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Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...tigate the case and impart justice. In most of the instances the doctors are let off with a warning by the council. What George Bernard Shaw said in 1913 may still be true in medical profession - ’No doctor dare accuse another of malpractice. He is not sure enough of his own opinion to ruin another man by it....

Audit Body Criticises Madhya Pradesh for Low Nutrition Levels

...icial added. Meanwhile, the CAG has also noticed instances of procurement of substandard nutritional food and non-observance of prescribed procedures in procurement. Besides, the implementation and monitoring of the scheme has been largely effected due to a number of posts in the department remaining vacan...

FDA Approves New Test For Screening Infection In Babies

... the clinical trial. "It would be helpful in those instances to have a rapid test to screen for group B strep." Edwards said the Cepheid test takes about 75 minutes to yield an answer and can be performed by health-care workers in the hospital, instead of in a lab. The test uses technology known as a polym...

Haryana Claims Improvement in Sex Ratio

...rriage due to shortage of girls. There have been instances where the local boys married girls from other states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa. The districts that did not show any improvement in 2005 are Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Mahendergarh and Rewari. Mewat district, the state's 20th...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

...ides declared a truce in April, there were regular instances of schools turning into battlefields with students and teachers among the casualties. Maoist guerrillas would hold indoctrination programmes in the schools, forcing the students and teachers to attend while security forces, learning about the plan,...

HIV Test is Becoming Mandatory as a Part of Pre-marriage Exercise

...ed. Said Suman Dubey of Health Screen: "In rare instances some people tell us that they are getting the test done as a pre-marriage exercise. This shows that the youths are becoming conscious about their life partners." There are also cases of young people wanting to get their report changed. "One gir...

Supporting children with stress key to improve stuttering

... a role in the frequency, duration and severity of instances of stuttering. "We have here something of a 'chicken or egg' question, that is, is there a causal relationship between their emotional, behavioral and attention issues and stuttering, or are those two situations just happening at the same time?" W...

NHS acting chief’s intervie

...l on the white paper.” "I can think of very few instances where we are talking about closing whole hospitals. You never say never, but I can think of very few where that would be the case.” "The first task of the new strategic health authority chief executives will be to finalise local development plans i...

Nepali Rhesus May be Used as an Alternate for HIV/AIDS Research

...al and in the last five to 10 years there are many instances of local people seeking to solve this problem by chasing or killing macaques. 'One of the goals of our international program is to assist our collaborators in creating the first primate research center in Nepal and to help address some of Nepal's m...

India: IT steps up security

... clients that India is safe for business. A lot of instances have stirred the IT sector to set up a strict surveillance. One such incidence is the arrest of three employees of Mphasis, a Bangalore outsourcing firm for allegedly stealing $US350,000 from Citibank account-holders in New York. Following this withi...

Executed Prisoner Organs For Sale In China: BTS Concerned

...ations owing to the poor compatibility. Although instances of organs being stolen from executed prisoners have been reported from around the world, such cases against the law were rare. 'The same strict procedures apply to using organs from executed criminals as using them from deceased volunteer donors,' sa...

Immune-Boosting Therapies Of No Use In Preventing Miscarriage

...ophoblast membrane. No difference was found in the instances of live birth births after 28 weeks of pregnancy between women treated with immune-boosting therapies and women who received no treatment. Further studies are needed to determine the exact cause of this and “a reliable method to determine which women...

Doctor Caught Red-Handed For Conducting Sex-Determination Test

...females for 1,000 males. There have been several instances in the districts of Sonepat, Karnal, Panipat, Bhiwani, Sirsa and Hisar of poor women from other states like Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Assam being sold to families from Haryana so that they could marry off their eligible sons. On March 28, th...

Drug Company Admits Knowledge Of Side Effects In Monkeys

...tudy participants were told that there had been no instances of adverse effects in the prior tests. The side effect of the drug as seen in monkeys had been high enough to warrant monitoring of the immune system and function in human volunteers. A previous study conducted in 2002 had warned about the possible...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...o have a sexual identity in Hindi films. In small instances where the older woman does find love in the arms of a younger man, she is eventually punished. Even in films that do deal with a romance like this, it rarely sees a happy ending for both. Both mainstream and niche filmmakers in India have been utte...

Parental Domestic Violence Contributes To Adolescent Depression

.... The study participants were questioned regarding instances of domestic violence between parents and its association with depressive symptoms, if any. Headaches, improper digestion, sleeping trouble, worry, loneliness and suicidal thoughts were regarded to be symptoms of depression. The need for medical att...

Increased Risk of Clot with Birth-Control Patch

...val study conducted on nearly 3000 women, only two instances of blood clots have been recorded so far. The drug manufacturer has stated that a small amount of risk is indeed associated with all forms of contraception. Owing to the overlapping confidence levels of the two contraceptive methods, there may eithe...

Nerve Damage Can Be Prevented By Xenon Administration During Surgery

...ility. Xenon is a naturally occurring gas and no instances of toxicity has so far been reported, that makes it an ideal candidate for use as a neuroprotectant....

Madhya Pradesh: Blood Transfusion Infects 136 Individuals With HIV

... an action plan would be implemented to avoid such instances in the future. Blood banks would be provided with HIV test kits and specialized equipments that would allow the blood to be tested for any potential infection, before transfusion. Madhya Pradesh deserves the credit of being categorised as one of th...

Parents Warned About Contaminated Teething Rings By FDA

...pproximately, 105 fluid leakage complaints and two instances of infants biting through the rings have been received so far. Anxious parents can log in to the Company’s website to elicit further details. ...

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