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Retail Health Clinics Start Shop

Massachusetts health officials are all set to oil the wheels of retail-based medical clinics....vers, we believe we should consider an alternative set of regulations that, if approved, will make the application process for operating limited service me...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...es Committee said: The Government must provide a set of concrete and long term proposals that address the specific problems facing prison healthcare. Temporary fixes will not address the current crisis. The BMA advises all prison doctors to write formally to their respective prison governors and pris...

Converting Left-hander to Right-hander also Changes the Brain

... was greater in the converts. However, a second set of brain regions involved in planning movement continued to act like those of left-handers in people who had switched to right-handedness. These regions were also more active in converts than in those who stuck with left-handedness. "They still lo...

Rorting Health Practioners Busted

...disqualified from making any Medicare claims for a set period, and seven were suspended from prescribing PBS drugs. "This resulted in savings to Medicare of $4.3 million in benefits repaid and an estimated $12.9 million in benefits not paid due to partial or full disqualification from Medicare eligibil...

MS Drug Fails The Test For Treating Crohns Disease

.... "Against the backdrop of PML, where you have a set of patients that already get bombarded with immunosuppressants over 20 to 30 years, [Crohn's] is not the first place we'd go to develop Tysabri," states Mullen. According to him, the drug looks more promising as a treatment for Lupus and certain canc...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

... retinopathy. The basic-level testing facilities set up at the MDRF would to begin with screen 10 general foods of South India for their GI value. According to the international testing protocol, foods have a low GI if the value is less than 55, and high GI if the value is above 70. According to H...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

...Roach said. The dogs who lose are "often killed, set on fire with gasoline, electrocuted, shot, put on a railroad track. "They are sending a message to others, saying, 'This is what happens to losers.'"...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...is month halved to 2.5 million, the government has set out to target the type of at-risk groups identified by Cooper. "They're talking about upscaling programmes with marginalised groups," said Anjali Gopalan, head of the Naz Foundation, which works primarily with men. "There was quite a bit of silen...

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

An analysis published in this weeks BMJ is set to re-open the debate over sudden unexpected infant death (cot death). The Lancet recently published a study on repeat infant deaths in 46 families, which suggested that almost 90% of second deaths in the same family are natural. These findings...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

China looks set to overtake the United States as the world's biggest user of the Internet after its numbers online hit 162 million, according to a government report seen Thursday. As of June 30, there were 122 million Chinese connected via broadband and another 4...

Ivana Trump to Marry Toyboy Beau Next Year

...an socialite Ivana Trump has confirmed that she is set to marry her boyfriend Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi next year. However, the confirmation will come as a surprise to her daughter Ivanka, who heatedly denied the claims recently. The ex-wife of Donald Trump revealed her plans to become Mrs. Ru...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...g poverty and social unrest, it said. The Bench, set up to prevent the depletion of forest wealth, has ...ned very fast. The various high-power committees set up by the court from time to time interfered with the executive functions of the Government, the app...

Is Love Blooming Between Orlando Bloom and Naomie Harris?

...ne on the way to start shooting. When I arrived on set everyone was there, Geoffrey Rush, Johnny, Orlando, and I was kind of intimidated because I caught this cold and I could hardly speak. But Orlando was really sweet, he came up to me and gave me all this cough syrup, she said....

Beijing Legislator Calls on Government to Regulate Sexually Suggestive TV Ads

...fore taking the step of advising the government to set ratings and timings for ads deemed improper for minors. According to The China Daily, the present law on advertising, implemented 12 years ago, vaguely prohibits "content that is obscene, superstitious, terrifying, violent and evil; content that is...

Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel

...nd GlaxoSmithKline, said. The three friends have set up a company called Maes Anturio Limited, which translates from Welsh as Field Adventure. With the backing of their local member of parliament they are now seeking extra risk capital either from government or industry: the only emissions they are n...

Sleep in Mary, Queen of Scots Bed for 7,500 Pounds a Night!

...ht. According to The Scotsman,Lennoxlove House, set in 460 acres in East Lothian, has been the home of some of Scotland's most powerful families, and from this weekend it will be available to hire. Guests in its 11 bedrooms will sleep on the finest Egyptian cotton, dine in baronial splendour and hav...

Blood Transfusions Does Not Increase the Risk of Cancer Transmission

...this information on hand, researcher Gustaf Edgren set out to determine whether there was any history of increased cancer diagnoses among individuals that receive blood transfusions from people who donate blood while unaware of their cancers. Edgrens colleagues studied registry data regarding blood tra...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...ess. Pfizer denies the charges. No date has been set for the hearings to commence. Authorities in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, are seeking 2.75 billion dollars in a separate suit. A hearing in that case is due on October 3. The government alleges the tests were "neither humanitarian nor philantro...

Sienna Sizzles in Wet T-shirt to Spread Global Warming Awareness

...or charity, for actress Hilary Swank is reportedly set to go bald and donate her hair for a wig for female cancer patients....

Britisher Enraged for Court's Action Against Him for Smoking

...ke. Howitt is so incensed by the ban that he has set up his own political party, Fight Against Government Suppression or FAGS (a British slang word for cigarettes). "Having a pint and a cigarette in a pub is one of the last great enjoyments left for the working classes," he said. He has pledged to ...

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