Friday 29 October 2010, 2:14PMTwo-year-old Gavin Tillman of Pass Christian, Mississippi, has been diagnosed with severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections. His temperature has reached more than 39 degrees since September 15, yet his sicknesses continue to worsen. His parents, some doctors, and environmental consultants believe the child's ailments are linked to exposure to chemicals spilt by BP during its Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
Friday 29 October 2010, 2:14PMSeveral years ago I helped care for a man who had been hospitalized with a severe infection of the abdominal wall. When his primary doctors discovered that the bacteria responsible was resistant to most antibiotics, they quickly isolated him, moving him into a single room with a sign on the door proclaiming “Contact Precautions” and directing visitors to put on gloves, mask and gown before entering.
Friday 29 October 2010, 2:13PMNearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-sized planets, according to a new estimate published in the journal Science.
Friday 29 October 2010, 2:12PMA driverless van has completed the longest-ever trip by an unmanned vehicle, beginning in Italy and arriving in China, covering 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles), researchers said.
Friday 29 October 2010, 2:11PMLegalising voluntary euthanasia has little effect on the number of terminally ill patients whose lives are ended by a doctor, but it does reduce the proportion of cases that occur without the person's explicit request, an international expert will tell a forum at NSW Parliament today.
Thursday 28 October 2010, 10:02AMMore health industry authorities believe that improvements in standards or costs can't come without reforming how doctors are reimbursed.
Thursday 28 October 2010, 10:01AMThe Counties Manukau District Health Board is "exploring" the complete private provision of its taxpayer-funded elective urology service.
Thursday 28 October 2010, 10:01AMNew Zealand doesn’t look too bad
Thursday 28 October 2010, 10:00AMSouth Island district health boards will receive copies of the neurosurgery panel's draft report tomorrow for fact checking.
Thursday 28 October 2010, 10:00AMInvercargill schoolkids have been getting stoned on a "legal weed" which is similar to cannabis and is being sold in city stores, concerned parents say. Two city parents this week told The Southland Times the Night 'N Day Foodstore on Tay St was selling a product called Kronic, packaged as "pre-rolled joints" to school-aged children.
Thursday 28 October 2010, 9:59AMA DISGRACED doctor who illegally sold slimming pills from a clinic in Huddersfield has been ordered to pay back more than £1m.
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 2:37PMTaller men may have a higher risk of getting testicular cancer, say experts in the United States.
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 2:35PMThe first reported case of benzylpenicillin-resistant meningococcal disease in Australia is cause for concern, say infectious disease specialists.
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 2:31PMGPs and hospital doctors are sceptical of the Government's health reforms, do not believe they will improve patient care and fear they will hamper the NHS's efforts to achieve massive efficiency savings, a large-scale survey by the King's Fund has found.
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 2:30PMNHS Shetland staff who treat patients in their own homes may in future ask them not to smoke during the visit and ideally not to smoke for at least one hour beforehand.
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 2:29PMWays must be found to reduce the amount of medication prescribed to the elderly because it was costly and might not be doing any good, a Southern District Health Board committee was told in Dunedin yesterday.
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 11:04AMOnly one in four of Britain's doctors thinks the government's controversial NHS shake-up will improve patient care, according to the biggest survey of medical opinion since ministers unveiled their radical reforms.
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 10:58AMThe corporate health giant Primary Health Care has settled its lawsuit against one of its former GPs at the eleventh hour. A subsidiary of the company sued a doctor, Jeremy Cumpston, for damages and for 50 per cent of his earnings after he left its medical centre at Darlinghurst and set up at Randwick.
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 10:58AMCases of whooping cough have risen sharply despite repeated health alerts being issued by government departments.Queensland is the worst hit with 5,500 cases, almost double the number doctors expected, and that figure is expected to rise to about 7,000 before the end of the year.
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 10:57AMA couple of Vancouver doctors are hoping to get patients talking to their family doctors about something that isn't easy to discuss — their wishes surrounding end-of-life care.
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 10:57AMAs Mann Kee Li lies in hospital fighting dire prospects, his family is engaged in a life-or-death struggle, not with the cancer spreading through his body, but with the doctors treating it.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:08AMIt is not clear who will see the draft report of the South Island neurosurgery services panel when it reaches the Southern District Health Board for fact-checking.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:07AMThe universe may be teeming with simple cells like bacteria, but more complex life – including intelligent life – is probably very rare.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:07AMAn electronic tracking pendant helped find an elderly woman who wandered off from a Rotorua rest home yesterday.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:06AMIt is a possibility that the country's health system could be amalgamated as a top government official questions whether each district needs a health board.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:05AMResidents and workers in the Southern Lakes are at risk of contracting a disease rarely found in New Zealand, the Department of Labour and the region's medical officer of health said yesterday.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:04AMPatients have been forced to line up the emergency department at Wairarapa Hospital as Masterton battles doctor shortages since the closure of Chapel Street Family Doctors.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:03AMThe NZ Army launched a new incentive scheme this month to attract dental and medical graduates to its ranks.
Friday 22 October 2010, 11:02AMTreatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may significantly increase the risk of Clostridium difficile diarrhea, according to a meta-analysis of 21 published studies.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 3:15PMWait times for new patients for primary care average 29 days for family physicians and 53 days for internists.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 3:14PMThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today asked manufacturers to add new warnings to labeling of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, a class of drugs primarily used to treat men with prostate cancer.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 3:14PMHennepin County Medical Center said Wednesday that the federal government has awarded it $1.9 million of health reform funds to help the hospital and clinics chain train more primary care doctors.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 3:01PMAlmost 20 percent of mobile phone users have used their phones to look up health or medical information online at some point in their lives, but only 9 percent of us, on average, use mobiles to manage our health in a big way.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 1:31PMAlmost 20 percent of mobile phone users have used their phones to look up health or medical information online at some point in their lives, but only 9 percent of us, on average, use mobiles to manage our health in a big way.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 12:03PMSweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) will review the care former foreign minister Anna Lindh received after she was stabbed in central Stockholm in September 2003.
Thursday 21 October 2010, 12:03PMThe federal government is choosing locations for its controversial 65 GP ''super clinics'' around Australia at a cost of more than $600 million but free of oversight by the Health Department.
Wednesday 20 October 2010, 1:56PMHe comforts sick and dying patients, does ward rounds like a seasoned doctor and is undaunted by emergency situations but Waikato Hospital's cardiac care cat Smokey must take his "magical" powers and leave.
Wednesday 20 October 2010, 1:56PMDistrict Health Boards (DHBs) say they have pulled out of negotiations with the union representing radiographers, claiming union members didn't want to settle.
Wednesday 20 October 2010, 1:55PMQuebecers desperately seeking a family doctor are finding plenty of virtual sympathy here. In an effort to pressure the provincial government into action, the Quebec Federation of Family Doctors launched an online campaign last May featuring of videos and a Facebook page where people can share their stories.
Wednesday 20 October 2010, 9:20AMSeveral years ago, Dr. Edward E. Cornwell III, then a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, treated a young man with several gunshot wounds to his chest and groin.