From Chapter 5 - Related matters raised during the inquiry of the Finance and Public Administration Committee (Senate) report entitled "The administration of health practitioner registration by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)". Excerpt:

'Avant Mutual Group also noted that other complaints have been made by ex-spouses of doctors during family break-ups and anonymously. Avant concluded 'the necessity for AHPRA to be take care in accepting and acting on such complaints including using its emergency powers as set out under section 156, needs to be emphasised'.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Jail and prison inmates are at increased risk for exposure to infectious diseases. The steady stream of new arrivals can introduce new types of infectious diseases to facilities, and close confinement makes it easy for diseases to spread, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained.

The CDC scientists found that 55 percent of U.S. jails -- facilities that house people awaiting trial or serving short sentences -- received no H1N1 vaccine during the 2009-10 outbreak, which means they were not part of the national vaccine campaign.
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Most jail inmates are healthy men, but there are also inmates in the highest risk categories for flu, including pregnant women. While the median jail stay is 48 hours, some inmates are detained for months, the study noted.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Looking back at the year just ending, it’s extraordinarily easy to identify FIRE’s biggest fight of 2011: the dramatic new regulations announced by the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in its April 4 “Dear Colleague Letter.”

In my five years here at FIRE, I can’t remember it ever being this easy to select a topic for my end-of-year review. Simply put, FIRE’s legal work has been dominated this year by OCR’s letter: analyzing OCR’s new requirements of every college and university that accepts federal funding (read: virtually all of them); crafting and publicizing our response and concerns; answering critics of our defense of student rights; tracking the importation of the worst of OCR’s new regulations into proposed federal legislation; documenting the impact OCR’s letter has already had on individual students and schools nationwide; and more.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Teachers at a Skokie school forced a 6-year-old with a broken leg and a concussion to crawl back to his classroom across an icy playground, then failed to call for an ambulance, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Kindergartner Rahul Chandani slipped on a mound of snow and hit his head in the playground at Devonshire Elementary School on Jan. 3 last year, but didn’t get any medical help until his mom came to get him, the lawsuit filed in Cook County circuit court by Chandani’s parents Pritam and Priya alleges.

“His teacher told him, ‘You’re a big boy — I can’t carry you,’” the boy’s mother, Priya Chandani, said Wednesday, “She told him to walk back, but his leg was broken so he fell again and then had to crawl at least 200-300 feet back to the school building.

“If someone did that to me as an adult, I’d slap them.”

Vicki Larson, in The Huffington Post, reports a study done by U.S. researcher Eric Anderson at University of Winchester in England. In brief, he studied 120 undergraduate men, and 78 percent of those with a partner cheated, "even though they said that they loved and intended to stay with their partner." According to him, most men aren't cheating because they don't love their partner, but because they just want to have sex with others. And society shouldn't pooh-pooh that.

Funny...the thing that could put me at risk of cheating is finding a woman who never says "Oh, honestly..." or otherwise ridicules something I express.

I don't know if he researches infidelity, but a well-known U.S. divorce researcher, Dr. Gottman, has found that the pattern that most reliably predicts divorce is what he calls the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (FAQ #9):

SAVE E-lert here. Excerpt:

'The National Alliance to end Domestic Abuse (Jewish Women International) is sponsoring a conference on January 12. Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, will discuss the implementation of routine screening for domestic violence, which was recommended by the Institute of Medicine and will be part of the affordable health care act roll out in 2012.

Campbell has spent over 30 years in advocacy and research of abused women, has written 200 articles and seven books, sits on the boards of four women’s abuse shelters, and chairs the board at Futures Without Violence. One would think she really wants to end domestic violence against women.

One would think that...except...

Jacquelyn Campbell is completely ignoring a major predictor of domestic abuse towards women: their own violent acts.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could lead to infertile men being able to father their own children, rather than using donor sperm.

Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to grow mouse sperm from a few cells in a laboratory dish. The scientists believe that the same technique - using 'germ cells' extracted from the testicles - will eventually work in humans.

The team are now 'working as quickly as possible' to reproduce the result in humans.

