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Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

...rn of complaints that they sent a memo to hospital executives in September, detailing 21 steps they should take to improve care of psychiatric patients in ERs, including reducing waiting times, using trained mediators, and further training staff in techniques to calm patients. But patients and advocates for p...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...ch Jazz will pay over the next five years - Orphan executives pleaded guilty to illegally promoting their drug Xyrem. That medication has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating people suffering from narcolepsy only. But the settlement agreement signed by Jazz and the U.S....

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...ing sectors like health and motor insurance. Chief executives of general insurance companies strongly opine that Health insurance (Mediclaim) premiums for particularly group health insurance, could be expected to shoot up. In any case, it is more reason not to forget to renew an existing Mediclaim policy. Medi...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

... in such a case. Three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges that i...ompany on probation for five years and each of the executives on probation for three years. He also ordered the three to perform 400 hours of community service re...

UK Hospitals Failing Hygiene Standards

...is flagrant breach of safety would result in chief executives being brought to account. "Yet when patients' lives are at risk there is a paralysis within government. Patients and public would now expect both the Department of Health and the Healthcare Commission to act." Liberal Democratic health spokesman ...

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...'s healthcare challenges, U.S. Preventive Medicine executives are available to comment on prevention and its critical role in helping to solve the current healthcare crisis: Christopher T. Fey, Chairman and CEO, U.S. Preventive Medicine Brian J. Baum, President and COO, U.S. Preventive Medicine Boyd D. Lyle...

Workers Compelled to Stay in Shape to Avoid Pay Cuts

...of a change fueled by well-meaning, cost-conscious executives who are looking for ways to trim bottom lines along with waist lines. Now there is a growing industry of wellness advisers, counselors and consultants thriving, as corporate America tries to increase productivity and control insurance costs by hel...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...hese misrepresentations and crimes, Purdue and its executives have been brought to justice." OxyContin is a t...cent between 1996 and 2001. Still, in 2001, Purdue executives testified they had just become aware that the drug was being abused. In its statement, Purdue Pha...

Regular Use of Laptop Could Seriously Damage Your Health

...ps are useful for traveling businessmen, students, executives and those who need convenience, portability and po... past two years and most of the patients are young executives who use laptops excessively. While working on laptops, people should take a break every 20 to 25 min...

Cancer Experts Received Threats for Opposing Controversial Drug

...n Wednesday as a medical expert told Congress that executives threatened to sue him when he raised questions in 1999 about the treatment's safety. "Despite additional warnings from outside experts, despite the millions of patients who rely on Avandia to control their blood sugar, and despite the potential ris...

Sony Apologises to Church of England Over Computer Game

... England officials, who are still due to meet Sony executives next week, have called for all copies of the game to be pulled from the shelves and for Sony to make a "substantial donation" to religious charities....

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...ffices and boardrooms, where jet-setting corporate executives are given their ‘do or die’ sales targets. Propelled into action by sheer bottom-line figures, the dynamic medical rep gets to the bottom of the doctor’s heart. The medical representatives first create a ready reckoner of the doctors’ personal hist...

Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly

Business executives in Asia were warned Thursday of the urgent need to change practices contributing to global warming if they //want to succeed in the Western marketplace. "Climate change is not a northern problem," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Env...

Integrated Trauma Care Facility in Mumbai

... Joint Municipal Commissioner G.S. Damle and chief executives of 10 top hospitals like Hinduja Hospital, Lilavati Hopsital and Breach Candy Hospital earlier this week. "We have formed the committee and the service, first of its kind in India, may start in June. Over 100 private and public hospitals at the prim...

Mumbai to Have Integrated Trauma Care Facility

... Joint Municipal Commissioner G.S. Damle and chief executives of 10 top hospitals like Hinduja Hospital, Lilavati Hopsital and Breach Candy Hospital earlier this week. "We have formed the committee and the service, first of its kind in India, may start in June. Over 100 private and public hospitals at the pri...

One More Drug to Fight Brain Cancer

...py to prevent disease relapse. Earlier the Lilly executives had said that the new drug could be useful in the treatment of recurring glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer. Glioblastoma is part of the larger group of tumors that impact the central nervous system, known as gliomas. Patients with highly recurr...

Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

...scope for failure. From school students to working executives everyone is facing stress to become first, which later leads to depression and metal illness. Though women attempt to commit suicide more, it's men who get success in their attempts," Paul added. Source-IANS...

Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science

...manufacturing doubt, fomenting ignorance. Industry executives created a climate of untruth that people bought into and died from." Proctor also has delved into the phone logs and correspondence records of tobacco companies to look at what consumers were thinking. "Even in the 1970s and '80s, lots of people ar...

Where Burnt Out Executives De-stress in Nature's Lap

... out to be the favourite destination for burnt out executives of leading private and public sectors companies// ...his is a new thing for us to find teams of company executives booking the resort for a couple of days. The entire stay here is aimed at de-stressing their personn...

A Hot Date with the Lucrative UK Pharma Market

... be the largest gathering of chain retail pharmacy executives and buyers in the UK. The planned itinerary includes keynote presentations by leading industry figures, such as John D’Arcy, Chief Executive, of the National Pharmacy Association and networking events with Senior Executives from leading UK businesse...

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