More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens
Indian doctors continue to bear the brunt of police inquiries as ...spitals in Western Australia and also quizzed five doctors of foreign origin, four of them Indian. However, WA Premier Alan Carpenter said he did not want to...Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected
...ectively, US labs use a different language and our doctors are being forced to translate from one system to a...er, without enough guidance. "This compromises doctors and patients and could result in a potential abnormal result slipping through the net," she said. ...BMA Scotland Calls for Public Debate on How Best to Increase Organ Donation Rates
...needing a transplant showing no sign of narrowing, doctors believe that the time is right to consider a review of the current organ donation system and look at new ways to improve donation rates. Dr George Fernie, a member of the BMAs Scottish Council, said: The BMA has actively supported efforts to imp...Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors
...re being little research into the health effects , doctors writing in this weeks BMJ say the ban should stay in place. A hookah is a glass based waterpipe used for smoking. It is commonly used in Arabic communities for smoking herbal fruits after meals, but it is becoming increasingly popular among young a...New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities
...t from treatment. We thank the many thousands of doctors who have enabled this research by freely contributing anonymised data to QRESEARCH without which this work would not have been possible....Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too
... and the vaccine is now available through Canadian doctors and pharmacists. However, the decision is not w...g lobby of health groups has its way. Already U.S. doctors are saying that leaving Gardasil to those families with private insurance or hit-and-miss government...Concerns Raised Over Risks for Patients and Staff in Australian Hospital
...he last four years, the statement said. However, doctors and nurses have said that cross-infection is one of their biggest concerns. WCH specialist pediatrician Dr David Thomas said it was a particular problem in winter, with extra demand on services. "Cross-infection is one of the biggest concerns in...Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa
...sts to provide on-line medical consultation to the doctors in the tele-medicine centres in Ethiopia. In the present network, black Lion hospital at Addis Ababa and one remote hospital in Nekempte have been chosen to receive tele-medicine services from CARE Hospital, Hyderabad. Dr. Asfaw Atnaf, the chief...Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks
... as a medical consultant from the US. Two other doctors from India were also in the World Bank team, which...going legal battle against several eminent Kolkata doctors for the death of his wife, Anuradha Saha, from alleged "medical negligence" when the couple came to ...World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again
... she felt a "great responsibility" not just to the doctors who performed the unprecedented operation on Novem..., and had already recovered from two episodes when doctors feared rejection had started. But even so, she said she was ready to move on with normal life agai...Trade Unionists Join Polish Nurses' Protest
...s or carry out administrative duties. Around 200 doctors have also launched a hunger strike to try to force...The average monthly pay packet for Polish hospital doctors is 395 euros a month, not counting overtime. Union representatives say that even domestic cleaners...Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns
...petition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned doctors against operating closed shops and told them firml..., Peter Ford, called on the ACCC to recognise that doctors must sometimes work "in association" and that this did not mean "collusion". "The ACCC needs to l...Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US
...along with anti-clotting drugs, like warfarin. But doctors and patients alike have been dismayed by the side ...ted. On the other hand, some regulators and many doctors contend that ablation cure rates, while promising, may have been exaggerated by shortcomings in the ...An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk
...fit from treatment. We thank the many thousands of doctors who have enabled this research by freely contributing anonymised data to QRESEARCH, without which this work would not have been possible. PDF copies of the bmj.com paper are available from Tim Utton, on +44 (0)115 846 8092, tim.utton@nottingham.ac.uk...Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts
...he floor, and he immediately called 911. At first, doctors were unable to pinpoint what was wrong, said her d...spital and New England Medical Center. Eventually, doctors told the family that Phillips had a 50 percent chance of survival. She eventually underwent a spinal...Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese
... animals. A team of 25 personnel, which includes doctors and nurses of the local health department, is conducting 15 to 20 camps every month. It travels on the ships for around 7 to 10 days a month. The initiative was started with an amount of $20,000 given by the World Bank to the project as an award fo...Americans Bloated On Happy Pills
...Unhappiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class, doctors are now medicating unhappiness. "Too many people t...ooked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were for antidepressants. High blood pressure drugs fol...Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs
...awi, with a population of 12 million, has only 150 doctors on the state payroll, according to a recent survey by the health ministry. Still a taboo subject in the conservative landlocked country, wedged between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia, some 930,000 Malawians are living with HIV or AIDS where the pr...Battle Between Google and Microsoft Could Trigger Revolution in Healthcare
...eries of reports published by Wireless Healthcare, doctors who are already having to come to terms with informed patients who have 'googled' their symptoms could see these same patients gaining access to their genetic profile and managing their health using an online patient record. Wireless Healthcare beli...