Tag: "plea" at medical news

Man Bludgeons Friend, Gets Life Term

... Smith was originally charged with murder but his plea of guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide was accepted by the Crown on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He appeared in court in March this year when sentence was deferred for reports. Smith was sentenced to life in prison with a pun...

Conditions Of The HIV/AIDS Patients In The Mizo Society

The article is a plea on behalf of the HIV positive people of Mizo society to treat them as normal people during their lifetime and after death. Malsawmdawnga who is the president of Mizoram People Living With AIDS// Society (MPLAS) gave a press talk stating that even as ...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

...main to be investigated." They also called it "a plea for worldwide access to morbidity, mortality and natality data that constitute a largely unexploited treasure" for the chronobiology field. --Edited IANS...

A Boy Undergoing Treatment For Cancer Gets AIDS At AIIMS

...ation to the treatment. Terming as "absurd" the plea of AIIMS that the information was confidential, Justice Vikramjit Sen noted that in the present case the issue related to a blood donor and not a patient as there was also no justification for the AIIMS to take shelter under the confidentiality of do...

Man Appeals to President to Save His Ailing Son

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand): A man here has made a plea to President A P J Abdul Kalam to end the life of his 12-year-old son suffering from Aplastic Anemia whose medical expenses he cannot afford.// An employee with an automobile major, Ashok Kumar in a letter to the President sent through East Singhbhu...

Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

...dge for bail. But the judge rejected their bail plea by applying the principle of "proportionality of sentence period" as the accused had been booked under Section 21 (B) of the NDPS Act. Under this section, a person upon conviction for being in possession of "intermediate" quantity of narcotic subst...

Bismillah Khan frets over government ignoring request

...re, but it really pains me to think that my humble plea to both prime minister and president went unheeded,' Khan told IANS. 'I had personally explained to then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee-ji how it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to run my huge household of children and grandchildre...

Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients

... need to listen carefully to the authors' eloquent plea for a new paradigm in drug development, namely the testing of multiple investigational agents in ways that target complementary molecules and attack the malignant phenotype from multiple angles," Karp concludes. AML occurs when abnormal blood cells...

Wide Differences between NHS staff and ministers

...n service for six hours." She added, in a direct plea to the ministers: "All we want to do is to be able to do our jobs. Listen to us, the front-line staff, not the fancy management consultants." In the meantime union officials and health workers also spent the day lobbying MPs. Ruth Levin, a London r...

NHS Could Save 'Millions' Through Generic Drugs

The Government has repeated its plea to doctors over prescription of cheaper drugs to fight cholesterol. NHS could save ￡85 millions in the coming year if GPs// prescribed cheaper cholesterol-busting statins. Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) can prescribe generic versions of the drugs prav...

Government Tries To Change Nursery Admission Cut Off Age

... Wednesday rejected to consider Delhi government's plea to change the cut-off age for nursery admissions from three years to three-and-a-half years//. The division bench of Chief Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna referred the matter to the Ganguly committee, which has been set up to look int...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

... AG’s appeal against the rejection of its patent// plea for the anti-cancer drug Glivec to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. The decision could be considered a temporary setback to the pharma multinational. For it cannot hope for any early decision on the patent plea. The Appellate Board’s ru...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

..., Bangalore in southern //India, has made a strong plea for all out nationwide efforts to detect the Parkinsons Disease at an early stage. They have suggested that doctors working at primary health care centers and district hospitals be educated to identify Parkinsonism and refer the patients to specialt...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

...ibute steroids and a money-laundering count in his plea deal. In his testimony before the California medical board, Dr. Goldman claimed that it was Conte who misled him with false information about a woman athlete's medical condition in order to obtain drugs for her. The medical board's accusation sa...

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

...th hormone, from 1995 through 2005, according to a plea agreement filed in the United States District Cour...rs in fines. None of his clients were named in the plea agreement. Allan Huber 'Bud' Selig, a senior official of the Major League Baseball, the virtual ap...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...reached his office. "I had not come across their plea earlier. Now I will definitely go according to the provisions of government rules and regulations. Procedures to include the family in the poverty alleviation scheme have already been initiated," he said. This is the third time a family from Orissa...

Womans Death increases Pressure on LA Hospital to close down

...e amid reports of negligence in patient care. The plea for help from a woman dying in the emergency room of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital seemed to have been ignored by the in house staff. Like wise two emergency calls to the 911 too was rejected by the dispatchers, ultimately leading to t...

Therapist Arrested For Breaking Lives

...ess" disabled patients. Prosecutors accepted the plea of guilt, in part to spare one girl, a teenage stroke victim, from testifying before a jury.Says Gunn: "This is absolutely one of the worst child molestation situations imaginable. Bleyle worked at the well-regarded hospital for 25 years, including...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...reached his office. "I had not come across their plea earlier. Now I will definitely go according to the provisions of government rules and regulations. Procedures to include the family in the poverty alleviation scheme have already been initiated," he said. This is the third time a family from Orissa...

Girls Feet Severed in Amusement Park Accident

...her feet were reattached. The statement included a plea for privacy for the girl's family, and the family has instructed the hospital not to comment further. The family's statement said no one from the theme park had contacted them since the accident, as park representatives had told reporters. "At no t...

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