Tasmania’s Health Minister Lara Giddings has apologised to a sexual assault victim who was sent home from the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) this week because no-one was available to conduct a forensic examination.
Investigations into the incident are continuing.
A sexual assault victim went to the Launceston General Hospital on Monday night for a forensic examination but [...]
Mr John Eliasu Mahama, Programmes Officer for Alliance For Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), an NGO has stressed the need for integration of HIV/AIDS services and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities for the effective and efficient utilisation of resources provided by Global Fund Proposal for Ghana.
He said such integration would also provide clients with a holistic [...]
Alberta parents are being warned to do their homework when it comes to deciding whether they should have their daughters vaccinated against the virus that causes some cervical cancers.
More than 20,000 Alberta girls in Grade 5 will qualify for the province’s free human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine come September, with Grade 9 girls becoming eligible [...]
A report by a consumer advocacy group criticizes states for not doing more to protect consumers who buy health insurance through the individual market, rather than through their employers or the government.
Most states, including Indiana, don’t require insurance companies to sell policies to all applicants, don’t prohibit charging higher premiums based on health status, and [...]
Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]
Finally, the Democratic primary race is over. Above and beyond her persistence and her historic effort as a female presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign legacy is health insurance truth.
Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance. According to Consumer Reports, nearly half, 49 percent of Americans, are unprepared financially to cope with a costly medical [...]
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A new two-volume comprehensive book for safety and health professionals, The Safety Professionals Handbook, is edited by a Penn State industrial health and safety researcher in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Joel M. Haight, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and editor-in-chief of the [...]
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, [...]
The government has launched a call centre — first of its kind in the country — where people can anonymously put queries on reproductive health, sexual diseases and abortion to get answers from trained executives and doctors.
It will provide proper health information, particularly to women, who have hardly any access to it in vast stretches [...]
