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US Politicians Urge Movie Moghuls To Add Anti-Smoking Announcements

US politicians have petitioned Hollywood movie executives to add anti-smoking public service announcements to all DVD releases which shows stars smoking. According to contactmusic.com, Maryland Attorney General // Joseph Curran initiated the petition after noting ...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

...of pounds. This has caused commotion waves among politicians as in some areas consultants were earning up to ￡10,000 on top of their ￡100,000 annual salaries. The health officials not only have to pay for the consultants but also for the other theatre staff and the anaesthetist. But various other officials...

Health Canada Gave Access To Unapproved Drugs To AIDS/HIV Patients.

...clinicians went public. Due to the stress from the politicians and media personnel, Health Canada accepted for a clinical trail to be conducted using these two drugs. Due to this new way of treatment hospitals wanted a change in their patient consent forms. A Belgian based company Tibotec Inc told the hospita...

Need of the Hour: Viable Strategies against AIDS

...s to be done fast. Instead it has become a day for politicians of all hues and colors to rant and rave against AIDS and then forget about it for the next 365 days. A fresh report by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has warned that AIDS has now entered the mainstream society in Asian countries, “It is the...

Valentine's Day Attraction: Sale Of Condoms In School Proposed

...y condoms easily and without guilt. "It's not for politicians to mandate other people's morals," she said. "But ...y condoms easily and without guilt. "It's not for politicians to mandate other people's morals," she said. "But it's our duty to make sure people can make informe...

Poultry Industry In India Suffers A Set Back

...ations like airlines. 'It is baffling that while politicians are saying that it is safe to eat well-cooked chicken, it is not on the menu of parliament's canteen. This is sending wrong signals,' industry officials said. On the export front, there is considerable disturbance as Japan has put off plans to impo...

New Twist To The Mental Health Law

...eople's rights and with increasing objections from politicians and mental health organizations, ministers decided not to support the legislation....

240 Hours And Counting As Mahajan Continues To Battle For Life

...es had announced to the media that the 56-year-old politicians condition had further deteriorated. Pramod Mahjan had been rushed to hospital after being shot at close rage in a “fit of rage” by his younger brother Pravin Mahjan. Ever since this sensational attack upon his life his condition has remained extre...

Merciless Lathi Charge of our Meritorious Medicos

...to learn how to deal with peaceful protests. The politicians of our country have repeatedly played politics wit...any other country in the world today. We hope the politicians are listening....

Bihar Politicians To Initiate AIDS Awareness Drive

...jor threat to millions across the state//, Bihar's politicians have decided to launch an awareness drive. Alarmed by the rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the state, politicians, cutting across party line, have decided to join in the campaign. Uday Narayan Choudhary, the state assembly speaker said: ‘It wa...

Despite Collapse Of The Medicos Strike To Continue Unabated

... situations. For the past seven days, it's not the politicians or rich people who are suffering. Whenever there is some problem, it's the poor who face the brunt." Meanwhile, students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and IIT-Delhi have joined the ant-reservation protest at AIIMS. While some IIT students ...

NICE Comes Under Attack

... body also say that the campaigners, companies and politicians are pressurizing NICE. On the other hand groups that re campaigning for treatments such as Herceptin are not happy with the way NICE took its decisions. It was found that some drugs had still not been approved nearly three years after being given a l...

Plans Of Recruiting Pas From America Causes Displeasure In Scotland

...the trip and US efforts has angered the opposition politicians and health care workers. They have accused the executive of wasting money. They also expressed fear regarding the safety of patients. Margaret Davidson, chief executive of the Patients Association in Scotland, said that this was another example of ...

Doctors Said – ‘Stop Pressurising NHS Advisory Bod’

...lth technology assessment, said: It was clear that politicians seem to control NICE and companies, which have to make a profit, will seek it and also NICE had relaxed its advice on treatment for Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis after vocal campaigns. Although it was under pressure, it needs that NICE must ...

Mass Leave By Doctors Leaves Patients Helpless

...s? It's the poor people who are caught between the politicians and the protesting doctors," said Anand Ahuja, who had come for an X-ray. But Singh said emergency and ICU services were running fine at LNJP. "We are concerned about patients and ICU and emergency care is being carried out," he said. The Supreme...

No Punitive Action Against Striking Medicos if Strike Called Off

...inghvi said that the students have no trust on the politicians and they have the trust only with the courts. The court assured the medicos that it will hear their grievances and asked them to file separate petitions and return to work making it clear that no punitive action will be taken against them. "In case...

Celebrities Come together to help a Noble Cause

...on June 9th and will bring together VIPs, artists, politicians and activists to spread HIV/AIDS //awareness amongst the youth. Celebrities who have agreed to join include Ayesha Takia, Shamita Shetty, Vikram, Ganesh Hegde, Ran Vijay along with other Kollywood actresses will help the activists to push the messa...

Outcry Against Mental Health Institutions

...decades,' Hickie says. ‘We've failed not because politicians have not got interested at each point in time, but because resources have not gone in, and then the implementation has been poor ... and the lack of accountability. Each of those critical junctures that we've had, the accountability hasn't been in pl...

Irish Ministers Deny Any Rift Between Themselves

...Dempsey yesterday that the tension between the two politicians was just a distraction from their ministerial duties. The PD government had earlier warned that all PD party members should keep internal matters out of the media spotlight. Mr McDowell reiterated today: “Both of us are completely united in where o...

AIIMS Strike Enters Second day, Support Continues To Pour In

...try feel that there is too much of interference by politicians and bureaucrats, which could set off the collapse ...any scope of interference into their autonomy from politicians and bureaucrats. And government should understand that such highly skilled institutes could not be d...

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