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Free Herceptin Treatment for Those Who Live Over the Welsh Border

...he drug. Mr Paterson said that it is a very sad plight for the women in Shropshire because despite them regularly paying their tax they had to raise huge sums of money, while women two miles away in Wales are getting the drug in the same hospital for free. The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital is awaiting formal...

Snap Shot of the Drinking Habits of the Scots and Its Associated Memory Loss

...e of Alcohol Focus Scotland was very sad about the plight of the youth and expressed concerns. He said that awareness has to be created among the people regarding binge drinking and its harmful effects. The average for the four cities was 72% and 84 % of them said that drinking was part of their lifestyle....

Cash-Strapped Hospital loses Top Surgeons

...competent managers who were not bothered about the plight of Mount Vernon. Mr Gault claimed that enforced regulations like cost saving rules and waiting times had also effected the standards and quality of training of the staff at the unit. The patients are the ones who would stand to lose the most follow...

Cancer Patient Loses Embryo Appeal

...ke the national courts, had great sympathy for the plight of the applicant who, if implantation did not take place, would be deprived of the ability to give birth to her own child." Ms Evans had begun her IVF treatments in 2001 and has stored six frozen embryos that will be destroyed this October as per the...

The AIDS Pandemic May Orphan 18 Million African Children By 2010

...d be the main target of the global conference. The plight of these children has been largely ignored according to Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF. 'Children are the missing face in the AIDS pandemic. Every minute of every day a child under the age of 15 years old dies of HIV and AIDS. There are ...

Cancer Patient Protests Before Assembly

...g to draw the // attention of the ministers to the plight of the patients. She is willing to speak to the Welsh Health Minister Brian Gibbons only in public. The authorities are finding her campaign increasingly embarrassing, and the police force could do very little about it until she breaks a law. Sul...

Medicare Drug Plan Is Not Working in The US

...ticism of the new plans, the paper reported on the plight of two patients who were forced to go without their medicines for nearly a week. 51-year-old Geoffery Foughnor could not get his prostate cancer medicines, while his 75-year-old mother Helen Walker had to wait for her blood pressure pills. This scena...

Bird Flu Alarm In Indonesia

...003. Almost simultaneously with news of the city plight came word that Swiss-based drug manufacturer Roche will let Indonesia produce the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to help fight cases of bird flu in humans. Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said she had received permission from Roche earlier Friday, so '...

Benzene Slick In China Highlights Water Pollution

The plight of an estimated 190 million Chinese, who regularly drink polluted water, is now in sharp focus due to the benzene slick moving down the Songhua river, causing the suspension of drinking water supply to 3.8 million people in Harbin city.// "In China...

The Kidney Transplantation conspiracy in South Africa

...d they assisted in the operations to alleviate the plight of patients without knowing that the organs had been obtained through illegal means.Source: (IANS)...

A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts

The plight of poor children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) here moved NRIs into donating// $200,000 at a fund-raiser dinner held in the US by a non-profit organization. About 40-50 NRIs have offered to sponsor a child each. Some of them are keen to sponso...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...ss the world are looking for solutions to ease the plight of the poor suffering from tropical diseases. DNDi’s six founding partners are primarily from the public sector and have already been working tirelessly in the field of public health and research. As DNDi, they will work with WHO/TDR, and use their e...

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