Coalition's refusal to record Iraq's civilian deaths failing to respect international law
...rtner countries to keep count of Iraqi deaths is a stance that renders farcical the Geneva Conventions' principle that invading forces have a duty to make every effort to protect civilian lives. How can the Coalition attest that it respects this obligation if it refuses to collect data to prove it? The US-l...US Congress blocked opportunity to make food aid more effective
...to fight hunger from all nations of the world. The stance adopted by US congressmen underlines that what is needed is not simply more food or aid, but a concerted international effort to eliminate domestic political constraints on aid sourcing and delivery."...Future of pain therapies at forefront of physician meeting
...pain medicine physicians' concerns about the FDA's stance on new pain therapies in the pipeline at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's (AAPM) 22nd Annual Meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif., February 22 25, 2006. Scott Gottlieb, MD, Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific ...Ireland leads Europe for anti-tobacco policies while Luxembourg comes last
Ireland leads Europe for its active stance on tobacco control, while Luxembourg comes bottom of the league of 30 countries, reveals research in the journal Tobacco Control. A newly devised points scale was applied to rank 30 European countries' efforts to curb smoking and improve the health o...New study shows the life and death importance of the doctor-patient relationship
...th on the part of the doctor could facilitate that stance on the part of the patient. "A doctor who was overwhelmed by the patient's unaddressed emotional distress, with limited training in the psychological aspects of medicine, may be more inclined to favour hastening death for a patient," Dr Varghese said...Research reinforces findings that Chinese exercises benefit older adults
...signed to measure balance, lower body strength and stance width, a subset of participants who contributed re...boratory loss of balance measures, and to evaluate stance width as a possible learned strategic mechanism for improved postural stability," Yang said. In re...Tipsheet: Focus on gait training, pain relief, pressure ulcers and hearing aid training
... mm of displacement during swing phase relative to stance phase. A rest period caused the limb to displace in the socket approximately 4.8 mm during subsequent walking trials, possibly reflecting limb enlargement and thus a more proximal position in the socket after the rest period. This sensor could be use...Balance training better than tai chi at improving mobility among older adults
...d while they stood on one leg tests called tandem stance and unipedal stance. They also were measured while... the end of the 10 weeks, improvements in unipedal stance were roughly the same between the two groups. But compared to tai chi, CBST had greater improvements...ASU, Walter Reed researchers create prosthesis of the future
...ys Sugar. "The cycle can be split into two phases stance and swing. We are concerned with storing energy and releasing energy (regenerative kinetics) in the stance phase." When you look at the mechanics of walking, it can be described as catching a series of fal...Limiting eligibility for medical studies can omit women and African-Americans
...to Health Care System. "It's a moral and political stance and we're obligated to live up to it." For the analysis, Humphreys and his colleagues looked at data sets from five previous alcohol treatment studies that enrolled more than 100,000 patients. They then explored the impact of six exclusion criteria...