motive in Medical News

Can the relationship between doctors and drug companies ever be a healthy one?

... scrutiny in recent years, with some commentators arguing that the public health mission of doctors is incompatible with the pharmaceutical industry motive to maximize profits for shareholders. Emma D'Arcy the co-founder of www.myphid.com, an international networking site that allows healthcare workers ...

International Medical Device Maker; Four Executives Charged in Connection With Unlawful Clinical Trials

... put patients' health at risk and undermine the regulatory process." "It is never acceptable for the health care industry to place the profit motive over people's well being," said Patrick Doyle. "The FDA review process was put in place to protect the nation's citizens. Should these companies and ...

The Quigley Corporation Issues Open Letter to Stockholders; Urges Stockholders to Reject Dissident Ted Karkus' Solicitation Efforts

... believe Karkus is more concerned with personal gain than with the best interests of the Company or our fellow stockholders. We believe that the real motive behind Karkus' campaign is to wrest control of The Quigley Corporation from its true owners, the stockholders, without compensating them. Your ...

Media ignores health consequences of drinking and driving among young celebrities

... solutions to prevent DUI was missed." Previous research has demonstrated that medical-related celebrity news, such as reports of breast cancer, can motive the public to seek cancer screening services like mammography. Smith, along with colleagues Denise Twum and Andrea Gielen, conducted a qualitative ...

Alcohol and licensing policy could be changing the habits of young drinkers

... beverages". The authors see pre-drinking as symptomatic of a "new culture of intoxication" whereby young people are drinking with the primary motive of getting drunk. Recent research suggests that a large proportion of young people pre-drink and that pre-drinkers are more likely to drink heavily ...

Scientific poster abstracts from the 24th annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine

... 1 center indicate that opioid pain prescriptions could be a risk factor for opioid addiction. Furthermore, age may be associated with the initial motive of seeking opioids that are subsequently abused. Investigator: Lynn R. Webster, MD Lifetree Clinical Research, Salt Lake City, UT 198 ...

World's aging population to defuse war on terrorism

... of international relations, according to the latest issue of Public Policy & Aging Report (PP&AR) . Several hotbed areas in the world that offer the motive and opportunity for political violence are due to stabilize by the year 2030. Countries such as Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia are currently ...

Draft Rules Won't Stop Insurers' Illegal Cancellations of Health Policies

... called for new regulations requiring insurers to get approval from regulators before canceling a patient's coverage. "Insurers who have a profit motive to cancel coverage cannot be trusted to make fair decisions about which policies to cancel. The burden should be on insurers to prove to independent ...

Psychiatrists are the least religious of all physicians

... religion, and measures of what the researchers called intrinsic religiositythe extent to which individuals embrace their religion as the "master motive that guides and gives meaning to their life." Although 61 percent of all American physicians were either Protestant (39%) or Catholic (22%), only ...

Alvarado Hospital Files Countersuit Against Blue Shield

... like Alvarado," said Charles LaBella, Alvarado's attorney. "This countersuit will show the court that Blue Shield's bullying and bluffing have one motive -- to generate more profit for this supposedly non-profit insurance company, at the expense of Alvarado Hospital and its patients." Blue Shield's ...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

... which the planet has lived to regret! In a remote town in Uttar Pradesh, a man allegedly threw his six year old daughter in a river with a motive to kill; the little girl was battling a kidney ailment for 3 years. The father of six children was burdened with medical expenses and many mouths to ...

Navigating Healthcare

... say, with health care consumers scanning the globe for the best deals in everything from back surgery to angioplasty. Cost is the primary motive for many Americans who travel abroad for care, usually because they lack health insurance coverage for their chosen procedure. AN estimated ...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

... dollars from Pfizer. "In the midst of the epidemic, Pfizer devised a scheme under which it misrepresented and failed to disclose its primary motive in seeking to participate in giving care to the victims of the epidemic," the Kano state said in its suit. Kano State has started both civil ...

Toxicology Test Will Give Me Answers-Benoits Dad

... and 7-year-old son, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself on the cable of a weight-machine in his home, authorities said. No motive was offered for the killings. Several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends to alert Richard ...

A Serious Look at Mental Health Issues in Children

... for Children in the Commonwealth. The bill envisages making certain alterations in schools, preschool programs, and insurance coverage. The key motive of the bill is to uplift troubled children from wherever they are and enable the best care possible. The bill would delegate issues of child ...

Pain – Researchers Take Pains to Understand the Aches of Older Peopl

... millions of older// people – Pain. David Humes of the Division of Gastroenterology, in The School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, with a motive to understand pain, has begun to delve into pain caused by diverticular disease and how it can be relieved. Dr David Humes said: "Our aim is to ...

Bird Flu Vaccine - Indonesia Attracts WHO Attention

... In the past 50 years, nations in the world have continually exchanged information with the WHO on new flu strains. This is being done with the motive of assisting scientists to be abreast with the genetic composition of the mutating virus. The WHO whets this information and creates a seed strain ...

Mental Health - NHS Trust Commences Specialist Transition Service

... is its outreach work, where young people are observed in different settings – homes, at restaurants, and connection centers. This is done with a motive to understand the patient’s behavior in different settings and accord a befitting medical assistance. ...

Blood Tests That Promise to Predict Heart Attacks Turn Out to Be a Flash in the Pan

... peptide. It is becoming a trend where family doctors have directed many patients to undergo these tests to detect these substances, with a motive of detecting a heart risk and averting them. Scientists from the reputed Framingham Heart Study unraveled that the tests of CRP, BNP, ...

