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Ramdev’s Medicines Questioned By Indian Medical Associatio

...concoctions put on the three phases of test trials mandatory before being marketed so widely and claimed to be alternative (not complementary) to the allopathic medicines?' questioned IMA president-elect Ajay Kumar. He was felicitated by the Bihar Chambers, this Sunday. He also expressed his unhappiness over t...

Foetuses Cant Feel Pain Says A Leading Psychologist

...rnment is now considering a law that would make it mandatory for doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain. Doctors who carry out abortions after 22 weeks without painkilling drugs would be fined...

Its High Time the Australian Government Takes Steps against Diabetes

...es are pushing for changes to food advertising and mandatory lifestyle education programs for schools. The Diabetes Summit recommended the general practitioners to promote a healthy diet and lifestyle thereby to educate the patients to help prevent and manage diabetes. The NSW Minister for Health, John Hatzist...

Indian Doctors have their Days Numbered

...he UK government, requiring work permit to be made mandatory for non-European doctors, in order for them to work in the National Health Service// (NHS), has brought about nervousness among the Indian doctors. With the change in rule, about 4,000 Indian doctors already working there are expected to be affecte...

Greener Pastures Beckon the Philippines Medical Workers

...y to make big bucks A law that would stipulate a mandatory tenure of at least 6 months for the fresh nursing graduates to practice in the country has been suggested by Secretary Duque, which might bring some respite to the critical situation. Administrative system in Philippines also calls for a revamp wit...

Project Stop to Block the Misuse of Cold and Flu Drugs

...ime before the Federal Government makes the system mandatory for all pharmacies. Mr Sclavos also said that about 15 % of pharmacies no longer stock pseudoephedrine-based products and that was of a great disadvantage to the innocent consumers. But now those pharmacies can return those products to the shelf and ...

Himachal Pradesh: Horse Dung To Be Converted Into Organic Fertilizer

...district magistrate of Shimla. 'We will make it mandatory for horse owners to attach carry bags to collect dung so that the roads are not littered with it,' he said. --Edited IANS...

China Issues New Legislation To Ban Human Organ Trade

...e. The approval of the medical ethics committee is mandatory before any organ transplant surgery. Owing to the acute shortage of human organs in China, only about 20, 000 of the 2 million organ failure patients undergo transplant surgeries every year. ...

Schools set to offer Japanese language course

...asier, the board will not make the Japanese script mandatory for students of the sixth standard. The text will be written in Roman letters though the Japanese script will be supplemented for the purpose of recognition. Sources(IANS)...

An urgent need for prison reforms: California!

...eed to be done. They are as follows:- 1. Repeal mandatory sentencing laws to give judges more discretion over who goes to prison and for how long. 2. Develop alternatives to prison for the mentally ill, certain drug offenders, and those convicted of minor crimes. 3. Give all prisoners access to vocationa...

Operation ‘Job Cut’: 1000 Jobs to be chopped By Hospital Managemet

...ly to survive the ￡17m debt. 75% of job cuts are mandatory redundancies that will affect all areas of the workforce. Nurses and midwives will comprise an approximate 370 of the laid off posts and vacancies will not be replenished.15 consultant positions are also going to hit the chopping board . The move h...

Devil in The Dock: Fraud Doctor Swindles Immigrants with Fake tests gets freaked out!

...d immigration medical exams, which are routine and mandatory to acquire citizenship status. "Instead of helping these people, this defendant allegedly manipulated them for his own personal profit," San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris said in a statement. Turner continued to practice till last year ...

New 'PPUD Syndrome' Prevalent Among Indian Doctors In Britain

...Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test. This is a mandatory qualifying test for overseas doctors before they can be registered for employment. The PLAB used to be held twice or thrice a year earlier. Now it is held twice or thrice a week. The success rate is also higher with the result that there are more d...

Babies Are Treated With Untested Drugs

...ly tested on children, even though this may become mandatory in the future. Most drug firms feel that problems like this are likely to come up only if a doctor were to miscalculate the dosage. Most of the medicines are prescribed taking into account the symptoms, and the weight and height of the child. Proper ...

Change in Blood Screening Principles For West Nile Virus Advocated

... US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made it mandatory to screen blood for the presence of WNV. But no specific strategies have been outlined, thus making the whole process costly. Now Caroline Korves (of Columbia University) in collaboration with Megan Murray and Sue Goldie (both at Harvard School of Pu...

Flu Shots Not Mandatory For Nurses

...d in an ongoing feud since September 2004 over the mandatory vaccination policy instituted by the hospital. Dr. Robert Rakita, chief of infectious diseases for Virginia Mason said on Thursday that he was unaware if the hospital would continue the legal proceedings. He added that nearly 90 percent of the nursin...

Move to make HIV Tests mandatory For Soldiers In Northeast

...my, the Indian armed forces plan to make HIV tests mandatory // for all its personnel serving in the northeast....ase of all armed forces personnel and to introduce mandatory HIV tests for all new recruits to the army, navy and air force. Singh told a news conference here S...

New tetanus-diphtheria combination vaccine launched by Serum Institute of India

...cording to which the vaccination has been has made mandatory for every person traveling to the country. The usage of the Td vaccine, more specifically in pregnant women has already been implemented in countries such as the USA. It is recommended that the vaccine be used in all individuals above 7 years of ag...

Stricter Screening To Reduce Instances Of Heart Problems

...lines that have come into force which have made it mandatory for all adults over 40 years to go in for a heart disease screening. This is regardless of the fact that the family may have no history with regard to cardiovascular // problems. In cases where there is a history of such problems, the tests will have...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

... order to pose a solution the government is making mandatory for testing of all herbal medicines, including Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha from January 1, 2006. Every licensed manufacturer of herbal products in the country will have to declare the content of heavy metals on the containers before exports. ...

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