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Electronic Patient Record "Serious Threat" to Patient Confidentiality

... public, write Drs Paul Cundy and Alan Hassey in a letter to this week's journal. "Patients and clinicians...ed only with patient consent," they say. Another letter argues that the electronic patient record is incompatible with the doctor-patient relationship, and ...

China To Conduct Re-Test To Confirm Possible Bird Flu Death

...e contact with the eight scientists, he added. A letter published by eight Chinese scientists in a June 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine said that the bird flu virus was isolated in a 24-year-old man who died in Beijing in 2003. China is currently one of the worst-hit countries from bird ...

Assam To Write To Medical Council On Admission Irregularities

... graduate courses in the college on the basis of a letter allegedly given by the Assistant Director of All India Medical Entrance Examination that was later found to be fake. Sarma claimed that a racket was going on in the admission to post graduate courses on the basis of Central quota and the Medical Cou...

Stern action against AIIMS Medicos, warns Ramadoss

...e is 64 but is still the director. His appointment letter empowers him to work till the age of 66, which is completely inappropriate." The minister also said that striking doctors will not receive any salary for the period of protests. "According to the law of the land, no one would be given any salary fo...

Chinese Doctors Transplant Heart From Brain-Dead Patient

...moved after family members signed a formal consent letter and was transported by plane to Jinan. (Source:PTI News)...

Britain Reconsidering New Visa Rules for Indian Doctors

...le." A DoH spokesperson said: "As we stated in a letter to BAPIO, the guidance to the amendments to the Immigration Rules is currently being reconsidered." Mehta said: "We are very upset that the DoH is taking its own time while our doctors are losing valuable training opportunities. Since April this ye...

Senior Researcher Harassed In AIIMS

...vation agitation at the Institute recently. In a letter to Anbumani Ram doss, Union minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Ajita Gill said that although the "vicious propaganda and chauvinistic attitude of upper caste dominated doctors in the AIIMS campus’’ was widely reported, a small group of prog...

Dead Body on Hospital Bed for Four Days

...f decomposition.’ Enquiries have revealed that a letter was sent last month to porters which said they should ask nurses who request a body to be moved whether ‘it can wait until morning staff come on duty’. Two porters are needed to move a body. According to the letter, from domestic and portering manage...

Urgent Steps Should Be Taken To Clear MMR Vaccine-Autism Link

...cians and vaccination experts have written an open letter in the Scotsman newspaper saying that there would ...ors// that MMR Vaccine was linked to autism. The letter adds that if immediate action were not taken, the UK could face a serious situation with outbreaks o...

British pediatricians urge parents to administer MMR to children

...bates over this vaccine. Infact they have issued a letter to the public that warns of a threat to young live...of to substantiate the safety of the vaccine. The letter from the child health experts says, "We are now faced with a potentially serious situation. Years of...

Official Lapse Makes the Patient Wait

...aff at the Southern General Hospital said that the letter was seen only on April 18 2006. Mrs Jordan was very upset and wrote to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman about the situation and has raised concern there is no system for recording whether referrals have been received by hospitals. NHS Greater ...

HIV Certificate from NRI Students No Longer Made Mandatory

...d AIDS-free medical certificate. They should get a letter from the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society. When asked about the rule the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society said that it issued the orders as per the NACO (National AIDS Control Organisation). But VTU said that it will not make the su...

A brief Intervention Might Help To Deal With Depression

...rvention that consisted of a personalized feedback letter and a brochure. The letter began with a paragraph that told the students the concerns they reported during the assessment were ...

Assam Recruits Doctors to Serve in Rural Areas

... to an interview next week and get the appointment letter on the spot//. But there is a catch. The new recruits must serve in Assam's rural areas. 'Anybody with a medical degree can just walk in for an interview on Wednesday and Thursday and get a job. We have about 234 vacancies across the state and all...

Pharmacy Board Says Pharmacists Have Right To Refuse Morning-After Pill

...out it.' Gov. Christine Gregoire has written a letter to Dr. Asaad Awan, chairman of the Pharmacy Board saying that this policy was not right, 'The rules under consideration are unacceptable and fail to protect Washington families from pharmacists who refuse to dispense lawful prescriptions; no one sho...

Medicos Seek President’s Permission For Self-Immolatio

...permission for self-immolation. They have faxed a letter to the president seeking his "permission to immolate themselves", informed Ashutosh Dixit, who is leading the protesting doctors. Four of the junior doctors sitting on a relay hunger strike at Bhopal's Hamidia Hospital even wore nooses around their...

The Government’s Balancing Act on Reservatio

...ndment providing for reservation is implemented in letter and in spirit, a bill will be introduce during the monsoon session of Parliament to provide for the quota. The Left parties insisted that the Government sent out a clear message that it was committed to implementing the reservation policy. Even from ...

Man Appeals to President to Save His Ailing Son

...mployee with an automobile major, Ashok Kumar in a letter to the President sent through East Singhbhum District Deputy Commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni pleaded for approval for death of his son. Kumar, a resident of Mahanandnagar, said doctors had suggested bone marrow transplant for which the estimated m...

Eminent Doctors In UK Wants The NHS To Abandon Alternative Medicines:

... provide treatment. Among the signatories to the letter were, Sir James Black, who won the Nobel Prize for...ies at a time when the NHS is short of cash. The letter criticises two recent initiatives of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Medicine, a patient guid...

Children Monitored For Obesity

...ts of any obese four- or 10-year-olds can expect a letter telling them their child faces long-term health damage unless they lose weight. Caroline Flint, the health minister said that this anti-obesity drive should start from the parents as they influence what their child eats. Professor Al Aynsley-Green, t...

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