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Health service charts overstate rise in staffing levels
Financial Times - UK
The government has published charts creating a distorted impression of employment in the Department of Health by exaggerating the increase in the number of ...

Cabinet approves launch of National Rural Health Mission:
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
[India News]: New Delhi, Jan 4 : Union Cabinet today approved the launch of a National Rural Health Mission later this month to provide integrated healthcare ...

Health clubs: Cycles of resolution
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Thousands of Americans do every January, fattening membership rolls at health and fitness clubs, gyms and weight-loss programs. ...

Cleric Criticises Government On Ngilu Health Bill
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A Catholic bishop yesterday criticised the Government's handling of the controversial health insurance scheme, terming it "unsatisfactory and a slap in the ...

Vial from Cardinal Health pharmacy part of hepatitis probe
Miami Herald (subscription) - Miami,FL,USA
BALTIMORE - A vial of radioactive solution, 12 hepatitis C cases and the death of one infected person are elements of a mystery health officials are ...

Norak to focus on new drugs
News & Observer - Paleigh,NC,USA
By DAVID RANII, Staff Writer. Norak Biosciences wants to sell its fast-growing technology licensing business and focus on discovering and developing new drugs. ...
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New Drugs Slow Metastatic Prostate Cancer
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... palliative therapy (a combination of two drugs, mitoxantrone plus prednisone), while the other half received prednisone plus a relatively new drug, docetaxel ...

The Gap in Testing Drugs for Children
NPR (audio) - Washington,D.C.,USA
... a carrot and a stick. The carrot is an incentive for the drug companies to test new drugs in children. If they do such testing, then ...

A very personal quest
ABS CBN News - Quezon City,Philippines
... after a few months, the medical research community grew to accept our findings as in fact true and extremely useful for the development of new drugs to treat ...