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Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...ate hospitals charge over Rs.12,000. C.R. Soman, former professor at the Medical College and a public health expert, told IANS: "The SAT hospital is simply overburdened and just cannot meet the present day demands. "Poor facilities, shortage of qualified nurses and paramedical staff is another serious ...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

...mpared to non-HCV patients (81.7 percent.) For the former group, there was no improvement in survival during the study period, in contrast to the latter group. "In summary, the survival of patients transplanted with HCV is significantly lower than those without HCV," the authors report. "There has been a...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

... girls too deserved to be in prison. Mr. Hormozi's former wife Anna and daughter Melin. were overcome with emotion after Supreme Court Justice Peter McClellan ordered the killers to serve minimum three-and-a-half years. Since the girls are already serving sentence they will be eligible for parole in Aug...

Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

...ges 34 to 88, who were classified as non-drinkers, former drinkers, low drinkers (one to seven drinks per we... increase in drinking category (i.e. non-drinkers, former drinkers, low drinkers, moderate drinkers, or high drinkers). In addition, Paul reported the inver...

Republican Presidential Candidates Discuss Abortion, Stem Cells as Part of First Debate

...ens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Sam Brownback (Kan.); former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romn...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

... disease transmitted by the tiny sand fly. And a former minister says he knows how to battle the scourge. According to C.P. Thakur, a former central minister and chairman of the Kala Azar Task Force in Bihar, over 100,000 people, mostly the ...

Clinton Foundation Eases Over-Pricing Of AIDS Drugs Once More

...n middle-income countries, but patients may. The former US president states that while he upholds the belief in intellectual property and understands that manufacturers need to earn profits to keep the discovery and supply of AIDS drugs sustainable, that creed should not prevent essential life-saving medi...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

..., effective military and keep everyone in line," a former Army enlisted man, Tim Moriarty, wrote. In Walter Reed, for instance, every morning, regardless of weather, the injured assemble. Umbrellas are forbidden, uniforms required. Some soldiers "are so gorked out on pills that they seem on the verge of ...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

...contained the weed killer that poisoned Pakistans former cricket coach Bob Woolmer, was in fact handed over... Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious outfit, and former skipper Inzamam-ul Haq had come under criticism for taking Ahmed on as a bowling coach....

Cutting Calories, Not Exercise, Plays Bigger Role In Maintaining Weight Loss

... exercise levels. Ard and colleagues followed 89 former EatRight participants for two years. The 80 percent who had successfully maintained their weight loss consumed fewer calories than those who gained weight, and tended to eat a diet consisting of low energy density foods, such as fruits, vegetables an...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

... the UK, two women a week are killed by current or former partners. The country also has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe and having a baby at a young age means women are more likely to miss out on education and slip into poverty. There has also been a substantial rise in obesity in young gir...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...ans Affairs (VA) needs to revise how it evaluates former military personnel for service-connected post-trau...living veterans, but claims also are being made by former service personnel of earlier conflicts as well as personnel who served in the first Gulf War and in ...

30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

...driplegics who are unable to move at all, like the former Superman, the late Christopher Reeve. Miraculously her spinal cord was not damaged. She can walk and has the full use of her arms and hands. Surgeons at the Denver Spine Centre in Colorado reattached Miss Malloys skull to the top of her spinal col...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

...e are able to afford to get the pure stuff." The former wife of one barrister, who believes her marriage broke up several years ago because of his cocaine use, said it was partly about narcissism: "(You have) young men earning huge sums of money, top-shelf wine, top-shelf addresses and top-shelf coke; men...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

...or going after prominent environmentalists such as former US vice-president Al Gore (whose own film on globa...aprio brings in British physicist Stephen Hawking, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai to argue his case th...

Floida to Electronically Track Alzheimers Patients

...board member of Alzheimer's Community Care and the former president and CEO of Staten Island University Hospital in New York. Under the current schedule, Barnes said, the board hopes to begin the program in August. She suggested that families should start coming for services and resources in the early s...

XDR-TB a Serious Threat to India

...but occurs most frequently in the countries of the former Soviet Union and in Asia. Sushil Jain of the Hinduja National Hospital in Mumbai, India, and colleagues examined 3,904 lab samples at their hospital, and found that 1,274 were positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Of these, 32% were found to b...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... to encourage in his Work Less Party. Schmidt, a former computer programmer, started by getting rid of his car and cycling to work, then took advantage of the savings by reducing his workweek, which allowed him enough time to write his book, make two documentaries, and organize a community theater group -...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...apanese filmmaker has warned. Yoichi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times who now runs an independent ...but for the revelation made by an Everest hero and former officer of the Indian Navy. "Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs", a book ...

Maninder Singh Confesses of Using Drugs

...Anti-Narcotics Cell arrested Maninder with another former cricketer, Saim Siddiqui, during a raid at his Gagan Vihar residence in east Delhi. "They were arrested while exchanging the drugs. Maninder told us that he used to procure drugs from Siddiqui, who purchased them from a south Delhi based drug pedd...

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