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Texas Youth Commission Reeling Under Multiple Charges

...ho did nothing to stop this. Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Jay Kimbrough to set things right. Kimbrough who says the TYC is not functioning on the level that it should, will be overseeing a top-to-bottom investigation of the agency. ANN/B...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...aoist spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara has been appointed information and communications minister. With the state-run Nepal Television channel scheduled to broadcast the Miss Nepal pageant live Saturday, the rebel women's group approached the minister and asked him to stop the state television from broadc...

Doctors in Tamil Nadu Reluctant to Serve in Backward Pockets

...ts by the government to fill up vacancies, doctors appointed would simply not go to backward regions as they would not compromise on their lifestyle. The minister also told reporters that the Health Department was studying the way communicable diseases spread and taking pre-emptive measures to contain them....

Delhi High Court Set Deadline to Reconstitute Medical Council of India

...DMC), former Delhi High Court Judge Usha Mehra was appointed as observer. The court said wherever there was difficulty in finding an official to conduct the election, the state's medical education director would act as the returning officer. Source-IANS...

Doctors to Be Exempted from Written Tests for Recruitment

... examinations would be applicable only for doctors appointed on contract. The government had earlier appointed nearly 2,000 allopathic doctors on a similar arrangement. Source-IANS...

AIIMS Official Files Complaint Against Venugopal

...e AIIMS president, who is also the health minister appointed me but the director and his men have deliberately ...ugopal, who does not get along well with Ramadoss, appointed Medical Officer Raju Singh to look after the responsibilities of the CPRO. In the complaint, a cop...

Guidelines for Chronic Wounds Care

...aving wound care as a major scope of interest were appointed to develop the respective guidelines for the major categories of chronic wounds. The Guidelines are the product of more than a year of intense work by four committees. Draft guidelines were presented for discussion and revision at conferences held...

Contract Doctors in Jharkhand Go on Strike

Ranchi: Doctors in Jharkhand who were appointed on contract went on strike from Tuesday demanding ...n of their services.// Around 2,000 doctors were appointed three years ago on contract. Their contract is due to end this March. They are now demanding that th...

Indian-American Appointed for US Hospital Top Post

The South Nassau Communities Hospital here has appointed a noted Indian-American surgeon as vice-chair of its surgery department.// Rajiv Datta is recognised as a leading head and neck surgeon in the US and is an internationally known leader in surgical oncology. "This is truly a career highlight and I am...

Mosques in Pakistan to Preach Family Planning

...0 clerics, including 6,000 women scholars, will be appointed to spread the message of the benefits of a small family, said Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain, federal population planning minister. Programmes are being launched to make the university-level students also aware of these norms, he said. The move to dist...

Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million

...unutilised grant. Mohan has since been invited and appointed as professor of plant biotechnology at the University of Delhi. Set up 19 years ago, the ICGEB was intended to spearhead the transfer of western biotechnology to developing nations. The centre is split into two components, one based in New Delhi a...

Ailing Indian doctor in Britain to return to Kolkata

...2002 and initially worked in London. Later, he was appointed senior house officer in elderly care at Sunderland Royal Hospital in February 2003. His case was taken up by The Sunderland Echo, a local newspaper, which highlighted his difficulties regarding his inability to return back to India due to paucity o...

Yale Scientist Received Medical Science Prize From Keio University

...h Council Laboratory in Cambridge, England. He was appointed full professor in 1979 and was honored as Sterling Professor in 2001. He has served as acting Director of the Division of Biological Sciences and as chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and is also an investigator of the ...

Carcinogens in Fish Worries Chinese Watchdogs

...re and the State Food and Drug Administration have appointed an inspection team to investigate fish farms in Weihai, Shandong. SR...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

...is happening from the field. Dr. Margaret Chan, appointed the new World Health Organization (WHO) director-general in Geneva on November 9, vowed last week: "We will complete polio eradication.” “This initiative is as ambitious as us putting a man on the moon in 1969,” the author says, “and it has already...

Once a Lawn Mower, a Self-made Billionaire Makes a Lasting Gift to Virginia Tech

...prestigious position in a school or college. Those appointed to the position of dean are charged with maintaining and enhancing the quality of the school or college they head. They are the leaders responsible for creating a vision for the school or college and for developing programs to implement and embody th...

Hoosiers Live at the Mercy of Nursing Homes

...se or neglect, does not mandate that a guardian be appointed in a nursing home because it is 'a protective place,' said Milo Gray, client and legal services representative for Indiana and Protection Advocacy Services, the state agency that protects Hoosiers with disabilities. According to Gray for every case...

Judicial Probe Ordered for Botched Eye Surgery Camp

...ol of Blindness. A three-member expert committee appointed by the government to investigate the incident indicted the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) at the Guwahati Medical College of lapses in sterilisation and autoclaving process of equipment and the linens. "It seems non adherence of strict ...

Free Medicines, Health Insurance for Poor Soon: Paswan

...g medical and healthcare affordable. The committee appointed by the ministry is studying various ways to achieve this. As part of the promises made in the United Progressive Alliance's common minimum programme to provide drugs at reasonable prices to the common man, the ministry favours adoption of some of t...

Behavioral Therapies Beneficial to Help Children Sleep

...// The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) appointed a team which reviewed 52 studies with a total of 2,500 babies and toddlers. According to study author Jodi A. Mindell of St. Joseph's University of Philadelphia previous studies have shown 20 to 30 percent of young children have sleep problems. M...

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