Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi Mpata, [...]
Four Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn officials, including a vice president, each have been charged with a misdemeanor count of failing to report to police the alleged sexual assault of a stroke victim.
The Scottsdale City Prosecutor’s office pressed the charges in the highly publicized case of the 22-year-old victim, who could only communicate the alleged assault with [...]
This year, her liver began failing again and she was hospitalized at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. In her Medi-Cal application, a University of Southern California doctor wrote that Puente would die without another transplant. The application was denied. Late last month Puente learned of another, little-known option. If [...]
WASHINGTON - What do former patients think about the care they received at your local hospitals? The government wants to make it easier for you to find out.
Federal health officials in recent years have made strides to improve transparency in health care. But measuring how well hospitals do their job can be technical. New patient [...]
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have ordered all imports of the blood thinner heparin, and its raw ingredient, stopped at the border for testing to detect a contaminant linked to 19 deaths.
The Food and Drug Administration announced the move Friday, the latest step in its widening investigation of hundreds of allergic-type reactions linked to Baxter [...]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters): Berries of a common weed found in India may be effective in fighting mosquitoes that spread dengue fever, a study has found. In January, health officials warned that the disease was poised to move across the United States. It has been spreading aggressively in Latin America and the Caribbean, reaching epidemic [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
(Editor’s Note: This story has been changed since it was first published. MRSA is a staph infection resistant to the methicillin and related antibiotics. The original version mistakenly indicated it is resistant to most antibiotics.)In a five-month period, 65 inmates in the King County Jail have been diagnosed with MRSA, a sometimes-deadly bacterial infection resistant [...]
A young woman on a flight March 26 from the Netherlands to Seattle may have exposed other travelers to measles, public health officials said Wednesday.People on that flight, Northwest Airlines Flight 33 (Amsterdam to Seattle), as well as others who may have been in the same areas at Sea-Tac Airport, should be vigilant for any [...]
In a letter to 16,000 private health units, the Public Health Ministry said doctors performing the operation outside formal sex-change therapy - which requires rigorous physical and mental evaluation of the patient - faced up to six months in jail.
However, senior health official Tara Chinakarn admitted that policing the temporary ban might be difficult as [...]
