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BMA Calls for Flexible Working as Number of Women Doctors Swell

... medicine is either lukewarm or weak. Fewer than a fifth (16%) are confident that they will automatically get a job on completion of their training. Dr Hilborne says: These are times of terrible anxiety for junior doctors. Those that do succeed in getting posts will have to work antisocial hours in an NH...

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...ey just 4 percent of U.S. adults are virgins and a fifth have tried hard drugs like cocaine and crack. What most alarms researchers is how young they start. "We have a public health problem in that we still see a lot of adults reporting their sexual debut at a pretty young age," said Dr. Kathryn Porte...

Norwegians Take in the Sun in Spain on Doctors' Orders

...istory teacher Tor Tvinnereim who was completing a fifth stay at the centre. The centre has a heated pool to allow for swimming in winter and is fully wheelchair accessible. Every week excursions to neighbouring towns are organized and on Saturdays a party with a surprise theme is held. Guests especi...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...e WHO. The number of children dying before their fifth birthday is seven per 1,000 live births in Cuba and eight per 1,000 in the United States. Yet the United States spends more than 26 times as much on health, $6,096 per person a year, compared with only $229 in Cuba, the WHO figures show. While C...

Potter and His Pals Light Up and Get Drunk Too!

... The three were speaking before the launch of the fifth film Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. The movie opens in theatres on July 13, about a week before the release of the seventh and final book in the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...ssia spent $441 per capita on health care, about a fifth of what the EU spends. Over the past two years, the government has more than doubled health care spending to some $7 billion, but that still works out to only about 3.4 percent of all government spending, and the World Health Organization recommends ...

New Study That Small Amount of Teenagers Drinks on a Regular Basis

...young person who had been drinking and just over a fifth said they had guilt having sex while drunk. The 2005 survey did not study binge drinking and so no figures existed for comparison but specialists say there is no proof to indicate the problem is getting worse. This years survey also uncover that ...

WFP Announces Food Assistance Plan for Timor Leste

...uction on the island in the past year, leaving one fifth of the population vulnerable to food shortages through the coming "lean season". WFP estimates that the drought has resulted in an overall food shortage of 85,000 metric tons, and indicates that at least 16,000 tons of additional food assistance, ...

Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

...y Cyrille Delpierre and colleagues. Each year, one fifth of HIV infected patients' deaths were patients who had discovered their infection in the year before their deaths. While the current policy in France successfully targets at risk groups, they say it fails to reach low risk groups, who tend to be old...

Bayer and Onyx Submit Supplemental New Drug Application for Nexavar to Treat Liver Cancer

... of the primary liver cancers in adults. It is the fifth most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Over 600,000 cases of HCC are diagnosed globally each year(about 19,000 in the United States and 32,000 in the European Union) and in 2002 approximately 6...

The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack

...blished in the Journal Science, has shown that one fifth of Britons carry a particular gene which doubles their chances of suffering a heart attack. The only saving grace could come in the form of making healthy lifestyle choices that may help cut down the risk. This finding could also assist in zeroi...

Bobby Robson Diagnosed With Cancer for Fifth Time

...by Robson is ready to fight against cancer for the fifth time . The 74-year-old Robson, who said that he was diagnosed with cancer for the fifth time, started a six-week bout of chemotherapy last week after cancerous nodules were discovered in h...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

...million (USD 70 Million) and will make Ranbaxy the fifth largest generic pharmaceutical company in South Af...es of approximately USD 30 Million, Be-Tabs is the fifth largest generic company in South Africa and one of the most profitable companies in the market. Be-T...

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

...ers are still being careless in the sun - only one fifth (22 per cent) of those questioned in the national survey of 2,000 people claim to have never been burnt. Despite the warnings, sunburn has ruined many Britons holidays. 15 per cent of those surveyed had to miss a night out because of burnt skin. Ne...

Medical Marijuana Activist Drops Lawsuit

... House this summer probably will take up - for the fifth consecutive year - a bill to forbid federal prosecution of patients in the 12 states with medical marijuana-laws....

Myths About Hydropower Projects Exposed

... "Large dams in India are responsible for about a fifth of the country's total global warming. These dams are the largest global warming contributors compared to all other nations," the research noted. The methane emission from India's dams is estimated at 27.86 percent of the methane emission from all ...

Ganges River Dolphins Continue to Die in India

...n a fishing net," an official said. This was the fifth dolphin found dead in Bihar in the last one year, causing concern to conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts. Dolphin experts say the toll is higher but only a few incidents got reported because the carcasses are either buried or thrown into the ri...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...tion for controversy, is screening the show on the fifth anniversary of the death of its founder, Bart de Graaff -- he died after waiting years for a kidney transplant. The notion was the brainchild of Endemol, the Dutch production company behind Big Brother and many other reality TV shows spinning the g...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

..."100 Best Companies to Work For." In 2006, for the fifth consecutive year, Science magazine named AstraZeneca a "Top Employer" on its ranking of the world's most respected biopharmaceutical employers....

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...erapy at approximately one-month intervals and the fifth as a booster injection six months later. Patients were monitored for evidence of relapse and survival, as well as the occurrence of adverse events and induction of immune response. An earlier Phase 1 trial of GVAX immunotherapy for pancreatic cance...

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