Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding
by Jeanne Faulkner Three months after my baby was born, I found a painful lump in my armpit. I was just 39 and diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to my lymph nodes. I had found a lump in my...
View ArticleMother's Milk May Help Prevent Blindness In Preemies
12:03 PM ET Tara Haelle i Babies born prematurely are at risk of eye damage and, in severe cases, permanent blindness. Treatments can help. And human milk looks like it helps, too. iStockphoto hide...
View ArticlePalatinE-News Friday, November 6 (Village of Palatine, IL)
(Source: Village of Palatine, IL) Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Frequently Asked Questions Q: What is Pertussis? A: Pertussis, a respiratory illness commonly known as whooping cough, is a very contagious...
View ArticleTwo newborns die of burns in hospital
KOLKATA: Two newborns died reportedly of burns in a warmer meant to heal them. The incident has left the parents shattered and Kolkatans fuming. Shocking negligence at the Medical College Hospital...
View ArticleThose eligible for free winter flu vaccination urged to protect themselves...
(Source: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council) Just under half of people in an 'at risk' medical group failed to take up their free flu vaccination last year across the Bradford district and...
View ArticlePreterm baby suffers burns in machine to treat jaundice
Mumbai: A prematurely born baby is battling for life after suffering serious burns on her back and shoulders at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of state-run J J Hospital in Byculla. The...
View ArticleTwo newborns die in neonatal warmer
Two newborns died due to overheating in neonatal warmers at one of Kolkata’s leading state-run hospitals last Friday, raising questions over the condition of public healthcare system in West Bengal....
View ArticleDBV Technologies to Present Preclinical Data on its Viaskin(R) Technology for...
BAGNEUX, France, Nov. 18, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DBV Technologies (Euronext: DBV - ISIN: FR0010417345 - Nasdaq Stock Market: DBVT), a clinical-stage specialty biopharmaceutical company, today...
View ArticleBigwigs back quacks in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: With more than 10,000 quacks within 100 km of Hyderabad, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) alleges that the growing nexus between registered medical practitioners and corporate or...
View ArticleAustralia accused of denying detainees medical care
Asylum seekers detained offshore are being denied access to urgent medical care in Australia because immigration officials fear they will access legal assistance otherwise unavailable to them, an...
View ArticleBaby death, child lifting trigger chaos in hospitals
HOWRAH: A baby death and a child lifter kept the authoriti es of Howrah District Hospi tal and Uluberia State Gene ral Hospital on their toes on Friday . While a newborn died in the Howrah hospital...
View ArticleCrib deaths: 5 docs, 4 nurses face heat
KOLKATA: The state health department on Friday has taken punitive action against five doctors and four nurses for the death of two newborns at Medical College Hospital Calcutta (MCHC) last Saturday...
View ArticleSeven hospital officials punished in newborns’ death case
Action has been taken against seven officials of the State-run Kolkata Medical College and Hospital for negligence following the death of two newborns due to alleged overheating in the warmer...
View Article5 hospital staff suspended over death of newborns
The West Bengal health department has suspended five senior members of a leading state-run hospital in Kolkata, along with three junior doctors and a nurse, for dereliction in duty that caused the...
View ArticleMedical assistance is just a call away
NASHIK: 104 turned out to be the magic figure for a nurse in her anxious hours at a rural hospital in Thane as she has to handle a 12-year-old boy bitten by a viper. Neither she knows how to treat the...
View ArticleKolkata: Patients suffer as junior docs, nurses resort to gherao
KOLKATA: Dusk was turning to night when TOI saw Champarani Bairagi sitting with her eight-month-old baby in front of the emergency ward of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Saturday. Her son had...
View ArticleHong Kong breastfeeding drive seeks greater public acceptance and more space...
First-time mother Yvonne Lam Ho-yi didn’t expect she would have to hide in order to breastfeed her newborn son in public. But cradling her wailing baby and with no place to go in a crowded mall, her...
View ArticleBaby with two heads born in Bangladesh
Dhaka: Doctors at a Bangladesh hospital were treating a baby girl born with two heads on Thursday, medical officials and the newborn's father said. The baby was born late Wednesday and is now being...
View ArticleRise in child death worries Kalahandi
BHAWANIPATNA: Even though Kalahandi has been receiving special focus in implementation of several welfare schemes for more than a decade now, child healthcare continues to paint a dismal picture....
View ArticleNew NICU at Sonawane hospital gasps for ventilator
PUNE: The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), meant for sick, premature and low birth weight babies, made operational at the civic-run Sonawane hospital a fortnight ago, is plagued with technical...
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