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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