Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea
...sity of London, who carried out the meta-analysis, accused food manufacturers of not doing enough to reduce salt. She said: "We do not know if children's blood pressure is higher now than it has been in the past, but food companies are not doing enough to reduce the amount of salt in their products. "We ha...Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims
...dia," he said. Ghyansham Sarda, one of the prime accused in the expired blood test kit scam, was Thursday arrested by the detective department officers. Sarda and his brother Govind Sarda, who owns Monozyme India, were arrested in the scam. All hospitals and blood banks in West Bengal were earlier alerte...Patient Advised to visit Exorcist
...d be struck off if found guilty. She has also been accused of refusing to co-operate with an investigation last year. NLA...India-Born 'Dr Death' Faces Civil Suits
... Oregon, and a Toyota Lexus. Patel has also been accused of fraud for falsifying his application to practise medicine in Australia by removing any mention of his previous tarnished record in the US. He studied medicine in India and thereafter went to the US, where the first complaint against him was made i...Ailing Indian doctor in Britain to return to Kolkata
...'s a shame it didn't come to light sooner." Khan accused the government of failing to care for Chatterjee. Chatterjee said his mother did not yet know that he would soon return home. Source-IANS...Sutherland Pleads Guilty and Convicted
... Sutherland, a well known Alzheimer researcher was accused of proving the giant drug company, Pfizer with tho...to refrain from answering questions when primarily accused six months ago. Having being pronounced guilty, Sutherland faces a sentence of 400 hours of commun...Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years
...er nearby cities. According to reports, a doctor accused earlier of organ trade lives in a house adjacent to the Sector 31 bungalow of Mohinder Singh. The two houses are connected through a backyard passage, say some locals. "While Surendra initially confessed to killing six minor girls and two boys, sust...Kidney Racket Not Ruled Out in Children's Killings
...teams to Punjab to raid the house of a businessman accused of conniving with his domestic help in the gruesome// sexual abuse and murder of several children in Noida, many locals believe the killings could be part of a large organ trading racket. A senior police official said: "Parents of some missing child......ollege// by a police officer. Dr Ashokan has been accused of causing the death of a youth at the Kottayam Me...al College by a police officer.Dr Ashokan has been accused of causing the death of a youth at the Kottayam Medical College hospital through acts of ‘negligence...MS Diagnosed Cop Kept in the Dark
...he had researched his symptoms on Internet and was accused of being a ‘cyberchondriac’, when he questioned his doctors many times. Accused of ‘playing God’ and misusing ‘therapeutic privilege’ the hospital has now apologized.Yet the hospital has given no explanation for the act of the doctors, nor has any ...Indian American Doctor Fights for Information
...kata in 1998. The WBMC acquitted all three doctors accused of medical negligence after an investigation, which Saha termed "botched up" saying that the organisation had "refused to provide any documents until now". Since her death, Saha, an AIDS specialist, has been fighting legal battles in different cour...Trial on Medical Staff Accused of Spreading HIV Infection Begins
...zakhstan, the trial on twenty medical staff who is accused of spreading HIV virus begins today.// These medical personnel have been charged with serious allegations like the purchase of blood from donors who have not tested for HIV infection, reuse of disposable syringes, needles and other medical equipmen...Malaria and TB Kills Indian Kids in Brazil
...nization (Opittamp), Elton Rodrigues Paes, who has accused the National Health Foundation (Funasa), of not providing the necessary treatment to the peoples in the River Madeira region, in the municipalities of Manicoré and Humaitá. According to Elton Rodrigues, the two children who died are from the Cacai...Foul Play- Football Hero Convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault
...nimum two years and maximum, life. Two women who accused him of not disclosing the fact that he was HIV positive while having unprotected sex with them had brought Smith to court. Smith was tested positive for HIV in November 2003 and both women said he had sex with them after that date without disclosin...Ten Accused On Allergy Shot Scam
Ten people including four doctors have been accused of cheating insurance companies for more than $1.5 million. This group was involved in giving allergy shots to many// patients without conducting proper tests and in unhygienic conditions. Patients were also not informed about the risk factors befo...GMC Disapproves Internet Doctor
A general practitioner who was accused of prescribing addictive drugs to patients over the internet has been criticized by the// General Medical Council. Dr. Julien Eden who runs an online medical service e-med.co.uk is charged with a list of accusations like prescribing sixty sedatives...Six Medicos in Libyan HIV Case Plead Not Guilty
...icos were sentenced to jail in 1999 when they were accused of starting an HIV epidemic in a hospital in Bengh...officials are said to have beaten and tortured the accused to accept a crime which has not been committed by them. The next hearing on this case is scheduled f...Climate Change can Raise Incidence of Disease: Expert
...lings to resist severe weather, she said. Wysham accused the G-8 countries of saying one thing and doing another when it came to GHGE and climate change. It was time to fall back on renewable sources of energy for sustained development of India, Wysham added. Saying that the European Union had resolved...Chances of Tackling Racism in Mental Health Care is Still Remote
...tal health services in England and Wales have been accused of being institutionally racist. In this week’s BMJ, two senior doctors say that//, although services are pioneers in moving towards equity, they have some way to go before they meet the challenges of a multi-cultural society. The "Count me in" cen...Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical
...lion dollar defamation lawsuit by the A4M after he accused the organization of promoting quackery. He countersued and both sides eventually agreed to drop their cases. Those who are hooked to the A4M regime take more than three dozen dietary supplements. Their diets consist mostly of "good" carbohydrates ...