• The number of appointment requests spiked 30 percent in January 2009 on the Web site vasectomy.com, which links people with local urologists.

    CNN: In troubled times, vasectomies snip and prosper

  • The Edinburgh scrum-half shared the captaincy with Cusiter on Robinson's appointment but Rory Lawson impressed in the number nine jersey when starting in both Tests against Argentina.

    BBC: Chris Cusiter & Al Kellock injury worries for Scots

  • Fast-growing appointment booking site ZocDoc does not disclose the number of doctors who use its service, but it is believed to be less than 30, 000.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • However, he said he pressed Mr Blair on a number of issues, including the appointment of someone to monitor paramilitaries and said he might have expected Mr Blair to be "a bit firmer on proposals for the way ahead".

    BBC: Unionism 'exhausted with IRA'

  • Cable news went all out in its coverage of the papal election, trumpeting the number of historic firsts represented by the appointment of Pope Francis I.

    NPR: The Hollywood Reporter's Best Of The Week

  • Manuel Vicente, a 56-year-old wheeler-dealer who for 12 years ran Sonangol, the state-owned oil giant until his appointment this year as economics minister, was named as the number two and likely heir.

    ECONOMIST: The oil money may start to trickle down

  • He said the government had also now cut the number of people waiting a long time for an out-patient appointment by 80, 000 from its peak.

    BBC: Waiting lists cut again

  • However for a growing number, the ability to offer patients a same or next day appointment with their GP is becoming increasingly difficult for one simple reason.

    BBC: Why GP surgeries need crowd control

  • At University Hospital, Lewisham, staff have stopped giving bowel cancer patients two separate appointment days for tests - they said this cut patient anxiety and reduced the number of missed appointments by 15%.

    BBC: Cancer waiting times cut

  • The First Minister said the most recent figures show that the number of people waiting over 18 months for a first out-patient appointment fell by nearly 40 per cent, the lowest level since April 2001.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Wales: First Minister's Questions (05/05/04)

  • According to a 2005 Senate subcommittee report, Picco provided his services on a number of occasions from 1997 to 2003--overlapping with his Dialogue appointment as a U.N. special representative and undersecretary-general--as a consultant on Oil-for-Food to Bayoil, a company owned by Houston oil man David Chalmers.

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  • As well as the Higgs Prize and a number of other initiatives, this week the government will be announcing the appointment of 33 new health fellows to conduct research into medical challenges such as treating motor neurone disease, how to use technology to help people with diabetes and how to control internal bleeding.

    BBC: Scotland

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