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Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...ory affairs. Yet experts and some FDA officials criticized Merck for using what they called poorly designed scientific studies in an attempt to put Arcoxia in the best possible light. Bruce Psaty, director of the cardiovascular health research unit at the University of Washington, says manufacturers can "rig...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

...e-Justine Hospital to be totally safe. Many have criticized Quebec's aging health-care network as it has been hit hard in recent years by outbreaks of severe diarrhea caused by the bacterium C. difficile. It has been linked to insufficient disinfection procedures at provincial hospitals. Dr. Benoit Cousinea...

New Bill Introduced in US to Promote Public Health

...hange that." In general the US healthcare has been criticized as expensive, ineffective and inequitable....

Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon

...eing a threat to society. Several charities have criticized the proposed bill saying that the legislation makers’ completely ignored all advice given by them. Stating that ‘ compulsion is not the only route to treatment ’, Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley also rejected the proposal. Since 1998, menta...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

HIV experts in Australia have criticized Prime Minister John Howard for calling for a ban on// the entry of HIV-infected persons and asserted that there was no evidence to suggest migrants were responsible for increasing HIV infections in the country. Prime Minister Howard had made the s...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

HIV experts in Australia have criticized Prime Minister John Howard for calling for a ban on the entry of HIV-infected persons and asserted that there was no evidence to// suggest migrants were responsible for increasing HIV infections in the country. Prime Minister Howard had made the su...

Merck's Pain Reliever Arcoxia Rejected by US Federal Advisory Panel

...tory affairs. But experts and some FDA officials criticized Merck for using what they called poorly designed scientific studies in an attempt to put Arcoxia in the best possible light. Bruce Psaty, director of the cardiovascular health research unit at the University of Washington, says manufacturers can "r...

Melamine Contamination Killed Thousands of Pets, Says a New Report

...rbin, a leading advocate of improving food safety, criticized the FDA's response as 'tragically slow.' He said he hoped to learn when the FDA learned of the contamination and who was inspecting pet food plants. 'What we see here is an indication of problems across the board with food safety — both human and ...

Ban on Trade of Human Organs in China

...edia and the Human Right activists have constantly criticized the Chinese Government far not regulating and putting a stop to the organ trade. Ni Shouting, a spokesman for China's Supreme People's Court said "The donation procedure for ordinary people and for those who sit on death row is the same." He emphas...

Anti-Fluoride Claims Discarded As False

...he dental and public health organizations in Maine criticized the anti-fluoride campaigns made by a Bangor child specialist//. They also advised the residents not to believe the false information and alter their water treatment policies. Dora Anne Mills, the Director for Maine Center for Disease Control had c...

Feud Between Two Medical Publications

...MJ (formerly British Medical Journal) Fiona Godlee criticized that the business which is expected to promote health is actually making money out of destroying health. Lancet is owned by the publishing group Reed Elsevier which also has an arms division. This division is said to hold at least 10 arms fairs in ...

Oxygen Treatment To Cardiac Patients Questioned

...e of giving oxygen to patients of heart attack was criticized by Professor Richard Beasley from Medical Research Institute// of New Zealand. According to him, this practice is likely to bring more harm to the patients than good. While writing about this issue in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, ...

Indian Doctors File Appeal Against British Court Ruling

...ment, called Modernising Medical Careers, has been criticized as having gone "disastrously wrong". Thousands of such British doctors have decided to move to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries. The Daily Telegraph said it had been inundated with letters and emails from despairing doctors and th...

UK’s Health Services Totterin

...f an online system for applying for jobs, which is criticized for failing to take full account of their experience and qualifications. Dr Tom Dolphin, the deputy chairman of the BMA junior doctors' committee, says: "The system is going disastrously wrong. Highly qualified doctors with huge amounts of experien...

Be Transformed and Don’t Pay Interes

...s for improving your// looks. The move has been criticized by authorized bodies of plastic surgery as being highly ‘irresponsible’ and akin to luring people who don’t need it, to plastic surgery. Not so, says Transform. According to them demands for plastic surgery is on the rise and besides they argue, ...

GMC Disapproves Internet Doctor

...ctive drugs to patients over the internet has been criticized by the// General Medical Council. Dr. Julien Eden who runs an online medical service e-med.co.uk is charged with a list of accusations like prescribing sixty sedatives to a teenager with a history of psychiatric disorder. The boy consumed an overdo...

Federal Plan: Strategies to Cut Down Wait Times for Children’s Surger

...n flak in the initial stages. The project has been criticized as a half-hearted endeavor, sans the opinion of the provinces. The15-month pilot project is geared to collate accurate data regarding six crucial surgical areas. The areas delineated are cardiac and cancer care, neurology, sight, spinal deformity a...

Ontario Health Minister Censured Over Excess Radiation

...Carter. Opposition leaders in the province have criticized the health minister of Ontario for not quickening his steps to take concrete action to stop this excess exposure of children to radiation. Health Minister George Smitherman has however countered, saying that a safety committee is scrutinizing the pro...

FDA gives the green signal for silicone breast implants

... rate of ruptures. The Public Citizen has strongly criticized the approval. They maintain that the approval for silicone implants smacks of double standards especially as FDA is yet to approve silicone testicular implants citing inadequacy of clinical trials. MST...

Studies Examine Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

...olonoscopy between 1998 and 2003.” FOBT has been criticized for its lack of ability to correctly identify those with and without colorectal cancer, they continue. “Apart from the advantages of colonoscopy … the effectiveness of an FOBT-based screening program in clinical settings (as opposed to clinical trial...

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