Zimbabwe police break up doctors, nurses protest

"Riot police in Zimbabwe are preventing striking doctors and nurses from protesting against the country's collapsing health system."

US doctors plan to quit or cut back :cause overwork

Well this is fatigue of overwork or financial maket collapse syndrome time will tell, but the US healthcare will suffer, as it depends heavily on immigrated doctors.The refusal to recommend medicine as profession will have very bad effect on the mindset of the...

Doctors lead Tijuana march against violence

Tijuana has always been a dangerous place to go.  When this reporter was in the Navy 35 years ago Tijuana was the place you went to drink and sample other more worldly pleasures. If a Navy man got in trouble in...

OPINION... Stem Cell Research NOW

I was a Funeral Director and embalmer in California in the 1980's when a meeting was held by the firm I worked for.  Employees from five firms were represented.  We were told about a new contagious disease...

Officials told not to enforce medicare laws

"Internal Health Ministry documents reveal the BC government deliberately and consciously decided not to enforce laws that protect patients from user fees charged by doctors or private for-profit clinics for services covered by public health insurance."See alsoDocuments...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

Free Botox for the poor in Brazil

Free botox for the poor in Brazil, the only problem is that only trainees will do the work, would you get the risk? " In beauty-obsessed Brazil, even the poor won't gave to go without their Botox.  The...

In memory of those who gave their lives

War is a Nightmare. Being a soldier is: Seeing death, destruction and your fellow soldiers dying. It is more difficult then one could ever imagine. Every day one wakes up not knowing, if they would still be...

Music headphones can interfere with heart devices

Yet another device that might cause you harm."Associated Press - November 9, 2008 11:03 AM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A new study suggests that people with pacemakers or other heart devices should be careful with...

UK: Surgery Patient Dies, After Doctors Refuse to See Her

One doctor was looking after 100 patients at this UK hospital. A fresh post-op social worker bled to death, while "he had no time" to see her. Nurses had not taken her blood pressure regularly. The hospital policy...

Half of U.S. doctors often prescribe placebos

updated 4:00 p.m. PT, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008LONDON - About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments — usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their...

Healthcare Incompetence And Emergency Room Waiting - Oh The Pain Of It All

Op/Ed   Our health care system has become nothing less than a joke. Anyone who has paid a visit to an emergency department, here in Toronto anyway, can attest to that.   More of my story, opinion and...

Sick of racism in US health care system

"Racism has reared its ugly head in the United States again as a new study shows that doctors subconsciously favor whites over Blacks. US Blacks get inferior care for cancer and a variety of other ailments compared...

Energy Drinks Should Carry Caffeine Warnings

Doctors recommend that energy drinks should carry health warnings against the dangers of caffeine overdose after research found that the performance enhancing beverages can contain more caffeine than 7 cups of strong...

Actor Gale Harold Involved In Motorcycle Accident

I always like to blog about celebrities.  Let's face it, any blog about celebrities is link bait.  Here's a guy who made his claim to fame on Queer as folk, now Desperate Housewives, and like Billy Idol,...

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