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Hospital backs plan for blanket ban on smoking
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Health chiefs at Dorset County Hospital are backing a Government initiative to ban smoking throughout the NHS. The hospital itself is already a smoke-free…
Discussions begin on hospital improvements
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Potential improvements to Crewkerne Community Hospital will be open for discussion over the next few months. Better diagnostic services, more rehabilitation and expanded specialist…
Cuba sends doctors to help Guyana flood relief
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
A team of 40 Cuban doctors on Wednesday joined international aid experts in Guyana to help fight the threat of disease following floods that…
Medical bills help spur half of U.S. bankruptcies
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Medical expenses contributed to half of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. in 2001, even though most of those debtors had health insurance when…
Ho Chi Minh City kills ducks in bird flu fight
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Vietnam’s biggest city, home to 10 million people, began slaughtering its ducks on Wednesday in an increasingly desperate fight to halt the spread of…
More firms offer partner benefits: survey
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
More U.S. companies have started to offer benefit coverage for same-sex couples and other “nontraditional” families, according to a new survey.
The Nontraditional Family…
Age and Parkinson’s disease complicate Pope’s health
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Pope John Paul’s age and the debilitating effect of Parkinson’s disease are the main factors influencing his health and make him more…
Senators warn USDA to justify Canada mad cow rule
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will defend an administration plan to reopen the border to Canadian cattle at a Senate hearing on Thursday, where he…
New U.S. HHS chief calls for Medicaid changes
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
New Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt on Tuesday called for changes in the Medicaid program for the poor, including an end…
Companies write to oppose draft asbestos bill
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
A group of asbestos defendant companies and insurers has declared its opposition to a Senate proposal curbing asbestos claims, and warned that industry groups…
Patient records often missing, U.S. study finds
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Medical records are frequently incomplete or missing during patient visits to the doctor, posing potential danger and wasting time, a survey of physicians said…
New Hamilton hospital receiving heavy usage
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
The Hamilton General Hospital board of directors held their first regular meeting in the board room of the new hospital last Friday at noon.…
Medical Problems Cause Half of Personal Bankruptcies
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Illness and medical bills contributed to roughly half the personal bankruptcy filings in 2001, affecting as many as 2.2 million Americans, a new Harvard…
Woman Claims Hospital Left Fetal Heart Monitor Inside Her
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
A woman has sued Mountain View’s El Camino Hospital, accusing staffers of leaving a piece of a fetal heart monitor inside her abdomen.
Surinderjit…
Pope’s Condition Stabilizes in Hospital
• Public Health • Feb 02 05
Pope John Paul II had a restful night and his condition stabilized after he was rushed to a hospital with breathing trouble, but he…
Cambodian dies from bird flu, Vietnam to kill ducks
• Public Health • Feb 01 05
A Cambodian woman who died in Vietnam was killed by bird flu, a doctor said on Tuesday, the latest victim of fresh outbreaks of…
US Medicare, Medicaid costs rising fast-CBO chief
• Public Health • Feb 01 05
The costs of the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs are rising at unsustainable rates that will force policy makers to adopt major changes…
Investment in water needed to reduce hunger - FAO
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Poor countries urgently need investment to improve water usage in agriculture and ecosystems to reduce hunger, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation…
Disease risk still high in Indonesia’s Aceh: WHO
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Tsunami-stricken Indonesia has escaped major disease outbreaks so far but hundreds of thousands of people are at high risk due to poor conditions in…
Singapore in medical school alliance with Duke
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Singapore, keen to boost its medical science sector, will open its second medical school in 2007 in an alliance with Duke University of the…
Illinois governor blasts US over flu vaccine delay
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Illinois may be unable to resell hundreds of thousands doses of flu vaccine it committed to buy in Europe three months ago but…
EU Commission proposes ban on mercury exports
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
The European Union, the world’s largest supplier of mercury, is set to ban exports of the metal by 2011 under new rules proposed by…
China’s Wen urges “all measures” against bird flu
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on Friday for “all possible measures” to fight the emergence and spread of deadly bird flu that has appeared…
Scrushy’s lawyers attack witness as liar, drunk
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
The defense team for former HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy on Thursday accused a former chief financial officer of the healthcare company of being…
Heart devices may cost Medicare $2 billion
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
Wider coverage for expensive implanted heart devices likely will cost the U.S. Medicare program for seniors about $2 billion over five years, the program’s…