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
US interrogators have claimed that they are under pressure to find incriminating evidence against Iran when they interview Iraqi insurgents, The Observer reported on Sunday.
Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for the US military in Iraq, told the British newspaper that information about Iran is “gold”.
“They push a lot for us to establish a link with Iran (when interrogating prisoners)”, he claimed in the interview, adding that “it feels a lot like, if you get something and Iran’s not involved, it’s a let down.” He further claimed that people have said to him that “they’re really pushing the Iran thing”. Brose denied being asked to manufacture evidence, but stated that “if a detainee wants to tell me what I want to hear so he can get out of jail … you know what I’m saying.”
The US government accuses Iran of arming insurgents in neighbouring Iraq, and refuses to rule out military action against Iran for its alleged attempts to build nuclear weapons. In the past the US has been accused of using exaggerated and fabricated evidence to build its case against Iraq prior to the war.
The Observer article, which has not been picked up by any other mainstream news agency (but reported in Iran), also quoted a military intelligence officer as saying that “The message is, ‘Got to find a link with Iran, got to find a link with Iran.’ It’s sickening.”
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
January’s second Interview of the Month was with Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on 23 January in IRC.
The EFF is coming off a series of high-profile successes in their campaigns to educate the public, press, and policy makers regarding online rights in a digital world, and defending those rights in the legislature and the courtroom. Their settlement with Sony/BMG, the amazingly confused MGM v Grokster decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the disturbing cases surrounding Diebold have earned the advocacy organization considerable attention.
When asked if the EFF would be interested in a live interview in IRC by Wikinews, the answer was a nearly immediate yes, but just a little after Ricardo Lobo. With two such interesting interview candidates agreeing so quickly, it was hard to say no to either so schedules were juggled to have both. By chance, the timing worked out to have the EFF interview the day before the U.S. Senate schedule hearings concerning the Broadcast flag rule of the FCC, a form of digital rights management which the recording and movie industries have been lobbying hard for – and the EFF has been lobbying hard to prevent.
Preventative Dentistry The Best Way To Keep Your Teeth In Healthy Conditions
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Lana Mitchell
Teeth facilitate people with eating or grinding the morsels of food into fine particles, to ensure their easy digestion. Also, they add to the beauty of a face. Hence, it is very essential to keep them regularly properly cleaned and maintain them in healthy condition. Another important step towards healthy maintenance of teeth is to regularly visit dentists. There has been great advancements in the medicinal field and almost all sorts of tooth related complications can be effectively dealt with. However, prevention is always considered to be a superior option in comparison to treatment and it is here that comes the role of preventative dentistry.
A series of activities can be undertaken as preventive measure which includes in the list regular polishing, cleaning and strengthening of your teeth. By carrying out these regular activities, it is possible to keep your teeth in sound condition and ever shining with whiteness. By routine visit to the dentist, one can detect the complications in the embryonic stage itself and eliminate it, before it balloons out of control.
One can take the top class facilities of preventative dentistry, regardless of his or her age. It is meant for people belonging to all age groups, ranging from infancy and up to middle adulthood. The procedures involved in Restorative Dentistry do not generate any amount of paint to the patients. It requires you to make visit is only about 2 times in the whole span of a year. When you visit the dentist, he detects the presence of any complications in your teeth or mount and formulates the eliminate measure at once. You can gain knowledge about the dental defects in a timely manner. The formation of any disease in the gums of your teeth can be easily detected and treated in a timely manner.
Your dentist will clean and polish your teeth to keep them sparkling white. By hiring the services of preventative dentistry, it is possible for you to keep your teeth constantly sparkling out of cleanliness and in sound conditions. Every technique employed by them is aimed at keeping your mouth healthy. By regular check up of your teeth under the, you can effectively keep the discomfiting situations of tooth decay and gum disease in a healthy condition. They are well specialized and equipped with requisite gears to remove the plaque build up from your teeth and resultant infection. In case anyone of your teeth starts showing the symptoms of tooth decay then it can be effectively treated employing dental onlay. Onlay implies teeth filling blocking the supplement of oxygen to the bacterial plaque and this can be very effective in saving the rest of teeth from damage. Some teeth have improper structure, which creates problems in the course of brushing. Also, teeth having a rough edge has the greater susceptibility to developing stains. You can easily get rid of these tribulations following the tips offered by preventative dentistry.
Particularly, biting surfaces have a greater degree of susceptibility for development of pits and fissures. In case of these developments, sealants are effective tools in having them ironed out. Also, with the employment of sealants, the hidden corners around the teeth can be effectively saved from developing the infection.
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