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Dentist Tested Positive For HIV - Queensland Health To Screen Patients

... Authorities have explained that the dentist was practising in the Bowen and Collinsville hospital. Dr Jeannette Young, the chief health officer, has explained that though the risk of infection is almost negligible, several hundred patients who were treated since the December 15 last year will be screened. ...

Modern Health Care System at Risk of Collapse Without Reform

... required. Only mass action and public advocacy by practising clinicians will achieve lasting solutions,”he says....

Keep Australia's GP Workforce Numbers Healthy, AMA Urges

...ead of population. "But close to half of all GPs practising in Mr Abbott's electorate are over 55 years of age, which means they're getting pretty close to retirement. "It's a problem across Australia, and one the Government must address now." Just under 30 per cent of GPs nationally are 55 or older, and ...

Indo-Canadian Doctor Charged with Abetting Suicide Bid

... of the court proceedings. He has been barred from practising medicine without the college's permission. Thoug...ame from the medical registrar and barred him from practising medicine after he confessed to having sex with a female patient in his medical office. (Source: IA...

Dental Grills harmful For Users

... from $20 to thousands of dollars. Dr Messina, a practising dentist in the Cleveland area, said there are greater risks involved with the grill what is envisaged by most people. He said, "Since it's removal, people generally think it's safe that's not really true." Explaining that these devices generally snap...

Indian Origin Woman is the New Head of British Medical Association

... (BMA).// Parveen Kumar, gastroenterologist and a practising physician, quoted from poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali", "Where the mind is without fear..." during the function to take over office. Kumar, who was born in India, is also a professor at Barts, Royal London and the Homerton Hospital...

Rajasthan Plans to Promote Medical Tourism and Medical Education in the State

...and to medical institutions that are promoting and practising alternative medical therapies. To benefit from the policy, nursing and paramedical institutions will have to make an investment of at least Rs.50 million. Similarly, nursing homes and 15-bed hospitals planning a facility within 50 km from regiona...

AIDS Claims Five Lives in Madhya Pradesh

... said. Around three quarters were infected after practising unsafe sex. He said 72 percent of the total AIDS patients in the state were men. In 2004, the number of HIV positive cases stood at 205. The figure rose to 359 the next year. The first AIDS case in the state was recorded in 1988. The state AIDS ...

Yoga Can Keep Youths Away From Drugs: Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar has said practising yoga, pranayam and meditation will help youths to keep away from drug and alcohol abuse. // 'Youths crave for something different and it is our duty to introduce yoga, pranayam and dhyan (meditation) to them,' he said while interacting with reporte...

Students in Pakistan Protest Against Dance, Music in Curriculum

...f that ideology and their youth is a guarantee for practising those Islamic ideological teachings. But the current authorities have reversed this objective and are focussing on the so-called enlightened moderation. They are misleading youth.' The student bodies have said that they will organise a referendum o...

Scotland Faces Shortage Of GPs

...search fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a practising GP, identifies action must be taken, regarding hiring more doctors from overseas, retraining nurses to carry out advanced duties currently performed by GPs and giving women doctors with families more support to work longer hours, whereas recruitment ...

Britons Believe In The Paranormal Phenomena

...turer at London's College of Psychic Studies and a practising medium said that psychic is always associated with an old lady in a gown with a crystal ball. About 74% of the people in the age group of 55 to 64 year olds believed in psychic powers. But Padraig Reidy, deputy editor the New Humanist magazine said t...

Rajasthan Doctors Booked For Female Foeticide

... registration of those private hospitals allegedly practising female foeticide. The minister added that a meeting of the medical advisory council will be held on May 22 to seek suggestions to strengthen the act. --Edited IANS...

Organic Farming May Increase The Output Of Apples In Himachal

... campaign we surprisingly found 80 farmers already practising organic farming on the orchards with good results. But this is only a microscopic minority," said Tej Pratap Singh, executive director of the International Competency Centre for Organic Farming in Bangalore. "Actually the advantage of adopting orga...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...s, therefore, high risk." Swaminathan has been a practising psychiatrist for three decades and said there had been a change in the attitude of Indians towards mental illness. "When I was doing my residency in 1974, I would see one patient a year. Today I see over 50 annually. The perceptions have changed. I...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...s, therefore, high risk." Swaminathan has been a practising psychiatrist for three decades and said there had been a change in the attitude of Indians towards mental illness. "When I was doing my residency in 1974, I would see one patient a year. Today I see over 50 annually. The perceptions have changed. I...

Mumps Fever Spreads Unabated In US

... it has also recommended other precautions such as practising good respiratory hygiene, frequent washing of the hands, and to stay indoors when sick. In Nebraska 37 cases have been confirmed, 119 probable and 20 suspected. The most affected counties include Adams (27), Hamilton (16), Lancaster (14), Clay (12),...

Nurses To Take On More Work Usually Done By GP’

...ed he said was a greater range of services which a practising nurse could claim. But the minister had ruled out expanding the scheme to cover more highly skilled nurse practitioners who, unlike practice nurses, can work independently of doctors. Although many nurses work in hospitals, nurse practitioners are ...

Medicare Benefits For Patients seeking Psychiatric Help

...care rebate, so there should now be an increase in practising mental health professionals. Stating that the problem till now was that the profession of psychology, has had limited access to Medicare money, He thinks that once there is access to money more students will want to train in to there and of course mo...

Increase in HIV Cases Due To Restricted Offering of the Preventive Treatment

... said that a large number of people are repeatedly practising unsafe sex which led to the increase in the HIV cases. If PEP were held in every casualty department and given out liberally then it was predicted that five years ago it would have worsened the problems of sexually transmitted infection....

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