SANTA FE, N.M.: Gov. Susana Martinez's administration is moving ahead to establish a state-run clearinghouse to help small businesses and tens of thousands of individuals find affordable health insurance they currently lack.
A fight over the exchange, however, could break out in next year's Legislature.
Attorney General Gary King's office is reviewing whether new legislation is needed to implement a health...
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers slammed federal and state health officials for failing to properly police a pharmacy whose tainted drugs caused a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
"This tragedy could have been avoided," said Congressman Cliff Stearns, who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight and investigations panel.
The Florida Republican cited a litany of complaints against the New England Compounding Centre and...
NEW YORK: Americans get too many calories from soda. But what about alcohol? It turns out adults get almost as many empty calories from booze as from soft drinks, a government study found.
Soda and other sweetened drinks the focus of obesity-fighting public health campaigns are the source of about 6 percent of the calories adults consume, on average. Alcoholic...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rejected BJP's demand to hold in abeyance appointment of new CBI Director Ranjit Sinha and termed as "unwarranted" insinuation the charge that the decision was to preempt the procedure recommended by the Select Committee on Lokpal.In a letter to BJP leader Arun Jaitley, the Prime Minister said the premier investigating agency could...
NEW DELHI: India and some other countries from Asia, Latin America and Africa should find a permanent place in UN Security Council to reflect the surge of developing economies over the developed world, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacia Lula Da Silva said here.Delivering the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial lecture here, Silva said an International Monetary Fund report in April suggested...
LONDON: A senior Irish government official has not ruled out a public inquiry into the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion in Ireland.Eamon Gilmore, the second most senior officer in the Irish government has said the priority was getting to the bottom of the 31-year-old dentist's death after a...
MUMBAI: The policemen who arrested two girls for their Facebook comments against the shutdown of the city for Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's funeral have been indicted by an inquiry panel which said the action was not justified.The inquiry report submitted to the DGP office has recommended departmental action against the errant cops while exonerating the girls, a police...
LONDON: Praveen Halappanavar, husband of an Indian dentist who died due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion in Ireland, says the medical notes made available to him do not contain their repeated pleas for a termination, but mention trivial requests for tea and toast."They have all the other information including requests for tea and toast and for an...
NEW DELHI: Unhappy over China showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as its territory in maps of the country on their new e-passports, India has retaliated by issuing visas, containing Indian maps including these regions as part of it.The retaliation came after the Chinese government started issuing new e-passports, carrying pages with watermark Chinese maps including Arunachal and Aksai...
NEW DELHI: The comments by a former official of CAG over the report on 2G spectrum allocation today kicked up a row with Congress President Sonia Gandhi suggesting that BJP had been exposed while the government demanded answers from Parliament's PAC chief M M Joshi over his alleged role.Joshi, a senior BJP leader, rejected allegations by R P Singh,...