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Tag: "conflict" at medical news

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...ctors working as a group ... where its rulings can conflict with clinical scenarios," Dr Ford said. For example, he said obstetricians working in a maternity unit could provide a better service if the staff and doctors "know each other well". "If you have the door open for all-comers it may cause problem...

A Break Through Energy Bill by the US Government

...lobal recession, lead to food shortages and incite conflict between nations the United States and China in particular over dwindling oil supplies....

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...rs - including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. A study conducted by the Army in 2004 found that one in eight soldiers returning from Iraq reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to the National Center for PTSD in the United States, around ei...

Retail Health Clinics Start Shop

...cs have warned that such retail clinics may pose a conflict of interest that put profits ahead of patient health.On June 25, the American Medical Association, the nation's largest physicians group, asked state and federal agencies to look into whether pharmacy chain-owned clinics in stores urge patients to ge...

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

...This means that health fees are back too. "[In conflict zones] communities benefited from free health care. Now the communities will have a difficult time paying", Jean Denoman, deputy director general at the Ministry of Health was reported. For those who support universal free health care, a return to...

Around the World in 86 Days ... on Motorbike With Double-hand Transplant

...d-the-world traveler - civil servant, mediator and conflict manager. "Most conflicts result from a lack of information" and can be resolved around a table and with a little time," he said. In any case, this survivor bares no grudge towards his attacker, who ironically blew off both his own hands in a suic...

Climatic Change Cause of Dafur Conflict-UN

Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have prov...nient military and political shorthand - an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers," Ban wrote in The Washington Post. "Look to ...

One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report

...or Asia. "And for many of those displaced by the conflict during last year's crisis, who continue to live outside of their communities, a restricted domestic food supply means they will continue to rely on food assistance," he added. The new report, based on a joint assessment mission carried out by the t...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

...e messages from the inner ear (balance department) conflict with the messages from the eye (vision department) causing the brain to take some measures to remove the conflict. As a natural defense against poisoning, the brain will listen to the inner ear over the eyes because vision problems are an early indic...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

... implemented at local levels or inadvertently fuel conflict over land, water and other resources. Funding is also a problem, with major donor nations cutting funding by 29 percent at the last Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2005, the report said. "Wh...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

.... There are no data to show that refugees fleeing conflict spread HIV infection in host communities; the reve...ection rates in seven sub-Saharan nations beset by conflict -- Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. Of the 4...

No Clear Link Between Conflict, Rape and HIV: UN Study

...riods of conflict, irrespective of prevalence when conflict began," said the study, which was published in Bri...de towards the problem. "This does not mean that conflict in all countries would mean lower HIV infection than non-conflict countries... Nor should the findin...

Alternative Treatments for Arthritis

...ues, Reginster concludes, adding that all forms of conflict by pharmaceutical companies and independent investigators should be assessed....

Research Suggests Mens Sexual Behavior Adapts to Perceived Threats

...gh this review focused on male adaptations, sexual conflict between males and females produces a co-evolutionary arms race between the sexes, in which an advantage gained by one sex selects for counter-adaptations in the other sex....

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

...search also indicated much higher levels of family conflict for those required to modify spending habits. Finally, Hochwarter was interested in whether employees felt alone in their sacrifices or if their company had to tighten its belt as well. "Certainly, only a handful of employees noted that their com...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

Any conflict situation inevitably gives rise to mental health disorders. Not many seem to have turned their attention to the deplorable situation in our own backyard. Yes it is happening in Kashmir. A year-wise break-up of patients visiting the Government Psy...

Naresh Trehan Removed from Escorts Hospital

...n, a satellite town of Delhi. "There was a clear conflict of interest and we have been persuading him not to do so for the last two years. When nothing happened, we had to close the relationship," said Singh, adding that the move was because "we had to give some respect to our share holders". Trehan, a pi...

Caesarean Births can Be Reduced by Computer Based Decision Analysis

...mputer based decision aids could reduce decisional conflict among pregnant women with one previous caesarean section. This is an important finding, as detailed descriptions and probability information about obstetric complications might be considered as potentially alarming, the researchers said. Ongoing...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...e reproductive health needs are met for women from conflict settings is a challenge, but we believe this toolk... assistance to assess reproductive health needs in conflict settings. The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions on implementing all aspects of the assessme...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...s across 14 of Aceh's 19 districts where a 29-year conflict raged before a peace deal was struck two years ago...Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra island. The conflict in Aceh, one of Asia's longest running, claimed at least 15,000 lives. The separatists dropped their...

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