In a world first a team headed by Professor Stefan Schlatt, at Muenster University in Germany, were able to grow sperm by using germ cells. These are the cells in testicles that are responsible for sperm production.
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Scientists grew the sperm by surrounding the germ cells in a special compound called agar jelly to create an environment similar to that found in testicles.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a major study, researchers said family structures had a much more significant effect on boys’ early education than school type or even the gender of teachers. It found that boys were much more likely to misbehave, be excluded from school and go on to achieve low grades after rebelling against “emotionally distant” parents.
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The pattern is particularly marked in single-parent families where mothers “invest disproportionately less in their sons or feel less warm toward them” than daughters.
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Researchers in the United States tested various theories to explain bad behaviour and low standards among boys and concluded that “home-based” influences played a much bigger part than biological differences, the style of early education, teacher gender or peer pressure.

“Boys’ likelihood to ‘act out’ is sharply reduced when faced with larger and better parental inputs,” said the study.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 13-year-old girl has been charged over the assault of a taxi driver who was allegedly cut in the arm with a knife in the NSW Illawarra.
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Police say they arrested one of the girls shortly afterwards and also found some cannabis.

The teenager was taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station and charged with being armed with intent to commit serious indictable offence, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, possess prohibited drug and evade taxi fare.

She was conditionally bailed to appear at Port Kembla Childrens Court on January 16 January.'

Remember this from Nov. of 2011? California Lawyer published three letters in the Jan. 2012 issue regarding Justice Ginsburg's comments, none of them supportive of her attitude. Read them here.

Here goes! Excerpt:

'Why is it that everything of the past seems so good, so classic, soo…the way things should be. Decades ago, women were fighting for equal rights but, today, we’re fighting for a return to chivalry. No matter how you cut it, many women want to be treated like ladies and many of us imagine that the world of the 1960s was not only a world mired in charged politics but represented a time when American society was filled with an abundance of manly men. Ok, so maybe our memory is in part clouded by the period drama “Mad Men.”

In any case, sometime between my high school years and full-fledged adulthood, it seems that it’s become okay for men to not take the lead. I think I can speak for many women when I say we’re not too happy about this trend. Here’s a few things that we wish most men still did:

Article here. Excerpt:

'It all began on Friday when neighbors in the Pakistani town of Karachi smelled a foul odor coming from the residence where Bibi and Abbas lived...

Article here. Excerpt:

'SAN DIEGO – December 30, 2011 – Most of us enjoy some harmless excitement and revelry on New Year’s Eve, even if some of us overindulge in a little too much food and drink.

But for many women and men at risk of domestic violence, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are the two most dangerous dates on the calendar.

According to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, domestic violence reports increase as much as 30 percent on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. This comes after lower than average reports of domestic violence between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Article here. Excerpt:

'THRISSUR: The Purusha Avakasha Samrakshana Samithi (PASS) held its meeting in order to address and redress the grievances of men who claim to be harassed by women misusing the Domestic Violence Act.

The meet held at Alankar Auditorium witnessed four grievances. “We normally hold meetings on the third Sunday of every month, but often have to gather at short notice in the instance of complaints. It is a fact that more and more women are abusing the Act for many reasons, mainly money. It often involves either a divorce or estrangement, sometimes the harassment from the mother-in-law or daughter-in-law, but ultimately it is the man who bears the brunt of the law, in an unfair manner,” PASS treasurer and spokesperson advocate Vincent said.

The law is now highly misused by women. A fair share of such cases is found in the upper strata of society. Manifold false cases of cruelty and violence are hoisted by women urged or instigated by their counsels/advocates hungry for fees and more prey to feed on the gullible.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'MIAMI, FL, January 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- According to a report by the US Department of Human Services and the US Department of Justice, an estimated 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner every year. These assaults can be sexual or physical, and this statistic does not include emotional or verbal abuse.

Men are often the victims of domestic violence, but the incidents rarely get much attention. There is a general assumption that men are the violent partners, but statistics indicate that violence against male partners occurs in both same-sex, and male/female relationships. Men are entitled to the same protections as women when they are assaulted, and deserve strong legal counsel who will fight for their rights, and work to protect them against abusive partners.

Social Stigmas and Domestic Violence Against Men