State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Health Care
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Visionary
Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl Kupfer is the director of the National Eye Institute, Betheseda, USA. He tells the author that blindness is not onl
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Health mapping India
Now health statistics are available at a glance. The National Atlas and Thematic Mappings Organisation (NATMO) has released a Health Map of India. This map highlights the health care facilities and
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Ampouled death
MEASLES vaccine killed 3 infants at Debagram in Nadia district of West Bengal. This was confirmed by members of the inquiry committee which investigated the incident. However, the exact
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Life strife
A recent encyclical from the Pope bolsters resurgent anti abortionist "pro life" groups in the US
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Unleaded petrol stays
DESPITE widespread apprehensions about its potential health hazards, super-unleaded petrol is set to stay in the UK. In late March, the British govemment rejected the calls bya group of mps
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Barefoot doctors
Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'
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How to be a glutton and bloom with health
How what you tuck into can pull you back from the brink of death
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Market trade off
Following stricter trade sanctions by the US on medical supplies, the Cuban health system is going into a coma
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Breast milk ban uproar
The British government's volte face on the ban on advertising breast milk substitutes has triggered alarm in medical circles. On March 1, the government tabled before Parliament a watered down
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DOCTORED ETHICS
On March 7, a woman from Cambridgeshire, UK, received a US $339,700 compensation in an out-of-court settlement after a surgeon failed to diagnose that she was suffering from breast cancer. In