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Foreign doctors play key role in U.K. health system

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jul 3 - Foreign doctors play a vital role in running Britain's publicly funded health service and have to come through stringent tests before they are allowed to work here, health authorities said on Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

Occupational stress common among oncologists

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 3 - A study of oncologists and palliative care specialists reveals that occupational stress is common in these fields, according to a report in the June issue of Clinical Medicine.

July 2, 2007

Last day for junior doctor job offers

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jun 22 - Thousands of junior doctors face disappointment on Friday as the last few job offers are sent out for prized training posts across England. As many as 32,000 medics have been chasing around 20,000 National Health Service training jobs, with Friday the final day of the current round of recruitment.

June 21, 2007

Junior doctors lose jobs battle at U.K. High Court

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 23 - Junior doctors lost a legal bid on Wednesday to scrap a flawed job application system that has sparked angry protests from medics and led to calls for the health secretary to be sacked.

May 22, 2007

U.K. docs' group chief quits over job selection row

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 21 - The chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) has quit amid a row over a flawed doctors' job selection process, the association said on Sunday.

May 20, 2007

Doctors set to leave amid NHS training row

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Apr 25 - Thousands of junior doctors are set to work overseas due to flaws in recruitment to medical training, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Tuesday. More than half of junior doctors surveyed by the BMA are likely to leave the country if they do not secure a job through the government's training program.

April 24, 2007

Junior doctors walk out of job review body

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Mar 26 - A dispute over a controversial selection system for senior medical training posts worsened on Friday after junior doctors' representatives said they had walked out of an official review aimed at solving the row. Thousands of trainee medics marched through London last weekend in protest at a computerized application process that left many well-qualified candidates without a single interview.

March 25, 2007

Britain may see surplus of specialist physicians in a few years

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jan 12 - Thousands of doctors training in England could be forced to move abroad because there will be no jobs for them when they qualify, the head of the British Medical Association said on Thursday. A leaked Department of Health paper last week forecast there would be a surplus in England of 3,200 consultants by 2010 as well as a shortage of 1,200 family doctors.

January 11, 2007

Burden of alcohol-related cancer substantial

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 4 - An international team of researchers report that 3.6% of all cancer cases worldwide are related to alcohol drinking, resulting in 3.5% of all cancer deaths. The burden of cancer attributable to alcohol drinking was especially high in Central and Eastern Europe.

August 3, 2006

One in four U.K. health staff bullied by patients

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 22 - One in four National Health Service staff have been bullied or harassed by patients and their families in the last 12 months and the problem is growing, according to a report on Friday. Junior doctors and medical students reported they often bore the brunt of bullying as part of an "initiation rite" into the profession.

May 21, 2006

Publishers mobilize against U.S. research proposal

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 10 - Scientific and scholarly publishers, including Reed Elsevier and John Wiley, are launching an offensive against newly proposed U.S. legislation that would require them to make much of their research available for free within six months of publication.

May 9, 2006

Forearm support may spare desk workers some pain

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 1 - Equipping office desks with a simple forearm support may help prevent the pain that can come with long days at a computer, new research suggests.

April 30, 2006

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