| World Diabetes Day - 2008
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| In a world where nearly 70,000 children are diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes each year, making it one of the most chronic diseases during childhood, World Diabetes Day celebrated on November 14th 2008 by the International Diabetes Federation and the WH... |
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| World Mental Health Day
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| World Mental Health Day falls on October 10, 2008. The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) focuses on attracting worldwide attention on burning global mental health issues through education, information, active support and ... |
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| World Heart Day - 2008
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| World Heart day 2008 seeks to underline the ‘life and death’ issues surrounding heart disease with the theme ‘Know your risk’.... |
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| World Alzheimer’s Day - 2008
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| World Alzheimer’s Day falls on September 21st, 2008. The theme for this year ‘No Time to Lose’ recognizes the role of caregivers as the backbone of care, support and management of Alzheimer’s disease. For all those 25 million sufferers of Alzheimer’s... |
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| World Organ Donor Week
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| Organ donation, considered the highest form of human service, allows the opportunity to give life and let others live, even though we are gone. Not many may actually know that when a person donates organs and tissues, it can breathe life into nearly ... |
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| World Breastfeeding Week - 2008
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| Breast feeding mothers need support from all directions - family, workplace, environment and their own confidence level to exclusively breast feed the child during the initial 6 months. Nutritional status and maternal health of women is imperative to... |
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| International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking - 2008
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| The global war against drug abuse and illicit trafficking has gained momentum over the years. To marshal worldwide support for the control over drugs, the 26th of June every year is devoted to the cause, known as the International Day against Drug Ab... |
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| World Blood Donor Day – 2008
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| World Blood Donor Day celebrated worldwide on June 14, 2008, gives a standing ovation to the ‘warm blooded’ altruistic people who have donated their blood to save the lives of people they have not even met or heard of. Underlining the importance of v... |
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| World No Tobacco Day - 2008
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| Tobacco-free-youth’ is a befitting theme for the anti-tobacco initiatives of World No Tobacco Day as thefirst puff of tobacco taken during youth, most often continues till the last breath, The Day, seeks to continuethe fight against tobacco products,... |
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| World Hemophilia Day - 2008
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| Hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder that prevents blood from clotting properly. The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) started World Hemophilia Day to promote a global effort to secure safe and effective treatment for everyone with a bleed... |
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