Medical News Analysis
Israeli company develops painless glucose monitor (GlucoTrack).
By Nicky Blackburn February 12, 2006
Pakistan confirms
presence of bird flu strain on poultry farms
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FDA News
FDA Approves First Ever Inhaled Insulin Combination Product
Exubera
for Treatment of Diabetes.
FDA Approves New Treatment for Gastrointestinal and
Kidney
Cancer
(sunitinib)
17th World Congress of IPPNW Mission of
Physicians: War or Health?
European
Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Chronic Heart Failure.
European Society of Cardiology releases its new Guidelines on Chronic
Heart Failure1, published in the latest edition of the European Heart
Journal, official journal of the ESC and Europe's leading cardiology
journal.
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Young
doctors in UK without jobs, BMA warns
According to the British
Medical Association( BMA) report ,
many doctors will not be able to find the jobs next week when their
contract will end. some doctors will choose the option of either leaving
the country or profession .Others will try to find the locum or non
training jobs.
One of the major reason for
the increased jobs application is from overseas doctors plus the reduction
in the number of the training posts.
Overseas young doctors from
India and Pakistan seems to be at the receiving end. They have to normally
wait for the 8 -12 months to get the job after passing the PLAB 2 exam
which is conducted by the GMC.
GMC should stop
conducting the PLAB test but it looks like that they are earning
quite a lot of money from these poor doctors .
Source: BBC
Health News
Malaria prevention and detection through wristwatch.
Malaria is a deadly disease and
over many centuries millions of people have been killed especially
in Africa. Many scientists are working hard to invent a vaccine for
malaria but a very unique invention by
Gervan Lubbe
of wrist watch to detect and kill the malaria parasites in
blood can be very useful. But we need to assess the efficiency of
this device first before making too much expectations.
Cons of this device are pricking
of the wrist 4 times a day to detect the parasite within the blood and its
cost.
Pricking of needle make it
vulnerable for transmitting HIV to other people if its used by more than
one person. HIV/AIDS is also pandemic in African continent.