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Smokers Sue Tobacco Major Philip Morris

... a result of early detection. The company has been accused of indulging in deceptive marketing to encourage smoking. A class action status is sought by the group for all people aged over 50 years and who have been smoking a packet of cigarettes per day for 20 years. Even small tumors in the lungs can be d...

Consultant Radiologist, Apologized For Misreporting Breast Cancer Scans

... distress and suffering of his patients. // He was accused of misreporting the breast cancer scans, which led to twenty-two women being given the all-safe and fine decision. But now seventeen of those women are very serious because their treatment was delayed by up to two years. All this happened when Dr H...

Gutka Baron To Be Jailed

... the early 1990s before they fell out. They are accused of having approached underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to mediate in the settlement of dues in exchange for setting up a gutka business for his younger brother Anees Ibrahim. Edited (IANS)...

MMR Triple Vaccine Caught In the Eye of a Storm

...cientific Officer at the Department of Health, has accused the government of not examining the risks of MMR triple vaccine adequately, despite a lurking fear of autism, as a probable side effect. According to him, if this doubt is proved, it could turn out to be the worst disgrace in medical history. "Cl...

Government Should Provide Incentives For Methadone Program

...e methadone program. The bureaucracy has also been accused of hindering the treatment, resulting in 30 casualties every year as a result of opiate-related causes. The pharmacists and doctors object to having to cater to more drug addicts, and they have called upon the Government to render more help toward...

HIV Infected Libyan Children, Jetted To France For Treatment

...pital, Libya. The Libyan Supreme Court found the accused guilty and condemned them to death. But now it has ordered a new trial for the six accused. Among the 426 Libyan children 51 of them had already died due to disease. To help the surviving children the government had taken the initiative to provide ...

Nurse accused of breach of conduct and duty

...ng at the Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary was accused of posing a continuing risk to patients. She hail...t she was too ill to attend the hearing. She was accused of drawing a face on a patient's hernia, making racist remarks about Filipino nurses and for putting...

Vladeck to head the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

...aid for years. University officials have also been accused of larding the payroll with patronage hires and doling out $700 million in no-bid contacts. Mr. Corzine hopes that Mr. Vladeck experience and counseling would be best used by the authorities to manage the school during a turbulent period. The perma...

Ramdev Signs MOU With Jharkhand Govt To Set Up Ayurveda Hospital

...is programmes on spiritual TV channels, Ramdev was accused last month by Left leader Brinda Karat of violating several laws by selling ayurvedic medicines that allegedly contained human bones and body parts. The two projects in Jharkhand will be implemented by Ramdev's Peetanjali Yoga Peeth. He said the ho...

HIV Infected Body Parts Stolen: Biomedical Tissue Services To Face Legal Action

... organization, Biomedical Tissue Services has been accused of stealing HIV infected body parts from a funeral home in Brooklyn and distributing it to various hospitals without testing// it. A woman is said to have contracted HIV following transplantation of bone tissue, according to lawyers who have filed ...

Disney in Trouble? Negative Excitement in Disneyland, Paris

...The allegations were made by the trade unions, who accused managers of hiding the information, which will be a put off for potential visitors. This allegation was refuted by Disney land managers very sternly. Though there was no proof that the bird had died because of bird flu, yet the report was aired on ...

PHC Doctors Tricked Tribal Women To Undergo Sterilization

...investigate the matter himself if necessary. The accused doctors, however, said the woman volunteered to undergo the operation since she was facing starvation and was unable to feed her children. Family planning hasw been banned among primitive tribes with declining population in Jharkhand since the day...

Soft Drinks May Be Banned In Rajasthan Schools

...n 2003, soft drink majors like Pepsi and Coke were accused of selling products with pesticide residues by an environmental NGO. --Edited IANS...

A Potent Sedative Kills Great-grandfather

...ve him a good night’s sleep. Hull Crown Court has accused Julia Levitt, 28, of unlawfully killing Kenneth Heaton, aged 79 by giving him a sedative injection that was not part of the prescription and administered without permission. She was given an 18- month jail sentence, and suspended for two years. The...

Doctor Accused Of Misdiagnosing 208 Patients: Further Investigation Ordered

...rohibited from practicing elsewhere as he has been accused for wrong diagnosis involving nearly 208 patients.... Dr. Jayant Patel, a surgeon trained in India was accused of 8 criminal charges, related to death of 13 patients and harm of nearly 30 other patients, at Bund...

Stage Set For Final Hearing On India’s Biggest Ever Medical Compensation Clai

...rnment in the Supreme Court for "shielding doctors accused of medical negligence". The case came up in Supreme Court on a writ petition challenging West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's statement in July last year that doctors could not be arrested without prior approval of a medical committ...

Swaziland And Lesotho Sees Sharp Increase In AIDS/HIV Population

...dredfold". Lewis, a former Canadian diplomat, had accused the world's richest countries of not doing enough to fight HIV/AIDS. --Edited IANS...

NHS in Welsh under a huge debt of ￡70

...ound ￡4.9bn. Welsh Health Minister Brian Gibbons accused the government of not working to tackle inefficiencies. Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust’s ￡4.8m debt has been blamed on the costs of new treatments and drugs according to Gren Kershaw, chief executive of the trust. As aired on BBC radio Wales an...

Fraudulent Foreign Doctors Practising In Cambodia

...ty fines and a potential jail sentence after being accused of falsely claiming to be a highly qualified medical expert. Her hospital mainly treats tourists. The Health Ministry's deputy director general for health, Chi Mean Hea, said that the officers have inspected her Surya Clinic and found that she held o...

GMC Gives Controversial Fertility Doctor, A Clean Chit

A fertility specialist, Professor Craft, who was accused of subjecting patients to unwarranted fertility treatments, has been declared free// of any grave professional misdemeanor by the General Medical Council. Professor Craft, based at the London fertility Center, has always been consistent in his res...

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