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Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

... post doctors in several of these countries and to train local people in medicine so they could pick up where the Cuban doctors left off. ELAM, the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine, was born, and with it the offer of 10,000 scholarships for free medical training. Today the program has grown...

Polish Man Wakes Up to New World After 19 Years in Coma

...an Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said. In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda. "She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said. Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accid...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...ased in Los Angeles. He was asked recently to help train counselors at the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles, where a spike in calls from veterans has been reported. One of the biggest challenges for troubled vets is the stigma of a mental health disorder, said Meshad. "It's very, very hard for yo...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

...nsion has begun a research and outreach program to train Extension agents and industry officials in southeastern Virginia about this emerging problem," said Dini Miller, Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist on urban pest management and associate professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture an...

Medical Admissions Test Integrity Under Threat

...elieves the trend for secondary school students to train for the UMAT sets an inappropriate tone for the commencement of studies in medicine. Exploitative, commercially-driven training programs are fostering a powerful pressure to perform well in the UMAT test. I am saddened to see such a competitive...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

... slightly higher among shunting yard engineers and train ticket collectors than among drivers. And there wa...hould be made to minimise levels of exposure among train drivers in new rolling stock....

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

... be used to build this warship, that country could train nearly 75,000 physicians, care for 150 million people and build 3,000 clinics with new technologies, as Cuba does in other countries. According to Castro, the English submarine illustrates the sophisticated weapons with which that country aspires t...

American State Lawmakers Make Moves To Tackle Autism

...estructure a state research and treatment council, train teachers in autism awareness, instruct physicians in early detection, create the task force on adult autism and provide more money for research and treatment. The proposals, pushed by Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts Jr., were approved in March by t...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

...Titanic star spat back sarcastically "No, I took a train across the Atlantic". When the British journalist followed up, saying that many stars used emission-heavy private jets while touting environmental protection, a testy DiCaprio countered that he had taken a commercial flight from New York. "I try...

Reddy Asks Stanford University to Open Hyderabad Campus

...d EMRI, a non-profit group based in Hyderabad will train India's new corps of paramedics. In addition to training paramedics, the Stanford group will teach paramedic educators in India who can carry on the work of instructing the next generation of advanced emergency medical technicians. According to E...

Stem Cells Endless Hope in Place of What Could Have Been a Hopeless End

...ody. Further, stem cells can also be employed to train the immune system to accept the laboratory-grown cells used for repair. This will eventually help in phasing out the contentious cloning methods. Dr Robert Lanza, a senior author, said, Stem cells show an amazing ability to repair vascular damage i...

Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

...s went into the river. The leak has not affected train service or residential sewer service, according to county officials. Workers spent the better part of the next two days and nights building a 400-foot road back to the site of the break and then set up a 200-foot bypass using pressurized steel pipe...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

... to lead research, develop treatment standards and train health workers on care for mental illness and brain injuries incurred during war....

Hoarding can Endanger Lives, Says New Study

... is usually the best strategy for the therapist to train family or friends or volunteers how to help," Hart said....

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...verse this trend? Availability of opportunity to train and progress within ones own country is an important issue in preventing brain drain. How many Americans go out of their country to have training? Very few and that too for only very highly specific training that may not be available in America. I ...

Autistic Individuals can Be 'trained' to Comprehend Visual and Vocal Cues

...ure interventions - they suggest that you could train the autistic brain to make use of the information conveyed by the human face and voice to successfully navigate social interactions," Dapretto added. The authors wanted to examine the neural circuitry in the brain that underlies the prob...

Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research

...year and scientists from across the world come and train in my laboratory. I am looking forward to Indians participating in it."...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...gs suggest that it may-I stress may-be possible to train attention in children with methods derived from these practices," he says. Davidson says scientific studies of meditation are proving traditional beliefs about the mental benefits of meditation. Yet although meditation is often associated with monk...

Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report

...here is some ground for optimism that the run-away train of drug addiction is being slowed down." Costa warned against complacency, however, saying that the drug problem had not been solved. "Drugs remain a deadly form of addiction, pose a real danger to security and health, and are ruining the lives of...

BMA Calls for Flexible Working as Number of Women Doctors Swell

...lmost half (48%) of women doctors say they want to train less than full-time at some point, compared to 15% of men. Two thirds of all the doctors surveyed (80% of women and 50% of men) expect to take a career break at some point. The BMA is calling for increased funding for flexible training schemes whic...

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