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- Judge recuses herself from hearing plea against doctors strike
- Higher quality of life seen among regular moderate drinkers than among abstainers
- Earth observation for us and our planet
| Judge recuses herself from hearing plea against doctors strike Posted: 22 Jun 2012 06:43 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 22 - The Supreme Court Thursday could not take up a public interest litigation - seeking to declare that the proposed doctors' strike June 25 was illegal as Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai recused herself from hearing the matter. A vacation bench of Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice Desai directed the petitioner, NGO People for Better Treatment, to approach the court's registry for the listing of the matter before another bench which did not have Justice Desai on it. Justice Desai declined to hear the matter as her husband is a member of Indian Medical Association -, which had given the call for the strike. The strike has been called to protest the Clinical Establishment Act and introduction of Bachelor of Rural Health Care course. Terming the proposed strike unethical, immoral and against the law, the NGO said it was in violation of Code of Ethics and Regulations of the Medical Council of India -. The petition said that the apex court, in an earlier judgment, while acknowledging the right to strike as basic right in a democratic society, had held that people engaged in essential public services could not take recourse to such methods of agitations that put entire society to ransom. It said that the proposed doctors' strike would deprive the patients, largely poor and from impoverished backgrounds, of their fundamental right to life which is protected under Article 21 of Indian Constitution. The PIL said that the court needed to issue an injunction to doctors, restraining them from bringing the medical services to a standstill as it amounted to renouncing their Hippocratic Oath. The petition said that besides the violation of the oath, the proposed strike was also in violation of the MCI provision that states the doctors' obligation to the sick and against any neglect. Noting the astonishing silence of the union health ministry on the issue, the NGO sought the court's direction to it take immediate steps to... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Higher quality of life seen among regular moderate drinkers than among abstainers Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Data from a nationally representative sample of 5,404 community-dwelling Canadians ages 50 and older at baseline (1994/1995) was used to estimate the effects of alcohol drinking patterns on quality of life when subjects were aged =50 years and after a follow-up period. Health-related quality of life was assessed with the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3). The authors report that most participants showed stable alcohol-consumption patterns over 6 years. Detailed information was available on the participants alcohol consumption. Moderate drinkers were defined as those having 1 drinks per week with no more than 3 on any day for women and no more than 4 on any day for men. The repeated assessments allowed for the investigators to classify subjects according to changes over time in their drinking patterns, so that persistent moderate drinkers could be identified. 31.4% of the subjects decreased their intake over the follow-up period. The investigators also did secondary analyses among subjects who did not report any adverse health conditions (heart disease, cancer, stroke, or diabetes) during the first four years of follow up; these subjects were referred to as consistently healthy. Regular moderate drinkers had the highest indices of quality of life at baseline, but subsequent changes in quality of life indicators were similar in all groups except for those reporting decreasing alcohol consumption. The investigators conclude that regular moderate drinkers had higher initial levels of health-related quality of life than abstainers and those in other groups. However, rates of decline over time were similar for all groups except those decreasing their consumption from moderate levels, who showed a greater decline in their level of health-related quality of life than regular moderate users. While Forum reviewers admired the intent of this study, there were concerns about some of the statistical and epidemiologic aspects. The... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Earth observation for us and our planet Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The Rio+20 summit on promoting jobs, clean energy and a more sustainable use of our planet's resources closed today after three days of talks. During the summit, the role of Earth observation in sustainable development was highlighted. In 1992, a blueprint to rethink economic growth, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Now, 20 years later, the Rio+20 Summit brought participants from governments, the private sector, non-govermental organisations and other stakeholders once again to Brazil to evaluate the progress being made. During a side event organised by ESA, the significance of observing Earth from space came into focus, in particular how it improves the assessment and the monitoring of essential climate change, biodiversity and land degradation variables. Earth-observing satellites allow for efficient, reliable and affordable monitoring of our planet from global to local scales. In many cases, it is the only way to obtain trend information on essential environmental variables. The large volume of data acquired from over 30 years of satellite observations gives scientists a unique and detailed view of the changing physical characteristics of the Earth surface, sampled at a rate impossible to obtain with only in-situ observations. The strong contributions that space observations can bring to environmental monitoring have now been recognised by the Rio Convention bodies: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). ESA began collaborations with these Rio Conventions 10 years ago. For example, satellite data at national and local scales help the implementation of UNFCCC protocols and assist the Contracting Parties in their reporting duties. The CBD develops national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
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