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28 min ago | Daily News

'Dad forced to search through dead babies'

A father has today written to the Minister of Health complaining about the treatment of his pregnant wife and how after their baby son died he had to search through 40 dead babies to find his child at Johannesburg's Coronation Hospital.

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Related Topix: Medicine

4 hrs ago | Canada.com

Saskatchewan health-care unions submit contract counter-proposal

The Saskatchewan unions representing health-care workers in areas such as special care aides, licensed practical nurses, food service, housekeeping and maintenance staff have submitted a counter-offer to their employers.

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Related Topix: Medicine

9 hrs ago | WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

Paralyzed dog cheers children's hospital patients

Every week, patients at Miami Children's Hospital get a visit from a foot-tall therapist who doesn't make them exercise or ask them how they feel.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

13 hrs ago | CKNW News Talk 980

Workers get jobs back

The 200 staff laid off Friday at three seniors care homes in Coquitlam, Victoria, and Nanaimo have their jobs back.

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Related Topix: Medicine

17 hrs ago | Daily Mail

NHS trust faces probe into high death rate and blood-spattered equipment

Dirty: When inspectors visited the Basildon Hospital in Essex they found serious breaches in hygiene standards Action will be taken against an NHS trust after inspectors found blood-splattered equipment and an unusually high death rate among patients.

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Related Topix: World News, Essex County, England, United Kingdom, Medicine

Thu Nov 26, 2009

C-Health

Canadian Medical Assoc. writing patients' charter, wants national debate

A national debate is needed on what health services should be provided in the future and how they will be paid for, the president of the Canadian Medical Association said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Monterey County Herald

Demand grows for palliative care

It was a personal experience that first exposed Dr. Christine Cofer to palliative medicine.

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Related Topix: Palliative Care, Internal Medicine, University of Washington

IRIN News

AFRICA: Home-based care as effective as clinical care

A new Ugandan study adds to a growing body of evidence that providing home-based antiretroviral care in low-income settings can be as effective as facility-based interventions.

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Related Topix: Uganda, Africa, World News, Medicine

News Chief

Paralyzed dog cheers children's hospital patients

Every Tuesday, patients at Miami Children's Hospital get a visit from a foot-tall therapist who doesn't make them exercise or ask them how they feel.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Ottawa Sun

Health Unit offers home-care centre a lifeline

Eastern Ontario's health-planning network has stepped in with $1.7 million in emergency funding for the region's home-care agency to get dying patients out of hospital and back home.

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Related Topix: Long Term Care, Health, Medicine

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Medical News Today

Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs ; Women's Health / Gynecology ; Public Health Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST The New York Times reports on a Lancet study that found treating Ugandan HIV patients at home is cheaper and just as effective as treating them in a clinic.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Women's Health, Medicine, Malaria, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

MediLexicon

RNs From Menorah Medical Center Become First Kansas Nurses To Join National Union Of Nurses

In a dramatic victory for the growing national movement of registered nurses, more than 300 RNs at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park have become the first Kansas RNs to join with their colleagues around the nation, by voting overwhelmingly to align with Nurses United, the local arm of National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Overland Park, KS, Health

Medical News Today

Preventative Measures Could Save A 555 Million - RCN Responds To Boorman Review, UK

Responding to today's publication of the Boorman review into Health and Wellbeing of the NHS workforce, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing welcomed better preventative measures to improve the health and wellbeing of NHS staff.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Shoreham Today

Concern at bill for county care

THE increasing need for nursing care in West Sussex County Council care homes could result in a huge bill to meet ensuing extra fire regulations, it has been revealed.

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Related Topix: Medicine

ClipSyndicate

Children's Hospital Nurses File Suit Over H1N1 Vaccine

A local nurses union has filed a lawsuit to put a stop to mandatory vaccinations after they claimed they are feeling pressured to get the swine flu vaccine, 10News reported.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Medicine, Video

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Erie Times-News

Dr. Gott: Clinical trials provide valuable info

QI often read in my newspaper or hear on television about clinical trials for different diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Portland's CW32 KRCW -TV

Kittens Survive Long Trip Wrapped in Plastic

They traveled hundreds of miles across the country stuffed in plastic! Thanks to a truck driver, three little kittens are nursing their way back to health! Monday morning Alan Ketchum stopped in Cleveland to drop off his cargo and realized it was meowing.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Brecksville, OH

Chattanoogan.com

Georgia Northwestern Hires New Instructors And Begins Construction

Dr. McDaniel has also named Anthony Gallman as cosmetology instructor, Larry Jarrett as aviation maintenance instructor, Lura Sheppard as GED chief examiner, Lee Ann Williams as practical nursing instructor and Denise Wittman as medical business administrative technology instructor.

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Related Topix: Georgia, Medicine, Shorter College, US Military, US News, US Air Force, Loring Air Force Base

Rutland Herald

Swine flu shot frenzy fizzles

Nearly two weeks ago, an H1N1 virus, or swine flu, vaccination clinic in Rutland at College of St.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Rutland, VT, Bennington, VT, Medicine

Kansas.com

You might be a germophobe if...

Has all the H1N1 flu talk got you buying Purell by the gallon and wishing you could live in a bubble for the next few months? Well, relax.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, University of Kansas, Yoga, Fitness, Family, Kids

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