Medical Benefits to Public Retirees
...nded liability for medical and disability benefits promised to civil servants and military personnel who retire. Medicare has a $33.4 trillion unfunded liability. Social Security has a $4.6 trillion shortfall. Minneapolis has no liability because it doesn't offer retiree medical benefits. Governments have les...Prime Minister Asks Medicos to End Strike
...Singh asked the striking medicos to end strike and promised that the matter will be solved in an amicable way and the students// should have faith in his government. This is his first direct intervention in the on-going protest against reservation for OBCs. His appeal came on a day of hectic developments o...The Government’s Balancing Act on Reservatio
...are not affected by the increase in quota. It also promised to appoint more teachers. An option before the Government is to re-employ teachers till the age of 65. The decision backed by across-the-board political consensus brushes aside the National Knowledge Commission's objections. Two members of the Comm...Agitating Doctors Call For Two Day Shut Down Of OPD’
...and Tuesday. The protesting doctors have however promised not to cause any inconvenience to the patients, an...out their proposed plan to shut down the OPD’s but promised to that in any such eventuality they would take all the necessary steps to ensure smooth functioning...False AIDS Healer Accused Of Fraud
... also obtained Sh300, 000 from Joachim Njuguna and promised to cure his relatives. The hearing is set for August 2....MP Junior Doctors Continue Strike
... agitation, junior doctors in Madhya Pradesh today promised to call it off // , if the state government gives written assurance to abide by the Supreme Court's directives and refrain from taking action against them for staging the protests. 'We are ready to join work if the state government gives written ass...Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment
...inst the hitherto 'untouchable' Indian doctors. He promised to move the matter to the Supreme Court immediately against the ruling of the apex court. Saha had filed a Rs.770 million ($17 million) claim against a Kolkata hospital (AMRI) after the death of his wife Anuradha Saha, 36, due to alleged wrong trea...Diagnosis On a Fourth Patient Confirmed To Be E.Coli
...ate to find themselves in this predicament, but he promised to use this as a platform and as an incentive to ensure that they would raise the bar for standards much higher in the future. Dr David Cromie, consultant in public health medicine with NHS Lanarkshire, explained that there could be possibilities o...Making a mocktail of chemical cocktail in children’s blood
...retaliatory and responsible step Health Canada has promised a national study in the same direction. ...Dreadful Polio Outbreak In Namibia – Need Immunisation Campaign
...s the health ministry. International agencies also promised to provide financial support and vaccines needed. ...Waiting list in British healthcare causing them to shell out a fortune!
... of Health Minister last march, Shaun Woodward who promised to clear waiting lists with a £6m funding package over the next two years. His statement in March was, 'Too many people are waiting to begin treatment with anti-TNF drugs for severe arthritis. I have had too many letters from patients telling their...Urgent Aid Required For Palestinian Health Services: WHO
.... "We urgently need to get the funding mechanism, promised by the Quartet a month ago, operational now," the Agency's Director of Operations for Gaza John Ging said. A more elaborate proposal will be developed with partners in the next two weeks, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its latest upd...Junk Food Advertisements To Be Restricted In All Forms of Media
..., and 17% are clinically obese. The government had promised in a ‘White paper’ it had published in late half of 2004, to take action against food manufacturers who target children if they do not come up with a satisfactory formula for self-regulation, before 2007. The Food Standards Agency (FSA), which is l...British Government to Provide Free IVF Treatment
...st and welfare organization but the Government has promised to provide at least three cycles of fertility treatment in the NHS. <br...Increasing Delays In Treatments For Cancer Patients
...ays as “unacceptable”. The government has already promised billions of pounds of investment in the NHS to improve their key performance targets like reduction of waiting times. The ministers have set a 2-month deadline for the treatment of the most urgent cases. Professor Gordon McVie, one of Europe’s lead...Lung Disease Care Needs Urgent Improvement: Healthcare Commission
The UK government has promised to take steps to improve the care for patients suffering from chronic lung diseases following the criticism in a report//. The Healthcare Commission report said that there was an urgent need to improve diagnosis and care in the respiratory illness ar...Dead Body on Hospital Bed for Four Days
...ton, who did not want to be named, said bosses had promised her that no family would have to go through the same ordeal after she lost her husband, aged 52, in 2002. She said: ‘When I saw the headline in the Telegraph I thought I had read it wrong. I just couldn't believe something they told me was a one-of...Harney Seeks Approval for New Medical Practitioners Bill
...o the existing Medical Practitioners Act have been promised and postponed for many years, it is finally expected that new legislation will be enacted before the end of the year. Provision for a lay majority on the Medical Council is predicted in the new law to end self-regulation by the medical profession in...TN College Students Make Friends With HIV Positive Persons
...ent accepted a HIV positive person as a friend and promised to deepen the friendship. "I came to know that these people are normal in a way. They should not be shunned from society. They too should be given an opportunity to be themselves," one girl told NDTV. Another added, "We thought we'd do something dif......rdable well into the future.” The department has promised that the six hospitals would have far more single rooms than traditional NHS hospitals, with half the beds in single rooms. The standard of accommodation and facilities is expected to be a big leap forward. The first of the new hospitals will open in...