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Consumer Court Dismisses India’s Biggest Ever Medical Error Clai

The apex consumer court in New Delhi Thursday dismissed the case of highest-ever medical compensation clai...or promotion of health in India.' 'The NCDRC has dismissed the case on two basic grounds - that the primary doctors were acquitted and that the West Bengal Med...

Market-Based NHS?

...ate sector. But Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt dismissed suggestions that the NHS was becoming a market, 'It would be a pretty odd kind of market where the user cannot pay and the providers cannot compete on price,' she said in a key speech to the London School of Economics in December. The working group...

Doctor Faces Disbarment For Working In Multiple Hospitals

...ng a typographical error. Last week that case was dismissed as neither Dere's lawyers nor MCI's lawyers turned up for the hearing. DNA has acquired proof of his employment in two places. But Dere has defended himself. “The Medical Ethics and Etiquette Rules 2002 does not prohibit anyone from getting employed ...

Another Senior Doctor From AIIMS Contemplates Leaving Due to Infighting

...ute into a 'political hub'. Deka had meanwhile has dismissed the charges of violation of AIIMS autonomy, stated that since the government was allocating over Rs 4 billion to the institute every year, it did have every right to know about the expenditure. He also explained that the government do not interfere...

Cadbury Dismisses Rumors of Withdrawal of More Products

... lines of their products Cadbury Schweppes PLC has dismissed rumors of suggestions of withdrawal //of more products because of salmonella contamination. Cadbury, the confectionery and soft drinks manufacturer, was forced to withdraw seven lines of chocolates last month after admitting they may have contained...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

...ts aren't diverse. Barres said that critics have dismissed women who complain of discrimination in science as being irrational and emotional, but he said that the opposite argument is easy to make. "It is overwhelmingly men who commit violent crimes out of rage and anger," he wrote. "If any one ever sees a w...

NICE supports application of advanced biological therapies as treatment option for acute psoriasis

...s option with their doctor". Latest research has dismissed the preconception that psoriasis is merely a skin complaint, with recent data showing that severe psoriasis can affect a patient's quality of life to a similar extent as other prevalent chronic diseases such as diabetes and even heart diseases. In ...

Large Scale Free Access On Usage Of HIV Drugs Could Help In Fighting Its Spread

...where an estimated 23% of adults are HIV positive, dismissed the idea, stating that people who are infected with HIV may not be willing to start taking antiretroviral drugs before treatment is needed, given its side effects. He further explained that in the sub-Saharan Africa where people are dying because of ...

World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

...to-treat stage. This patient's symptoms had been dismissed as such for several months before physicians confirmed he had hepatoblastoma of the liver, a type of cancer that starts in the organ's cells (hepatocytes) and develops into one or multiple tumors. Thomas was invited to the La Raza Pediatric Medical H...

Warrior Gene Claims Slammed by Maori

...e behaviour. Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia dismissed any such suggestions of Maoris being genetically inclined to violence and criminal acts. She said, ‘This is incredible. I realise that violence is an issue to us, but there are very common factors as well with violence which are not really related ...

Injustice to cancer patients at work

...n working for a major high street retailer who was dismissed as she was not able to give a date of return to work after her radiotherapy treatment. Another woman who had a mastectomy was told that break due to illness or disability was a disciplinary matter and anyone having more than four sickness periods a y...

Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown Effects Greater than Suspected

...lease the Boeing Co., the lab’s owner, immediately dismissed the research as completely wrong, and based on faulty assumptions. According to the researchers although their work is based on some assumptions and data from other meltdowns, they were forced to fill in the gaps when Boeing and the Department of En...

Superbug C.difficile Causes Nine Deaths In Montreal Hospital

...t strain to have emerged , but this claim has been dismissed by the leading expert on C.difficile infections and Quebec's top public health officer. Mark Miller, head of a national surveillance group on C. difficile for the Public Health Agency of Canada says that the strain is the same as the one which emerge...

Awareness about Women's Cancers- A National Concern

...on could lead to breast cancer, the claim has been dismissed by experts. Similar claims are made about using birth control pills and deodorants. The Internet also supplies a lot of information both correct and incorrect, so it is important that women are made aware of the actual facts. The precautions women ...

Eradication of Lung Cancer in 20 years

... becomes rare." However lung cancer experts have dismissed his comments as "rubbish" and "over-optimistic". Dr Mick Peake, chair of the UK Lung Cancer Coalition, said Firstly, not everyone will stop smoking, however much we would like them to. Secondly, around 15 per cent of lung cancers are not caused by ...

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

...oking causes cancer, the industry has consistently dismissed these claims for people who have// sued them, reveals an analysis of recent lawsuits, published in a supplement to Tobacco Control. The authors looked at the opening and closing statements of the defence, witness statements, and depositions for 34 ...

More Bacteria and Less ‘germ-free’ Chicken, 83% of Chickens Infectd

...ates. Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council dismissed the reports, as ‘exaggerated’, as the tests were based on a diminutive sample. The report indicated a salmonella rate of 15% as against campylobacters’ presence in 81% of the chickens tested. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has enable...

Five HIV-positive Children Ousted from Kerala School

...hildren. // The MDLP School near Pampady district dismissed the children Wednesday after people threatened to withdraw their children from the school if the infected children continued to study here. The children - a boy in kindergarten, two girls in Class 2 and two girls in Class 4 - are inmates of Asha Ki...

Feathers Ruffled After 4000 Birds Die in the Land of Haute Couture, France

...ronment ministry, as recent as previous month, had dismissed any risk of bird flu to their domestic flock, due to migratory birds. The World Health Organization has estimated that above 250 people have been infected since 2003, though it is basically an animal disease....

A World Health Insurance Needed: Report

...ral therapy to people living with AIDS, previously dismissed as unsustainable, became widely accepted as soon as the Global Fund provided a long-term funding perspective. Other health interventions deserve a similar approach." Ooms and colleagues' framework for a world health insurance involves rich states p...

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