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Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

...The Mind", and he admits on reflection the lack of reference to Blass was "perhaps an omission". Consequently, the magazine's publisher, Wiley Interface Ltd, issued a formal retraction in the September edition of the journal, saying it sincerely regretted what had occurred. When approached by the Guardian,...

Illegal Drug Use In England Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate

...sked to assess the need for treatment with special reference to illegal drug abuse. A total of 801 patients who visited the emergency department, were interviewed and over 1/ 3rd of them admitted to illicit drug use at some time during their lives. Alarmingly, 16% of the patients reported use of illegal drugs...

Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

...tween diabetes and metabolic syndrome with special reference to the causes of vascular damage and a glucose centered approach in treatment of the disorder. Diabetes India originally named as The Indian Task Force on Diabetes Care In India, has traveled a long way ever since it was started by merely 400 diabeto...

Vaccine For Dengue Fever On Trial In Asia-Pacific

...al role in reviewing the vaccine and serving as "a reference country". A stamp of approval here would give other countries the confidence to shorten or do away with their own approval processes, he said, getting the vaccine approved by 2010, one or two years ahead of schedule. The drug company contends its v...

Improperly Placed And Heavy Backpacks Lead To Back Pain In School Children

... from school back over shoulders and with specific reference to back pain among 10 school going children, aged 13. The participants were fitted with sensors attached to shoulder straps. The children were monitored while carrying standard, identical backpacks accounting for 10, 20 and 30% of their body weight i...

Dog (Man's best friend) Genome Sequenced

... average purebred dog to produce what has become a reference sequence for the dog genome community. Using the sequence information as a genetic "compass," they navigated the genomes of 10 different dog breeds and other related canine species, including the gray wolf and coyote. In this sampling, they pinpointe...

Indonesia Has Ninth Bird-Flu Death as Risk Mounts

...N1 avian flu strain in a World Health Organization reference laboratory, Health Ministry officials said today. The report takes the number of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the world's fourth most-populous nation to 9. The Indonesian Health Ministry was also testing samples from a 39-year-old man who d...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

...l receive appointments within 6 months after their reference to the respective consultant. This money is being paid for the overtime they are working apart from their routine 40 hours/week. This has resulted in the consultants salary envelope to soar above the ￡100,000 mark. Inspite of all the new measures...

Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity

...Hindi dictionary, for instance, is still the first reference for any translation needed. And German missionary Herman Gündert is still appreciated for his foresight in bringing out the first Malayalam-English dictionary. The Catholic Church in India comprises three individual Churches - Latin, Malabar and Mal...

Cancer test expenses taken up by Medicare

...is as of now done by the Genomic Health’s clinical reference laboratory at Redwood City, California. The company would take care of the expenditures only for those patients who have utilized the services from February 27th. 5000 patients used this service in the period of first nine months in the yea of 200...

Exposure To Cadmium Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

... smelters (high exposure) and compared them with a reference population that lived in a low exposure area. Cadmium in urine was measured from 1985-89 (baseline) and incidence of cancer in these individuals was measured until June 30, 2004. At baseline, the average concentration of cadmium was 12.3 nmol/day f...

Mummy Is Always Right: Nurses Research Prove It Over Again

... have already been conducted on male subjects with reference to mercury-filled thermometers, and are of limited clinical importance. The results of the present first ever study, that explores the association between beverage consumption and the accuracy of temperature recording by oral electronic thermometers ...

Health Grade, grades U.S Hospitals

... the rest, urging consumers to rely on a thorough reference check before approaching any hospital for treatment. This report would indeed be a motivation to other US hospitals to emulate quality and clinical standards, par excellence....

Setting Standards: Benchmark Medical Tests to Gauge Accuracy of Medical Tests

...l tests have become a household name as a guide or reference for remedial treatment measures. Is there a standard that gauges the accuracy level of these medical tests. // Researchers use a Gold standard, a bench mark test against which is compared the medical test in question, to gauge the preciseness of th...

Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece Face Bird Flu Threat: European Union

... br>The EU confirmed that samples sent to its reference laboratory in Britain after a first analysis by local research institutes confirmed the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Slovenia, Bulgaria and Greece. A spokesman said that in keeping with EU rules, national authorities in EU members Greece, Slovenia and...

Referral Schemes Blamed By GPs For Treatment Delay

...t delays further treatment. The GPs have urged the reference centers to concentrate on patients who may need immediate medical attention so that appropriate care can be provided. They have additionally highlighted the need for a strong link between GPs and consultants and a transparent system that would ensure...

Masking A Flu? – Wearing Masks, Only Way to Contain It’s Spred

...t in the past although it has been talked about in reference to how we might combat the flu," said Dr McAnulty . Though, he did confess that wearing a mask in Australia was something of a strict no-no. In Dr.McAnulty’s words, "It's something that people haven't really taken to to-date, although in some countri...

MRI Scan Insufficient For Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis

...ted disease. Each study compared MRI criteria to a reference standard for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The average duration of follow-up ranged from seven months to 14 years. Considerable weaknesses existed in the studies included in the review, and studies with methodological flaws overestimated the...

Hormone Can Foretell Presence Of Potentially Fatal Pulmonary Hypertension

...pants underwent right heart catheterization as the reference diagnostic tool." Contact: Suzy Martinsmartin@thoracic.org212-315-8631American Thoracic Society Source: Eurekalert...

Lack Of Sleep Makes Kids Overweight

...tyle and socioeconomic status of 422 students with reference to height, weight and waist size has revealed that children who lack sleep tend to be overweight //. The study has been conducted by researchers from University of Laval's faculty of medicine and was based on a telephonic interview with the child’s...

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