Truant

Women play truant for breast screening appointments

Nearly one among four women do not keep up their appointment for breast cancer screening and simply don’t show up for their mammogram appointment.// A report has shown that out of 79000 women who were intimated to report for screening, less than 60,000 women actually turned up for the examina...

A new molecular zip code, and a new drug target for Huntington's disease

.... The disorder is estimated to affect about one in every 10,000 persons. truant and PhD candidate graduate student, Randy Singh Atwal, have discovered a sm...es, and he has determined the three-dimensional shape of this sequence. truant and Atwals work indicates that if mutant huntingtin is prevented from enter...

Rare Gonorrhea Strain Makes Diagnosis Very Difficult

...agnostic evaluation methods do not recognize this new strain, making detection of gonorrhea extremely difficult. The enzyme in question, playing truant in this odd strain of gonorrhea, was perceived to be present in all types of gonorrheal strains. While investigating, Dr Magnus Unemo from Orebro Univ...

Grossly Overweight Boy Likely to Be Sent into Care

...rts, school nurses and social workers to redress his faulty diet, with a view to knocking off the extra weight. The family has made a habit of playing truant with the appointments. To quote an NHS source, “Taking the child into care or putting him on the child protection register is absolutely the las...

Sway Schizophrenics With Incentives to Avail Regular Treatment

... You may be shocked to know that nearly 20% to 50% of patients availing psychiatric services play truant with their medication. Amid such a scenario, a novel think-tank// has come up with a strategy, designed to entice schizophrenics to take their medicin...

NHS duped by Foreigners? IVF treatments Drain NHS Finances

...ers, have milked the NHS by availing treatments// in UK hospitals worth millions of pounds, for which they have not paid for. The ones who have played truant are mostly couples availing IVF treatment and have vanished without paying a dime for it. The report revealed that nearly 106 hospitals have ena...

Nature’s fury leaves permanent scar

...ed. // The report elaborates on how Women and Children are targets of Human rights violation and are displaced by coercion. Relief supplies play truant with them as does the, services and economic opportunities. The earthquake also has the potential to increase crime, acts of injustice and pove...