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Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...ecialist knowledge is re-visited every 5 years but set at a lower level than what is required of a trainee at their end of training certification examinations. In the UK while a debate is currently on, it is agreed that for now re-certification will be achieved with on the job annual appraisals as the ma...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...e said, 'We talked to him because I was trying to set up a support group in BC and in Canada, we only have a couple of them. My husband was struggling when we got diagnosed with our son, and Chris was struggling with his. They talked for a few minutes and then he said he didn't want to be a public face ...

Asian Workers Race Against Clock to Avoid Prison

...ratisation,' with companies being told to employ a set quota of Emirati nationals. The process has, how...ng advice this month at one of the 12 help centres set up by the Indian embassy in six of the seven emirates forming the UAE, said he had worked for the go...

IVF Tourism Marred by Ethical Differences in EU

There should be a basic set of standards among the European Union countries re...orce to compare legislation and to propose a basic set of standards, and he wants the European Commission and the European Parliament to consider how rules...

Singapore Extends Smoking Ban to Pubs, Nightclubs

...e allowed to have designated smoking rooms and can set aside part of their outdoor area for smokers. Some of Singapore's leading entertainment outlets voiced support for the extension of the smoking ban. "This is the best opportunity for many smokers to quit. It's a really expensive, bad habit," said...

India AIDS Cases Due to Drop, Spending Up

...ve a good behavioural surveillance survey, a whole set of surveys has been done in high-presence states among high-risk groups." More than 1,100 testing sites were used this year as compared to 700 in the past, NACO's epidemiologist Ajay Kumar Khera told AFP. The north was under-represented before, h...

Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past

...guitarist Lindsey Buckinghams ex-girlfriend is all set to open the lid on the musicians cocaine spree during his halcyon days. In the book Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood, Carol Ann Harris has revealed how Buckingham, a member of Fleetwood Mac, a popular Anglo-American band, had t...

Unemployed Electropaths Threaten to Commit Suicide in Kashmir

...tors climbed up with petrol cans and threatened to set themselves afire or jump from the tower if the state government failed to agree to their demands. The doctors, who have been on a protest for over two months, said Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had failed to keep his promise made recently. Manz...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...o, should vets move in to slaughter him - and have set up a webcam where viewers can watch Shambo all day long....

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...e space agency will also have to decide whether to set age restrictions on the crew, and whether astronauts of reproductive age should be required to bank sperm or eggs because of the risk of genetic mutations from radiation exposure during long trips. Already, NASA is considering genetic screening in ...

National Pharmaceutical Policy Referred to Ministerial Panel

...up of Ministers (GOM) though no timeframe has been set for its finalisation, Lok Sabha was informed Monday. The policy envisages ways to make available cheaper drugs to people and the public health system as also to promote the production and marketing of generic drugs in the country, said B.K. Handiq...

Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

...a counter that offers free condoms. It has been set up by the semi-government Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) in a unique gesture to show its commitment to a social cause. "I am so happy that CITCO has taken the initiative to create awareness among people, especial...

Government Expels Superintendent for Not Informing Newborn Deaths

...e. Another three-member committee has also been set up to oversee the Rs.10 million modernization of the Sree Avittam Tirunal Hospital. People belonging to the lower and middle classes avail of the hospital's services due to the lower treatment charges there. A normal delivery here costs around Rs.3...

Distance Education By All Universities

...i National Open University (IGNOU), any university set up by the Act of Parliament/State legislature or deemed to be university can offer distance education programme subject to the fulfillment of norms and guidelines laid down by the Distance Education Council (DEC) and other apex bodies. DEC in its me...

Kerala Health Minister Charged for Infant Deaths in a Hospital

... weeks. Another three-member committee has been set up to oversee the Rs.10 million modernisation of the hospital. People from the lower and middle classes visit the hospital due to its low treatment charges. A normal delivery at the hospital costs around Rs.3,000 and in private hospitals over Rs.12...

More Than a Toothache

... year, lawmakers are considering a bill that would set aside $2 million a year for the next three years to expand public clinics where dental care remains a rarity for the poor. Providing such access, Tinanoff and others say, eventually pays for itself, sparing children the pain and expense of a medica...

Gene Mutations Leave Caucasians Prone To Heart Diseases And Diabetes

...nd thats not all. These genes lie close to another set that is connected with diabetes. The findings, made by two independent groups of researchers, may help explain why so many people have heart disease even if they do not have clear risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol or high blood press...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...ny involved in the court action, with a trial date set for October 2008. Lead researcher Kimford Meador, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, looked at IQ results of 187 children born to mothers who had taken the epilepsy drugs carbamazepine, lamotrigine, phenytoin, or valproate during pregnanc...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...levated by calorie restriction. So the researchers set out to develop an intervention to elevate NAD, using yeast cells, whose genes are easy to manipulate. Its surprising that no one was be able to elevate NAD with a small molecule before, Brenner said. The team discovered two pathways that allow yeas...

New Technique Dissects Stem Cells' Picky Likes, Dislikes

...ic stem (ES) cells onto the squares in the arrays, set the arrays in a culture plate and added a culture medium on top. What they found is that five of the 18 surfaces - each displaying just a single peptide from laminin - did as well as the mixture Matrigel at growing human ES cells in their "blank slat...

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