Global Handwashing Day
In an event organised by the Public Private Partnership for World Health Organisation and Unilever Lifebuoy, 15,000 children washed their hands in perfect harmony to stake claim to the Guinness record for the most people washing their hands on Global Handwashing Day 2009. The vision is to achieve an ambitious vision of improving hand washing behaviour on a mass scale in India to save millions of lives. "With the recent swine flu scare it has become even more important to make the vulnerable sections of our population, a large part of who are children, aware of the importance of hand wash and this was simple and cost effective way of saving millions of lives and we are happy that Lifebuoy has come forward to conduct this event" said Dr Elango, director health, Govt. of Tamil Nadu.

The next step
After having a unique inauguration by organising a free skin-check up camp nearly a month back, Stratum Cosmoceuticals is all set to take another step towards their customers. The company of 17 friends is coming up with its own journal StartCos - Updates on Dermatology & Cosmetology. The first edition, will come out in December and will comprise articles on recent trends on Dermatology and Cosmetology as per the views of Indian practising skin specialists. The first issue will be given for free to medical students, resident doctors or senior doctors (all dermatologists). "This would serve to be a reference journal for skin segment of India, as this will also have evidence-based case studies on Indian patients, critical and complicated case studies, personal opinions of specialists on new molecules, review articles from reputed doctors on few modified procedures like laser, microdermabration, chemical peels, etc and many other facts in the diagnosis, treatment, improvement and maintainance therapies in dermatological and cosmetological issues," says Gaurav Mangale, co-owner of the company.

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