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Niall Dickson To Join The GMC As New Chief Executive
The GMC has appointed Niall Dickson as the new Chief Executive of the General Medical Council. He will take up his post in January next year.
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Shanghai To Relax One-Child Policy As China Faces Aging Population, Shrinking Work Force
Nearly three decades after China implemented its one-child policy, the city of Shanghai is planning to encourage young couples to have a second child in an effort to address the country"s aging population and shrinking work force, the New York Times reports. The city"s plan is the most public effort made by the government to counteract a program that is "considered both a tremendous success and a terrible failure," the Times reports. The policy has managed to keep population growth under control but also has led to forced abortions, according to the Times.The country is not abandoning the one-child policy, which applies mostly to residents in urban areas. Rather, the government is allowing more exceptions to the rule, with Shanghai -- where about 22% of its 20 million residents are older than age 60 -- leading the effort. China as a whole faces a similar problem seen in Shanghai, the Times reports. About 8% of the country"s population was older than age 65 in 2006. That figure is expected to increase threefold by 2050 to about 322 million people, or nearly 25% of the population, according to the United Nations.In Friday"s issue of China Daily, Xie Lingli, director of the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission, was quoted as saying, "We advocate eligible couples to have two kids because it can help reduce the proportion of the aging people and alleviate a work force shortage in the future." City officials plan to visit homes, pass out leaflets, and offer counseling and financial incentives, the Times reports. Current exceptions to the one-child policy are in place for ethnic minorities and rural residents, who can have a second child if the first child is a girl. Couples made up of two parents who have no siblings have always been allowed to have a second child and are now being encouraged to do so (Barboza, New York Times, 7/24).
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Prostate Cancer Screening And Trust Of Physician Evaluated
Trusted health care s and continuity of care may help reduce the risk of prostate cancer deaths in African-American men, according to a study published in the current issue of the journal Cancer. James Mohler, MD, Chair of the Department of Urology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), and William R. Carpenter, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, are lead investigators.
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India To Promote Drugs In Africa After Fake Chinese Drugs 'Made In India' Seized

India launched a project to promote its $10.7 billion pharmaceutical industry in Africa after fake drugs labeled "Made in India," but with actual origins in China were seized on the continent, IANS/Hindu reports. According to a commerce ministry statement, an effort to show ministers and senior officials in African nations "that the Indian generic industry is as safe as its patented versions and is available at much reasonable prices" is underway. Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria Mahesh Kumar Sachdev told the commerce ministry that a large consignment of fake malaria drugs had been seized. "After a laboratory analysis by the Nigerian Government Drug Regulatory Authority, the drugs have been found to be fake and had it not been intercepted, about 642,000 adults would have been affected," according to the statement. Commerce ministry officials said India was collecting evidence from African countries including, Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Nigeria, where fake Chinese drugs were being passed as Indian-made. "We have already lodged a protest with the Chinese authorities - at the mission here and also through our embassy in Beijing," a senior official in the commerce ministry said (IANS/Hindu, 6/11). The Times of India writes, "The government is making efforts at brand promotion of Indian pharmaceuticals and generic drugs in Africa" (Times of India, 6/11). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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