Medindia Blogs http://blogs.medindia.net Networking for your health - The latest on Diseases and Conditions Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:34:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Taiwan Proposes Law Change to Help Children of Abusive Parents http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/taiwan-proposes-law-change-to-help-children-of-abusive-parents/ http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/taiwan-proposes-law-change-to-help-children-of-abusive-parents/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:34:33 +0000 Medindia Health News Health News http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/taiwan-proposes-law-change-to-help-children-of-abusive-parents/ Taiwan's government has proposed changing the law to release adult children of abusive parents from the legal obligation to support them in their dotage, the government said Friday. The country's Civil Law currently requires Taiwanese citizens to support their parents financially, based on their means to do so. But under the new rules, children of abusive parents would have to pay only a reduced amount, or nothing at all, depending on how badly they were treated. ...]]> image Taiwan’s government has proposed changing the law to release adult children of abusive parents from the legal obligation to support them in their dotage, the government said Friday.

The country’s Civil Law currently requires Taiwanese citizens to support their parents financially, based on their means to do so.

But under the new rules, children of abusive parents would have to pay only a reduced amount, or nothing at all, depending on how badly they were treated. …

TAGS:]]> http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/taiwan-proposes-law-change-to-help-children-of-abusive-parents/feed/ History of Brothels Researched in the ‘Archaeologist of Erotica’ http://www.medindia.com/news/History-of-Brothels-Researched-in-the-Archaeologist-of-Erotica-60507-1.htm http://www.medindia.com/news/History-of-Brothels-Researched-in-the-Archaeologist-of-Erotica-60507-1.htm#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:17 +0000 Medindia Health News Health News http://www.medindia.com/news/History-of-Brothels-Researched-in-the-Archaeologist-of-Erotica-60507-1.htm The sign hung at 12, rue Chabanais, in the days when the building housed the most prestigious of Paris' infamous bordellos, read "Welcome to the Chabanais: The House of All Nations". With the brothels closed down 60 years ago, nowadays the skinny eight-storey building on a tiny street near the Louvre houses an employment agency and a bunch of flats. But right across the road, at number 11, a gallery is keeping its memories alive. Nicole Canet, who runs a gallery-cum-bouti...]]> The sign hung at 12, rue Chabanais, in the days when the building housed the most prestigious of Paris' infamous bordellos, read "Welcome to the Chabanais: The House of All Nations". With the brothels closed down 60 years ago, nowadays the skinny eight-storey building on a tiny street near the Louvre houses an employment agency and a bunch of flats. But right across the road, at number 11, a gallery is keeping its memories alive. Nicole Canet, who runs a gallery-cum-bouti...]]> http://www.medindia.com/news/History-of-Brothels-Researched-in-the-Archaeologist-of-Erotica-60507-1.htm/feed/ Russian Leech Therapy Meets Rising Medical and Cosmetic Demand http://www.medindia.com/news/Russian-Leech-Therapy-Meets-Rising-Medical-and-Cosmetic-Demand-60510-1.htm http://www.medindia.com/news/Russian-Leech-Therapy-Meets-Rising-Medical-and-Cosmetic-Demand-60510-1.htm#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:17 +0000 Medindia Health News Health News http://www.medindia.com/news/Russian-Leech-Therapy-Meets-Rising-Medical-and-Cosmetic-Demand-60510-1.htm Natalya Lepyoshkina smiled as she fed her three-week-old "children" a meal of warm cow's blood, rinsed them off with water and poured them into an array of glass jars. "They're happy, they're full," she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be their home until the next feeding. Lepyoshkina's charges were among the three million leeches raised every year at the International Medical Leech Centre, an institu...]]> Natalya Lepyoshkina smiled as she fed her three-week-old "children" a meal of warm cow's blood, rinsed them off with water and poured them into an array of glass jars. "They're happy, they're full," she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be their home until the next feeding. Lepyoshkina's charges were among the three million leeches raised every year at the International Medical Leech Centre, an institu...]]> http://www.medindia.com/news/Russian-Leech-Therapy-Meets-Rising-Medical-and-Cosmetic-Demand-60510-1.htm/feed/ Pakistan Reeling After Wave of Blasts http://www.medindia.com/news/Pakistan-Reeling-After-Wave-of-Blasts-60511-1.htm http://www.medindia.com/news/Pakistan-Reeling-After-Wave-of-Blasts-60511-1.htm#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:17 +0000 Medindia Health News Health News http://www.medindia.com/news/Pakistan-Reeling-After-Wave-of-Blasts-60511-1.htm The anxious wives were on the phone again to their husbands in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi, a terrorist target where daily routine can turn to horror in an instant. "She's very worried," Abdul Habib said after putting down the receiver while visiting a friend's carpet shop close to the site of a bombing which left 35 people dead. Not far from the carpet shop, Junaid Anwar Baig's wife had also phoned. "She calls two or three times a day," said Bai...]]> The anxious wives were on the phone again to their husbands in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi, a terrorist target where daily routine can turn to horror in an instant. "She's very worried," Abdul Habib said after putting down the receiver while visiting a friend's carpet shop close to the site of a bombing which left 35 people dead. Not far from the carpet shop, Junaid Anwar Baig's wife had also phoned. "She calls two or three times a day," said Bai...]]> http://www.medindia.com/news/Pakistan-Reeling-After-Wave-of-Blasts-60511-1.htm/feed/ People in Sudan and Darfur Need Better Healthcare http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/people-in-sudan-and-darfur-need-better-healthcare/ http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/people-in-sudan-and-darfur-need-better-healthcare/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:09:07 +0000 Medindia Health News Health News http://blogs.medindia.net/health-news/people-in-sudan-and-darfur-need-better-healthcare/ According to The World Health Organisation,millions of people in South Sudan and Darfur need access to healthcare. WHO funding for health care in Darfur is also set to run out within weeks, with no sign that donors struck by the financial crisis will renew their contributions in 2010, a senior official said. "We know that at the end of the year, funding will dry out," said the agency's representative in Sudan, Mohamed Abdur Rab. Meanwhile, cholera "is quite ram...]]> image According to The World Health Organisation,millions of people in South Sudan and Darfur need access to healthcare.

WHO funding for health care in Darfur is also set to run out within weeks, with no sign that donors struck by the financial crisis will renew their contributions in 2010, a senior official said.

“We know that at the end of the year, funding will dry out,” said the agency’s representative in Sudan, Mohamed Abdur Rab.

Meanwhile, cholera “is quite ram…

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