Singapore Imposes Stricter Controls for Foreign-trained Doctors
...e them since 2000 to work on a short-term basis to ease the shortage of physicians. The change will not affect those who are already in the city-state. As of last January, Singapore had 7,611 registered doctors including 2,286 trained in foreign institutions. About 400 are either from unrecognised med...Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel
...ed and released into a controlled environment with ease and a minimal amount of energy required, Houston said at a demonstration using a diesel-powered generator at a certified UK Ministry of Transportation emissions test centre. They have carried out more than 130 tests over a period of two years with ...Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA
...The Ministry of Justice claimed this measure would ease the strain on the penal system and improve conditions across the prison service. Despite these assurances, the BMA has been in contact with doctors in the prison and police service who have provided specific examples of the continuing failures tha...Many Sceptical of Healing Hand Treatment Practiced in Europe
...here is no fixed scheme." Thus, what exactly helps ease a headache, for example, can't be generally stated. What is clear is that a patient lies down for the approximate 60-minute treatment and the practitioner lays his or her hands on part of the body for a few minutes then changes to another part of t...Trial of VivaGel in Sexually Active Young Women Commences
...g women to determine its safety, acceptability and ease of use. VivaGel(TM) is being developed as a vaginal microbicide for the prevention of HIV and genital herpes. The expanded safety study is being conducted at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, and the University of Puerto Rico in Sa...Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars
... million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease worsening traffic and pollution woes, state media reported Friday. The booming southern city of Shenzhen, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the Englis...Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study
...ke palm oil and rapeseed are grown for biofuels to ease reliance on fossil fuels". "We are asking for trouble, if we expand production of biofuels, as the only fertile land available is tropical rainforests," said Haberl. "If we want full-scale replacement of fossil fuels by biofuels, this would have ......n of the new drug, Prialt. Prialt is designed to ease persistent pains in people who suffer from various types of cancer and other very serious diseases. It is a very powerful drug, as it was created to lessen chronic pains in individuals that no longer responded to morphine therapy. The treatment is ...