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Closure of NHS Borders Hospitals to be Reviewed

... Jedburgh Alliance alleged that there were serious flaws in both the consultation process as well as in the statistics given by NHS Borders. According to Mr Burt figures that claimed that 15% of community hospital beds were in the Borders having only 2% of the population were incorrect and that such inform...

Beauty Pageants Need Transparency

..."you see, it was a world of plastic, a world where flaws are covered up by make-up, a world where all you see is the glittering surface, where the cracks are perfectly concealed by the glint of the diamonds... where tales are woven but have no substance."...

Hospital-acquired HIV Kills One Child in Kerala

...ile of Rashmi. This tragic incidence has shown the flaws in our health system.“We are in deep trauma. The Chief Minister implemented all the promises that he made. But I have lost my child” said one of the relatives. "This should not happen to any other child. It happened in the blood bank, so at least n...

MRI Scan Insufficient For Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis

...ded in the review, and studies with methodological flaws overestimated the diagnostic accuracy of MRI. Only two studies followed patients for more than 10 years, and these suggested that the role of magnetic resonance imaging either in ruling in or ruling out multiple sclerosis is limited. Patients with ...

Chicago :FDA imposes Ban on Biomedical Tissue Services

...stration administered a ban after finding apparent flaws in the donor policies that might pose a threat to transplant patients, making them vulnerable to disease. Though, none of the patients have been diagnosed with any form of infectious disease, yet many hospitals informed patients about the risks from ...

Minister claims China's Epidemic Control System Improved

...ention. // The SARS epidemic in 2003 exposed the flaws in China's epidemic disease prevention and control system. The government took comprehensive steps to address them, he said. After 27 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) of investment, by the end of 2005, the goal of an improved and comprehensive epidemic r...

Guidant sold defective defibrillators with full knowledge

...alled the Contak Renewal and Contak Renewal 2. The flaws are all associated with Guidant's use of an insula...m guidelines for manufacturers to disclose product flaws to physicians. Doctors can then weigh such risks against those posed by added surgery in deciding wh...

Scientists open the book of life

...ope to be able to find the disease-causing genetic flaws that could lead to treatment. American agencies and universities, led by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy, completed the project at a cost of about $2.7 billions, some $300 millions less and two years earlie...

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

... DEA analysis suffered from serious methodological flaws that undermined its conclusions. The company also observed that the DEA analysis failed to establish OxyContin as the direct cause of death or allow the company and FDA to conduct an independent review of the data. "It is wrong to conclude or imply ...

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