Tag: "duty" at medical news

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

... revenue, and police themselves often view traffic duty as beneath their skills. A study evaluated fatal crashes over an 11-year period in , Canada, linking the crashes to traffic convictions during the same time period. Nearly 9,000 drivers were involved in such crashes, and more than 21,000 traffic con...

Latest Findings On The Deadly Disease - SARS

...neumonia, and health care workers who were also on duty during the epidemic but never developed any symptoms of the disease. Three of the healthy people and one of the patients without pneumonia were found to have antibodies to the virus, leading the researchers to conclude SARS may cause asymptomatic o...

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...hose in poor ones." said Joy Phumaphi. "It is the duty of all governments to lead the fight against maternal and neonatal mortality," said First Lady of Kenya, Lucy Kibaki, who jointly chaired the Nairobi meeting. Praising the solidarity shown by the African parliamentarians present at the launch, Lady L...

London Emergency Services Receive Wide Appreciation

...ective surgeries were postponed. All staff on post duty off were called using Cell phones and pagers. The emergency services were co-ordinated in such a way that there was maximum concentration of efforts where there were maximum casualties. The Royal London Hospital, a major teaching hospital in the E...

Women complain Viagra users want too much sex

...ugh the women didn't want to have sex, they felt a duty to endure it to help their partners repair their battered self-esteem. When one 57-year-old was asked what would happen if she told her partner she wasn't in the mood for sex, she replied: "I think he'd be pretty deflated, really, and I think it wou...

Indian hospitals require International Accreditation

...er recognisation and quality maintenance it is the duty of the health care providers to maintain the quality and get international accreditation so that it can provide health care facilities globally....

Ruling: HIV victim exempted from disclosing condition to partner

...n August. The judge asserted that Dalley's legal duty was to take reasonable precautions to avoid transm...them of their HIV status, and there could be moral duty to do so, it was not required by law. The New Zealand AIDS activists have welcomed the decision an...

NABH Health accreditations final draft to be released by this month

... recommendations and quality maintenance it is the duty of the health care providers to maintain the quality and get standard accreditation so that it can provide health care facilities globally. NABH is responsible for approving and monitoring accreditation standards, which would be helped in the proce...

Ants nibble diabetic away to death at Kolkata Hospital

... eye Monday morning, died Tuesday. The nurses on duty at the Sambhunath Pandit Hospital Monday feigned ignorance about the incident and the acting superintendent, A. Adhikary, said that it "was not uncommon for ants to bite a highly diabetic patient". Later in the day, the government announced that a ...

Aged People are at increased risk of disease

...moderate exercise. The authors feel that it is the duty of the Government to ensure that pension amount given to old aged people should be increased so that they can afford a healthy life and would have complete access to health and leisure facilities. Spokesperson for the Health Department said, “Major ...

NHS Staff To Face Ban On Smoking

...Trust will be banned from smoking, even during off duty hours, as long as they are wearing their identification// badge or uniform. The ban on smoking which is planned will be applicable to patients, contractors, visitors, volunteers and other people who visit the premises of the Trust. The Suffolk East P...

Family planning is insisted upon Muslims by Shia cleric

... progressive idea for his community he insisted on duty of the parents towards their children and he cleared that a healthy mother alone can nurture their children. Too many children production will restrict child growth which in turn will affects the parents responsibility mentioned in Islam books he ad...

Man Convicted For Spreading HIV

...k is when you are HIV-positive you have a positive duty to disclose that fact to any perspective partners that you have," commented Crown counsel Andrew MacDonald. He added that the women who came to testify against Nduwayo were very courageous since they risked alienation in the society. Nduwayo had sexu...

Snippy haircuts, snappier AIDS lessons from barbers

...Habib said: "Why should I? Being an elder, it's my duty to teach right things to the youth. But, yeah, with the younger lots I start the topic with an obscene joke to open them up!" Happy with the response in Lajpat Nagar, the NGO has expanded the project to Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. Source: IANS...

Junior Doctors Put An End To Strike

...es Maintenance Act (ESMA) if they failed to resume duty with immediate effect. Meanwhile, K.K. Singh, an assistant professor in KGMU, believed to be the mastermind behind last week's violence and arson, was arrested bringing a sobering effect on the agitating junior doctors. At least 10 unattended pati...

Clean Blades To Be Provided To Self-Harmers

...ipated move has raised controversies regarding the duty of medical staff, which is regarded as prevention of harm, rather than helping somebody cause it. Each year, more than 170, 000 patients are being treated for self-inflicted injuries, either as a result of depression or other mental health disorder...

Valentine's Day Attraction: Sale Of Condoms In School Proposed

...te other people's morals," she said. "But it's our duty to make sure people can make informed choices abou...te other people's morals," she said. "But it's our duty to make sure people can make informed choices about their sexual health and contraception." ...

Annual Budget 2006: Health And Education Sector Receive A Boost

...this competitive industry, reduction of the excise duty from 16% to 8% were amongst the other topics discussed. The Government had promised increased spending on healthcare and education. Consistent with the promise, a corresponding 31% and 22% increase in spending on education and health was sanctioned...

Small Cars, Anti-AIDS And Anti-Cancer Drugs Would Be Cheaper

...cancer drugs will fall drastically with the excise duty being slashed to five percent. The prices of ele...ts are also expected to head south with the excise duty on these reduced. Excise duty on petrol passenger cars up to 1,200 cc and diesel cars up to 1,500 ...

Reconsider Health Benefits of Organic Baby Foods, advices new study

...eing listed on the labels, it becomes the parents’ duty to check out each ingredient’s quantity to assess the level of sugar in the product. Some organic foods also fell short of the regulatory requirement of food ingredient quantities, which means that if protein was supposed to be the only ingredient ...

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