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Several Junior Doctors Could Be Rendered Jobless

...tial skills that would benefit their patients - is unacceptable and won't work. ‘Doctors are simply going to leave the NHS instead.’ The BMA's Junior Doctors Committee plans to meet with government officials on Friday to find out what employment options were available for those who cannot get into specialist ...

Women see merits of surgery over extreme delays in cancer test results.

... huge that it will be cleared only in 2007. "It is unacceptable that women are forced to put their lives on hold as they wait so long to get these vital test results," he said. A task force needs to be instituted to look into this problem. ...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

...akthrough Breast Cancer, Jeremy Hughes said: "It's unacceptable that women are forced to put their lives on hold as they wait so long to get these vital test results, that some feel compelled to make crucial healthcare decisions out of fear of developing breast cancer, while waiting for their test results is appa...

Wellington Hospital To Ease Overstretched Health Services

...tients were still getting prompt treatment, it was unacceptable that many others with treatable cancer had to wait.” "We've had a wait time that's been going up a couple of weeks every month and we don't see an end to it because the workload is still coming in faster than we can treat it." Professor Lamb also...

Maharashtra Medical And Dental Colleges Decide To Fix Own Fees

...2.5 lakh and dental fees was Rs 1.5 lakh. This was unacceptable to the colleges, which normally charge anything between Rs 4 lakh to Rs 4.80 lakh per year for a medical seat and Rs 2 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh for a dental seat. AMUPMDC president Kamal Kishore Kadam maintained that this fees decided by the Samiti was ...

Booster Dose Of Radiotherapy Beneficial In Early Breast Cancer

...therapy in young patients with DCIS resulted in an unacceptable number of women having their cancer return and second, these patients benefit from an additional boost dose," said lead author Guenther Gruber of the Kantonsspital in Aarau, Switzerland. the study analyzed the prognosis of 373 women of 45 years old ...

Scotland's First 'Stand-Alone' Private Fertility Centre Established

... over the development said, "I think it is totally unacceptable that doctors can leave the NHS to make big bucks in private practice. The NHS has rules on who it can and can't treat for a reason and I can understand why, for example, obese women are not treated. They should be given the opportunity to try to lose...

Revamping Of Healthcare System Required To Bring Down Preventable Medical Errors

...s attitudes of the medical professionals led to an unacceptable number of patients suffering adverse events. Statistics show that more than 1500 people were killed or permanently disabled every year through preventable medical error. It is mostly the patients in the acute-care hospitals who are the victims of the...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

...d by workers in Sellafield nuclear plant and it is unacceptable that they may be exposed to such dangerous levels, she said. The house in Kerry was tested and found to have the third highest concentration of radon gas recorded to date in a home in Ireland and the dose received by the householders is analyzed to...

Medication Adherence - Influenced by Drug or Race?

...on to the whites. Rajesh Balkrishnan "That's an unacceptable difference, particularly because African Americans tend to have higher rates of diabetes and disease-related complications," said Rajesh Balkrishnan, a study co-author and the Merrell Dow professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University. Each of the ...

Need for Change in Social Norms to Prevent Spread of HIV

...ex and treat women as property. How do you make it unacceptable for schoolmasters to harass young girls? You prosecute them for it.’ Dr. Helene Gayle asserted that the big remaining challenges for governments, foundations and international health agencies was the need to develop new tools. She said, ‘We need to...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

...to mental health patients. He said, “It is simply unacceptable that waiting lists in many areas of the country are in excess of 12 months for psychiatric consultation. Despite this the NTPF has never been available to mental health patients and, in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry, in particular, ther...

Three Scottish Hospitals Fail To Meet Cleanliness Standards: NHS

... improve their cleanliness audit procedures. It is unacceptable that cleanliness standards have not been met." RAS...

NHS Fertility Treatment to be extended to Lesbians and Single Women

...d: "Continued inequality of access to treatment is unacceptable in a state-funded health service and the source of considerable distress to a great number of people with fertility problems." The latest move by the BFS will probably cause a reopening of the debate on whether the welfare of the child is best serv...

Fumes for Thought-to Ban or Not to Ban Smoking in France

...oking has succumbed to related illness. This is an unacceptable situation. However a statutory ban on smoking in France could trigger off unsavory resistance from the public at large who were not hitherto bound by any stringent laws according to the Associated Press. United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, and Spain ar...

Accessibility of cancer-treatment is Variable throughout EU

...ion has recognized that Europe is characterized by unacceptable inequalities in cancer control and has therefore for this reason launched several projects to create comparable indicators to monitor cancer. NLA...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...t age magnificent obsession. Today, ‘failure’ is unacceptable - a mute submission to the vagaries of competition and stress, throwing asunder the delicate balance between the mind and body. What happens next is anybody’s guess. Indeed, this is boom time for mental health professionals and counselors, not to f...

Impatient hospital? Violent patients will pay heavily, rules hospital

...hem - many feel it is part of the job. But this is unacceptable and it has to stop. Nobody should have to put up with that kind of behavior in their workplace and it also causes distress for other patients and visitors in the department.' The NHS security management service has informed that three other health o...

US calls 'interrogation techniques' national security secrets

...wing the prisoners access to the lawyers "poses an unacceptable risk of disclosure."US President George W Bush insists the CIA programme has been essential to fighting terrorism since the Sep 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, which killed nearly 3,000 people.Since the attacks, the CIA had held...

Research Focus on the Ineffectiveness of Programs for Aboriginal children

... of extreme stress Professor Zubrick said it was unacceptable that on the United Nations Index of Human Development, which reflects aspects such as life expectancy, literacy and standard of living, Aboriginal Australians were ranked at 103 compared with Australia’s overall population which is ranked number four...

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