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Medical developments from around the world Vaccination Tragedies The new pentavalent vaccine is making news everywhere—about deaths following vaccination—but the powers that be keep repeating that the deaths are not due to vaccination but only coincidental. They are too many to be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 March 2014
Environmental Activist Sumaira Abdulali and Adv Mohana Nair explained the Whistleblowers’ Bill and how it can protect whistleblowers, who expose malpractice or corruption The "Whistleblowers' Bill", a long standing demand of activists and NGOs, was cleared on the last day of Parliament...

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Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 27 March 2014
If studies are accurate, more than a million patients in the US are harmed a year by the medical care they thought would heal them. Here are six recommended steps the sufferer can take This post, originally published on Sept. 18, 2012, has been updated.   I often speak to people...

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We still use the outdated Newtonian physics to understand the human body. We also use the reductionist view of human healing. The result has been disastrous, to say the least Science is change. Anything that remains static does not qualify to be science in the true sense of the word....

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2014
Rajat Gupta's bid to overturn his conviction on insider trading charges was rejected by a US court A US court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Rajat Gupta, former director of Goldman Sachs, to overturn his conviction on insider trading charges and sentenced him to two years in...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 26 March 2014
After signing up for coverage and disclosing they were smokers, about 100 New Hampshire consumers, including Terry Wetherby, find their new Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield policies cancelled because they were charged incorrect ‘non-smoker’ rates Retired New Hampshire nurse Terry...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Ryann Grochowski Jones (ProPublica) 25 March 2014
Research has been seen as less objectionable than other forms of interactions with drug companies, but 10 percent of researchers have multiple ties among the nine companies ProPublica analysed. That raises questions about doctors’ impartiality Pharmaceutical companies pay for the...

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The matters in our burgeoning private universities would even make the angels weep. God save education and the country! “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Electricity is the cause of myriad illnesses and discomforts like tiredness, aches & pains “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I...

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Medical developments from around the world Mumps Vaccine Useless? New York’s Fordham University is making headlines after 13 confirmed cases of mumps emerged on two of its campuses. These reports clearly indicate that all affected students had already been vaccinated for mumps,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2014
Are consumer courts your only option? Or do some issues have faster, alternative solution? Three experts, Adv Bapoo Malcolm, Indrani Malkani and Shirish Shanbhag say yes Finding a solution or redress of your grievances requires you to make smart choices and act strategically. Most people...

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Why real-world decisions require a combination of left-brain analysis and right-brain ambition As we know, individuals are prone to various biases, such as looking for information that will confirm what they believe (confirmation bias) or have the illusion of control and imagine that...

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Hitisha Jain 21 March 2014
Grow-Trees helps the environment by bringing in corporate systems, processes and a feel-good factor into the simple task of planting trees. When Pradip Shah, the founder-managing director of CRISIL (Credit Research and Information Services of India Limited) provided technical assistance...

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The man behind the world’s largest bicycle and motorcycle company This book is about Om Prakash Munjal, founder of the Hero Cycles and manufacturer of Hero motorbikes. It highlights the advantages of a home-grown and people-driven style of management over the process-driven Western...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 20 March 2014
When surgical team members endorsed the robot in an ad, controversy ensued. An internal review finds no ill intent, but says policies were violated, calls for clearer rules An internal review by the University of Illinois has found that an advertisement in which a university surgical...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2014
Australia’s actions are in line with sanctions imposed by the European Union and Canada on officials who have been instrumental in the Russian threat to Ukraine sovereignty Australia on Wednesday slapped financial sanctions and travel bans on a dozen Russian and Ukrainian officials who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2014
At a Moneylife event, where all the seats were booked, Debashis Basu, explained in detail all the things that a saver needs to know about how and when to invest in stocks and bonds   With the BSE Sensex near its all-time high, and with bonds yields currently above 8.50%, is it the...

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Paul Kiel (ProPublica) 14 March 2014
The investigation by US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau follows a ProPublica story that detailed the company’s lending practices World Acceptance Corp., one of the largest high-cost installment lenders in the United States, disclosed today that it is the target of an investigation...

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Nina Martin (ProPublica) 13 March 2014
Nina Martin talks with a leading expert on the historic tension between civil rights and religious freedom As conservatives grapple with the reality of gay marriage and the Supreme Court weighs whether companies should be forced to offer birth control to employees, it's very clear: The...

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Eric Sagara (ProPublica) 12 March 2014
Pharmaceutical company payments to health care professionals dropped between 2011 and 2012 among most of the companies and categories Pharmaceutical company payments to health care professionals dropped between 2011 and 2012 among most of the companies and categories ProPublica tracks,...

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