United Nations draws flak Due to Lukewarm AIDS Prevention Measures

The International AIDS Society is grossly disappointed with the UN General Assembly declaration on HIV/AIDS, which has done precious little to facilitate all the earmarked prevention programs needed to battle the pandemic. // Executive Director Craig McClure of The International AIDS Society...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

Campaigners have denounced as insensitive National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice)s suggestion for restricted use of Lucentis (ranibizumab) and Macugen (pegaptanib) on the NHS . TWENTY thousand people will be condemned to blindness each year if the "cruel" and "appalling" de...

Flu Kits Kick Up Unwholesome Flak

Flu kits are being distributed to Health workers by the Ontario government, to beat a possible flu outbreak. This move has attracted a lot of flak from critics // , who see this is politically motivated rather than a sincere attempt at combating a flu pandemic. The opinion doing the rounds is that...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

... seriously. But Robert Joseph, a wine critic and 20 year veteran of the wine business, said the industry "will get, and deserves, a lot of the flak coming its way." The industry had not been thinking of anything more than "making it and drinking it", he said. "They have not been th...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...ers. The region is also witnessing a surge in drinking among 18 year olds who also portray acute withdrawal symptoms. The government is facing flak at not being able to effectively control the crisis. Professor Ian Webster, a drug and alcohol specialist and chairman of the Alcohol Educatio...

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Holds the Ladle, is Not to Be Blamed If the Child Isnt in Fine Fettle

...rs might just heave a sigh of relief. For years, mothers have had to face disapproval from their partners if their children were overweight. Somehow, flak regarding children is blamed on the mothers inability to rear children appropriately. New research has come to the aid of such mothers who hav...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...rders. The region is also witnessing a surge in drinking among 18 year olds who also portray acute withdrawal symptoms. The government is facing flak at not being able to effectively control the crisis. Professor Ian Webster, a drug and alcohol specialist and chairman of the Alcohol Education ...

Busting the Organ Trade Racket in Tamil Nadu

.... To the extent, that a particular hospital was caught with fictitious records. A regulatory body which authorizes such organ transplants has received flak for allowing such things to happen. The doctors who are part of the panel are being questioned. The only way to put an end to this illegal organ...

UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn

...ommitted by mental health patients, and the provisions in the bill are aimed at reducing the number of such tragedies. The bill has drawn a lot of flak particularly over the deletion of the 'treatability clause'. By stressing that the untreatable too be taken care of by the community, the governme...

Mixed Sex Wards Still Continue For Psychiatric Patients

...2,000 in-patients in NHS or private-sector psychiatric wards on March 31 last year had single-sex lodging. This kind of practice has received huge flak from different people who believe that Psychiatric Patients should be treated with dignity. They also insist that health ministry should explain why m...