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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2011 While regulations have been put in place to restrict the work hours of doctors in training, no such regulations exist for fully trained physicians. An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that sleep-deprived physicians should not be permitted to proceed with an elective surgery without a patient's informed, written consent. According to the authors, "This approach would represent a fundamental shift in the responsibility patients are asked to assume in making decisions about the ... read more |
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![]() Life sentence for Indian doctor condemned Activists slammed a life sentence handed down by an Indian court to an internationally acclaimed doctor who was found guilty of supporting Maoist rebels. ... more | .. |
![]() Jailed China milk activist free on parole, supporters worry A Chinese father jailed after campaigning for victims of a huge tainted milk scandal has said he was freed on medical parole and regretted his actions, but supporters say his words may have been forced. ... more | .. |
![]() Two dead as flu cases widen in France French health watchdogs said on Wednesday the country was officially in the grip of a flu epidemic after 176,000 people had fallen sick, two of whom have died. ... more | .. |
![]() Croatia registers first swine flu death this season Croatia recorded its first death linked to swine flu this season as a 60-year-old man infected with H1N1 virus died at a Zagreb hospital, the national public health institute said on Tuesday. ... more |
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![]() Adopted Haitian children fly in to Paris on Christmas Eve A second French government-chartered plane bringing 84 Haitian children to their adoptive French parents arrived in Paris on Friday morning where icy weather had grounded many Christmas flights. ... more | .. |
![]() Colombian landslide kills 13 A landslide in rain-drenched southeastern Colombia smashed into five homes and a bar Thursday in a town near the Ecuador border, killing at least 13 people, the local mayor said. ... more | .. |
![]() Australia pays out in terrorist case An Indian doctor wrongly accused of terrorism involvement has received an estimated $1 million in compensation from the Australian government. ... more | .. |
![]() China, Taiwan sign medical deal during talks Top envoys from China and Taiwan signed a deal on medical cooperation and discussed investment protection during talks Tuesday in Taipei, accompanied by small protests staged by anti-Beijing activists. ... more |
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![]() China, Taiwan sign medical deal during talks Top envoys from China and Taiwan signed a deal on medical cooperation and discussed investment protection during talks Tuesday in Taipei, capping a year of unprecedented progress between the former rivals. ... more | .. |
![]() Israeli warplanes raid Gaza: two Palestinians wounded Israeli warplanes staged eight attacks in Gaza overnight, wounding two Palestinian fighters, a Palestinian medical source and witnesses said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Nanomaterials In Our Environment The manufacturing of nanomaterials has been steadily on the rise in the medical, industrial, and scientific fields. Nanomaterials are materials that are engineered to have dimensions less than 100 n ... more | .. |
![]() Veteran US Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Dies Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and a key figure in the 1995 peace agreement that ended three years of war in Bosnia ... more |
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![]() Decline Of West Coast Fog Brought Higher Coastal Temperatures Last 60 Years Fog is a common feature along the West Coast during the summer, but a University of Washington scientist has found that summertime coastal fog has declined since 1950 while coastal temperatures have ... more | .. |
![]() Long-Distance Ultrasound Exams Controlled By Joystick Ultrasound is an extremely useful medical technique, provided the operator has the expertise. In small clinics, however - and still more on spacecraft - trained radiologists are rare. So ESA i ... more | .. |
![]() Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more | .. |
![]() Protestors urge 'hands off medicine' at EU-India summit Protestors wearing white medical coats staged a noisy protest outside an India-EU summit Friday to demand continued access to cheap medicine for hundreds of thousands of HIV sufferers in poor countries. ... more |
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