Top surgeon quits training talks
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A surgeons' leader resigns from talks in the row over a new system for the  training of junior doctors.
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A number of famous faces are quitting frontline politics alongside Blair.
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Dr Brian Gibbons says he "very much regrets" emergency surgery is coming to an end at a hospital in Llanelli.
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A mass exodus of GPs from the NHS is being considered by the British Medical Association as it steps up its campaign against the government's plan to impose extended surgery opening hours in England, internal documents have revealed
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Thailand's airport authority chief quits amid mounting pressure over the failings of Bangkok's new airport.
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A Tayside plastic surgeon has taken patients off his waiting list to help meet government targets.
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A pharmacology professor testifying in the U.S. government's &#36;280 billion suit against the cigarette industry said on Monday he quit working as an expert witness for a tobacco trade group after it pressured him to be more of an advocate.
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The man behind the blueprint for health services in Scotland is resigning as an adviser to the executive.
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President George W. Bush's surgeon general nominee disputed critics' claims that he holds "anti-gay" views and told senators on Thursday he would quit before bowing to political interference in his job.
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The head of VNU's largest unit, which monitors television watching and Internet use, has resigned to seek the top spot at another company, the world's top research group said on Friday.
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Lech Walesa said Tuesday he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe. "I have given up my membership last year because Solidarity and I have gone separate ways," he told The Associated Press.
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Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mark McClellan said Tuesday he is resigning and will likely go work for a think tank.
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Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. told a Senate panel today that he would resign before putting politics over science.
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A top lawyer for President Bush's re-election campaign resigned on Wednesday after disclosing he has been providing legal advice to a group that accuses Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of lying about his Vietnam War record.
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The doctor at the center of a prescription drug scandal involving the University of Washington softball team has agreed to stop practicing medicine in a settlement with the state Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
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Bishops in Australia's largest city Sydney are pulling out of the Anglican Church's top global meeting this year in a dispute over gay bishops and same-sex marriages, a spokesman said Sunday.
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Hong Kong Hospital Authority&#39;s (HA) Director of Professional Services and Human Resources Ko Wing-man announced here Friday he will resign from his post after his contract ends in December.