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《英国医生杂志》
Death toll from bird flu rises: A Thai girl, aged 9, who contracted H5N1 bird flu from infected chickens that her family raised, has died. It is the 11th death from H5N1 in the country and the 31st in Asia. More than 80 people in Thailand are being tested for the disease after developing flu-like symptoms.
German hospital pays 250 000 in compensation: The University Hospital of Giessen, Germany, will pay compensation of 250 000 (￡172 150; $307 225) and a lifelong monthly pension of 800 to a severely disabled girl and her parents. The girl was infected as a premature baby in the hospital's paediatric intensive care unit with Klebsiella oxytoca in 1997. The bacterial outbreak was attributed to the use of heavily diluted disinfectant. The parents sued the hospital after doctors published a letter about the outbreak in the Lancet ( BMJ 2000;321: 530).
Alder Hey report damaged research: A study by the health think tank, the King's Fund, claims that the report into the retention of children's organs at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, published in January 2001, has stifled debate on the issue of organ donation and damaged public interests ( Journal of Medical Ethics 2004;30: 463-9).
Welsh prescription charges cut: From this week, patients in Wales will pay ￡5 ($8.91; 7.26) for a single prescription instead of ￡6. This strategy is the Welsh Assembly's first step to providing free prescriptions by 2007. The price of prescriptions remains at ￡6.40 elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Working party set up on treatment of newborns: The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has set up a working party to consider the ethical, legal, and economic issues surrounding the prolonging of life in fetuses and newborn babies. Chaired by Margaret Brazier, professor of law at Manchester University, it will review guidance on the treatment for newborns, current practice in neonatal units, scientific advances, and developments in this field.
German hospital pays 250 000 in compensation: The University Hospital of Giessen, Germany, will pay compensation of 250 000 (￡172 150; $307 225) and a lifelong monthly pension of 800 to a severely disabled girl and her parents. The girl was infected as a premature baby in the hospital's paediatric intensive care unit with Klebsiella oxytoca in 1997. The bacterial outbreak was attributed to the use of heavily diluted disinfectant. The parents sued the hospital after doctors published a letter about the outbreak in the Lancet ( BMJ 2000;321: 530).
Alder Hey report damaged research: A study by the health think tank, the King's Fund, claims that the report into the retention of children's organs at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, published in January 2001, has stifled debate on the issue of organ donation and damaged public interests ( Journal of Medical Ethics 2004;30: 463-9).
Welsh prescription charges cut: From this week, patients in Wales will pay ￡5 ($8.91; 7.26) for a single prescription instead of ￡6. This strategy is the Welsh Assembly's first step to providing free prescriptions by 2007. The price of prescriptions remains at ￡6.40 elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Working party set up on treatment of newborns: The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has set up a working party to consider the ethical, legal, and economic issues surrounding the prolonging of life in fetuses and newborn babies. Chaired by Margaret Brazier, professor of law at Manchester University, it will review guidance on the treatment for newborns, current practice in neonatal units, scientific advances, and developments in this field.