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Stress-Related Health Problems Haunts Sanjay Dutt

...en a section of the media wrote about another bomb accused getting a sentence of rigorous imprisonment. Sanju felt these reports were unfairly comparing his case to the convicted man's case. He thought the media's implied contention that he too should get just as harsh a sentence was too harsh on him. We agr...

Top Iraqi Shiite Leader Returns Home

...orge W. Bush at the White House. Tehran has been accused of supplying weapons to both Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and Hakim's Badr Brigade, which was founded in Iran and has now infiltrated many Iraqi security force units. On February 23, Ammar al-Hakim was detained by US forces in eastern Iraq and held br...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

...a public health question. Religious leaders also accused the government of "fostering promiscuity" with their sex education programme and the free distribution of condoms in the schools. According to a study published last week by the health ministry, last year 230,523 women were admitted to public hospi...

China Claims Viral Outbreak Contained

...them fatal, it added. China has in the past been accused of foot-dragging in releasing information about outbreaks of diseases such as bird flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Chinese bloggers in Shandong said in early May that 26 children had died in the outbreak. However, authorities ha...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...Office for medical fraud. These three are being accused of performing unnecessary surgical procedures and ...Crimes Unit is carrying out the prosecution. The accused are Dr. Michael Cheeluen Chan, an obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. William Wilson Hampton Jr., a gener...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...have since stopped making the products and are not accused of any wrongdoing in connection with promoting their products, reports said....

Major Medicare Fraud Detected in Florida

...nts, usually $100 a month. Some defendants are accused of stealing the Medicare numbers of beneficiaries, and then billing the government for power wheelchairs, walkers, or kits for testing blood sugar levels, said Leavitt. Investigators also found doctors in HIV clinics were paid for issuing fake pres...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

... outside the US embassy on Thursday. The activists accused the US Trade Representative's office of grouping Thailand with copyright offenders such as China, Russia and India in retaliation for the government's decision to allow generic versions of AIDS drugs and heart medication. Wearing black T-shirts wit...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

... care. 7. On many occasions, doctors have been accused of being driven by bottom line figures. Are hospital managements to blame? Delivering healthcare is an expensive process. Even an economically booming India does not have a bottomless pit of money in the public sector; the private sector cannot pro...

Egypt Outlaws All Female Circumcision

...she could be transferred to hospital. Her mother accused the woman doctor of negligence, charging that her daughter's death was linked to the anaesthetic and not the removal of the clitoris, for which she had paid 50 pounds (nearly nine dollars). Police have arrested both women. Sarah Leah Whitson of US-...

Ninth HIV-infected Child Dies in Kazakhstan

...n reading a verdict in a suit against 21 officials accused in the case for negligence, corruption and fraud. ... face between four and nine years in prison. The accused have all denied the charges over the infections at hospitals in Kazakhstan's southern Shymkent regio...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

... and contemporary societies. "Witches and people accused of being witches are no longer persecuted in the West, but they are still frequently persecuted in Africa, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Malaysia," one of the conference organisers, historian Rune Blix Hagen of Tromsoe University in Norway, told AFP. ...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...m so they could give him the petition. Kaczynski accused the occupying nurses of breaking the law and signalled that they could face trouble. "This is an offence. A public official is under the obligation to inform justice authorities if he is aware of an offence, and we will be forced to do so," Kaczyns...

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...r, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, accused the US and EU of "total hypocrisy" for promoting ethanol production in order to reduce their dependence on imported oil. He said producing ethanol instead of food would condemn hundreds of thousands of people to death from hunger. Robert Thomas Mal...

Talks Break Down in Polish Nurses' Pay Protest

...iday, failed to get off the ground after each side accused the other of bad faith, officials said. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski refused to start the negotiations unless four nurses ended their occupation of a room in the government's office, which they began late Tuesday after receiving permission to ...

IMA Accuses US Companies for Selling Recycled Prosthesis in India

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has accused US multi-national companies of selling recycled prosthesis in India at cheaper prices . "It is shocking but true that US companies are selling recycled prosthesis in India," IMA president Ajay Kumar said here. Kumar alleged that US companies are s...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...of a doddering judiciary. The man on the street is accused and sentenced to death for trivial reasons. Members of the banned spiritual organization, Falun Gong are taken into custody and confined in concentration camps until the 'requests' for their organs get finalized. These incidents have been corroborate...

Climatic Change Cause of Dafur Conflict-UN

...ing it of decades of neglect. Sudanese leaders are accused of unleashing the pro-government Arab militia, known as the janjaweed, a charge the government denies. After months Sudan bowed down to U.N. and Western pressure and agreed in the past week to allow a joint U.N.-African Union force of up to 19,000 ...

Ex-CIA Official Accuses Retired ISI Chief of Supporting Taliban

...mer Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official has accused Hameed Gul, a retired Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief of Pakistan, of secretly supporting the Taliban. Art Keller, who was posted to Pakistan last year, has claimed that Gul along with other retired army officers supported the Taliban "to t...

Ayurvedic Doctor Sentenced to Five Years in Jail for Causing Death of Woman

...aration. In her dying declaration, Babli named the accused and had pointed out that after consuming the medicines given to her by the accused her condition deteriorated. Further, the court relied on the testimony of Bablis husband, Nem Sin...

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