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Care UK to Provide Community-Based Health and Social Care Services

...patients and employ 3 doctors and 7 nurses. It has won a ￡5m contract to run GP services in London. The deal has been signed by local NHS chiefs. United Health Europe which is part of a US firm was initially selected but the contract has been held up by a legal challenge by a local resident. This wal...

Indian Americans Compete for the Prestigious Spelling Bee Contest

... an eye on is 12-year-old Bonny Jain, who recently won the National Geographic Bee contest. The next two ...d eighth grader of Indian descent, Anurag Kashyap, won the title by spelling out 'appoggiatura', a musical term. Other Indian Americans who have become t...

‘Gourmand World Cookbook Award' won by British India

...Britain-based celebrity chef Mridula Baljekar, has won the 'Gourmand World Cookbook Award' in the 'Best Asian Cuisine Cookbook' category//. Baljekar, who runs the popular Spice Route restaurant in Windsor, near here, received the award at a star-studded ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, which was attended, amon...

Justice To Former Male Nurse In sex Discrimination Case

A former student male nurse yesterday won a landmark sex -discrimination case against NHS hospitals that did not permit him to perform intimate medical //procedures on women patients, if a female chaperone was absent. The Equal Opportunities Commission said the court ruling challeng...

Two cloned mules, Compete In A Professional Race For The First Time Ever.

...a professional competition between clones each one won their qualifying heats, //but in the finals of the 8,500 dollars competition on Sunday in U.S they lost to the traditionally bred mules. It was reported that one of the mule, Idaho Gem, the world's first equine clone, had covered his 350-yard sprin...

Doctors Attitude and Costs Plays a Vital Role in Boosting Medical Tourism in India

... surgeon. But he added that cosmetic surgery had won wide acceptance among both women and men in India. Although the favourite cosmetic surgeon to Bollywood stars, Pandya said he normally did not have the time to attend Bollywood concerts or watch movies. But on his visit here, he squeezed in time...

Viagra Beneficial to High-Altitude Athletes

...essels in the penis and lungs to relax. In 1998 it won federal approval as the first erectile dysfunction pill. Last year drug maker Pfizer Inc. won approval for Viagra, under the new name Revatio, to treat pulmonary hypertension, following which ro...

American Wins Lawsuit Over Penile Implant Malfunction

An American has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a malfunctioned penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection//. Charles 'Chick' Lennon, 68, of New York city, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra entered the market, ...

'Elephant Man' Returns Home

...y he will get up and walk.’ Four of the men have won an interim $25,000 as compensation. ...

Delhi High Court Stays Venugopal's Removal

...Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr. P. Venugopal won a reprieve on Friday when the Delhi High Court stayed a resolution of the Institute's Governing Body recommending his sacking.// 'The decision of the AIIMS governing body, recommending the termination of Venugopal's services, is stayed and the gover...

Tata Memorial Centre Wins Global Award For Fighting Cancer

The Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai has won the 2006 global award as the "Outstanding Cancer Organisation" for its excellence in cancer control within and beyond India's borders//. The award for the Tata Memorial Centre was presented during the annual meeting of the International Union for ...

Solitons Could Power Molecular Electronics, Artificial Muscles

..., Santa Barbara physicist who discovered solitons, won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for his pioneering work on conducting polymers. Li said the new work extends the SSH model by including the full flexibility of the polymer chain, as well as interactions between electrons. The finding will likely affect t...

New Drugs To Combat Mutant Bugs

...t in more than 20 years, for head and neck cancer, won the approval for use in Scotland, prior to its approval in England. Trials found that when patients received the drug along with radiotherapy, their chances of survival improved significantly to about 20 months. It is hoped that these drugs wi...

US Boy Wants the Right of Choice of Treatment

...-year-old Hodgkin's disease patient Katie Wernecke won the right in November to make all her medical decisions after a court fight with child welfare officials in Corpus Christi, Texas. While doctors had recommended chemotherapy and radiation, the child’s father favored intravenous vitamin C. Accordin...

Villagers in Tamil Nadu Take Part in Diabetes Pilot Project

... using ANSiscope, a device by DyAnsys India, which won the prestigious Frost and Sullivan Award for Innovation in Healthcare. This battery-operated, hand-held device, a little bigger than a mobile phone, which monitors a person's nervous system and gives the result in just five minutes, has now been ma...

Smoking Ban Affects Gambling Clubs

...ges every half-hour advising how much gamblers had won or lost and asking if they wanted to continue. All these have drastically reduced gambling in New Zealand....

"Active" Brain Makes Rational Decisions!!

...eing paid in real money in proportion to the money won during the experiment. Participants were given a starting amount of money (￡50) at the beginning of each trial. They were then asked to choose between either a sure option or a gamble option (where they would have a certain chance of winning the enti...

NICE Approves The New Class Of Breast Cancer Drugs

A new class of breast cancer drugs had yesterday won the final draft of approval for use in the NHS alongside the ‘gold standard’ Tamoxifen.// The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) had issued a final draft on the appraisal for the use of three types of aromatase inhibitors ...

Pensioner wins over a US healthcare giant

...lic consultation, but that UHE would probably have won anyway. The pressure group Keep Our NHS Public acknowledged the result and said it was a big setback for government plans to allow private companies control of parts of primary care. Ms Smith, 67, a former hosiery worker and Labour councillor, wh...

Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error

...as turned him into a virtual vegetable has finally won compensation from the doctors his parents hold guilty, but that is of// little use to him. The National Consumer Dispute Redressal (NCDR) forum has ordered the Cosmopolitan Hospital here and two doctors to pay Rs.1.1 million ($24,300) to the parent...

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