In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, letter-writer Kevin Martino tore a strip off Terrence Sullivan and David Musyj, the CEOs of Cancer Care Ontario and the Windsor Regional Hospital, for spewing %26#34;bureaucratic bafflegab%26#34; in response to the case of an ovarian cancer patient whose long wait for care was highlighted in a [...]
A Conservative administration would increase health spending by up to an extra
%26pound;28 billion a year, a leading moderniser has told The Times. Andrew Lansley,
the Shadow Health Secretary, gave a long-term commitment that under the
Tories health spending will rise to take up an extra 2 per cent of GDP.
%26ldquo;I think we are bound to have rising [...]
Health officials are screening the close contacts of a man who has become
Britains first case of a virtually untreatable form of drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
The man, believed to be a Somali asylum-seeker in his thirties, has a rare
strain, Extremely Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB), which has a high mortality
rate.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that XDR-TB accounts for possibly
only [...]
Kathy Sykes, a Bristol University professor, has long known that if she does
not find at least 30 minutes a day in her frantically overcrowded schedule
to lie down and listen to music, she is grumpier, more tired and less able
to concentrate.
What Professor Sykes, who holds the chair in the Public Engagement of Science
and Engineering at Bristol, [...]
New data collected by NSW researchers has given the clearest picture yet of the number of women who get persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness in the weeks or months after giving birth.
A team from the University of Newcastle enlisted 2,500 women aged between 28 and 33 who had given birth in the past four [...]
Women admitted to psychiatric wards commonly suffer sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the male patients they are treated alongside, a new survey shows.
A Victorian study presented at an international mental health conference in Melbourne shows more than 60 per cent of women questioned had been the victims of harassment or abuse by [...]
Rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis have hit record highs around the globe, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organization.
In the largest survey to date, the WHO collected data from more than 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries and officials now estimate there are close to half a million new cases [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Chikungunya, the tropical disease
that spread to Europe from Asia last year, may have turned
deadly, according to scientists who studied an outbreak that
infected about 1.4 million people in India.
[...]
Drugs commonly given to cancer patients because they are anemic after chemotherapy appear to increase their risk of dying, according to a new study.The research, published in today’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that the drugs, called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs for short), may actually provide fuel [...]
CHICAGO %26#151; A woman dying of Alzheimer’s has a fever. Should she be given antibiotics?
Many people would say yes. But a provocative new study suggests that antibiotics are overused in people dying of dementia diseases and should be considered more carefully because of the growing problem of drug-resistant superbugs.
The [...]