Pre-Marital HIV Testing To Be Made Compulsory In AP, India

... people.// The government of Andhra Pradesh is set to make it compulsory for couples to take a HIV test before marrying. This is done with a motive of putting an end to the birth of HIV positive babies from 2007. "Since condom use is not very popular, we are considering tough measures like ...

Proposal to offer free surgery for obese children

... of ￡8,000 for each procedure, will be given to obese children who have undergone several unsuccessful attempts at losing weight. The overriding motive behind this idea is that obese children could be assisted with timely surgery that can offset potential lifestyle diseases, like diabetes, which ...

Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping- A Test to Sift Unhealthy Embryos Records Success

... London: Embryonic testing based on the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory, which helps in detecting unhealthy embryos, with a motive to nurture// the healthy ones, has borne fruit. Now, babies have been born to a British Couple, the first in UK, after successfully employing this ...

NHS Will Do Well to Curb Use Of Umbilical Cord Blood For Treatment of Cancers

... discourage commercial banking of umbilical cord blood. On the contrary, women should be motivated to donate to public// blood banks without the motive of financial gains. Umbilical cord blood endowed with stem cells are beneficial in treating diseases like childhood leukemia. Bone marrow which ...

When Bird- Flu takes Flight

... Countries should put their heads together, and share vital information with the sincere motive of protecting people across nationalities from a dreaded form of flu//. The time is ripe to evolve a cohesive international effort in the development ...

Dubai to commence free breast cancer screening

... Dubai: With a motive of enabling women the best possible avenues to maintain good health, the UAE is about to commence a free breast cancer screening// in Dubai, ...

Unraveling the Secrets of the Seabed of Andaman off the Thai coasts

... week, Thai and German scientists will begin the exercise of delving into the seabed of Andaman off the coasts of Phuket and Phang Nga with a motive of aiding the preparation in the event of natural disasters. This endeavor which is slated to span a four year timeframe is assisted by the Tsunami ...

Overdose of Opioid Painkillers Can Kill Pain and The Patient

... According to the researchers, powerful opioid drugs like oxycodone or fentanyl are now being frequently prescribed by Doctors, with a motive to realizing better results in chronic pain management. Not surprising that, this trend runs parallel with an increase in deaths due to painkiller ...

Emergency Services To Face The Axe

... said: "As well as leaving some patients miles from essential services, these plans are putting too much strain on nearby hospitals" "The motive is to save money and that is not right. A&E is an easy target as it is relatively expensive and the running costs are hard to predict because you do ...

Flesh, blood and a few dollars more

... undoubtedly hope after a hopeless situation and a saving grace to many. Yet, we do hear of sordid stories where overwhelming greed for money, is the motive behind many deaths, and insurance claims thereafter. Now, along with tales of lives lost, a subject that is staking its claim to fame (or notoriety) ...

Jharkhand Government to Open More Medical Institutes: CM

... will be opened through public-private participation and officials have already been asked to prepare a blueprint for the purpose. "Our main motive is to take medical facilities to the last person in the state. We are going to invite private parties to open medical colleges and hospitals in ...

Health Board and Doctors’ Association clash on working hours issu

... the report is more salary based rather than on the number of working hours. According to her there is a lot of information that is distorted, with a motive to project a problem-free scenario. The health boards have put up a proposition to allow differences in working conditions for which the consent ...

Doctors ruminate over organ removal principles

... (AHEC) is deliberating //over the permission for medical procedures to be conducted on patients who are brain-dead and on the ventilator, with a motive to remove organs before it deteriorates. The guidelines under consideration addresses the issue of removal of organs from the patient declared ...

Surgeon Buys a Retractor from eBay

... had slipped his mind when he placed the huge order. Since a retractor is critical equipment in an operation theater, the surgeon, with a motive to save time, placed the order without seeking official permission. The equipment was subsequently seized by the hospital and after customary checks ...

Bill Clinton On A Kill, To Bell The Bulge Out of Schools

... landed him in serious health trouble, leading to a major bypass surgery. Now, with a new lease of life, Bill is on an anti-obesity initiative, with a motive to make the future generation, a leaner lot! Major players have joined hands in this fight against fat - The Clinton Foundation, the American ...

Smokers who want to quit may first read this…

... ups and did go a long way in ensuring that any slip up did not become a full blown relapse. This study is particularly relevant in understanding the motive of action which will help in improving the efficacy of addiction treatments. ...

Fuel demand to be met by Bio-diesel

... 10,000 litres of bio-diesel per annum within the next two years. Kumar said he has been doing research on bio-diesel since 2000 and his primary motive was not limited to helping his students alone. "The broader aim is to provide community-friendly technology to people in rural areas. If rural ...

Self Harming Teenagers on the Rise in Britain

... about as much about self-harm as we did about anorexia 20 years ago.' A pilot scheme, started by the South Staffordshire NHS Trust, with a motive that supervision holds the key to help in coming out of the problem and coping with it - allows self-harmers to cut themselves under the supervision ...

Cutting-Edge: Five Hospitals in UK Go On a Resizing Rampage

... will be under the axe following orders to avoid loss of seven per cent in annual turnover. The Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust has expressed its motive of ensuring that lay-offs will be kept to a minimum. New Cross hospital in Wolverhampton will obliterate nearly 300 jobs and Plymouth Hospitals ...

Equal Rights for HIV Infected Workers

... of Health and Welfare is due to present the revised bill of HIV/AIDS, which will seek to protect the rights of HIV carriers and AIDS patients with a motive to remove all the discrimination against them. Regulations such as sick leave will be adhered to in a similar manner to HIV/AIDS patients, and ...