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Charity swindler jailed over cash fraud

...g yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow Freeman's defence counsel, Peter Gray, QC, said, "He has paid back all the money he had taken, although he still owes almost ￡620,000 to creditors. Judge Lord Kinclaven ignored pleas to spare Freeman a custodial sentence and said: "Having had regard to the serious n...

Tobacco Companies Admit Their Products Cause Cancer but Not in Those Who Sue Them

...aused by the particular product in question. The defence also argued that the presence of other risk factor...tific proof to link cigarette smoking with cancer' defence declined as companies began to publicly admit that smoking causes disease, starting in the late 1990...

First Liver Donation in Armed Forces

...rch & Referral) here following a massive stroke, a defence ministry statement said. The elder Singh was suffering from diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney failure. As there was no suitable recipient in Delhi, the liver was flown to Hyderabad and successfully transplanted on a 45-year-old suffering from e...

Europeans Developing First-Ever Dengue Fever Vaccine

... now suspect that they have not only come across a defence strategy for Dengue, but for a whole range of haemorrhage-inducing viruses, such as Ebola, Marburg, or Hanta, for none of which treatment exists. Clinical trials are currently being developed taking into account these new research strategies. Source...

Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus

...tem to mount a separate, powerful and long lasting defence against cancer. Evidence for this theory has been mounting for the past year. On January 10, 2007, Dr. Sheila Fraser of St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, U.K. delivered a paper at the Society of Academic & Research Surgery Conference in Ca...

India to Market Female Condoms

...hase at a cost of Rs.180,000 in its second line of defence against HIV/AIDS, said a Tamil Nadu State Aids Control Society (TANSACS) official here. The project will reach out to 11,000 sex workers in the country with the help of 400 civil society groups. The first part of the initiative, to cover 3,000 sex ...

Armed Forces Introduce Yoga, Counselling to Counter Stress

...des in the armed forces - 21 this year alone - the defence ministry has taken// a series of counter measures including counselling and yoga classes to help soldiers cope with stress, parliament was informed Wednesday. "Training capsules on relaxation exercises including yoga and meditation have been introd...

International Health Security to Be Tackled on World Health Day

... event. "When the world is collectively at risk, defence becomes a shared responsibility of all nations," Chan said in a statement. Threats to collective health security include bio-terrorism, emerging and rapidly spreading diseases, environmental change, sudden humanitarian emergencies caused by natural...

A New Erbitux Combo Shows Promise in treatment

... cancer cells. Antibodies are the body’s natural defence mechanism against infection. They are substances produced by the immune system in response to a foreign substance such as a bacteria, virus, or toxin. Monoclonal antibodies are antibodies produced in a laboratory to target a very specific portion of...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...ry conditions at the hospital. Pentagon, the US defence headquarters, was ill-prepared to deal with growing numbers of troops suffering from traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder, it said. The report also faulted the Army’s complex disability ratings which, critics contend, are manip...

Reindeers Could Hold the Key to Elephantiasis Cure

...d are an essential component for the body's immune defence system. They live for 4-6 years, producing millions of immature microfilariae (minute larvae) that circulate in the blood. The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes that bite infected humans and pick up the microfilariae that develop, inside the mos...

No Foul Play, Woolmer Died of Naural Causes, Say Jamaican Police

...of Bob Woolmer," Thomas said. He launched a strong defence of the police investigation, saying it had been commended by both Scotland Yard and Pakistani police who had helped with the case. Mr Woolmer's widow, Gill, said: "My sons and I are relieved to be officially informed that Bob died of natural causes...

Genetic Risk Factor for Coeliac Disease Identified.

...d than in someone with coeliac disease providing defence against intestinal inflammation. Coeliac disease is found in around 1 in 100 of the British population. It is caused by intolerance to gluten - a protein found in wheat, barley and rye - which results in damage to the gut, preventing normal digesti...

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...icides that have occurred in the past few years, a defence scientist said Friday. "Through the new tests (...selling if the need arises," Mandal explained. The defence ministry has already taken a series of counter measures, including counselling and yoga classes, to ...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...ffing Russian objections to US plans for a missile defence system in Eastern Europe. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a chance to talk at the three-day G8 summit, which starts Wednesday in the German seaside resort of Heiligendamm. Leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and J...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

... skeptical. But last week a research funded by the defence department showed that even a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members. Also symptoms were found to be exacerbated by the use of bug repellant and a nerve-agent antidote given to roug...

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

...he websites of key UK medical professional bodies, defence organisations and official regulatory bodies for appropriate guidance, and followed this up with an email or telephone call to ensure no important documents were overlooked. Guidance, where it existed, was found to be extremely limited in scope and...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...hemselves against malaria and how HIV impairs this defence have been unknown, but a paper published in PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science) pins down how the virus targets the immune response in pregnant women. "PAM can be a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerab...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

Securing its place as an indispensable defence against the development and spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), the Stop TB Partnership announced today that its drug supply arm, the Global Drug Facility, has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the pas...

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

...dline reflected how most people would react. "In defence of the Tele, that's what most people say," Mr Howard told ABC Radio. "I feel for the mother, I feel for the baby, I feel for the woman's family but fair go to The Tele, after all, that is the natural reaction. "How could you abandon a little baby...

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