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Colorado Smoking Cessation Program Targets Hispanics

...ing to the Rocky Mountain News. A 15-member review committee of the State Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership has said it will examine the program's spending. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation...

Senate Committee Approves Telemedicine Mental Health Bill

...ly reports. Under the legislation, sponsored by committee Chair Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), five tribes or tribal organizations that currently provide mental health services through telemedicine systems would share $1.5 million in fiscal year 2008 and each of the three subsequent fiscal years. HHS would admin...

Timeliness, a Critical Factor in Treating TTTS

...to investigators at that time, the trial oversight committee found significant differences between the two treatment modalities and recommended that the trial be stopped, which it was in May of 2005. The trial had uncovered higher mortality among recipient twins who received laser treatment. But overall, sur...

Stem Cell Research Lab Coming Up in Jaipur

...ly bone marrow transplants. A multi-disciplinary committee has also been constituted under the chairmanship of Adarsh Bhargava (gynaecology) to look into the ethical, legal, scientific and technical issues related to stem cell research. Source-IANS...

European Medical Research Still Ignoring Women

...ied out, it must be submitted to a research ethics committee to ensure that it complies with good ethical pract... But few had any formal rules. And while every committee had formal requirements to ensure that certain types of expertise were represented, these did not in...

GPs Suggested to Provide More Than Just Consultations

...ggestion, Dr. Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the GPs’ committee of the British Medical Association said that this would have to wait till GPs were given more resources such as staff expansion and infrastructure, in order to make it ‘clinically appropriate’ for a GP to carry out such services. In response to th...

Under-Elevens Hurtle Towards Obesity, British MPs Call for Action

... - First Steps’, Edward Leigh, MP, chairman of the committee said: "The extent to which children in this country are obese is alarming. “More alarming still is evidence that unless we act, the proportion of children who are obese will increase sharply. "It is lamentable that, long after the target was set, ...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

...mprehensive Cancer Center, was co-chair of the IHP committee that developed the recommendations for performing and interpreting PET scans in response assessment of lymphoma. The imaging committee, which included world-renowned PET imaging experts from the United States, Europe and Australia, was co-chaired by ...

South Africa Gets Tough on Smoking

South African Parliament's health committee is all set to tighten the screws on smoking and to...o Products Control Amendment Bill pending with the committee will also restrain the marketing of tobacco products and smoking joints. The tobacco companies oft...

Pharmac to Phase Out Aropax, Well-known Antidepressant

...Allen Fraser, chairman of the New Zealand national committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, said, "What concerns the college is the insistence in this process that patients currently on paroxetine, the Aropax form, must either pay for it, or be changed to the new form. We had...

Better Healthcare for 100 Villages - Courtesy Indian American Physicians

... Said Naresh Trehan, chairman of CII's national committee on healthcare and noted cardiologist: "The MoU concretises the thought process of the last few months. It sets out one of the things we can do to leverage the intellectual capital of Indians residing abroad to help India. AAPI has been very forthcomi...

More Ugandan Men Seek Circumcision In 2006

..., last year. Uganda's Health Ministry has formed a committee to appraise the findings in order to go ahead with a circumcision policy. The increase could also be due to the switch over of some men to Islam, observers said. As Ugandan cultural groups usually don't circumcise boys before they are accepted as m...

Orissa Hospital, Surgeon Fined for Wrong Treatment

...y due to the doctor's negligence. A three-member committee of the forum headed by S.N Das ordered the doctor and the clinic to pay the compensation amount to the patient. The forum also ordered the clinic and the doctor to pay Rs.10,000 towards litigation expenses, Bag said. Source-IANS...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

...t the vaccine's safety. A seven-member executive committee and 17-member working team of ulemas were constituted to review the polio vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for 438 polio cases - the highest in the country. "We will personally go with the vaccination teams to those areas where Mu...

Insurance Cover for Girl Child

...he need of setting up of monitoring and inspection committee at District Level by the States for stringent implementation of PNDT Act. Female foeticide should be treated as a crime and not just a social evil, therefore, stringent punishment and punitive action is required. The Ministry has taken up the matter ...

New Study Shows Efficacy of AROMASIN on Early Breast Cancer

...lacebo arm,” said Dr. Terry Mamounas, NSABP breast committee chairman and lead investigator for the B-33 study. Median follow-up of 30 months also showed that disease-free survival was improved by 32% (P=0.07). Toxicity experienced with Aromasin in the B-33 trial was acceptable for the adjuvant setting. The...

First Target For Stem Cell Research Will Be Diabetes Cure

...eld, a neuroscientist and a member on the Lockhart committee which recommended therapeutic cloning be adopted, said: 'Diseases and illnesses that have a focal cause would be the first to see results.' SRI...

Ontario Health Minister Censured Over Excess Radiation

...herman has however countered, saying that a safety committee is scrutinizing the problem. The Safety committee has been endowed with the authority to recommend the right doses of radiation levels, and also to gi...

Maldives Volleyball Team Members Affected by Chickenpox

... has been isolated from the team. The organisation committee has arranged accommodation for him outside the Athletes' Village," said Wongprasert. "We informed Maldives Monday to take other players to the hospital to have a medical check, and once they get a letter from doctors that the other players do not h...

NHS Debts Forces Hewitt to Consider Resignation

...xamination by members of the Commons health select committee who were apprehensive about the NHS's half-year accounts. These showed that more than thirty percent of NHS trusts are forecasting deficits. The deficits are expected to total almost ￡1.2bn. However the secreraty said she was confident the positio...

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