Tag: "inhuman" at medical news

Widespread Commercialisation Of Human Organ Donation In China

...dmitted about the widespread prevalence of such an inhuman act. Despite reports of poor survival rates of grafts transplanted from total strangers (were paid for their donation) and transmission of HIV, such instances of commercialisation of human organs continue to expose the deficits in the legal, social...

High Court: Disabled Baby Should Live

...ly basis that keeps him alive. Doctors feel it is inhuman to allow a boy to continue to lead a very miserable quality of life, and hence had requested the High Court to grant a declaration to permit them to withdraw the life support. This is perhaps the first case, where the doctors treating a patient, who ...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

...nd 150 addicts. 'It works even though it appears inhuman at first,' college lecturer Tonsing Vunglallian said. Source: IANS...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

...ese are shocking statistics. Women have to wait an inhuman amount of time for the results. The drastic measures some women are taking show the extent of distress, which is being caused. It seems illogical that it should take so much time to get the results from tests." "While I can understand the concern ...

Ex-drug Addict has set up Support System for Drug Victims

... a rehabilitation centre, said he was subjected to inhuman treatment during the stay. "They put me in chains throughout," he said. According to the Manipur AIDS Control Association, there are over 30,000 IDUs in the state, more than 3,750 of whom have tested HIV positive. "CUF aims to increase confidence...

All Forms of Ill Treatment Cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD

...e distinction between torture versus "other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." Although international c...ertheless reinforces the misconception that cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment causes lesser harm and might therefore be permissible under exceptional circ...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...harging that the army's very training programme is inhuman and that those who manage to come out unscathed at the end of it all should count themselves lucky. What happened at Walter Reed to soldiers injured in war is not shocking at all if one ponders what happens at Army posts to soldiers injured in basi...

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