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Hospitals Facing Huge Losses From Healthy Patients Yet To Discharge

...ty and families are unwilling to sell the homes to fund care. The other problems they feel are the lack of suitable services once they leave hospital, such as home care or physiotherapy. The NHS has asked the local authorities and hospital trusts have to work together to make sure well patients are disc...

A nod for legal drug trade in Vancouver

...an a donation by an anonymous donor of $500,000 to fund an innovative harm-reduction program is the spearhead. The reason and goal behind this whole exercise would be to protect women addicts forced into prostitution and to deal with Vancouver's crime and social disorders. In the words of the mayor, "A...

Merck in the Dock Due To Vioxx

... legal fees related to Vioxx, and said its reserve fund for future litigation stood at $685 million at the end of 2005. Wall Street is watching the Vioxx trials closely for clues about how much the Vioxx issue ultimately will cost Merck. Shares of Merck closed down 26 cents at $34.74 on the New York Stock...

Zimbabwe To Get ￡22-Million For Support Of AIDS/HIV Childre

...s of children in the economically poor region. The fund would also be utilized for increasing school enrollments for affected children. Additionally, as a part of the National Action Plan, it would be used for expanding the community and family support programmes as well. 'Almost one in three children i...

Indian Medical Association To Train Doctors About HIV/AIDS

.... The programme will get approximately Rs 20 crore fund for the workshops with experts being provided by the IMA itself. Dr Dubey said, that they are trying to attach doctors of all specialties with IMA. Stating that an umbrella organisation called the Federation of Medical Association (FOMA) has been fo...

Doctors to Reveal Gap Fees Charges to Patients

...ide hospitals. Anyone who has been with the health fund for 10 or more number of years would have a abolis...nefit of the consumers using which informed health fund decisions can be taken. An online hospital and doctor’s search facility would also be established ...

Cancer Patients Protest For Free Drug Treatment

...ment// at a hospital. Local health boards in Wales fund treatment for Herceptin in full, unlike the Shropshire Primary Care Trust. The patients in Shropshire have to pay an amount of ￡47,000 bill is staging a protest at the hospital on Monday. North Shropshire MP Owen Paterson said that breast cancer pa...

Free Herceptin Treatment for Those Who Live Over the Welsh Border

...p of women who are campaigning to get their PCT to fund the drug. Their campaign is supported by fellow breast cancer sufferer. In another incidence where Susan Morgan, 41, of Coton, Shropshire was denied the free treatment for the same cause is also note worthy. Then her daughter Katie, ten, wrote to Nor...

Medicare Benefits For Patients seeking Psychiatric Help

...ists to go into private practice. The package will fund about 900 personal helpers to assist people with a mental illness, and allow for Medicare rebates to be extended to cover psychologists.Associate Professor Andrew Heathcote said that previously only psychiatrists have had access to the Medicare rebat...

Arab World Wakes Up To the Call of Science

...ing revenues from oil production should be used to fund science and technology development. Statistics show that Arab nations put together spend about 0.15 % of their gross domestic product on research and development. When this is compared to that of the global scenario it is well below the global ave...

Bangladesh Ill-Prepared for an Outbreak of Bird Flu

... Bangladesh government claims to have an emergency fund of 50 million takas (US$714,000) to procure equipment in the case of an avian flu outbreak with further aid expected from the WHO. Health officials claim that an outbreak of bird flu could cripple the country’s poultry industry, which presently pro...

Global Fund Demands Account from Kenya For $10 million

.../ from the Global Fund’s intended 134 million. The fund was provided to Kenya to assist in combating Aids,...re not adopted. A decision will be taken by the fund for further disbursement of another installment, according to Deputy Director of Global fund, Hellen...

Health Minister Promises New Benchmark for Wait Times

...called on the government to introduce a $2-billion fund in partnership with the provinces to cover the cost of sending patients to different jurisdictions for procedures and treatment. Clement said there were four cornerstones to his plan, focusing on research and technology, and improving federal-provinc...

AIDS Deaths On The Rise Due To Low Access To Antiretroviral Treatment

...ast $22 billion per year will be needed by 2008 to fund comprehensive national HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes. --Edited IANS...

Cancer `Tumour Bank' With 7,000 Samples To Be Made Available For Research

...rant for this initiative and Geary said this would fund the network, providing "the glue to hold it together." The new tissue bank will be known as CTRNet and is North America's first national tumour bank network. What this does is it creates a tumor cell network from where samples will be available to re...

Private Medical Insurers Rise To Women’s Requirement of ‘Hercepti’

...ct, heart failure, therefore Bupa, has accepted to fund the drug following recommendation by the oncologist and acceptance by the patient. Dr Paula Franklin, Bupa's deputy medical director, says: 'Many drugs have potential side effects. We haven't made this decision in the absence of evidence. We feel we ...

Whopping Cancer Treatment Charges May See the Light of Day

... by the private operators to basically help in the fund flow for the cost of a second treatment machine. The Federal Government had offered to chip in with grants based on patient patronage but the center’s operators requested an immediate funding of up to $2 million. Damien Williams from the Cancer Care...

Ovarian Cancer Research Faces Funds Crunch

...ould detect it presence in the early stage. Many fund raising events are conducted as part of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week. One such is the fund-raising walk/run. This attracted more than a thousand participants in an effort to raise $50,000. The proliferation of such events and of the selling of color...

Pharma Companies Tie Up To Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

...ets. // Under the agreement, Bharat Biotech will fund all pre-clinical and clinical development work with Novavax and be responsible for the commercialisation of the single dose vaccine. In return, Novavax will receive unrestricted access to all pre-clinical and clinical data and a royalty on sales. R...

To safeguard poultry farmers a Rs. 35-crore fund set up.

...ouple of weeks ago. The Government has set up a fund to help mitigate the losses sustained by farmers whose poultry will have to be culled, and they are being paid Rs. 30 to Rs. 40 a bird said Dr. Acharya. Dr. Acharya reiterated that there is no incidence of bird flu in Karnataka .Precautionary mea...

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