Examiners Charged in Philippines Nursing Test Scandal
...ierrez said she had ordered criminal charges to be filed against Virginia Madeja and Anesia Dionisio for leaking test questions during the June 2006 exams for nursing graduates seeking licenses. An inquiry found that 56 elements from a medical surgery section leaked to students in the northern Philippine...Anorexia Patients Sue Dallas' Presbyterian Hospital
...n Hospital of Dallas for anorexia and bulimia have filed a lawsuit claiming that the hospital and doctors t...the women's problems. According to the complaint filed today in Dallas state district court, each woman was a patient in Presbyterian's Eating Disorder Pro...... Friday announced that it has accepted a petition, filed by the National Human Right's Commission, to revi...long with the attorney general's office, on Friday filed the petition, saying that the law violates a constitutional clause guaranteeing the right to life an...Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi
...dhi Andolan (ABVA), a human rights activist group, filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court...tutional validity of Section 377. The petition was filed in the wake of the report of a medical team that visited Tihar Jail in Delhi and reported a high inc...Naresh Trehan Reinstated as Chief of Escorts After Weeklong Row
... (EHIRC), Saturday withdrew the police case it had filed against Trehan and termed his sacking last week as a "result of misunderstanding". The hospital management had May 18 sacked Trehan, who had established the institute in 1988, and some of his loyal colleagues including a senior doctor from the hosp...Doctors Strike Paralysed Health Services in Bihar
... when they went out with a neighbour Milan, 15. "I filed a police complaint about their abduction six days after they went missing because for a few days we thought they might have wandered off somewhere nearby," said Dinesh Prasad Singh, uncle of the abducted boys. Singh, a medical practitioner, urged ...Death from Exposure to WTC Dust Confirmed
...ted as supporting evidence in the federal lawsuits filed against the city by thousands of firefighters, police officers and recovery workers who say they were injured by breathing the dust during the 10-month cleanup. A report published this month in a medical journal showed a sharp increase in the numbe...My Space Pressured into Sharing Data on Sex Offenders
...nding to MySpaces legal quibbling, North Carolina filed a civil investigative demand, and states including...are directly. Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who filed a subpoena Friday, said sharing the information is a good first step toward enacting those kinds of ...Gilead's AIDS Drug Awaits Patent in India
...llectual property. Indian pharma major Cipla has filed a pre-grant opposition against the patent application for Viread before the patents office. But Alton said: "We believe that protecting the intellectual property of companies who engage in drug research and development is a critical part of the tre...Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts
...t for over three million dollars. In the documents filed with the court case, the patients family alleged the Herbal Magic weight-loss program caused Jane's potassium levels to plummet, a condition called hypokalemia, which in turn triggered the cardiac arrest. Herbal Magic is currently Canada's larges...Now, Cellphones That Alert Against Impending Lightning Strikes
...ce for outdoor enthusiasts. As of now, Nokia has filed a patent in the US for the software, reports the New Scientist....Faulty Hormone Tests Compromised Healthcare Of Breast Cancer Patients
... was as low as 10 percent. However, an affidavit filed with a pending class-action lawsuit in Newfoundlan... had been given wrong results, says the affidavit, filed in February by Heather Predham, assistant director of quality and risk management with Eastern Healt...Yoga Enthusiasts Oppose Patenting Yoga Overseas
...cting to recent reports of yet another application filed in the US for patenting yoga, experts here feel that the very idea of patenting knowledge like yoga violates the art. "Patenting of any kind is highly unjustified and when it comes to patenting yoga, it is even more criminal. The entire issue of pa...Extra Time for Students With Learning Disabilities Does Not Skew SAT Scores
...have been so controversial that some students have filed lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against licensing boards. I hope that this study will serve as an important basis upon which accommodation-related decisions can be made by licensing boards and, ultimately, prevent future case...Student Beaten With Hammer for Not Bringing Book
...s. The girl's mother later beat up the teacher and filed a police complaint....Human Rights Activists Sleepless In Seattle
...s Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, was filed by the patient-rights group, the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS). According to them, performing the operation on a minor like Ashley without prior permission from a court was a violation of Ashley's constitutional and common-law ri...FDA Requests Recall of All Shelhigh Medical Devices
...e company's deficiencies, described in a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, may compromise the safety and effectiveness of the devices. Shelhigh's own records indicate a number of sterility test failures and that its testing and retesting procedures were not properly performed. S...45 Day Jail Sentence for Paris Hilton
...wledging she was not to drive, according to papers filed in Superior Court. All this now puts a break on her high social life....Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital
...the New York Civil Liberties Union, the agency has filed a suit in the federal court demanding an end to th...rogram, it has been proclaimed. But the lawsuit, filed Wednesday by Sidney Hirschfeld, head of Mental Hygiene Legal Service, paints an appalling picture o...