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Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

...elves become vulnerable. Chip Ward, who recently retired as the assistant director of the Salt Lake City Public Library System, notes, ”We offer our staff hepatitis vaccinations and free tuberculosis checks. We place sanitizing gels and latex gloves at every public desk. Who would guess that working in a l...

Medical Teachers Retirement Age Increased

...would be filled with re-employment of teachers who retired in 2006-07. The decision has been taken to save medical colleges in Punjab from disaffiliation from the Medical Council of India (MCI). In some medical colleges there was an acute shortage of medical teachers in various disciplines. Source-IANS...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...re providers lacked compassion. John Chiles, a retired colonel who was chief of anesthesiology at Walter Reed and chief of staff at the US Army hospital in Baghdad, said the military medical system was "underfunded, understaffed and overwhelmed." Jose Ramos, a hospital corpsman who lost his arm in com...

British Doctor’s Pat for Indian Hospital

A retired consultant of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has angered health officials here by stating that his wife got much better treatment// in India than in Glasgow. Consultant Mark Ziervogel, 70, and his wife Toni, 66, are keen cyclists and had g...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

...e of the Himalayas. After a chequered career, he retired from official posts in 1976 and after a six months' teaching tour of Malaysia, retired to Chester. He continued visiting the Himalayas until he was 85, often to visit Tibetan refugee sett...

US Psychiatrist Suspended from Practicing Medicine for Involvement in Doping Scam

...ist and a former 100-meter world record holder. He retired in 2005 after he was banned from track and field for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for doping linked to the investigation of BALCO. Considered the fastest man on Earth until his world record was erased in the wake of the steroid s...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

.../ parliament was informed Thursday. Of those who retired early, 2,064 were officers of the army, navy and a...reak up, the minister said 1,119 army officers had retired early during 2004-06, against 489 in the air force and 456 in the navy. In the PBOR category, 35,2...

Ex Pro-football Players Saddled With Depression After Retirement

... Thomas L. Schwenk. Schwenk's group surveyed 3,377 retired members of the NFL Players Association. Of the 1,5... recognition added to their woes. Eric Hipple, a retired Detroit Lions quarterback who now is outreach coordinator for the U-M Depression Center says "What o...

No Laptop Please for Children

... distance from the embedded antennas. Challis, a retired professor of physics at the University of Nottingham, said: "With a desktop computer, the transmitter will be in the tower. "This might be perhaps 20cms from your leg and the exposure would then be around one per cent of that from a mobile phone. ...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

... house has radon," added his wife, Lane Heywood, a retired teacher. "There are a lot of bad things to think about." The World Health Organization estimates radon causes up to 15 per cent of lung cancers worldwide. An estimated 22,700 Canadians last year were diagnosed with lung cancer, one of the deadliest...

South Africa Facing Major Economic Shutdown as Health Workers are Sacked En Masse

...onal Defence Force, the private health sector, the retired nurses and trainee nurses, as well as members of the community, who were helping to ensure health facilities remained open and were able to deliver a service. With the government apparently upping the ante by going in for mass sacking, the situation ...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...more than 80 countries. Rabi Narayan Kanungo, a retired chief district medical officer, said: "The IMNCI strategy was adopted in October 2004 with Unicef's support to reduce the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in India. NMR accounts for at least two-thirds of the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and this progr...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...se challenges," Camacho said. Jack Wagoner is a retired military officer and psychologist and psychiatrist...amount Tricare pays the therapist. John Class, a retired Navy health care administrator who now advocates on health issues for the Military Officers Associat...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...pharmacies closed," said Moni Singh, a 63-year-old retired government who is on constant medication for cancer. The government is yet to formally react to the shutdown of drug stores. Health Secretary P. Vaiphei was quoted by the local media as saying that he came to know of the developments only through n...

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

...n I suppose it is a good idea." Anne French, 61, a retired barmaid from Whiteleas, South Shields, has been a smoker since she was 14. She said: "I think it is a very good idea. I would certainly think about using it if it has been proven to work. "I did stop smoking once before a few years back only for a...

Senior Doctor of Apollo Hospital Commits Suicide

... a.m. to monitor his patients. After 20 minutes he retired to his cabin, police said. He was found dead when some doctors went to consult him in his office. According to the police, a suicide note was recovered from Sharma, which read: "I m taking my life and no one is responsible for this act." "Initi...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

...s of 20,141 Swiss railway workers in employment or retired from post between 1972 and 2002. Information on deaths among the employees was obtained from national data. Electromagnetic field exposure varied, depending on post. Drivers were exposed to around three times the levels of shunting yard engineer...

Maninder Singh Confesses of Using Drugs

...leading spinner in terms of wickets. Though now retired from active cricket, Maninder is still connected with the game as commentator. Maninder played international cricket for India for 11 years. He made his Test debut against Pakistan in 1983 at Karachi. His ODI debut, also in the same year, was agai...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

... new test, a brain child of Dr Brian Owen-Smith, a retired hospital rheumatologist, examines and monitors elevated levels of urate in the body, a possible indication of pre-eclampsia. The saliva is thought to be an overflow system for urate and is therefore a more reliable way of testing the urate levels rat...

Norwegians Take in the Sun in Spain on Doctors' Orders

..., the weather is good, conditions are ideal," said retired art history teacher Tor Tvinnereim who was complet... the sky is blue," said her husband Olav Larsen, a retired plumber, has accompanied her during the length of her stay. He called it the "best vacation" in his ...

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