More Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the NHS
...ff chance that they would obtain a higher training post in open competition. The Royal Colleges pay mealy-mouthed service to the claim of fairness when they have over the years discriminated against & sabotaged these very same doctors'. It further adds - 'Not-withstanding the public posturing in the aft...British Doctors Eye for Private Hospitals in India
...land last week. He was offered a yearlong surgical post at a hospital in New South Wales in Australia within a few days. The doctor said: 'I feel I have been forced out and betrayed by consultants and the government. I still hope to come back to the UK [but] if I was offered a training programme in Aust...Bob Woolmer Might Have Died of Accidental Drug and Alcohol Overdose
...et been established but will be determined after a post mortem examination is conducted,' it clarified. But other reports say that Woolmer probably died of cardiac arrest. Meanwhile his grieving family has blamed stress for his shocking death. They said his job of coaching Pakistan had been incredibl...Triple ARV Prophylaxis Reduces Viral Load in Breast Milk
...d samples were analysed at delivery and seven days post partum. Plasma HIV-1 RNA measurements had a lower detection limit of 50 copies/mL; DNA measurements expressed as the number of HIV copies/106 had a limit of detection of 10 copies/106 cells. The median age of the patients was 25 in group A and 26 i...Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study
... with the greatest increase in incident rates were post operative sepsis (34.28 percent), post-operative respiratory failure (18.70 percent) and selected infections due to medical care (12.23 percent). · Patient-safety incidents with the highest incidence rates were decubitus ulcer, failure to rescue and...Health Secretary Apologizes For Failed Online Recruitment System
...rs are going to find themselves without a training post in August. "We really don’t want highly qualified medical staff to be forced to leave the NHS, but if they can’t complete their training in this country, it could be their only option.” Sorce-Medindia ANN/L...Partners of Cancer Survivors at Risk for Depression
... and marital adjustment, spiritual well-being, and post traumatic growth. Researchers focused on cancer survivors who had received BMT as part of their treatment because little is known about the long-term quality of life outcomes for these patients. BMT is used to treat an increasing number of cancers,...Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional
...gn and Trademarks. He assumed the charge of the post of Technical Member (Patents), IPAB, Chennai on April 2 itself. With the appointment of Technical Member (Patents), the Board now stands operationalised. The IPAB is now fully functional for hearing the appeals against the orders of the Registrar ...AIIMS Director Venugopal Removed from Additional Post
...rning body to take steps for removing him from the post of AIIMS director by adhering to the due process of law. A division bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and H.R. Malhotra had given 15 day's time to the government to act upon the court order. The bench had said: "The institute's governing body is ...Row in Australia Over Mental Health Support Available for Returning Soldiers
...iers suffering from mental health problems such as post traumatic stress are sometimes dealing with three different government agencies. "Quite often, soldiers get lost in bureaucratic buck passing, and frustrated by the bureaucracy," he said. "We believe that the Federal Government must set up an urg......ple who need to pick up the threads of their life, post Katrina. To make matters worse, many health reco...lace could boast of the expertise of 120 surgeons; post Katrina only five specialists have returned and revived their practice. With the residents slowly re...Testosterone Cream – Ineffective in Enhancing Libido in Female Cancer Survivor
...trogen levels, this new study was conducted on 150 post menopausal cancer survivors. The women were divided into two groups. One group got a testosterone cream and the other received a placebo for four weeks. For the ensuing four weeks, treatment was interchanged between the groups. The groups had to ...Maverick Gay Ex-governor Turns a New Leaf - Accepted at the Episcopalian Seminary
...s admission, he had also offered to relinquish his post as governor. The aide had gone on to deny the affair, on the contrary had blamed the governor for harassing him. The Episcopal Church, school spokesman Bruce Parker said, "Mr. McGreevy has been admitted to the master of divinity program and he wil...Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK
...ry for analysis and will receive the result in the post or can access it online using a protected password. Julia Millington of the Prolife Alliance said: "There is a real risk that some people would choose to abort babies of a certain gender." Michaela Aston of the pro-life charity LIFE said: "This t...Titan may Produce Glucose Watches Soon
...e deal is yet to be finalized. Varadan holds the post of Director of the Centers of Nano-, Micro- and Neuro- Electronics, Sensors and Systems; High Density Electronics Center (HiDEC) and Neurosurgery Research Programme in University of Arkansas. He is with Penn State University, the hotbed of nano-techn...Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study
... development on process development to improve the post harvesting of herbs and create agencies for efficient marketing of the herbal potential through scientific channels of communication....EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India
...speaking on the occasion of launch of the two-year post graduate programme in emergency care in partnership with Stanford School of Medicine, USA. For extending its services throughout the country, EMRI has realised the need for large number of Emergency Management Technicians (EMTs) and has tied up wit...Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now
...eyond emergency care. So Cuba made a commitment to post doctors in several of these countries and to train local people in medicine so they could pick up where the Cuban doctors left off. ELAM, the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine, was born, and with it the offer of 10,000 scholarships for f...Jury Still Out on Cardiovascular Risk of Using HRT
... the findings provide some reassurance for younger post menopausal women about the risks of CHD whilst using HRT. But, Dr Shannon Amoils, Clinical Editor of BMJ Clinical Evidence commented that the number of cardiovascular events in the study subgroups was probably still too small to allow meaningful anal......ointed head of anaesthesia and critical care - the post held by Yatin Mehta before he left Escorts along with Trehan....