Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care
...elate to electronic media," Stafford said. "Recent graduates of medical school are clearly more comfortable with these technologies, and it's only gradually diffusing into the whole of the medical practitioner population." With more U.S. patients seeking medical help in managing chronic diseases, such as dia...Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS
...where it looks as if a sizeable number of the 2007 graduates won't be able to get in." A spokesman for the De...ncies for new qualifiers, and improving access for graduates to opportunities across the wider health and social care sectors."...Singapore Imposes Stricter Controls for Foreign-trained Doctors
Doctors who are not graduates of recognised foreign medical schools, including those from India, will no longer be allowed to practise in Singapore starting next year, the health ministry said Saturday. These physicians, who come from countries like the Philippines, India and M...US Parents Risk Jail When Their Teens Drink at Parties
...ependent on alcohol, and 47 percent of high school graduates admitted to occasional drinking....Two MSU Professors Spearhead International Water Project
...ing increasingly more global and that for American graduates to successfully compete with researchers from other countries, they have to be better prepared for the challenges of working in the global marketplace. The teams strength, said Tarabara, is that each institution brings something unique to the table...Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report
...ars of education (4.4 percent) compared to college graduates (1.8 percent). CDC works with nearly 80 national organizations through the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention to achieve national Healthy People 2010 goals for preventing heart disease and stroke. CDC provides funding to state h...Yale F&ES Graduation to Offset Gas Linked to Global Warming
...ir commitment to fighting global warming, the 2007 graduates of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will invest in projects that sequester carbon dioxide or develop renewable energy in order to offset the pollution that their families will emit as they travel to commencement on Memorial Day. ...Diabetics in Nursing Homes Need Improved Care
...imary care fields, and more than 60 percent of its graduates remain in Ohio, where they are more likely to practice in rural and other physician-shortage areas....Examiners Charged in Philippines Nursing Test Scandal
...t questions during the June 2006 exams for nursing graduates seeking licenses. An inquiry found that 56 eleme...in psychiatric nursing, found their way to nursing graduates at the same centre, as well as at another in Manila. Gutierrez said the leaks enabled the students...EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India
...h begins on July 16 in Hyderabad, will be open for graduates in life sciences, nursing and physiotherapy. Mahadevan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, said the MoU may be extended beyond two years. Changavalli said the programme would go a long way in meeting the need for train...Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth
... More than one million of last year's four million graduates did not find jobs upon graduation, a problem blamed in part on massive redundancies at many state-owned companies amid China's economic transformation. Yet students, parents and the government still go to great lengths in pursuit of a smooth gaokao...Philippine Nurses Re-sit Scandal-tainted Exams
...nd Davao. Labour Secretary Arturo Brion said the graduates were re-taking the examinations together with 66,0...a temporary ban on granting work visas to the 2006 graduates pending a re-sitting of papers that dealt with medical surgery and psychiatric health care. The scan...Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US
...o a regional outbreak. The shortage is blamed on graduates of veterinary schools who opt for the regular hours and assumed better pay of small animal medicine, though surveys indicate the pay difference is largely unfounded. There is no denying, however, that working with food animals can mean days and night...Highly Educated Women Woo Career and Boo Motherhood
.... The research revealed that 40.1 % of the women graduates who were already 35 were still childless. They also showed a strong inclination to remain that way till they were 45, when it would be difficult to have a biological child. This finding stood out upon comparison with a 1958 finding by the same resear...Foundation Stone Laid for Public Health Institute
...the goal of eventually producing as many as 10,000 graduates annually. The Association of Schools of Public H...nment has decided to make it mandatory for medical graduates to serve in rural areas from academic year 2008-09. Ramdoss stated that the country has about 262 ...More Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the NHS
... unable to discriminate between local and overseas graduates and this seems to be the cause of distress to the president of the Royal College. The blog interestingly looks at the history of discrimination within NHS and describes this as 'an ugly fact of life in the NHS.' In a scathing attack the blog repo...Americans Consume Very Little Of Vegetables And Fruits
...f other diseases. The study indicated that college graduates and healthy people consumed a lot of fruits and vegetables. On a gender level, men ate only three servings of vegetables a day. Blanck suggests that CDC and other related agencies should make the Americans eat more vegetables and fruits. JT......ernment. The employment scenario for fresh nursing graduates and physiotherapists is rather bleak due to these developments....British Indian Doctors Win Another Reprieve
...nt out that promises made to international medical graduates must be kept. Doctors under the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP) were allowed to make UK their home; HSMP doctors must be treated at par with UK and EEA (European Economic Area) nationals and there is no basis for discriminating against them.......ck to their home country, as in Britain even local graduates find it difficult to get a job and nobody is bothered about someone with PPUD syndrome." Source-IANS...