Respiratory Ailments Leading Reasons Why ER Doctors Hospitalize Children And Teens, USA

About 3 of every 10 children and teens who are admitted to the hospital from the emergency room have asthma, pneumonia, acute bronchitis or another respiratory disorder, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research…

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Clare Brown, Chief Executive Of Infertility Network UK Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Clare Brown, Chief Executive of the Infertility Network UK (I N UK) is to be presented with the World Fertility Awareness Month Lifetime Achievement Award at the occasion of the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction…

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Food Safety Controls: Almost Half Of Rapid Alert System Notifications Concern Imports Rejected At EU Border

About 45% of notifications to the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in 2006 concerned products from third countries which were blocked at the border by EU control authorities when the risks were identified. EU Health Commissioner…

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General Optical Council – News From Council Meeting, 28 June 2007GOC Supports Early Move To Independent Adjudication Body

The General Optical Council recently gave its formal support to transferring responsibility for hearings to a new Independent Adjudication Body at the earliest opportunity. The new body will be set up as a result of recommendations in the Government’s White…

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American Pharmacists Association Seeks Nominations For The Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announces that nominations are now being accepted for the Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award. The award will be presented at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, California, March 14 – 17,…

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Alcohol Related Hospital Admissions Doubled In Last 10 Years According To Latest Official Figures, UK

The latest compendium of figures issued recently by the independent provider of official health and social care statistics, the Information Centre (The IC) show how hospital admissions specifically related to alcohol consumption have more than doubled in the last 10…

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