PHILIPPINES: As seen on the local news TV PATROL WORLD, reports exposed the growing numbers of diabetic patients. Many suffer from the said disease and lost their legs being amputated. Doctors and Nutitionist advised...
"Cashing in on Old Wisdom
India's traditional weavers, heirs to a 2,000-year-old textile industry, are turning to the ancient practice of
ayurvedic medicine to make their products more appealing and boost sales....
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A shocking video shows a woman fall to the floor the psychiatric ward of Kings County Hospital in New York. A hospital worker, sitting in a chair, gets up and walks right past the...
Angelina Jolie is expected to deliver the twins by August. Jolie had checked in a hospital in nice, France and going to remain there till the birth of twins. Jolie already has one daughter with actor Brad Pitt -...
What is the Conservative Argument against state run healthcare, Read this story by investigatve reporters at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You may understand the rational behind the view. Alone...
I'm supposed to have arm surgery soon. And the more I hear of stories like this, the more I swear I'm going to write on the correct arm!"A Methodist Hospital surgeon who mistakenly removed the wrong kidney from a...
With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year – one for every 25 people – and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, the...
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"Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis machines, researchers reported Tuesday in a...
"Doctors may prescribe chewing gum after research found it helps patients recover faster from bowel operations. People who had bowel surgery were able to go home nearly two days earlier if they were given the...
In a land where old people will soon outnumber young by many to one this has to be good news! " Elderly people should no longer be denied NHS treatment, credit cards, travel insurance or even car hire because of their age, under government plans to outlaw age...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008A doctor from Winnipeg's regional critical-care program has offered to treat an elderly patient on life support at Grace Hospital. The 84-year-old patient's name is Samuel Golubchuk. Three...
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The wife of Josef Fritzl is reported to have returned to the house and visited the dungeon in which her daughter was confined. Collecting toys and belongings from the underground cells,"she spent about an hour at the...
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A man in Briatian has died after inhaling lethal spores which grew on rotting compost in his garden. "The 47-year-old Briton fell ill less than 24 hours after being engulfed by "clouds of dust" while working with rotting tree and plant mulch.At first medics thought the...
"NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier...
" DOCTORS in Japan who carried out surgery on a man to remove a tumour had good news and bad news for him.The good news was he did not have cancer. The bad news: The growth that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel. The patient had been carrying...