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EU to Look at Cloned Meat Safety

... environment department said no health and welfare rules had been broken, but its food watchdog said more discussions were needed to assess legal requirements relating to offspring of cloned animals. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Spain Launches Movement Against Skinny Fashion Models

...rcelona and Valencia, though they have not adopted rules as strict as those in Madrid, he explained. "We are pioneers" in what is evolving into an international movement, the spokesman says. The first step was taken by the Pasarela Cibeles, Madrid's top fashion show is in September. The show excluded...

British Indian Doctors Win Another Reprieve

...ities has agreed to remove a restrictive clause in rules applicable to non-European Union doctors. At the...he Department of Health had agreed to keep the new rules discriminating against HSMP doctors in abeyance, it had introduced a new clause stating that to be c...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Pancreatic Cancer

...ries. For example, one researcher says the study rules out "a cancer-inducing role of the insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas, because in type 1 diabetes these cells have largely or entirely been destroyed." Experts say people with diabetes should focus their attention on the most common compl...

UK Indian Doctors Obtain Injunction Against New Rule

...at disallowed a judicial review of new immigration rules announced in April 2006. Raman Lakshman, BAPIO vice chair (policy), said: "Given that our members will begin to suffer harm from being excluded from the interviews and the department is so far unprepared to enter in to any dialogue, we had no alter...

Indian Doctors File Appeal Against British Court Ruling

...fected by the high court ruling of new immigration rules have lodged an appeal against the judgment. In the...ter which it will be listed for hearing. The new rules announced in April 2006 made it virtually impossible for doctors from outside the European Union to ...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

...red by compulsory licence, using the public health rules of the World Trade Organisation. Thailand encourages firms to lower prices Last week Merck lowered the price of its HIV treatment, known as Efavirenz, by 14 per cent. Mr Sellers says his firm provides the drug at cost price in developing coun...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...rning STM is usually no problem. There are precise rules that work. However, in contrast to the oral contraceptive pill or other family planning methods, STM needs more engagement and time to learn it.” Every month the women in the study sent charts to the researchers that showed their cycles, their obs...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

...f Indian Origin (BAPIO), told IANS that if the new rules issued in April 2006 were applied, there would be ...ent of health (DoH) does not agree to hold the new rules in abeyance while awaiting the appeal. They are still considering their options and will get back to...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

... lost a case Friday against changes in immigration rules that make it virtually impossible to gain employme...arts of London and elsewhere. The changes to the rules were announced on March 7, 2006, and came into force on April 3, 2006. The changes abolished permit-...

Philippines To Arrive At Guidelines On Organ Donations

...alth department in Philippines is set to formulate rules on organ donations to foreigners. This was disclosed by Jade del Mundo//, the Health Undersecretary. Mr.Mundo emphasized on the need for such guidelines as in the absence of such rules, organ trade has been flourishing in the country especially am...

European Medical Research Still Ignoring Women

...ake-up of the committees, all of them had informal rules requiring the inclusion of at least some women, and took sex into account when recruiting new members. But few had any formal rules. And while every committee had formal requirements to ensure that certain types of expertise were represented, the...

Indonesia Has Stopped Sharing Vital Bird Flu Data

... continue to comply with World Health Organization rules on sharing virus samples. SRI...

New Guidelines for Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism

...s guideline include the use of clinical prediction rules to establish pretest probability of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in a patient before further testing and the utility of various diagnostic tools such as D-dimer and ultrasonography. The management guideline supports the use of low-mol...

Hungarian Geese Slaughtered as Bird Flu Returns to EU

...ses. Tod stressed that in both instances all EU rules had been carried out, including the slaughter of infected flocks, disinfection of affected farms and the setting up of safety zones within a 10-kilometer perimeter. While assuring that no further measures were necessary, Tod said fresh outbreaks c...

To Patent or Not-A Question of Life

...ts present value and a move towards more stringent rules on drug patenting. This in turn will lead to dru...was forced to comply with World Trade Organization rules on intellectual property. A lot of generic drugs used for treating AIDS are produced in India. The ...

Crackdown on Alternate Health Practitioners

...tered with the General Medical Council have strict rules and guidelines regarding their relationship with t...s. Now health ministry is planning to revamp these rules brining about a slight flexibility. Similar rule may be extended to the alternate healers too wher...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...n society, were living in social isolation, as the rules of the game demanded. Sharing space with people who were dissimilar, invoked the smoldering demons of pride, prejudice, discrimination and racial intolerance, resulting in the reality show getting too ‘real’ for comfort. What is the basis of this ...

11 Percent Increase of Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes: Report

...his abuse and bring the tobacco industry under the rules that regulate other manufacturers of drugs." Beginning in 1997, Massachusetts’s regulations have required an annual report to be filed with the MDPH by all manufacturers of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts. The reported data include machine-based m...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

... helps us learn the molecular grammar, or a set of rules that can control orchestrated activity of multiple genes in specific neurons. If we are going to understand memory or neurological disease at the cellular level, we need to understand the rules." Scientists also analyzed 146 human genes implicated ...

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