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Talks to End Poland's Medical Strike Fail

Polish authorities have broken off talks with striking doctors and nurses who have camped outside the prime minister's office for about 20 days to demand higher pay , the health minister said Tuesday. "There will be no more discussions with the unions, the government...

Spain Withdraws Contaminated Chinese Toothpaste

The European Commission has confirmed that Spanish authorities are withdrawing two brands of toothpaste of Chinese origin from the Spanish market because of a risk to public health. The two Chinese brands are Spearmint and Trileaf Spearmint. Spanish laboratory tests have detected the presence of DEG (diethyle...

Foot-and-mouth Disease Outbreak Forces Thiruvananthapuram Zoo to Shut Down

...r. Animal rights activists have accused the zoo authorities of failing to protect the animals. Jayasimhan, an activist of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said it was the governments responsibility to look often the animals. The zoo should follow Central Zoo Authority guidelines, Jaya...

Man Hospitalised in Sicily With Allergic Reaction to Counterfeit Toothpaste

...issued by the Italian health ministry on Saturday, authorities seized some 700 tubes of toothpaste in Sicily, and they are being analysed, ANSA said. Italian press reports said the counterfeit toothpaste contains industrial solvents, and that the packaging has no writing in Italian and indicates that the produ...

Blunder Leaves Smoking Ban Up in Smoke in Stoke

...Trent City Council -- ranked among the worst local authorities in England and Wales by the Audit Commission -- cannot enforce the ban until councillors formally approve it at an August 2 meeting. In a classic bureaucratic bungle, council bosses thought the powers were delegated to a department head. "We don'...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...s brain, spine, organs, skin and bones. Medical authorities began campaigns in the 1990s to tell women of childbearing age to take folic acid supplements, and in 1998 the Canadian government ordered grain products such as flour, breakfast cereals and pasta to be fortified with the synthetic form of folate....

Malaria Sweeps Tripura, 25 Dead

...d of malaria in the last two weeks in Tripura with authorities using helicopters to send medical teams to remote areas, officials said Friday . "We are monitoring the situation. Despite 25 people dying of malaria so far, the situation is under control," said Jagannath Muhuri, the health and family welfare dire...

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

...hild she is carrying. Before1998, Canadian medical authorities were already recommending that women in their child-bearing years consume vitamin supplements containing folic acid. Canada decided to add folic acid to all flour produced in the country because formation of the neural tube in embryos is particular...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

...hursday said it had got the go-ahead from Nigerian authorities before administering a drug that claimed the lives of 11 children in the northern Kano state in 1996. "We have written approvals from NAFDAC (Nigeria's drug agency), the federal ministry of health, Kano government and parents or guardians of the c...

US TB Traveler Sued Over 'reckless and Selfish Behavior'

...cial told him to turn himself in to Italian health authorities to be placed in isolation. "They told me I had b...ose to him on the transatlantic flights to contact authorities for testing....

Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case

...ere totally baseless and unfair. The Australian authorities knew he had given his SIM to his cousins from the beginning. Why did they have to wait for 12 days to press those charges? He is innocent and Allah will come to our rescue, she said and appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister A...

Rumours About Paris Preferential Treatment in Prison to Be Probed

LA prison authorities are going to probe into claims that Paris Hilton received preferential treatment during her stay in the detention facility last month. Rumours were rife that the socialite, who served time for violating terms of probation, was given several privile...

'Sexually Active' Malawians Urged to Take HIV Tests

...ek-long national campaign starts Monday . Health authorities said in a statement issued Friday that statistics ...6, and 10.8 percent of them were HIV positive, the authorities said. "We want to encourage Malawians to go for the tests. We also want to take advantage to reach...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...tal to humans, was confirmed this week, veterinary authorities said Friday . Czech authorities have also decided to kill a further 70,000 birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, on three nearby farms...

Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

Massachusetts state authorities in US have found that psychiatric patients receive a raw deal in emergency rooms (ERs) in hospitals . They are punched and hit or held in restraints for hours. One patient died while in restraints, and a patient's arm was broken as a nurse forcibly...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...S epidemic, which began in southern China in 2003, authorities banned the sale of many wild animals including rats amid fear that the deadly disease could be contracted from contaminated meat. Although the scientific community is not in agreement over whether certain animals can spread the disease, vendors in ...

Haneefs Visa Revoked by Australia

...g his hopes soar only to crash. First Australian authorities almost hinted they were not charging him at all, but sprang a surprise at the last moment. And now after he was granted bail, the hard-line conservative government swiftly move in to deny Haneef freedom. About 10am today a Brisbane magistrate de...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...ng granted a visa. Such is the fickleness of the authorities or the utter subjectivity of the character test in...Haneef and the bomb plotters was prolific and that authorities have gathered significantly more evidence against him than that has been disclosed publicly, The Aus...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...rson's drink to render them unconscious. Federal authorities said the illegal marketing occurred from January 2003 through March of this year. Jazz bought Orphan in June of 2005. Jazz agreed to cooperate with the governments continuing criminal investigation, and will never promote the drug for uses other th...

Wrestler Chris Benoits Son was Sedated - Says Investigators

...himself on the cable of a weight machine. Federal authorities have charged Benoit's personal physician, Dr. Phil Astin, with improperly prescribing painkillers and other drugs to two patients other than Benoit. "Through prescription records for Mr. Benoit maintained at a pharmacy in Fayetteville, Georgia, Dr. A...

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