Gay Pride Attracts Tens of Thousands in Rome
...the government made? Evaporated into nothingness?" questioned a drag queen, seated on one of the several floats that went around. Vladimir Luxuria, a transvestite lawmaker who wore a grey and red satin gown, told AFP: "I hope that 2007 will be the year when the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals are recogni...Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India
...d that even though at times family and friends had questioned why she needed therapy to deal with an experience that "everyone" went through, she said it had helped her enormously. She realised her overeating was one way she had channelled the abuse. "It was an eight-year-old's way of dealing with stress," ...New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again
...Academy of Pediatrics. In December 2006, the BMJ questioned the way these deaths were classified in the study. Today the BMJ publishes a re-analysis of the data by two senior (now retired) paediatricians, Christopher Bacon and Edmund Hey. They reviewed the 46 second deaths in the original study to see how m...Rorting Health Practioners Busted
...t was quoted. At the same time, the review also questioned whether the sanctions were enough to deter doctors, particularly from inappropriate PBS prescriptions. It recommended that the government consider tougher rules. The report also warned that the movement of corporations into general practice was ...Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective
...y agencies advise us to have; the rationale is not questioned because it is advice from our security agencies." Haneef, who has been linked through a cousin to the Glasgow bombing, will be deported after he has faced the terrorism-related charge under the Migration Act, because the minister has concluded he f...Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case
...in the case. Three more suspects are still being questioned at a high-security police station in London, while another person has been released. According to media reports, the SIM card was found in Sabeel Ahmed's car. Haneef had allegedly given it to him before he moved to Australia last year so his cousin...Two Week Wait Rule Not Working With Breast Cancer Patients
...two weeks of referral by a GP. Many studies have questioned the validity of the 2 week wait rule, but this is the first to assess the long term impact. Dr Shelley Potter and her colleagues gathered data on the number, route and outcome of Primary Care referrals to the Frenchay Brest Care Centre in Bristol bet...More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens
...luding mobile phones and laptop computers. Those questioned were all linked to each other, he said. "The linkages are with people who are known to each other and that's prompting the further inquiries," he said. "This is not about doctors. These are people who are of similar nationalities, and the warrant...Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm
... pits where methane often gathers. A family member questioned whether cattle feed could have trickled into the p...mbers. On Tuesday, a cousin of Scott Showalter's questioned whether runoff from a pile of brewer's grain had accelerated the formation of the gas. Scott Showalt...UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium
...iring contaminated vehicles. The staff were also questioned closely about the circumstances in which exposure might have occurred. The results showed that there were no differences in depleted uranium levels among the four groups. And the findings showed that levels were very close to those that would be expe......r in New York found that 17.8 percent of all those questioned reported having experienced alcohol abuse during their lives. They found that alcohol abuse began on average at the age of 22.5 years, and dependence on average began earlier, at 21.9. But the average age at which people first got treatment for d...