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Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...f paramount importance, stresses Rachel A Volberg, president of the U.S. based Gemini Research and a leading problem gambling epidemiologist in the world. But there are other public health experts who argue against such anti-gambling campaign. It may well be that some people are spending their money 'unwise...

Black-Owned Hospital Receives Historical Commemorative Marker

...78, and Atkinson eventually became the first black president of the Chester County Medical Society and was named general practitioner of the year by the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The facility reopened in 1991 as the W.C. Atkinson Memorial Community Center. Brandywine Hospital partnered with the Atkinson...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

...afe and effective," Baylor said. David Williams, president of Sanofi vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur, said in a s...n Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. Philip Hosbach, vice president for immunization policies and government affairs for Paris-based Sanofi, said the company was workin...

Kids Watch too Many TV Junk Food Commercials: Study

...isney, MTV, and Nickelodeon. Vicky Rideout, vice president of the foundation and co-author of the study, said the significance of the study was "that most of the food advertisements that kids see on TV today are for foods that nutritionists would argue children probably need to be eating less of, not more of...

Campaign for Safe Drinking Water in India, Nepal

...a's involvement in the project, Deepak Jolly, vice president for public affairs and communication of Coca Cola, said the corporate social responsibility wing of the company has always been involved in activities that benefit the society at large. While initial phases of the project have already kicked off in...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...he Nutrition Business Journal. Andrew Shao, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a supplement industry group, says he doesn't think the analysis was fair in the criteria it used to exclude numerous studies that found chondroitin beneficial."Consumers...

Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

...ment agencies and other hospitals. Perl is past president of SHEA and will be presenting at the four-day conference, expected to attract 1,200 infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, nurses and hospital administrators to the city. "We need to find patients who have these bacteria on them and who...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...te and 20 from overseas. Victorian AIDS Council president Mike Kennedy said it was his understanding that 11 of the 20 overseas immigrants were born in Australia or New Zealand, leaving only nine people with HIV who entered the state from overseas. 'That number is incredibly low,' he said. 'In Australia the...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

Former US president Bill Clinton has said that the country's was colla... current state of American health care, the former president noted the country was spending as much 16 percent its national income on health care, compared with...

Health Insurance For Almost Everyone In Massachusetts

...amilton, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and president of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. "It casts the widest possible net across those who are uninsured, while protecting the most vulnerable." ANN/...

Delhi Hospital Medicos Calls Off Strike

...ell as civic amenities," said Manish Nathani, vice president of the LNJP resident doctors association. Since Wednesday, nearly 1,500 medicos, including 700 resident doctors, had been on strike against the alleged manhandling of a senior resident doctor by relatives of a patient. They were joined on Thursday ...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...ate and 20 from overseas. Victorian AIDS Council president Mike Kennedy said it was his understanding that 11 of the 20 overseas immigrants were born in Australia or New Zealand, leaving only nine people with HIV who entered the state from overseas. "That number is incredibly low," he said. "In Australia the...

Delhi Police, Home Guards to Guard LNGP

...may join work Friday." However, Jitendra Singla, president of the hospital's resident doctors' association, said they would take a decision on this issue on Friday. "The strike is still on, we will take a final decision tomorrow." Source-IANS...

US Senate Passes Stem Cell Research Bill

... that they will have the opportunity to rebuke the president by overriding that veto this time. Although the House majority favouring the legislation is 15 votes larger this year than that in 2005, it is still dozens short of the two-thirds needed for an override. In that case, Bush's veto pen will prevail...

AIIMS Director Venugopal Removed from Additional Post

... by Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss, who is also president of the AIIMS governing body, after consultations with experts. On March 29, the High Court had vacated the stay over the hospital's governing body to take steps for removing him from the post of AIIMS director by adhering to the due process of law....

Groups Join Forces to Fund Promising Lung Cancer Research

...aid John Stevens, MD, American Cancer Society vice president of extramural grants. "These new fellowships join ...romising lung cancer research,” said Jill Feldman, president of the LUNGevity Foundation. "We are determined to invest in this type of leading-edge research unti...

New Zealand’s Medical Lab Workers On Strik

...orrow. Medical Laboratory Workers Union national president Stewart Smith was quoted that he doubted today's negotiations would avoid the planned industrial action, yet he hoped that some issues would be resolved. Aside from the pay dispute, the union and DHBs were also at loggerheads on issues such as con...

A New Erbitux Combo Shows Promise in treatment

...ic Rowinsky, chief medical officer and senior vice president of ImClone Systems. "Erbitux has already demonstrated improved survival when combined with radiation in locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer." "When Erbitux was approved for head and neck cancer, it was not only hailed as the first new tre...

Can Science Stop Cancer Before It Starts?

...priorities facing our nation,” says Marlene Malek, president of Friends of Cancer Research. Source-Newwise SRM/B...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...vascular medicine at The Cleveland Clinic and past president of the American College of Cardiology, urges caution. He notes that the findings are based on only eight heart attacks among thousands of high-risk patients taking ibuprofen and aspirin. Still Dr.Farkouh says the numbers may be small but the potent...

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