Here we see again how the Republicans in congress like to stop any progress made by the new administration. Everything that I have read about Dr Benjamin implies that she is the right person for this job at...
US President Obama has selected Dr. Regina Benjamin as his new Surgeon General. Dr. Benjamin is a rural Alabama family physician who fought hard to rebuild her nonprofit clinic when hurricane Katrina ravaged it....
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President Obama, today announced the selection of Dr. Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General. This post has been vacant and is timely before the surge of the H1N1A flu, next fall. President Obama said that her...
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"(CNN) -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, an administration official said Thursday. "Sanjay Gupta was under...
It turns out that Sanjay Gupta, President-elect Barack Obama's probable pick for the post of Surgeon General, is controversial. First, Gupta was criticized on New York Times' columnist and Nobel Prize winning...
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There was not immediate word to explain his decision. Sources had confirmed weeks ago that Obama had offered the job to Gupta and that the neurosurgeon had intended to take it. At the time, sources said Gupta...
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The US surgeon general has released a rare call to action against DVT, or deep vein thrombosis (blood clotting). This condition is responsible for over 100,000 deaths a year in America alone, and affects hundreds of thousands more. DVT can become deadly if a...
Eight persons, including surgeon general of the Pakistan Army, his guard and driver, were killed and several injured when a suicide bomber struck staff car of Lt-Gen Mushtaq Ahmed Baig at the busiest crossing on...