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Lancet Blames CMA For Dismissal Of Editors

...however, published by the CMAJ. The editors were dismissed on the 20th of February. The dismissal is perceived as an attempt to introduce new leadership to the CMAJ. Others believe that interference in editorial autonomy could have been responsible for the firing. Moreover, it is even regarded as an attempt ...

Dairy Products Not Linked To Male Weight Gain

A new study has dismissed any association between consumption of dairy products and male weight gain. The study examined the association between total calcium intake//, and consequent changes in body weight. Diet and calcium supplements formed the main source for intake of ca...

Could Long Tern Vioxx Users Suffer From Heart Attacks?

...rs compared with one for those taking naproxen, he dismissed that the data was not statistically significant. He pointed to the same study and revealed that the study found six strokes among naproxen users and none for Vioxx patients. Merck pulled its $2.5 billion-a-year pain drug off the market in September 2...

Doctor Grilled In Court For False Report About Vioxx Health Risk

The doctor, who had dismissed increased risk of heart attack associated with Vioxx, has been accused by lawyers who argue that his views are 'out of the mainstream' as it is based on biased research //, funded by the drug company, Merck and Co. Thomas Cona and John Mcdarby have...

Future of Canadian Medical Association Journal Threatened

...al independence of medical journals. Dr Hoey was dismissed after the journal ran several articles and editorials that sparked anger among the medical association executives. According to Dr Hoey “Any medical journal belongs, intellectually and morally, to its contributors, editors, editorial boards and reade...

Controversial Theory Says DNA Can Be Pushed To "Dark States"

...eories in biochemistry. The theory, not long ago dismissed as impossible by much of the science community, has just in recent months begun to garner increasing interest, and is being confirmed by other studies. And though it began as scientific heresy, the findings could help explain how the presence of wate...

Silicone Leaks Seen Among Women with Breast Implants

...affect the agency's ongoing review. Both companies dismissed the latest findings, saying similar information was presented before the FDA made its initial decision. ...

No Bird Flu Outbreak In Ivory Coast: Health Minister

...y, Minister of Livestocks and Marine Resources has dismissed the possibility of bird flu outbreak in Ivory Coast //. He further stated that the death of chickens in the Bondoukou region were not due to infection with the H5N1 virus. The exact cause of the death is still unknown. It has however been confirmed...

High Cost Forces NHS To Reject Inhaled Insulin

...d a spokesperson for the organization. 'NICE has dismissed the robust scientific and medical evidence used by international medical experts in the US and Europe to grant widespread approval for this medicine. The choice here is quite simple: force patients to keep enduring the burden of multiple daily inject...

Call For Testing Of Poisoned Town: Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

...ss. A health report published in January last year dismissed any association between the incident and delayed or persistent health effects. Yet, it recommended further research to analyze the impact of the incident, taking into consideration people who did and did not consume the contaminated water. Dr Chris...

Bad Publicity for the Hospital With Respect To Dwarfism Abortion Case

...to the Medical Practitioners Board. Three judges dismissed the hospital's appeal against a Supreme Court ruling. A doctor who performed the procedure went to the extent of asking the Victorian Health Minister Bronwyn Pike to launch an inquiry into the failure of the process. This is because the case has been...

Ethiopia Escapes Bird Flu Threat

The emergence of bird flu in Ethiopia has been dismissed by health officials, following the negative results from analysis// of samples that were tested for the presence of the H5N1 virus. Officials belonging to the health department said in a panel discussion organized on Thursday that no outbreak of bi...

New Technique Destroys Kidney Tumors By Freezing Them

...hrough small nicks in the skin, and the patient is dismissed from the hospital within 24 hours with a few band-aids," said Thomas Atwell, MD, one of the authors of the study. Percutaneous cryoablation is performed while the patient is under general anesthesia. Using real-time ultrasound for guidance, one or...

Slow Down Budhia, Warn Medical Experts

... fly to London on May 15th for a marathon, however dismissed fears about Budhia's health, challenging the medical panel report. 'I have no reason to believe the tests are accurate. The doctors have been appointed by the government to give a dubious report. I will get Budhia tested at any hospital outside the s...

Court Rejects Case of Negligence by Disabled Children against the Doctors

In Australia the High Court dismissed the cases from two severely disabled children. The...VF or terminated the pregnancy. But the High Court dismissed each appeal stating that the appellant did not have a case for negligence against their mothers' doc...

Budhia Is Fine, Government-constituted Medical Board Reports False

...f Department of Cardiology of the Medical College, dismissed the panel report, describing it as 'quite premature' and 'not scientific'. He further added that the wonder kid had only suffered from heat and exhaustion during the controversial 65 km run from Jaganath temple in Puri to Bhubaneswar, the capital o...

Home Test Kit for AIDS in the Pipeline

...t 1 % turned out to be false positive. But the FDA dismissed the issue to be the errors of the nurses' failure to follow directions. The agency also wants to give the best kind of written directions for the guidance especially for less educated users. OraSure also provides for counseling and referrals, for t...

Consumer Court Dismisses Rs 143 Crore Negligence Claim

New Delhi. The National Consumer Commission today dismissed the medical negligence claim to the tune of Rs 143 Crores filed by a US-based doctor //who had alleged that his wife died because of negligence given at a Kolkata hospital. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Bench comprising Justice...

Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment

... The apex consumer court in New Delhi on Wednesday dismissed the highest ever medical compensation case of clai...ed suffered is also without substance. Hence, they dismissed the complaint and ordered that there shall be no order as to costs, the judgement said.Saha claimed ...

Apex Consumer Court Rejects Rs 143 Cr Medical Negligence Claim

...ervice // , the National Consumer Commission today dismissed the medical negligence claim case to the tune of Rs 143.08 crore filed by a US-based doctor whose wife died almost nine years ago here after she suffered a deadly skin allergy. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Bench, presided by J...

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