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Catastrophic Elephant Man Drug Trial Victims Injected Recklessly

... the making and testing of the drug but rather was blamed on unpredictable effects of the drug in the human body. However documents obtained by the Channel 4 program Dispatches has revealed that the speed at which the drug was given could be to blame. According to them Mr Wilson was given the drug in ju...

Probing Into the Reasons for Alarming Increase in Breast Cancer

...e breast. The present modern day living is being blamed for this alarming increase in cancer. The present record for breast cancer is 36,939 cases in the United Kingdom, which shows that the incidence of cancer is up since 1971 by almost 81%. Breast Cancer seems to have almost every age group in its ...

'Experts Confusing us on Chikungunya': Kerala CM

..., Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Tuesday blamed experts for confusing the state government on the nature of the disease. "Experts are confusing us because some say that it is not chikungunya. The government is doing its best to contain it. We will call an all party meeting and we have asked peopl...

AIIMS Campus - A Breeding Ground for Mosquitoes

... is very natural," Gupta told IANS. He, however, blamed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the NDMC for not doing enough to keep the campus clean. "Some civic authorities said they have sent 22 notices to AIIMS but we have received only one. Don't you think the civic officials should show some...

No Kidding, All Gizmos and No Play Makes Jack A Super-Dull Boy!

...rding to experts, it is the parents who need to be blamed for couch potato kids. In today’s competitive scenario, kids are pulled into the vortex of stress, unwittingly, with subtle demands of perfection, laid down by parents. It is uncommon to find children these days, taking a walk in the garden, observin...

A slum in Mumbai – breeding ground for disease

...some water-borne illness in the past month.” He blamed the BMC. “Officials hardly pay visits,” he said. “...s’ complaints are addressed promptly,” he said. He blamed local residents. “The area is situated close to the Mankhurd dumping ground,” he said. “Most locals ...

Was the Warning of a Severe Reaction To a Drug, Overlooked?

...cumenting the reasons for the mishap of the trial, blamed gross negligence to clear warnings of a lurking severe reaction, which had certainly gone unheeded. An antibody drug, called TGN1412, caused the participants to suffer an immune reaction. The participants carry an enhanced risk of suffering cancer or...

LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center

...owever its reputation was marred by patient deaths blamed on sloppy nursing care and its medical school was accused of poor training. A plan to hand over the hospital's management to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center was unanimously approved by supervisor and would be renamed Harbor-MLK Community Hospital on ...

Thalassemic patient is now HIV positive due to faulty Diagnostic kit…

... something like this happening to me. How can I be blamed for this? There's a lot of stigma attached to us and now this has come upon me. I hope no one gets to know about this," Shampa said. Central Blood Bank director Subir Kumar Bose said, "I was not intimated about the incident. Let the family members ...

Permanent Jobs Elude Qualified Nurses

...nt freeze, said that almost nine out of ten nurses blamed job cuts and recruitment freeze for their plight. RCN general secretary, Dr Beverly Malone, said: "Short-term, quick-fix recruitment freezes in the NHS not only disillusion staff, they have a direct impact on patient care. We desperately need thes...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...rbhanj additional district medical officer N. Rout blamed the loss on tribal habits. "People go to work leaving infants in the custody of elder children," he said. "Sometimes domestic animals share the rice bowl kept for children. This spreads several infections." Biswajit Mohanty of the Wildlife Societ...

Canada Confronts Obesity Head-on, Anti-obesity Campaign on Fast Track

...lth of people and reduce weight-related illnesses, blamed improper dietary choices as well as inactive lifestyles , that is amounting to high obesity rates. "I don't want to sound old-fashioned, but when I was young, we used to go outside and play hockey," Couillard said. ''Now it seems they would rather ...

Children of a lesser God?

...continents and pass the buck on to mothers who are blamed for not taking their sick children to the nearest clinic which is many miles away unknown to the westerners who are used to hitch hiking miles thanks to their sophistication, which by the way is also missing in interior Africa. . MST...

Ramadoss Blames State Governments for High Dengue Toll

...nsibilities, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has blamed the state governments for the spread of dengue//, which has so far taken toll of over 130 lives across the country. In an interview with Karan Thapar for the CNN-IBN programme Devil's Advocate to be telecast Sunday, Ramadoss states, "Even though I d...

Statistics Show Steep Rise of Female Smokers in Hong Kong

...marketing campaigns by tobacco companies have been blamed for a 45 percent increase in the number of female smokers in the last eight years//, a media report said Monday. Figures from Hong Kong's census and statistics department show the number of women smokers jumped from 78,800 in 1998 to 114,300 last ye...

Massive expansion of Anti-AIDS programme in Southern Africa

...oy for HIV and AIDS in Africa, agrees with him. He blamed the richest nations in the world for failing in keeping the promise to increase the funds.The G8 nations at a summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in July 2005 promised to offer universal access to treatment for AIDS patients in Africa till 2010. "We mi...

Doctors, Nurses Face Sexual Harassment At Work Place

...ms of sexual harassment. 'Many fear they will be blamed for provoking sexual harassment. Others fear loss of reputation after complaining. So the culture of silence and denial continues,' the study said. Shockingly, the biggest perpetrators of abuse were patients and their families followed by doctors a...

Pakistan Medical Association To Fight For Shoaib, Asif

... those connected with the Pakistani team should be blamed for the controversy. "How can the doctors and trainers associated with the team be free of the blame? They should also be penalised and why blame the bowlers in a country like Pakistan where you can get every medicine without a prescription?" he as...

Canadian Waistline Watch - Getting Bigger, But Not So Fast

...in Canada and that 60% of Canadians were obese. He blamed sedentary jobs and fast food for the problem. The mantra for weight loss , as fitness experts keep advising, is - eat healthy balanced meals , reduce portion size , avoid crash dieting, and exercise regularly, including strength training to improve...

Stem cells hold promise for diabetes cure

...fy the faulty insulin secreting pancreatic cells , blamed for diabetes in mice. This treatment was also effective in reducing the damage to the kidneys due to diabetes. Researchers from New Orleans' Tulane University feel that this method can be used in humans to treat diabetes. The US team subjected a g...

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