a Store manager from a Witney opticians has helped set up the first vision centre in Botswana.

Richard Goring, of Specsavers in The Woolgate Centre, was part of a team of six, including four optometrists and two dispensing opticians, who set out with the mission to provide affordable eyecare.

http://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/10765145.Optician_sets_up_vision_centre_in_Botswana/

Toronto doctors say no to free samples from drug firms

Dr. Nav Persaud took the unusual step on Monday evening of emptying a cabinet full of drugs into two garbage bags.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/26/toronto_doctors_say_no_to_free_samples_from_drug_firms.html

The real 21st problem in education

There are plenty of problems in public education, but here's the biggest, from Elaine Weiss, the national coordinator for the Broader Bolder Approach to Education, a project of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute that recognizes the impact of social and economic disadvantage on many schools and students, and works to better the conditions that ... (more)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/26/the-real-21st-century-problem-in-public-education/

Christy-Houston Foundations Grants MTSU $1.5-million for Science Building on Murfreesboro News and Radio

... attends MTSU will go through the science building," Mifflin said. "The science building is going to be involved with nursing students, with pre-med students, physical and occupational therapy students and others. All of that is very much health ...

http://wgnsradio.com/christy-houston-foundations-grants-mtsu-1-5-million-for-science-building-cms-15821

Help for moms and little ones

... inadequate prenatal care in three neighbourhoods: Downtown, Point Douglas and Inkster, said University of Manitoba nursing Prof. Maureen Heaman. The researcher said although Canada has universal health care, some expectant moms aren't accessing it ...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/help-for-moms-and-little-ones-229357681.html

Discovery Park welcomes another company

More jobs will be on the way soon with the arrival at Discovery Park, Sandwich, of another new company attracted to east Kent.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/discovery-park-welcomes-another-company-8036

Kerala records rise in cancer cases in 30 years

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 22 : There has been a 280 percent rise in cancer patients in the past three decades in Kerala, reveals a study by the Regional Cancer Centre here.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/81190/kerala-records-rise-in-cancer-cases-in-30-years.html