Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial mayor ofDavao City, appeared to win the presidential election in the Philippines on Monday night, besting four challengers despite a campaign marred by rape jokes, death threats and various obscenities ... As of 1 a.m. local time, Duterte had won 38% of the vote, ahead of his closest rival by about 15 percentage points....
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin is apparently well admired in his country, but a poll shows he is also respected beyond the boundaries of his own nation, Newsweek reports.Although the Kremlin’s violent foreign policy is noteworthy, Putin ranks as the sixth most-admired man in the world in an annual survey by pollster YouGov – that’s five places higher compared to his 2015 result....
It was fought on the beaches ofNormandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness ofGen ...Eisenhower, the moral fiber ofBritish Prime MinisterWinston Churchill, and the awesome power of an atomic bomb ...It's a grand moment, but few of the world's major leaders will be in attendance....
Pakistani Police have arrested 13 people suspected of burning a girl alive ... In Pakistani village, there is anger, but mostly shock, after the brutal "honour killing" of 16-yr-old girl https.//t.co/8vx9QBpDSN ... A jirga (occasionally jarga or jargah) is a traditional assembly of leaders that make decisions by consensus and according to the teachings ofIslam ... The situation of honor killing is abysmal in Pakistan....
Likewise, and on the heels of winning a resounding majority of the last 15 state primaries, Democratic candidate Sen ...SecretaryofStateHillary Clinton and leaving her stunned ... Psychologists have begun to study the link between “intuitive physics,” gut-level feelings, and attitudes and perceptions of unfinished political events ... Since then, he has won seven of eight primary races ... Economic psychologyof momentum is also at play....
May 5, 2016 - CommonwealthHealth plastic surgeon, Christopher Sanders, MD, will host an open house on Wednesday, May ... Sanders will showcase state-of-the-art equipment that offers patients a glimpse of their potential surgical results....
A deregistered cosmetic physician with a history of "unsafe and unethical" practices has been caught pretending to be a doctor and inappropriately performing cosmetic procedures at a Sydney clinic, an HCCC investigation has found ... But the former cosmetic physician, who was stripped of his medical registration in NSW in 2000, said it ......
...physician or researcher who has made a new and outstanding contribution in science or medicine to prevent, alleviate or eliminate a physical disability ... 'I have two of my grad students-and this summer we will have three summer students-working on a diagnostic tool that will allow a surgeon in an operating room to assess a tumour in 10 to 15 minutes....
The agency is proposing reductions of up to 8 percent to reimbursement rates for hospitals and a roll-back of 2014 reimbursement increases for physicians and nurses....
Thousands of people a year are dying unnecessarily after a heart attack because NHS follow-up care is so poor, a study says ... The findings, by academics from Leeds University and UniversityCollegeLondon, are published on Tuesday in the European Heart Journal ... Prof Jane Dacre, president of the RoyalCollegeofPhysicians which represents non-specialist hospital doctors in England, urged hospitals to take action to improve aftercare....
AmbroseUniversityDance Marathon literally from the first day she stepped on campus, leading cheers and tackling a full class load as a first-year student, frequent fatigue and early-morning drowsiness just seemed to be part of Leemans' college experience ... Leemans left cheerleading, saw a doctor, revised her diet and monitored her sleep habits as advised by physicians ... 'Dance Marathon is probably the centerpiece of what I did here....
Now named the Memorial HermannRed DukeTraumaInstitute, the System is proud to honor the legendary surgeon who is known for transforming trauma care for not just the city ofHouston, but for the entire country ... issues and accident prevention, while providing extraordinary patient care and training ofEMS, paramedics, medical students and surgeons....
Nearly500 doctors in California are on probation for some kind of disciplinary action, including nearly two dozen physicians in the Sacramento area, according to new information from the Medical Boardof California. As of last month, there were 20 doctors facing disciplinary action and two other doctors who have been granted probationary licenses in the four-county Sacramento region ... We've also posted a database of all… ... ....
He first began thinking about systemic racism against indigenous Canadians when, as a high school student in Barrhaven, a First Nations friend pointed out that the history books started with the story ofEuropean explorers ...Last year, the OntarioCollegeofFamilyPhysicians named Kirlew teacher of the year for his role as mentor and teacher to the medical students who train at the Meno Ya WinHospital in Sioux Lookout....
The courses are at the undergraduate level, collegeof technology and specialized training colleges...Collegeof technology is a four-year programme with one year ofJapanese language training and three years of associated degree course....