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Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...ncil members to give an immediate statement to the press that is in line with the public sympathy and appear on the television media but another to fully investigate the case and impart justice. In most of the instances the doctors are let off with a warning by the council. What George Bernard Shaw said in...

China's Neusoft and Trivitron Plan to Set up Medical Equipments Unit

...25 million over a period of four years," a Neusoft press statement said Tuesday. "India is the most important market for Neusoft and we are very happy to set up this medical equipment manufacturing unit in India. We are looking at tapping the talent base available in India to set up Neusoft's second man...

Soft Drinks Still not Safe for Drinking: CSE

...found pesticides again in 11 brands. Addressing a press conference CSE chief Sunita Narain, said that a fresh survey by their pollution-monitoring laboratory has found pesticides in soft drinks collected from plants across 25 states in the country. In its report, the environmental organisation said that...

Nano-sized inhaled particles traverse quickly from nose to brain

...les could result in brain damage. According to a press release by Eureka Alert, the study tested manganese oxide ultrafine particles at a concentration typically inhaled by factory welders. The manganese oxide particles were the same size as manufactured nanoparticles, which are controversial and being d...

Indo-Canadian Doctor Charged with Abetting Suicide Bid

...g before the court, another report by the Canadian press identified the elderly woman as Ruth Wolfe. She was quoted as telling a local TV station that she has a sharp mind but a failing body. Stating that Sharma was her long-time family physician, she said that he shouldn't face criminal charges. Accor...

China’s AIDS vaccine-successfully finishes first phas

...ell in stimulating the body's immunity," he told a press conference in Beijing. The first phase of clinical trials, which focused on the vaccine’s safety comes to an end with these results. Sang Guowei, director of the National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products, said t...

Abducted Health Workers Freed By Taliban

...ad Yousuf, a purported Taliban spokesman, told the press that the Taliban took away the vehicle and freed the hostages after learning their identity. Kandahar has been a hotbed of Taliban and other anti-government insurgents. Militants have occasionally abducted employees of the government and foreign ...

Indian Scientist to Help Reduce Infant Mortality in Africa: UNICEF

...gy for poor communities in Africa, said the UNICEF press release on Monday. Through the NGO he founded, the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), Bang's programme provides basic health care to babies who are delivered at home. "Although it is ideal that every mother ...

Alcohol affects quality of sleep in young women

...runk in many states. EurekAlert revealed this at a press release. This study involved the analysis of the sleep habits of young women (between ages 22 to 25) who drank alcohol before bed, over the course of three nights. The women's sleep and sleep electroencephalograms (EEGs), a graphic record of the el...

Sheer exhaustion makes a junior doc’ kill a patient!

...ter a police inquiry, the decision was made not to press criminal charges on her. James Hopkins, the West Yorkshire police detective who looked into the case, was sympathetic towards the hard-working doctor. He said: "We discussed the number of hours she worked that week and, to be honest, I empathise wi...

Dentist Tested Positive For HIV - Queensland Health To Screen Patients

...r learning she was HIV positive. She reported at a press conference that the dentist had worked at the hospital from last year and had treated between 350 and 500 people, and that the dentist had also visited local schools as it was a part of her duties when working with the Queensland Health. Dr Young ...

Replacing Old Mattress, Adding Ventilation Reduces Mites

...’ homes. The study can be found in the articles in press area of the JACI Web site, http://www.jacionline.org. Like the Zock study, dust was vacuumed from the mattresses, with 2,800 mattresses from homes 22 different communities sampled. Current cat owners’ homes had substantially higher amounts of aller...

Remarkable Progress In Development Of Vaccines

...or Early Immunization of Every Child By Two,’ at a press conference that they held on this issue earlier this month said, 'Despite the success of increasing the numbers of children being vaccinated, what is very troublesome is that 2.1 million children are not getting timely vaccinations.' Explaining tha...

Medical researcher Accused of 'serious misconduct'

... was reported that Walsh referred questions to NIH press aides, all the while claiming that he had never served as a representative or advocate for any pharmaceutical company. However the Times reported that the panel of ethicists and lawyers who conducted the review found that Walsh collected $100,970 in...

Weightlifting Could Enhance Glaucoma Risk

...e highest amount of weight each person could bench press was determined by the researchers. The average maximum was 145 pounds. Subsequently, the men were made to bench-press 80% of their maximum bench-press weight for 4 times. On the first three lifts, the men exhaled while lifting the weight and inhal...

Slow Fight Against Childhood Obesity

...son Foundation, which funded the report, said at a press conference. "Leaders in Washington, in our home ...ity's Woodruff Health Sciences Center, said at the press briefing. "The nation is beginning to grasp the severity of the epidemic," Koplan said. "But despi...

Dangers Lurking in Soft, Cuddly Toys

...oys," said Ravi Agarwal, director Toxics Link at a press conference here. "It is common to see small children and infants chew and play with soft plastic toys, which are the subject of this investigation." Lead and cadmium are proven poisons, being neurotoxins and nephrotoxins. Neurotoxins are agents ...

Contraceptive Patch Carries Risk of Blood clots

...eported by Johnson and Johnson in a Feb. 16, 2006, press release was also included in the label change. This information was partly based, on an interim report from one of the two studies. The FDA said that the label change announced on Wednesday is based on the latest results from the two studies. Accord...

Healthy Mind leads to Healthy Heart

...of Cardiology Society of India, Tamil Nadu, told a press conference ahead of World Heart Day falling on Sunday. " Research indicates that persons with certain personality traits run a five-fold risk of developing heart disease, " he said.People belonging to Type C personality or Type D are at higher risk...

Stem cell trial to beat Batten Disease

...lism at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, said at a press briefing Friday. "These materials accumulate and interfere with normal cell and tissue function and ultimately cause cells to die," said Steiner, who's also a professor of pediatrics and molecular and medical genetics at Oregon Health and Science U...

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