Retail Clinics Becoming Increasingly Popular in US
... advanced to pneumonia, most clinics refer clients free of charge to a local doctor or emergency room. Clinic operators say they refer out about 10 per cent of clients. The first retail health clinic opened in 2000, and there are 300 in the U.S. today with another 2,000 expected by the end of 2008. So...FDA Announces Audio Broadcasts on Emerging Drug Safety Information
...sories (PHAs) and anyone can subscribe to them for free at http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/podcast/default.htm. "FDA's highest priority is to protect and enhance the health of the American public," said Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs. "The service contributes to this goal by...Drinking Tea Could Protect Your Skin
...damaging effects in the body of molecules known as free radicals. But she stressed more research was needed to confirm it is the tea and not some other lifestyle factor which is protecting against the illness. Source-IANS/B...Serving Strawberry in Daiquiri Makes It Healthier
...hol led to an increase in antioxidant capacity and free radical scavenging activity within the fruit. Whil...disorders. They work by helping to mop up damaging free radicals produced naturally during a person’s normal metabolism. Those who aren’t keen on strawbe...Asian Business Executives Urged to Be Eco-friendly
... these countries will receive energy-savings lamps free in order to help them reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Source-IANS/L...Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs
...federal legislature from making laws that prohibit free exercise of religion or infringe on the freedom of speech or the freedom of the press and so on. The new bill also would change incentives for pediatric research that have been lucrative for drug-makers. It would limit the extra patent time awarde...UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn
...n 1996. Their killer, Michael Stone, had been left free to commit the crime because his severe personality disorder was considered untreatable and he could not be detained under the present Mental Health Act. Some MPs find the bill 'too draconian' and say it should be about treatment rather than punishm...Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate
...n’t going to use Plan B when they are given it for free in a clinical trial and are counseled beforehand about using it every single time they have unprotected sex, then having to go to CVS and having to pay $45 each time — it isn’t going to happen,” Trussell said. Nonetheless, Polis said her review is ...Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon
...unsound persons, as they roamed around society, at free will. There were calls to the amendment of the 1983 Mental Health Act, which held that a person must be ‘treatable’ in order to be detained against his own will. In 1998, it was announced by the government that a person could be forcibly detained i...UK’s Junior Doctors Losing Hop
... it was unlikely that the NHS would continue to be free at the point of use for all patients by 2017 and 83% thought the range of free services offered by the NHS would shrink. Half thought medicine was still a job for life, 48% envisa...When 'prevalence' Makes for Disparity in AIDS Care
...y to reach out to destitute HIV positive women for free legal aid. "We plan to involve the private sector in a big way in this endeavour. IT companies, automobile and other heavy industries and the plantation sector would be made partners in Tamil Nadu's campaign," she said. In stark contrast is the ...Jaipur Foot Takes Off for Lebanon
...- made of rubber, wood and aluminium - is attached free of cost in the premises of the BMVSS, which was established in 1975 here. From 1968 to 1975, only 59 patients were outfitted with the Jaipur Foot. But the use of the new limb spread outside India during the Afghan war. The International Committee...India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS
... made implementing// authorities and the number of free treatments will be raised. The goal is to "to halt and reverse the epidemic in five years" at a cost of Rs.115 billion ($2 billion), according to a draft executive summary of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). All districts are schedu...Sugary News for Diabetics – Cure Stems from Stem Cell Therap
...nd in one particular case a patient went treatment free for years. Out of the 15 patients who participated in the testing, 13 completely stayed-off insulin injections. "This is the first therapy for type I diabetes to result in drug-free treatment," said Richard Burt, chief of immunotherapy at North-we...AIIMS Director Venugopal Removed from Additional Post
...bench had said: "The institute's governing body is free to proceed in accordance with the law and on the basis of the questionnaire served upon the director to which he has already replied, and pass such orders with the prior approval of the government as it may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of...Data On Three Million Georgia Residents Lost
...atch monitoring as well as tips on how to obtain a free credit report. Since the last two years, more than 150 million personal records have been exposed in dozens of incidents, according to information compiled by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Identity fraud, which includes credit card fraud, ban...Court Refuses to Intervene for Law on Surrogate Motherhood
...in the absence of laws or regulations has become a free playing field for unscrupulous intermediaries who lure and push uneducated and poor women into the surrogate motherhood," said Roy in her petition. She argued that there was every possibility of misuse of the children born out of surrogacy for terr...New Research on the Effects of Smoking and Coffee on Parkinson's Disease
...ho smoked, consumed caffeine and enjoyed Parkinson free life. This seemed to leave a clue about the protective blessing coffee and smoking on Parkinson’s. Earlier studies have indicated the same protective cover offered by smoking and caffeine against Parkinson’s. In the first ever controlled study cond...New York Health Department Distributes Five Million Condoms in a Month
...community organizations are signing up to give out free condoms, many for the first time." According to the AP/Newsday, the condom distribution campaign also aims to prevent unplanned pregnancies and curb the spread of other sexually transmitted infections. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation/B......and cancer policy. The town hall event, which is free and open to the public, will provide an interactive and in-depth look at promising areas in prevention and early detection from an expert panel of our nation's leaders in various fields connected to cancer research. For many of these areas, the hurdl...