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Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges

... the Proposition 71. But the legal challenges have impeded the initiative. // The officials now say that it would take spring 2007 before the project will be initiated. Zach Hall, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, told his board of directors that it would commence the project...

Healthcare System Remodelled - Iraq

...cal sanctions in the region and mismanagement that impeded the success of the United Nations' oil-for-food program in the country during the 1990s. ‘The feedback provided by the nurses in this study demonstrates clear priorities that can facilitate both the short-term working conditions of Iraqi nurses and...

Assam Recruits Doctors to Serve in Rural Areas

... said. 'Shortage of nurses in Assam has severely impeded immunisation programmes in the past few years.' Coming down heavily on specialist government doctors ignoring their normal duties and devoting more time in private nursing homes, the minister said such acts would not be tolerated. 'I visited the ...

Anthrax Attack - Greater Potential Threat Than Thought

...e of antibiotics, suggesting that the intervention impeded spore germination and implying that it may reduce the incidence of both subclinical and clinical B. anthracis infection. In an accompanying editorial, James L. Hadler, MD, MPH, of the Infectious Diseases Section of the Connecticut Department of Pub...

Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

...d and Drug Administration in June. But that hadn't impeded its lobbying efforts. Legislators in at least 20 states and cities, including Virginia and the District of Columbia, are considering HPV vaccinations for girls 11 to 13 as a requirement for school attendance. Texas already has done so. "We are doi...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

... with a high burden of TB, efforts to fight TB are impeded by inadequate laboratory facilities and critical shortages of health staff. But easily the biggest problem is posed by the HIV epidemic. TB is a major cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. HIV is the main reason for failure to meet TB ...

Patent Problems in US – Over Stem Cell Researc

...t. A Californian consumer group said the patents impeded that state’s three billion US dollar stem cell research programme. Actually Thomson’s isolation of stem cells nine years ago did set off a big effort to turn that basic technology into treatments for various diseases. But then the Wisconsin patents...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...reated properly. Rehabilitation programmes being impeded by a drastic shortage of police escort officers that prevents prisoners being treated in specialist NHS services. The shortage is so severe that in some areas common medical problems, such as broken hand bones, are not sent for X-Rays in NHS faciliti...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...or the worrying rates of malnutrition, saying this impeded food deliveries and assistance. "If we had received the funds in time, we certainly would not have reached this high level of malnutrition and donors would actually have saved money," WFP spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume told journalists in Geneva...

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