Babies’ gender to be kept a secret
...ed giving the information because of the amount of staff time it took up.// Expectant mothers are not being told about it. A spokesperson said, "We have stopped providing the news not because we are getting it wrong but because of time management. It can take two or three or four minutes to get the sex ri...Government Questioned On Providing Unhygienic Food In Train
...ed to set up modern and sanitised kitchens and the staff was not properly trained to perform their duties, the petition said. --Edited IANS...Agartala Medical College under Fire from MCI
...mned the poor infrastructure, lack lustre teaching staff and even more students of the Agartala Medical College. // The (MCI) delegation, headed by Dr Lalita Mehra, expressed disappointment over the deplorable condition of this government-run college and its failure to set up proper infrastructure over t...Mental Hospitals Offer More Problems than Solutions
... addition the system has also been struggling with staff shortages and forced overtime. These investigati...nappropriate sexual relations between patients and staff were also made. Atascadero mainy focused on ‘symptom reduction’ that has contributed to ‘a perpetu...‘Family Honour’ Hinder Pakistani Girls In Getting Educatin
...o few educated women in many Pakistani villages to staff schools for girls. A lead economist in the World Bank's South Asia Region, Vishwanath says that restrictions on mobility are undercutting the ability of women to access services. The report also notes improvements in Pakistan in several sectors. ...Uttar Pradesh To Prepone The Japanese Encephalitis Immunisation Drive
...shing a team of officials to Gorakpur to train the staff and create proper cold chain and power backup before the programme takes off. The vaccination programme is being undertaken under the expert guidance of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) that would also be undertaking surveillance simulta...Govt In A Hurry To Vaccinate For Encephalitis
...fficials has been rushed to Gorakhpur to train the staff and take care of other necessary arrangements needed for the program....Six Australian Doctors Resign Over Work Rosters
...sappointed that a linkage is being created between staff turnover in the emergency department and negotiation over enterprise bargaining agreements," it said. "Nor should the community or the hospital services be alarmed by attempts to link this with EBA (enterprise bargaining agreement) resolution." Even...Head Of The Church Of England Asks NHS To Respect Patient Needs
...ome trusts was having a detrimental effect both on staff and patients. And he even warned that in a budget-driven service staff could feel "subtle pressures" towards helping expensive and resource-intensive terminally ill patien...RMIT Staff Diagnosed with Brain Tumors
Swven staff at RMIT University in Melbourne, working just mete...h and safety testing. The seven business faculty staff used to work on the top two floors of the Bourke St building and have developed tumors over the past...Young or Old-Who should be first?
... should get the injections first//. While health staff and the elderly are often considered as the priority group a research published in Science calls for the right of the youth to live through all life's stages and should therefore be considered a priority. The research stated that the primary issues...Gene Variants Linked to Early Heart Attack Discovered
...t author on the paper is Dov Shiffman, PhD, senior staff scientist at Celera. Co-authors at Celera are James J. Devlin, PhD, director of cardiovascular research, and Charles Rowland, Judy Louie, May Luke, Lance Bare , Joel Bolnick, Bradford Young and Joseph Catanese. Colleagues and co-authors with Kane ...UIC Study Throws Light On Sexual Assaults
...is could be corrected if the administering nursing staff was better educated on taking a truthful drug history." The study also confirmed that drug-facilitated sexual assault is more often due to the subject's own drug use, he said, rather than surreptitious drugging by the perpetrator. Robert Gaensslen,...The Department of Health Gears Up To The Arrival Of JE Vaccines
... Dr MN Yadav has directed them to motivate all the staff and health workers in the cold chain. Nearly about...visitors, 150 lab technicians, 145 pharmacists, 96 staff nurses, 6700 aganbari activists, 1828, Asha workers, health workers and 4,662 primary teachers will ...Nurses in South Africa Face Challenges
...d in a gradual shortage of fully-qualified nursing staff nationally. South African Nursing Council (SANC)... meant that over two third of the existing nursing staff would retire within the next 10 years. Poor working conditions, a high rate of violence and abuse...Expect Aching Muscles And Joints This Sports Season
...rcus Roux, M.D., orthopedic surgeon on the medical staff at Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie, says that sports injuries will be a normal occurrence as the soccer// and baseball season is all set to kick off. Parents will now be stocking up on ice packs, heating pads and muscle creams so as to make sure ...Frustrated Australian Surgeons Opting For Private Hospitals
...erly trained in health care to ensure that medical staff are encouraged to continue working in the sector. Stating that the current administration have lost their clinical focus, he said that they are increasingly being looked after by people who are not medically trained and whose loyalties are in fact to...Department of Health Encourages Women To Deliver Babies At Home
...nt are denied the choice mainly because of ongoing staff shortages,' she said....PI-103 Effective against Brain Cancer
...kat and Knight, all at UCSF, are David Goldenberg, staff research associate in neurology; Wei Yu, PhD, assistant research anatomist; and David Stokoe, PhD, assistant professor in the Cancer Research Institute. Shokat, UCSF professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, is also a faculty affiliate in QB3...... of the Bourke Street block which has prompted the staff union to demand an explanation before the offices could reopen. ‘We've been very clear: if you can't find a cause and it remains a mystery, then they (staff) don't go back because you've still got a problem,’ Jeanette Pierce, National Tertiary Educ...