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U.S. Doctors Order Unwanted Medical Tests

Patients in U.S. are being subjected to unnecessary stress as doctor’s order unwanted medical tests even during routine medical tests//. Such unnecessary medical tests put a huge strain on the U.S. health care system, approximating to billions-- of dolla...

Global Fund Policy Encouraging Drug Resistance

...the list results in misuse and confusion, provides unnecessary endorsement for drugs and is used for marketing by monotherapy manufacturers. ...

Lifting The Screen off Misleading Sunscreen labels

...rs clear and coherent information without creating unnecessary red tape for industry." ...

Rare Bone Disease Traced To Faulty FOP Gene

...might even be possible to prevent formation of the unnecessary bone that occasionally forms after hip-replacement surgery. It could also lead to an improved understanding of other similar bone related diseases. 'In the next five years, this might open up the possibility of developing drugs that would be effect...

Ramdev’s Medicines Questioned By Indian Medical Associatio

...th, he had criticized that doctors were conducting unnecessary tests to earn more profit. In response to Mr. Kumar’s statement, Baba Ramdev referred to him as 'sirfira', for challenging his healing powers. 'Is it not shameful that when the national president-elect of the IMA is ridiculed, association members r...

Hospitals In U.K To Outsource Administrative Work To India

...this would be an experiment to try and cut back on unnecessary expenditure. Stating that the hospital spends about ￡5 million a year on the medical secretaries and that their auditors have advised them that the expenditure can be halved by sending work overseas. He also said that they would still have personal a...

Massachusetts Governor To Sign Health Coverage Bill

...eature of this bill. It's a very insignificant and unnecessary and, in some respects, counterproductive element of this bill," Romney said. "It applies to a tiny number of employers, and it raises a very small amount of money relative to the scale of this entire proposal. So I don't think it's necessary." Romney...

One in Ten NHS Dentists Refused To Sign the New Contract

...f the service designed to simplify charges, reduce unnecessary consultations and improve access. Statistics shows that previously there were two million people who were unable to get NHS treatment. But now after this about 970,000 lost their dentist. Even those who signed up to the new contracts was wondering h...

Fraudulent Dentist Jailed For Three Years

... nasty divorce had forced his client to adopt this unnecessary approach. But his argument was unheeded by Judge Tom Cracknell who said, 'It's a very sad basis to have to sentence a professional man who for most of his life has been conscientious, hard-working and has contributed substantially to the welfare of t...

WHO, UNICEF Issue New Guidelines For Oral Rehydration Salts

... children with acute non-cholera diarrhoea without unnecessary hospitalization. ORS is the simplest way of keeping a child alive during episodes of acute diarrhea and replenishing the fast-depleting electrolytes and fluids. WHO is the only organization that has standardized the formula for ORS and keeps updating...

IMA against Spiritual Guru Baba Ramdev

...ne. He has said that medical practitioners conduct unnecessary tests to make money. An irked Kumar had written an open letter to doctors accusing Ramdev of misguiding people by claiming that he has been curing serious and chronic disease through yoga and pranayama (breathing exercises). Kumar said there was ...

Gynecologist Solving SuDoKu, While Waiting For Next Patient

... said. "It's very distressing, and it's completely unnecessary as far as I can see. I'm sitting there ready, willing and able to see patients." He added that he has reached the limit and could perhaps quit the NHS if the situation does not improve. But the chief executive of the Medway NHS Trust said that there ...

7,500 Cancer Cases Misdiagnosed in NSW

...sed the samples leading to some patients receiving unnecessary chemotherapy and some patients being denied potentially life-saving treatment. The tests were carried out between November 1999 and December 2001. Hunter New England Health said that it was not aware of what procedure to follow and has sought advice....

The Long Wait Continues In the Health Care Service despite the Money Factor

...ian Association of Radiologists has estimated that unnecessary tests cost the system $500 million annually. The study found that Canada is a long way from being able to measure wait times consistently across the country, because each province has different ways of collecting information....

Researchers Aim To Develop Next Generation Of Surgical Robots

...tra input and a large operatory set-up and consume unnecessary time. "For some surgeries, you need a complex robot, but for many surgeries you do not. You wouldn't take an Indy racecar to the grocery store. What you really want is a hand tool that has robotic capability so that a surgeon could be in the middle o...

Referral Schemes Blamed By GPs For Treatment Delay

...edical Association feel that the inference lead to unnecessary delays in non-emergency operations. The referral management centres are currently being managed by staff belonging to primary care trusts. Some of the centres are not medically qualified to provide such services. The NHS managers on the other hand ...

Revealing Study Results May Do More Harm Than Good

... may actually do more harm than good as they cause unnecessary psychological stress to patients. Maurie Markman, M.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, says that this practice contravenes the ethical considerations that oblige doctors to do no harm to the patients. In the com...

Detecting MRSA Is No More A Problem

...al number of 1,227 individual were spared from the unnecessary days in isolation. The researchers recorded the findings in the journal Critical Care. By these latest technique further developments such as novel treatment modalities and control strategies could be developed. The disease could be screened on adm...

Health Services Plagued By Corruption

...nually by way of corruption. This does not include unnecessary diagnostic tests, non-availability of medicines, over-prescription, and counterfeit drugs. The NGO has called for greater transparency where hospital services are concerned, and more stern action in the case of erring institutions. A policy of pro...

Biosensor Chips to detect Urinary Tract Infections

...nds the symptoms of urinary tract infection. These unnecessary antibiotics can lead to side effects in humans and is also responsible for developing bacterial resistance. The new biosensor diagnostic device as been found to detect accurately urinary tract infecting bacteria from urine samples and the researche...

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