Libyans Weigh a Deal to Free Medical Workers in HIV Case
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- Libyans Weigh a Deal to Free Medical Workers in HIV Case
- Medicine and mortality: The dark world of medical history
- In Class XI students prefer non-medical subjects over medical
Libyans Weigh a Deal to Free Medical Workers in HIV Case
New York Times – Jun 21, 2007
Last week President Bush urged Libya to release the foreigners. The German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the European Union’s external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner recently visited Libya to resolve the case. The European Union and its member states have given Libya the equivalent of millions of euros per child to help the more than 400 infected children. They have set up an H. treatment center in Benghazi where Europeans train local doctors and assist in the treatment of the approximately 350 surviving children.
Medicine and mortality: The dark world of medical history
Independent – Jun 21, 2007
Designed to illuminate our own mortality the efforts mankind has made to extend it and the impact this has had on our idea of ourselves the exhibition includes the heart of 22-year-old Jennifer Sutton who had a transplant at Papworth Hospital Cambridgeshire two weeks ago. She plans a visit to see it. The collection in the 1932 neo-classical pile on London’s Euston Road that was once the headquarters of the Wellcome Trust contains three galleries displaying the treasures and curiosities amassed by the trust’s founder Sir Henry Wellcome together with modern acquisitions commissions and art works. There are 1930s sex aids a Chinese torture chair constructed of lethal-looking blades delicately carved Aztec sacrificial knives and scores of amputation saws later versions of which were gap-toothed to prevent clogging. Napoleon’s silver-handled toothbrush Florence Nightingale’s moccasins and Charles Darwin’s walking stick are displayed alongside the mummified body of a Peruvian boy. Together they provide the visitor with a rapid sometimes queasy journey through the history of medicine embracing everything from witchcraft and alchemy to prosthetics made of iron and leather to replace amputated limbs. There are showcases featuring birthing implements and chastity belts syringes and a snuff box in a ram’s head alongside a used guillotine blade death masks and execution implements.
In Class XI students prefer non-medical subjects over medical
Expressindia.com – Jun 21, 2007
Last year too the stream had witnessed maximum admissions in city schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education Delhi and Punjab School Education Board Mohali. Surprisingly for science students the preference is non-medical subjects over medical. And yet again Humanities seems to be lowest in the pecking order.
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