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Consumers of soft drinks to be more alert

...e Kerala High Court last month, despite widespread protests against the factory for its over utilization of groundwater in the area. The state government has said it will approach the Supreme Court against the high court order allowing the Coke plant to reopen. Source: IANS...

Genetically modified rice faces strong protests in Asia

...ve ban on these genetically engineered rice//. The protests are collectively organized by 17 Asian organizations. Farmers health and agricultural sustainability civil societies are not happy with this genetically engineered crops as they feel that these crops will have an adverse impact on the environment a...

New Sexual Misconduct Rule Against Doctors In The US

...heir patients. This rule has been enforced despite protests from lawyers and several doctors' groups. //Since 1998, the board has received 160 complaints of sexual misconduct by doctors and physician assistants and says that almost 20 percent of the cases resulted in some disciplinary action being taken. Bu...

Religious groups overcome objections to cervical cancer vaccines

...ps in the United States, who had voiced vociferous protests against the proposed general availability of the "morning-after" pill, are now having no such qualms about the introduction of cervical cancer vaccines.// These vaccines manufactured by Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline are still in the experimental s...

Health Care Ties To Get Stronger Between India And Britain

...so denied against the issue of the PMK instigating protests against the actress and blamed the media for aggravating the issue. 'The PMK is in no way involved in the issue,' he said. He also publicized the proposed efforts of the health ministry to introduce HIV awareness, population, environment and fitn...

NHS To Continue Providing Alzheimer's Drugs

...ised plans which have been unveiled. // There were protests from campaigners and doctors earlier when the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) had announced that Alzheimer's drugs were no longer cost effective, and the NHS will not provide them. As many as three drugs have been recomme...

Alberta’s New Reform Plans In Health Care Secto

...the new health delivery plan and that there are no protests against the Klein government's Third Way for health-care delivery. In 1998 a number of people were protesting against the government for introducing the Bill 11 because the passed bill allowed the expansion of the private clinics. But her new pl...

Health Services Came To A Halt As Mumbai Doctors Strike Continues

...ting Mumbai doctors said they would continue their protests despite the government toughening its stance and cancelling the registration of nearly 150 doctors from three city hospitals. "The strike will continue even if the government terminates the registration of all the doctors who are on strike," said a...

PHC Doctors Tricked Tribal Women To Undergo Sterilization

...ergo sterilization, which has triggered widespread protests from the social organizations//. A woman from an endangered primitive tribe in Jharkhand was made to undergo surgical sterilization by some overzealous doctors, triggering an outcry from social organizations. Shobha Dehri, a resident of Paharia ...

Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

...hy of the state. "Our women activists will stage protests outside clinics and health centres carrying out sex determination tests and abortions," said HGVS chief Kuldeep Singh Tanwar. "In the next one year we will educate village councils, health officials and the general public to stem this scourge." -...

Coraki Community Wants To Know About the Plans for the Campbell Hospital

...Mr Crawford on the other hand has denied all those protests and complaints of not returning phone calls etc. He says the process of building the hospital is under way to finalize the fine detail of the multi-purpose service in the town. He also said that he abides by the rules and regulations of the com...

Strained Economic Agreement Between Singapore And India

...lion. The transaction triggered two months of mass protests demanding Thaksin's resignation for selling off national assets. The sale outraged many Thais who accused Thaksin of selling off sensitive state concessions to a foreign entity. Shin Corp operates several lucrative government-granted concessions incl...

Another Twist to the Tale of Reservation of Medical Seats

...already existing reservation had raised widespread protests among medical students across the state. On Tues...ed to medicos and junior doctors to call off their protests over the increased reservation for in-service candidates, realising the realities involved. ...

New Breast Cancer Drugs, Not For All

...This has resulted in widespread unrest and fuelled protests among the breast cancer campaigners....

Uproar against the Government’s Proposed Quot

...y meeting. This has sparked a wave of outrage and protests from thousands of students across the country. The main reason behind this uproar is that students would be denied of a fair chance towards education. ...

AIDS Sufferers Protest against Proposed Patent for Tenofovir

...50 people which included some AIDS sufferers, held protests today against the proposed move of US biotech company to patent its anti-HIV drug, Tenofovir, in India. // The demonstrators alleged that this move could halt the local production of the generic equivalent. The company, Gilead Sciences Inc., has ap...

Merciless Lathi Charge of our Meritorious Medicos

...rse be it medical colleges, IITs or IIMs. // The protests are gaining momentum and now besides the medicos t...e them being mercilessly beaten for their peaceful protests by our notorious policemen invokes in us an anguish and anger. History repeats itself from the time ...

Delhi Hospitals Cancel Holidays And Recalls Doctors

... take the reservation quota to 49.5 percent. The protests have spread across the country. --Edited IANS...

Medicos Of The Calcutta Medical College Join Anti-Reservation Quota Protest

...spital expressed their support to anti-reservation protests by blocking a national highway// in the northern r...d Debojit, a junior doctor. In north Bengal, the protests went beyond striking work. Students and interns of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in ...

Arjun Singh Softens Stand on Quota But says Reservation Irrevocable

...anced solution." Meanwhile there were widespread protests in the country on the issue of reservations and no...ckward classes and scheduled castes.. The current protests have also highlighted various issues including how it is easy to obtain fake certificates and declar...

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