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Indian Doctor In Britain Warned For Refusing Treatment

...handra, who studied medicine in India and has been practicing in Britain since 1971, received a second warning from the medical council last week, following a reprimand last year. Chandra ran a clinic in Bolton, Lancashire, until his retirement in June 2003. The patient, identified as Mr X, had been staying ...

Doctor Accused Of Misdiagnosing 208 Patients: Further Investigation Ordered

...al practice.// The doctor has been prohibited from practicing elsewhere as he has been accused for wrong diagnosis involving nearly 208 patients. The doctor still holds the license to work as a GP, without any restriction or supervision. Under strict supervision, he can also work as a pathologist (one who exa...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...socio-economic problem," Puneet Bedi, activist and practicing gynaecologist, told IANS. He said the problem was spreading rapidly because it remained unchecked, but also because doctors had started acting as criminals who kill a child for money. It has nothing to do with education levels or ignorance. The ...

Learning About Healthy Diet Choices Begins At Schools

Schools that inculcate healthy eating habits by practicing what they preach can go a long way in promoting long term diet choices in elementary // children, according to a study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Texas. The researchers divided the study in two parts. The first part aim...

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

...case of a vulnerable adult”, agrees Mick Loftus, a practicing General Physician. Turning on to the other side, it is also acceptable that issues such as these are far more complicated than what is currently foreseen. The unstable health condition of the sick and old poses significant constraints on the healt...

Bail Granted To The Doctor Despite Her Patient's Death

...er the death of her patient. Dr Shanta Dhar a GP practicing in London was arrested last Friday and was released on bail. // She had been treating Joan Board, 78, from Enfield, north London. Dr Dhar was arrested and was charged for manslaughter, malfeasance and depraving the course of justice. Her patient M...

Campaign Against Witchcraft In Orissa

...nment of Orissa has a law, which prohibits anybody practicing witchcraft and includes a fine and even imprisonme...chcraft are women. But while actual instances of practicing occult are known, innocent women are the ones who are usually branded as witches by a few individual...

Indonesian Health Care System Rebuilt After Tsunami

...rimary care and referral. The education of new and practicing midwives is one of the key factors in reestablishing and improving quality health care in Indonesia. JHPIEGO is committed to bringing the best services possible to the women and children of this region,” concluded Mancuso. Partners of JHIPEGO have ...

Details of Cosmetic Surgery in a Special Website.

...rmal qualifications in aesthetic surgery and still practicing it will not be allowed to do so. People practicing before 2002 will continue practicing without any interruptions. This is due to the reason that all t...

Bad professional behavior dates back to medical school

...n by a state medical board is rare. Of the 725,000 practicing physicians in the USA, only 0.3% is disciplined each year. Failing to graduate from medical school is more likely; one in 20 students wash out for a host of reasons....

Tainted doctor refused Saskatoon job

...th officials in Saskatchewan have voted to curtail practicing privileges to former Hospital for Sick Children pathologist Dr. Charles Smith. Smith had been granted temporary privileges when hired by a medical school classmate to work at Saskatoon City Hospital on a one-year contract. But the Saskatoon Health...

New device to help spinal cord injury cases walk

...wo to five sessions per week of FES therapy. After practicing with physiotherapists, the patients learned how to trigger their leg muscles as they walked. Over the course of 12 to 18 weeks, the patients gradually improved. One woman was even able to stop using a full-length leg brace while walking. While the...

Medical Legacy of Doctor Franklin

...reventive and modern medicine. Franklin started practicing medicine in America during the 18th Century in a period where there were colonial healers with little formal medical training. Franklin was different from other colonials as he practiced medicine with clinical medicine with the mindset of an experime...

Are You Ill? Have A Hard Laugh!

...w it could help fight serious illness when she was practicing medicine in Kuwait. 'Ideally patients should feel the urge to laugh from the bottom of their hearts,' she said, adding: 'For some people, however, such as those who suffer from depression, it can be difficult to feel amused.' The therapists try to ...

Lip Piercing Can Be Fatal

...nes 'regarding the training and standards of those practicing body piercing. In this case, body piercing started a chain of events that eventually cost Daniel his life.'...

People Still Neglect To Use Sunscreen In Spite Of Cancer Warnings

... outdoor sports spend a significant amount of time practicing and competing in direct sun // , often during peak hours. Because they are spending so much time in the sun, they have a high risk for developing skin cancer, yet few of them regularly use any form of sunscreen, according to a recent study. The rese...

New Discovery to Increase Survival of Breast cancer Patients

...hion. This will help us reach our ultimate goal of practicing personalized medicine, by treating patients based on characteristics of individual tumors," (Eureka alert) Further Information on Breast Cancer from Medindia: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Breast cancer mostly o...

FDA asks the doctors to take the patients’ dietary history before prescribing medication

...deline called Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions for practicing physicians to check the //patients from suffering adverse effects of cocktails of drugs and diet. Pharmacogenomics is the procedure adopted by physicians to find out the patient’s profile of response to drugs and decide on the unique treatment optio...

Biofeedback Found To Reduce Steroid Dependence In Asthmatics

...f electronic monitoring devices. A new study finds practicing daily biofeedback // can help people with asthma reduce their need for inhaled steroid medications. Researchers tested the therapy in 94 adults with moderate persistent asthma. The participants were divided into four groups. Two of the groups used ...

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