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Medical graduates out of work because overseas doctors ‘take too many jobs’By DANIEL MARTIN - More by this author » Last updated at 22:05pm on 20th September 2007  Professor Graham Winyard says hundreds of medical graduates are unemployed because too many posts go to doctors from overseas     Hundreds of medical graduates are unemployed because too many posts go to doctors from overseas, it is claimed today. Professor Graham Winyard blames the Government's "muddled approach to managing medical immigration". Writing in the British Medical Journal, Professor Winyard said: "This has created a large surplus of applicants over available...

EXCLUSIVE    NHS sends organs on coaches     By EMMA MORTONAugust 27, 2007   SKINT NHS bosses are using National Express coaches to transport organs for transplants.  And The Sun can reveal it meant an EYE went missing on its way to hospital.It was sent in a box on a coach and disappeared on the way to Northampton General.Hospitals should use private ambulances to carry the organs. But many have axed the contracts to save money.Delivery firm TNT was due to collect the eye — for a cornea transplant — from Northampton bus station where it had been taken...

Woman gives birth to healthy son after defying doctors who told her to abort 'disabled' babyLast updated at 16:03pm on 23rd July 2007A couple were advised by medical experts to abort their unborn child amid fears he would be severely disabled - but he was born perfectly healthy. Heather O'Connor and Jamie Bramley went through months of turmoil after being told that scans suggested part of the baby's brain could be missing. But Jake, their first baby, arrived weighing a healthy 7lb 9oz - and with no defects. Consultants at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester had recommended Heather should...

ROCHDALE, England, May 2 — "I snapped it out myself," said William Kelly, 43, describing his most recent dental procedure, the autoextraction of one of his upper teeth. Now it is a jagged black stump, and the pain gnawing at Mr. Kelly's mouth has transferred itself to a different tooth, mottled and rickety, on the other side of his mouth. "I'm in the middle of pulling that one out, too," he said. It is easy to be mean about British teeth. Mike Myers's mouth is a joke in itself in the "Austin Powers" movies. In a "Simpsons" episode, dentalphobic children...

When the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products licensed Pfizer's Exubera as the first inhaled insulin this year, it was welcomed as the most important development in diabetes treatment since the advent of insulin in the 1920s. Inhaled insulin had shown similar efficacy, but better quality of life scores and patient preference profiles, to short-acting subcutaneous insulin in several randomised studies in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Data on adverse events led to Exubera being contraindicated for smokers and not recommended for people with underlying lung diseases, such...

LONDON, Feb. 15 — When her local health service refused to treat her breast cancer with the drug Herceptin, 54-year-old Ann Marie Rogers sued. But on Wednesday, a High Court judge ruled against her. In his decision the judge, David Bean, said that although he sympathized with Ms. Rogers's predicament, the health service in Swindon, where she lives, had been justified in withholding the drug. "The question for me is whether Swindon's policy is irrational and thus unlawful," Justice Bean wrote. "I cannot say it is." The ruling has potentially serious implications for patients across the taxpayer-financed National Health Service....

Surgery delayed to save money By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor     HOSPITALS have been ordered to delay operations and remove patients from waiting lists in order to save money, The Times has learnt. The move comes a day after Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, admitted that the NHS was more than half a billion pounds in the red. A letter seen by The Times reveals that a group of London hospitals has been told by NHS managers to postpone surgery for as long as possible in order to cut the trust’s debt. Other hospitals are telling patients that...

...A leaked memo last week from Walmart's executive vice president for benefits, Susan Chambers, suggested that the next move in cost-cutting at the nation's largest private employer would be to "dissuade unhealthy people from coming to work at Walmart." ...You should think about this, because if you believe your company isn't harboring similar thoughts, you are living in a dream world. As a spokesperson for Walmart said after the memo was leaked, "Every business in America... [is] having conversations in their boardrooms just like ours."

THE high court ruled today doctors do have the power to withdraw food and drink from terminally ill patients - even if it is against their wishes. The General Medical Council (GMC) was appealing against a previous ruling that gave Lesley Burke - who suffers from a degenerative brain condition - the right to insist on nutrition during the final stages of his illness... The appeal judges were told {that]a patient did not have the right to demand any particular form of treatment... Joyce Robins, co-director of human rights campaign group Patient Concern, said the decision was a disappointment. She...

A DUTCH doctor at the centre of a British hospital scandal has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for removing organs from the bodies of 850 dead children without their parents' consent. The General Medical Council (GMC) today ordered Professor Dick van Velzen be struck off the UK medical register after his actions at the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, northern England. A 2001 government report into the scandal, which shocked Britain with its graphic nature, said the doctor had ordered the stripping of hearts, brain parts, eyes and a number of heads. The inquiry was launched after the...

No one really likes it when a product increases at a price that's twice the rate of inflation. This quickly puts that product out of the reach of the average consumer. Predictably, the mourners will sing about how it is all unfair. This has been especially true in the case of health care costs. Health care costs in this nation are going up at double the rate of inflation and now cost $600 billion a year or a debilitating 11.5% of our gross national product. By comparison, Canada spends 8.5% of its gross national product on health care; Japan 6.7%...

The family of a 94-year-old widow who died days after a 34-hour wait on a hospital trolley have spoken of their upset at the way she way treated. Bernard Edwards' aunt Phyllis was suffering from pneumonia when she arrived at casualty at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Her family said she lay for hours among drunk patients and others with minor injuries, and died a few days later. A hospital spokesman said pressures at the unit remained "significant". Mr Edwards, from Cardiff, said he complained repeatedly but staff were unable to find a bed for her to be...

BANGOR — In a new twist on a familiar story, Bangor played host Thursday to a busload of Canadians who crossed the international border in search of medical care. Fourteen patients traveled down from St. John, New Brunswick to purchase medications not available in Canada as well as to keep medical appointments they say would take months to schedule in their home country. The Canadians ranged in age from 29 to 85 and suffered from high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, infections, limb pain and other complaints. A 29-year-old man took the four-hour trip in order just to get a...

In Iowa, 3 Democratic hopefuls hit the ground running Candidates attack Bush's tax plan while meeting party faithful 01/19/2003 Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - Attacking President Bush's tax-cutting efforts, two Democratic contenders for the White House in 2004 called for repealing the $1.35 trillion plan Congress passed two years ago. A third advocated a freeze in the phased-in reductions. Courting party activists a year before the opening of the presidential nominating season, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said Democrats must present a clear alternative to Mr. Bush...

When you’vegot your health,you’ve goteverything... A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story by Greg Swann     “You can’t see a doctor.” She said that slowly, the way American Gentry types talk to children and Hispanics. “Well why not? I can pay.” She scoffed. “Pay what? Five dollars?” “I can pay whatever it takes.” “What it takes,” she sneered, “is five dollars.” “...?” “Everything here costs five dollars.” “Everything...?” “Everything.” “Hang nail?” “Five dollars.” “Ulcer?” “Five dollars.” “Liver transplant?” “Do you drink?” I said, “No.” “Five dollars.” “How much if I drink?” “We won’t do a liver transplant on people who drink.” “Kind...

Noting that 40 million Americans now have no health insurance, Al Gore said he now favors single-payer national health coverage. Gore, the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee and a potential candidate in 2004, offered his views in response to a question during a book promotion tour. "I was planning to wait and make a major speech on this and I probably should, but I'll just answer your question candidly," Gore said. "I think we've reached a point where the entire healthcare system is in impending crisis. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we should begin drafting a single-payer national...