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United Kingdom Is Lagging In Novelty In The Field Of Pharmaceuticals

United Kingdom is lagging in innovation, as shown by the market share of new medicines in various countries, including primary care and hospital markets. Reports from various sources prove that Europe has shown very low growth in the field of pharmaceuticals and hospital care//. Europe has a new plan in order to counter the worsening competitive position of its biopharmaceutical enter...

United Kingdom to perform its first Live Liver Transplant

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in Scotland will be the first in United Kingdom to perform a Live Liver donation and regeneration in recipient. The Health Minister Andy Kerr said that in 2006 five live liver operations would be done followed by ten the next year//. In live liver regeneration operation a part of liver is transplanted and regenerated following which both the livers functions pr...

Untied Kingdom to supplement folic acid in flour

The Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition in United Kingdom has asked the Government to fortified flour with folic acid/Vitamin B12.// Folic acid acts as an important nutritional supplement for new born babies and pregnant women has it protects newborn babies from birth defects. Folic acid is also very useful in old age people as they are prone to B12 deficiency leading to anemia...

United Kingdom: Farmers Cautioned To Plan Adequately For Bird-Flu

Tony Blair’s spokesman has said that the risk of the spread of the bird-flu virus is certainly pronounced. EU farm ministers will be meeting in Brussels to thrash out this issue, the virus already having entered France. //Yet the U.k Ministry don’t feel it is time to lock up the Britain’s 20 million free range poultry, though some experts feel appropriate to do so. According to the National Fa...

Jordan: The Kingdom Untouched By Avian Flu

The Minister of Agriculture Akef Zu'bi of Jordan said that the kingdom was untouched by the avian flu disease. // He said that this was due to the joint effort of both the public and the government. He said that there is no fear of a bird flu outbreak in the country. The minister made the remarks during a banquet held by the Jordanian Veterinary Association. In th...

Bird-Flu Causes Alarm in United Kingdom.

The British Government has confirmed the presence of the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu in a wild swan that was found dead in Scotland//. Following this news, there has been ample furore, especially in the media, over the H5N1 strain in Britain, but officials have been trying their best to allay public’s fears about the possible spread of the disease in humans. The Nat...

United Kingdom: Making the most of sunshine without the cream

A recent survey has shown that nearly 25% of people in UK expose themselves to the rays of the sun without any protection of a cream, which has raised alarm among cancer experts, who are rather troubled by this cream-free attitude.// They warn that with blazing August on the cards and a record high temperature in July, it would indeed pay to be generous with sun cream to protect the ski...

How a Woman Holds Fort in Her Little Kingdom – The Kitche

The route to a man’s heart is through his stomach, they say! Is that why the women are always in charge //of the kitchen? Food for thought, of course! Meanwhile, what could be the route to good eating habits and consequently good health? Grab the attention of the lady of the house, says a new study. Researchers from Newcastle University’s Human Nutrition Research Centre embarked on a...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

A BBC panorama investigation into the functioning of maternity units in UK is an eye-opener to prevailing malfunctions which appears to be an everyday// affair in the hospitals. In a sting operation conducted by BBC, some maternity units came under the scanner, to reveal some alarming practices. Some of the maternity units were facing an acute shortage of staff. As a result most midwi...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

A BBC panorama investigation into the functioning of maternity units in UK is an eye-opener to prevailing malfunctions which appears to be an everyday affair in the hospitals. In a sting operation conducted by BBC, some maternity units came under the scanner, to reveal some alarming practices. Some of the maternity units were facing an acute shortage of staff. As a result most midw...