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Legislation Needed To Boost HIV/AIDS Efforts In Solomon Islands, Health Official Says
Isaac Muliloa -- national coordinator of the HIV and sexually transmitted infections unit at the Solomon Islands" Ministry of Health -- recently said that a lack of national HIV/AIDS laws is hindering efforts to address the disease, the Solomon Times reports. Recent World Health Organization estimates said that the number of HIV cases in the Solomon Islands could reach 350 by 2010. Muliloa said that legislation is needed to address continued discrimination against HIV-positive employees in the workplace. He added that the HIV/AIDS and STI unit is relatively new in the health ministry, as is the Solomon Islands" National AIDS Council. According to Muliloa, officials are continuing to work toward implementing policies. The Times reports that the Solomon Islands does not have laws in place criminalizing the intentional transmission of HIV (Solomon Times, 5/27). Don't forget to buy zoloft online no prescription.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Receives Complete Response Letter From FDA For Zevalin
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGM:SPPI), a commercial-stage biotechnology company with a focus in oncology, announced that it has received a Complete Response letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for ZEVALIN® (ibritumomab tiuxetan) in the first-line consolidation setting for non-Hodgkin"s Lymphoma (NHL) patients. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) Action Date for the ZEVALIN sBLA in the first-line consolidation setting was July 2, 2009. ZEVALIN is currently FDA approved and marketed by Spectrum for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory, low-grade or follicular B-cell NHL, including patients who have rituximab-refractory follicular NHL.

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The Cancer Institute Of New Jersey Network Of Hospitals At The Forefront Of Testing New Nationwide Data Reporting System
What if the quality of cancer care could be assessed and improved in "real clinical time" instead of waiting the typical two years it takes for clinical data to be analyzed and changes implemented? That is an opportunity The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) Network of hospitals is exploring this summer, as it takes the lead in a national initiative to improve data collection on cancer treatment and create a new quality assessment system that can be utilized by health providers across the country. The CINJ Network of hospitals represents nearly a quarter of the 60 beta test sites from across the country that have been invited to help steer the effort. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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Regulation Must Be Extended To Help Stamp Out Abuse, UK

Patients will continue to be unprotected if statutory independent regulation is not extended to counsellors and psychotherapists, according to leading national charities Mind and WITNESS. On the day that psychologists are to be regulated by the Health Professions Council (HPC), the charities welcome the advancement and urge counsellors and psychotherapists to follow suit. Psychological therapies remain one of the least regulated areas of mental health practice in the UK, currently anyone can set themselves up as a counsellor or psychotherapist, without formal training or need to join a professional organisation. There is no single body to monitor malpractice and numerous complex complaints systems make it difficult for patients to take up claims. The Government has promised HPC regulation for psychotherapists and counsellors by 2011 but there remains some professional opposition to the plans. Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of the mental health charity Mind, said: "People go to see a counsellor or psychotherapist when they are in distress and it is unacceptable that at their most vulnerable they are not being properly protected. Now that psychologists are to be regulated by the HPC it makes sense for counsellors and psychotherapists to follow suit. We need a robust system of regulation that ensures health professionals meet set standards and patients are offered a central and fair system for making complaints. It is clear that self-regulation is not working and the Government must press ahead with its plans to overhaul the system." WITNESS Chief Executive Jonathan Coe said: "It can be very hard for clients to complain. Not only does it require a great deal of strength of character to report abuse but people have to face over 100 different codes of conduct and organisational complaints procedures, may have to meet their own costs, prepare their own cases and represent themselves at panels made up exclusively of professionals." "The existing system is open to abuse. It allows therapists to continue using the same titles, even after they are removed from their own register. HPC regulation can"t end abuse but it can provide a single, unified and unbiased channel for complaints, and if a practitioner is struck off they are then legally barred from operating under that title." Professional boundaries charity WITNESS is approached every month by individuals who have been abused by therapists. People like Ed whose psychologist broke patient confidentiality when she divulged to third parties sensitive details of their session. He has attempted to make complaints but has been unsuccessful as it is his word against that of the psychologist, who denies wrong-doing. Ed said: "Until it happened to me I would never have believed that someone in that sort of job could, and would, tell a downright lie in order to cover up for their errors. Even so I felt sure I could rely on the complaints process to sort it all out. Now I realise that is not the case which is why I am so convinced independent, transparent and compulsory regulation for the talking therapies, according to a proper code of conduct, is essential" MIND


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