Public Protector should investigate Council of Medical Schemes for alleged...
(Source: DA - Democratic Alliance) The DA will write to the Public Protector to ask her to investigate the Council for Medical Schemes following allegations of corruption during the merger of Liberty...
View ArticleCDPH Confirms First Flu Death of an Infant this Season (California Department...
(Source: California Department of Public Health) California Department of Public Health (CDPH) State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced that CDPH has received the first report of an...
View ArticleConsumer forum rejects medical neglect complaint
PUNE: Pune district consumer disputes redressal forum has held that the onus to prove medical negligence lies on the complainant. The forum has made it clear that the complainant must establish...
View ArticleMedical negligence victim given Rs 1.6L compensation
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad district consumer disputes redressal forum has directed a city-based hospital and its medical practitioner to pay Rs 1.6 lakh compensation to a 32-year-old housewife for...
View ArticleAssam professor dies allegedly due to medical negligence in Delhi
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Police complaints have been filed against two private hospitals in Delhi after a 36-year-old woman academician from Assam died of blood infection and heart attack allegedly...
View ArticleEngineer-turned-quack arrested in Trichy
TRICHY: A civil engineer-turned-quack, who was practicing unauthorized allopathy treatment, ended in jail following a raid carried out by a team of health department officials near Puthanatham on the...
View ArticleMan lodges complaint against medical personnel of GH
A 54-year-old man on Sunday lodged a complaint with the Cheyyar police alleging that his newborn had died due to lack of proper medical treatment at the Government Hospital, Cheyyar. However, health...
View ArticleArvind Kejriwal sends 10-point complaint list against Delhi Police to MHA
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has complained to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that Delhi Police are not cooperating with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. He has listed 10 points in a...
View ArticleL.A. County to pay $1.3 million over doctor who molested patients
Los Angeles County supervisors agreed Tuesday to pay $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a patient who alleged she was groped and sexually harassed by a doctor at a county clinic. They also...
View ArticleHPV vaccination (Ministry of Health of New Zealand)
(Source: Ministry of Health of New Zealand) The safety of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine has been extensively studied around the globe and has been subject to review by a number of international...
View ArticleTELUS Health and Doctors of the World Bring Innovative Health IT and Care to...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Nov. 12, 2015) - With more than 3,000 homeless in Montreal, many of whom are without regular or direct access to medical care, Canada's first mobile health care clinic...
View ArticleProtect Against Animal Bites, Rabies Exposure (Escambia County, FL)
(Source: Escambia County, FL) The Florida Department of Health in Escambia County (FDOH-Escambia) urges residents and visitors to protect themselves from the risk of rabies exposure by avoiding contact...
View ArticleUC Davis Children's Hospital marks second anniversary of PEANUT Program (UC...
(Source: UC Davis Health System) UC Davis Children's Hospital's Pediatric Emergency Assistance to Newborns Using Telehealth (PEANUT) program marks its second anniversary this month. The program...
View ArticlePocono Medical Center Celebrates 50 Years of Nurse Practitioners (PMC -...
(Source: PMC - Pocono Medical Center) Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - Pocono Medical Center Celebrates 50 Years of Nurse Practitioners FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Brendon Abbazio Community...
View ArticleFirst MinuteClinic Walk-in Medical Clinics Open in Springfield, Missouri;...
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The first MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics have come to Springfield, Missouri. Two clinics have opened inside CVS/pharmacy stores on the edge of the...
View Article‘Road laid through sanctuary to serve fish tanks’
hy did Denduluru MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar and his followers exert themselves in the middle of the night to lay a road cutting through the Atapaka bird sanctuary on November 7? As migratory birds...
View ArticleHow to Save 110 Nigerian Mothers Every Day
(UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) I am writing today in honour of Omowumi Shonuga, a woman who joins Folake Oduyoye who I wrote about in this column, just under a year ago. These two women died in horrific...
View ArticlePampers and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses...
(Source: Procter&Gamble Company) CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pampers, the #1 choice of U.S. hospitals*, announces the Pampers Swaddlers Thank You Nurses campaign, in partnership with the...
View ArticleAWHONN and Pampers Announce the Thank You Nurses Campaign and Awards Program...
(Source: AWHONN - Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses) Pampers Release For more information: Heather Valento Nadine Niznik P&G Baby & Feminine Care Communications...
View ArticleVolunteers sought for study into vaccine for serious childhood infection...
(Source: University of Oxford) Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) kills around 200,000 people worldwide each year. Both the elderly and infants are especially vulnerable to developing severe disease...
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