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Cancer Patients Forced To Wait For Over Two Months

Over 25% of Scottish patients suffering from cancer have been compelled to wait for more than the two-month target across the UK meant for initial treatment // . This is resulting in further deterioration in the conditions of the patients where lung and breast cancer are concerned. The April to June 2005 figures reveal that only 74.3% of the patients were attended within the target time...

Democracy Not To Be Forced On People

A Penn state researcher in his new book 'The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution' Dr. Steven A Peterson, professor of politics, says that Democracy should not or cannot be forcibly thrusted on a nation. Humans are social beings with an intrinsic need for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political // structures. Democracy on the other han...

Transplant Head Honcho forced to dismount

The Abdominal Transplant Program, beset with administrative problems, experienced another upheaval. In a recent statement, The UCSD communicated its decision to relieve // Dr. Hart, the Director of the program for liver and kidney transplants, of his administrative responsibilities. Notwithstanding, Dr Hart will still continue as a full-time surgeon and member of the University's transplant team....

NHS Forced to Borrow Money at Rates of 10 percent

Rising debts are forcing NHS to borrow money at rates of 10 percent from NHS banks. These rates are much higher than those offered by other street banks. Traditionally the NHS// in collaboration with the Department of Health lent money with no charge. However from April the charge on borrowing could be 10% while those NHS trusts that invested their profits could receive interest of abo...

Pre-Natal Tests Act To Be Enforced: Sreemathi

The Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act is to be enforced strictly in Kerala to check female foeticide, State Health Minister P K Sreemathi said today. // Addressing reporters here, she said there was cause for concern as the sex ratio in the state, which was healthy at one time, had become unfavourable now. Sreemathi, who was a member of the advisory committee monitoring t...

Teenage Girls are Forced To Have Unwanted Sex

Dr. Margaret J. Blythe and her colleagues at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis say in a new study that teenage girls feel pressurized into having unwanted sex //. Unwanted sex occurs often within the sexual relationships of teens,' the researchers write in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 'These unwanted sexual experiences result in...

Age bar for purchasing cigarettes likely to be enforced

The government has conceived a plan to discourage smoking amongst youngsters, by placing a ban on procuring cigarettes till they are 18//. This would enable the vendors to track down the youngest of the lot who indulge in smoking and become victims to a host of health problems. Caroline Flint, incharge of health in the government said "Smoking is dangerous at any age, but the younger...

Pregnant HIV Positive Woman Forced To Abort Fetus On Her Own

A pregnant HIV-positive woman in Kolkata was forced to abort her fetus on her own after hospital staff declined to help her after they came to know about her status. //The incident occurred last month in a state-run Kolkata hospital. Reuters quoted Roshni Mulani, a mother of a two-year-old child, as saying it was tough since nobody stepped forward to help her. "The hospital had no sym...

Girl With Cancer Forced to Undertake Treatment

Leah Beth Richards, an eight year old cancer patient may be forced to undertake treatment in spite of her apparent //reluctance to continue with the painful radiotherapy. Having beaten the condition called Wilm’s Tumour in two distinct episodes spanning over six years, Leah has been confronted by the tumour after a three year respite. According to her parents Kathryn and Mark Richards, the attac...

Britney Claims She was 'forced' into Rehab

After staying in rehab for nearly a month, singer Britney Spears has claimed that she never had any drug or alcohol problem at all, and was pressurised to enter rehab facility. According to sources, the 'Toxic' singer has claimed that her mother Lynne Spears, soon-to-be ex husband Kevin Federline and then-manager Larry Rudolph deceived her by forcing her into the Promises rehab fac...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

The City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a notch after a tougher new noise code took effect this week . But where there are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, can decibels really drop? The city's Department of Environmental Protection has a phone line, 311, for quality-of-life complaints. And the top source of environmental disturbance, callers s...