Drug shields infants from HIV in breastmilk: study
Giving anti-AIDS drugs directly to infants breastfed by their HIV-positive mothers significantly reduces their risk of contracting the killer virus, researchers said Thursday. Less than 1.5 percent of...
View ArticleNBHC Albany staff joins forces to combat flu season (Marine Corps Logistics...
(Source: Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, GA) By Verda L. Parker | Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany | November 19, 2015 November 19, 2015 -- Feeling feverish, chills, coughing, runny or stuffy...
View ArticleFactCheck Q&A: Were 550 Babies Killed Last Year Under Dutch Euthanasia Laws?
Excerpt from Q&A, November 9, 2015. LUKE FORMOSA: .. Findings from the Netherlands Euthanasia Report in 2014 indicate… 550 newborn babies with diseases or disabilities were killed. ANDREW DENTON:…...
View ArticleThis girl’s message to her mother could save millions of children's lives
Gudiya’s* parents had been impatiently waiting for her birth. She was a beautiful baby, delicate and precious. Her mother would give up anything in the world for the tender life swaddled in her arms....
View ArticleFamily of Chinese mom who died after birth complications gets $5.2 million
A Chinese man and his children have won more than $5 million in court after his wife died in an Orange County hospital when her obstetrician allegedly abandoned her amid complications after a...
View ArticlePrivate hospitals in Bengaluru under government scanner.
BENGALURU: Private hospitals and nursing homes in Bengaluru have come under scanner over fleecing and exploitation of people from poor and marginalised sections during treatment....
View ArticleWorld Prematurity Day "Gone to the temple" (WHO - World Health Organization)
(Source: WHO - World Health Organization) Commentary 17 November 2015 She was only 2 hours old. Bright scarlet from the blush below her thin, porous, premature skin, she weighed in at well under 4...
View ArticleTaking the easy way out!
otwithstanding the State government and other international health agencies asking medical fraternity here to encourage normal deliveries for the benefit of the mother and the child, the Karimnagar...
View ArticleUttar Pradesh: Doctor, nurse detained in medical negligence case of baby
Rampur: A woman doctor and a staff nurse of the district hospital here have been detained after the head of a baby got separated from its body during delivery as it was allegedly pulled out of the...
View ArticleThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Opens Unique Breast Milk Bank New...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today opened the first human milk bank of its kind in the Philadelphia region. The CHOP Mothers'...
View ArticleDriver in deadly fire truck theft files complaint against Beaufort hospital...
HILTON HEAD, S.C. (Tribune News Service) — A Marine veteran who ran naked from a hospital in 2012, stole an idling fire truck and killed a pedestrian with it has filed a complaint in federal court...
View ArticleDoctors missing, garbage all over at Bikaner government hospital
BIKANER: OPD running without a doctor, unmanageable crowd at the medicine distribution counter, garbage spread all over in the wards as well as in the galleries — such was the scenario witnessed by the...
View ArticleSHRC directs government to pay Rs.1 lakh as compensation
The Kerala State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the State government to pay a compensation of Rs.1 lakh to the wife of a convict who died due to lack of proper treatment. Acting on a...
View ArticleJudicious use of antibiotics is need of the hour
The indiscriminate use of antibiotics is posing a threat to global healthcare though the public is still unaware of its implications, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is marking its...
View ArticleIrish firm’s device speeds up vital brain test for newborn babies
When Jim Roche attended his first workshop with Enterprise Ireland, he didn’t have a fledgling business plan to bring with him. The founder of medical devices firm Incereb was a little more vague than...
View ArticleGiving Thanks For The Care That Saved My Son's Life
I did not give birth in Tanzania, although some people had asked me if I would, given my professional focus on maternal healthcare in the country. Despite impressive improvements being made to the...
View ArticleWoman delivers baby girl in ambulance
PANAJI: While the paramedics of 108 GVK EMRI are apt at dealing with emergencies of all kinds, their work profile in the state primarily involves transporting persons in need of urgent medical...
View ArticleDog bites six in Surat
SURAT: Six persons suffered injuries after being bit by a stray dog in Kanyasi village of Olpad taluka in Surat district early on Monday. One of the victim was a two year old girl child who suffered...
View ArticleStray dog mauls six of a family near Surat
SURAT: A stray dog went on a rampage in Kanyasi village near the city on Monday and bit six persons of a family, including a two-year-old girl. All victims were sleeping outside their house in Khadi...
View ArticleIn Caring For Sickest Babies, Doctors Now Tap Parents For Tough Calls
4:30 AM ET Partner content from Jenny Gold Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. i Kate Teague, a registered nurse at Lucile Packard Children's...
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