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480 posts to be laid off in a hospital trust

...n added: 'Individuals have not been identified for job losses at the moment, but up to 480 posts will go.' The trust's chief executive, Lorraine Clifton, said: 'The financial challenges facing the trust are very real and should not be underestimated.'By looking at all our systems and how we can work di...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

...h ones are not. So the challenge is to do a better job of determining the prognostic potential of that tumor rather than necessarily blaming screening for detecting it.” Better predictive tests may some day be available. For now, said Schwartz, women are faced with a difficult choice — and, she adds, i...

Burnout Explains Link Between Job Strain and Depression

Workers with high levels of job strain are at increased risk of burnout, which seems to explain the relationship between job strain and depression, reports a study in the// October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Me...

Pick Apples for Good Neurological Health, Says New Research

...n the apple-enhanced diets actually did a superior job on the maze tests than those not on the apple-supplemented diet," remarks Dr. Thomas Shea, who led the research. Shea, who is the director of the UML Center for Cellular Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration, published yet another study in the Decembe...

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

... mother and child. Simkin said a large part of her job is helping women with pain management so they don’t become overwhelmed or panicked. "When we talk about pain relief, acupuncture can induce a very impressive sense of relaxation," she said. "So I think that it does have a place and I think that it ...

YSR launches 'Operation Dengue'

...cle rickshaws have been employed to undertake this job in the twin cities in order to collect garbage directly from households while 300 teams have been assigned designated areas for anti-malarial operations. Each team would visit 200 households. He said, "You will have to cooperate with them and make ...

Permanent Jobs Elude Qualified Nurses

...e, said that almost nine out of ten nurses blamed job cuts and recruitment freeze for their plight. RCN general secretary, Dr Beverly Malone, said: "Short-term, quick-fix recruitment freezes in the NHS not only disillusion staff, they have a direct impact on patient care. We desperately need these nur...

Chemotherapy increases the demand for blood components

...worse as my own blood factory could not yet do the job so I received more platelets as required.” Source-Medndia GYT...

The Dope on Alzheimer's – Does Marijuana Halt the Progress of Alzheimer's

... study found that the older rats did not do a good job of making their way in the maze, akin to the brain process of an elderly human groping about in an unfamiliar terrain. But the rats which were administered WIN certainly fared better on the test. The researchers confirm that this is not a blanket ...

Telstra Must Send Lifeline to Rural Doctor Landlines

...allation and repair policy for rural doctors whose job is to protect health and save lives. “It is only fair that country Australians have access to quality emergency medical care that other Australians take for granted. “Our message to Telstra and Mr Trujillo is that good advice on this urgent matte...

Key Gene Controlling Kidney Development Found

...zed) cell develops characteristics specific to its job in the body. The kidney stem cells, called mesenchymal blastemal cells, are the source of cells triggered by chemical signals to differentiate into nephrons—the structures in the kidney that cleanse the blood of waste. The nephrons later become att...

Supercentenarian Center to study longevity

... Platika is stepping down later this year from his job as head of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, a public-private partnership that supports the growth of regional life sciences companies, to devote his time to raising money to fund the Supercentenarian Research Foundation. Coles said, "Demogr...

Injustice to cancer patients at work

...f all incidents is the one in which, a woman had a job offer withdrawn by a cancer charity after it was found that she had had breast cancer 6 years ago. Agnes Fletcher, from the DRC, said, "We are shocked at the extent of the discrimination. "Sometimes employers think a person who's had cancer shouldn...

Indian Origin Doctor Faces Trial for Cheating

...ledge of obstetrics and gynaecology, applied for a job at Darlington Memorial Hospital in June 2004, but made no mention of her time at South Tyneside after February of that year. Addressing the jury, Birch added: "You would have thought she would have mentioned she was working at South Tyneside Distri...

Survivors of Pakistan Earthquake Still at Risk

... However, more funding is required to complete the job and the International Federation continues to seek ongoing donor support for its recovery projects. Khalid Kibriya, Secretary General of the PRCS said, "Compared to emergency relief operations, recovery is significantly more complex and challenging...

Red Cross and Red Crescent Go the Extra Mile to Fight HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

...ance…is all about walking the last mile to get the job done in ensuring ordinary people…are better prepared and supported to deal with this catastrophe, HIV and AIDS.” In his opinion, despite advanced and evolved methods to combat HIV/AIDS, the poorer nations and vulnerable regions are still not able t...

AIIMS Student Dies of Dengue Fever

...ould be that our support staff are not doing their job properly," the official said. The dengue virus is spread by the bite of female Aedes mosquitoes, primarily Aedes Aegypti, that breed in clean water collections. A fresh directive was issued to all support staff to keep a close watch for any signs...

Physician Communication Spotty When Prescribing Medications

Physicians could do a much better job of communicating critical elements of medication use when they prescribe new drugs to their patients, a new UCLA study has found//. The study, slated for publication in the Sept. 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that in too many ...

National Survey Shows Patients are Unaware of Serious Heart Risks of Triglycerides

...that we, as physicians, need to do a more thorough job of being sure our patients understand the cardiovascular risk of unhealthy lipid levels, including often-ignored triglycerides,” said Jerome D. Cohen, M.D., director of Preventive Cardiology Programs at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center and...

Preventive Action Intensified to Control Chikungunya Spread

...ologists along with medical specialists are on the job at the affected areas, probing into the details of the outbreak. Vector control programmes are already on in full swing along with measures to plug the source of the infection as well as redouble fogging, to contain the spread of fever. SAV...

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