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Jackson’s Stem Cell Research Donation Does Not Please New Zealander

...m stunned that New Zealand dollars are being given overseas but I'm not surprised because there's not an awareness of what's going on in New Zealand in many areas of research," he said. He said work at Malaghan and Auckland University was focused on stem cells and their ability to combat cancer. Even Science...

PHARMAC Declines Funding for Herceptin

...g review' would review further trial data, contact overseas clinical trial researchers as well as discuss the possibility of New Zealand taking part in a further international trial on Herceptin with oncologists. It has been estimated that funding Herceptin for early breast cancer would cost district health...

India, US Pharmacopoeia Signs Mou to Promote Awareness About Medicines

...al Care for All'". USP established its first site overseas in September last year with the incorporation of US Pharmacopeia-India Private Ltd., located in the ICICI Knowledge Park at Shameerpet in Hyderabad. This was followed by the formal inauguration of its state-of-the-art office and laboratory at ICICI...

Avian flu-free Status to Boost India's Poultry Exports

...ree, possibly next week, to cash in on demand from overseas particularly the Middle// East. "We are looking to the opening up of the export market with the notification by the government that India is free of avian flu," O.P. Singh, CEO of National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), told IANS from Pune. "...

Overseas dentists joining NHS on a high

...ng to find a dentist.” "We welcome dentists from overseas but this is only a short-term solution to the shortage of dentists caused by poor workforce planning in the past. "We must also wait to see the impact of the new NHS contract, given that one in 10 of the new contracts were rejected by dentists and ...

Technology-enabled diagnosis by overseas radiologists

...ouncil is not too happy with this decision, as the overseas radiologists are not registered under the New Zealand Medical Council. The board had earlier announced that this project would seek the contribution of radiologists in Australia, Britain and the United states, where the response would be received...

Leeds Hospitals to Outsource Medical Transcription Work to India

... about the security of sending patient information overseas especially as we know that hackers can get into anything on the internet. "Also medical secretaries are highly trained in their areas. If there are any queries, they are usually in the same building as the doctor to be able to check. That can't and...

The need for cancer warnings on alcohol packaging

... the labels here, put them on the alcohol, send it overseas to these countries, yet we don't do that for our own citizens," he said."It's something that the Australian Government has been slow in legislating for and we think it's about time that we definitely moved towards that." "As a society, we have educ...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

...opment goal (MDG) by 2015. "The current level of overseas development assistance "is inadequate to provide m... authors, an increase of $50bn is predicted in the overseas development aid by 22010. However, the real challenge is to make sure that improvement of women and ...

Consistent National Standards For Assessment Of Overseas Trained Doctors A Priority

...esses for assessing the skills// and experience of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) is diminishing confidence i...in country areas, and it is a huge disincentive to overseas trained doctors who are keen to work in areas of health need. "The Commonwealth has tried to achie...

Findings Suggest New Method to Fight Staph Infections

...ducts are currently being used by some U.S. troops overseas to deodorize protective body armor. From these uses, the idea emerged that it might also be used to kill bacteria associated with athletic equipment such as football pads. Recently, Tenney attended a conference where Newsome and his graduate studen...

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

...organisation with branches all over Nepal and even overseas where healing is done through mantras, chants and medicines prepared with a blend of herbs and metals, including precious metals and stones," she said. "Once the wellness concept spins off, it will span a whole lot of activities related to health,"...

NHS Dentists Shortage worsens over New Contracts

...bined with a recruiting campaign that brought more overseas dentists here than ever before. Although Health Minister Rosie Winter admitted that hundreds had left the NHS at the time of the contract she denied it was a mass exodus. According to the Dental Practitioners' Association, which represents High S...

Australia Mulls New Accreditation For Overseas Doctors

...t in December to hammer out a process of assessing overseas trained doctors. The study, published in the People and Place journal, found that while there had been some progress in the scheme, there was no immediate prospect for it to go ahead. The problem lay in the fact that the new scheme could slow dow...

Hindustan Latex To Market Vaccines

...or, HLL plans to use its wide network in India and overseas to make vaccines more accessible to the poorer sections. In the first such tie-up, HLL will be marketing Bharat Biotech's vaccines - HIVAC-B and TYFEX. HIVAC-B is a recombinant vaccine for Hepatitis-B that uses the HIMAX technology. This process el...

Mismanagement of fractures a major concern, say experts

...ts. Over 5,000 delegates, including experts from overseas and representatives from SAARC countries, will be attending the meet being held here after 18 years. With changing lifestyles, particularly sedentary habits and unhealthy food habits, more orthopaedic problems are on the rise, said Bhan Tuesday. ...

Need for Legal Rights to Birth Parents

...ch year comes from the foster care, next comes the overseas adoptions. 3. As per the report the institute suggests legal protection enforced by law in supporting the birth mothers by means of an agreement to ensure constant visiting, keeping in track for the well-being of their children in future and to ens...

Squabbles put overseas doctors’ agenda on the back burne

...AMA) has said that the scheme proposed to evaluate overseas trained doctors, has not made much progress.// In July, a scheme was made public by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) and was planned to be formalized by December; this was thought to be need of the hour especially after a furore at Bunda...

US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam

...anding (MoU), one of the first such deals with any overseas NGO, to assist the country's 'antiretroviral roll out or treatment scale up' programme. "This new partnership between NACO and AHF should help break the chain of new infections by helping more HIV positive individuals and those already living with...

Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Nairobi

... that export market is not affected as shipment to overseas was completed before the outbreak of disease. Rift valley Fever (RFL) is a viral disease which is spread by mosquitoes and affects animals like sheep, cattle and goats. It is spread to human beings through the bite of the infected mosquito. The RVF...

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