The deliberate injury of a child. Child abuse can take several forms: neglect (including failure to provide adequate shelter, food, or medical treatment), physical abuse (including beating and poisoning), emotional abuse (including verbal abuse), and sexual abuse. In practice, a child is often subject to more than one form of abuse. In 1994, 1,271 children [...]
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 [...]
NEW YORK (AP) � You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life.In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR � rapid, deep presses on the victim�s chest until help arrives � works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series focusing on the different stages of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia though one family’s eyes. This week’s focus: caregiving in the severe stage.
The day after Christmas last year, Marjorie Jackson faced the most difficult decision of her life. One she was not prepared [...]
Detective senior sergeant Dave de Lange said the Hastings woman was sitting alone on the beach when attacked some time between 9.30-10.30pm.
After the attack she managed to drive herself to Hawkes Bay Hospital where she sought medical treatment for lacerations and bruises, Mr de Lange said.
The woman spent the night in hospital. Police were examining [...]
Mexico has long attracted American travelers looking for cut-rate cosmetic surgery or dental work, and countries like Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines continue to lure medical tourists as well.
But India%26#8212;15 hours away from the U.S. by plane%26#8212;is fast becoming the destination of choice for patients seeking complicated high-end procedures they can’t afford or can’t [...]
It was all made possible through the American Cancer Society, which offers patients who travel for treatment free to significantly discounted rates at area hotels. “If it weren’t for the American Cancer Society, I would not have been able to get this treatment,” said Edwards, a mother of three, two of whom are in college. [...]
Keeping in view the fast increasing costs of medical treatment, the Punjab government was shortly implementing a special Health Insurance Scheme for the people belong to Below Poverty Line families, so that the poor people could also avail the advanced medical facilities in the private hospitals.
This was disclosed by Ramesh Inder Singh Chief Secretary Punjab, [...]
The grandmother of an 11-day-old baby who died of a drug overdose in Christchurch Women’s Hospital has lodged a complaint with the country’s health watchdog.
Vicky Haines, of Hornby, laid a complaint with the Health and Disability Commissioner this year over the death of her grandson, Finn Greig, last July.
The commission this week confirmed it was [...]
The grandmother of an 11-day-old baby who died of a drug overdose in Christchurch Women’s Hospital has lodged a complaint with the country’s health watchdog.
Vicky Haines, of Hornby, laid a complaint with the Health and Disability Commissioner this year over the death of her grandson, Finn Greig, last July.
The commission this week confirmed it was [...]
