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American Health Packaging (AHP) has recalled Ibuprofen tablets because they may contain individual blistered doses labeled as Oxcarbazepine tablets. This warning comes via the U.S. FDA.
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Gaza -
A letter has been published, written by Doctor Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor working in a Gaza hospital. In the letter, he gives an on-the-ground, eyewitness account of what is happening on a day-to-day basis in the hospital, and it is heartbreaking.
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London Colney -
Can a derelict building, neglected for 20 years, be interesting? Digital Journal paid a visit to the ruins of one of London's former mental health hospitals.
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London -
Three babies have died and 19 are ill with blood poisoning after being given a contaminated batch of liquid food. The liquid feed was manufactured by a U.K. company called ITH Pharma.
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Aleppo -
The hacktivist group Anonymous is turning to Twitter and other social media outlets in an attempt to save a hospital just outside the war torn city of Aleppo which is scheduled to close within the next few weeks.
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London Colney -
Humans face the very real risk of a future without antibiotics. The implications of this are that life expectancy could fall due to people dying from diseases that are readily treatable today. This is the warning issued in a new paper by Tim Sandle.
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Jerusalem -
Subject to repeated exposure to the antibiotic ampicillin, populations of Escherichia coli quickly evolve tolerance for the drug, springing back to life once antibiotic treatment has stopped, according to a new study.
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The safety of patients receiving healthcare, including the probability of contracting healthcare-associated infections, is a serious concern for the European Union and numbers of cases are rising according to a new report.
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A research team has developed bone implants that control microorganisms and which could prevent infection after an operation.
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Reversing the long period where no new antibiotics have been developed, two new drugs could be available within a matter of months.
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The U.K. health service have concluded that the use of products containing copper, which is an antimicrobial metal, is of benefit and enhances patient safety through minimizing hospital acquired infections.
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Wallingford -
A Delaware County resident was arrested for allegedly stealing over $350,000 worth of human skin from a Philadelphia hospital over the course of the last few years.
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Donetsk -
Armed rebels were besieging a hospital in their eastern Ukraine stronghold on Saturday in an apparent bid to seize wounded foes after a deadly firefight, an AFP correspondent said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Kabul -
An Afghan policeman opened fire at a Kabul hospital run by a US charity on Thursday, killing three Americans including a doctor, in the latest deadly attack targeting foreign civilians in the city.
In the Media
by Usman Sharafi (AFP) - 1 comment
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Eleven years ago Bob Bennett, then a Republican senator from Utah, made a fiscal sales pitch for including prescription drugs in Medicare coverage for seniors.
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More than 80% of raw chicken samples tested in a hospital kitchen tested positive for antibiotic resistant bacteria, according to a recent study.
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New federal data has revealed that one in 25 U.S. hospital patients has caught an infection while residing in the hospital.
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London -
A male nurse has been charged with the murder of three patients who were poisoned with contaminated medical products at a British hospital, police said Saturday.
In the Media
by AFP
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A research group has developed a first light-activated antimicrobial surface that can kill pathogenic bacteria even in the dark. It is hoped that the use of the surface will reduce hospital acquired infections.
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Brooklyn -
Proposals have come from five bidders who wish to keep Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn functioning as a hospital, but not one has a license to run a hospital in New York at this point.
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Early Tuesday, it was revealed that a Canadian man, widely feared to be suffering from Ebola, tested negative for the virus.
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Thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated and used to heat at least two hospitals in the United Kingdom according to an investigation.
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Manchester -
Sixteen people have died in the Manchester area over the past four years from a highly resistant "superbug" that has spread across North West England.
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Washington -
Some $30 million proposed by President Barack Obama could help hospitals fight the growing problem of antibiotic resistance much the way Britain has, US health authorities said Tuesday.The extra funds for fiscal year 2015, if approved by Congress, woul...
In the Media
by Kerry Sheridan (AFP)
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Washington -
More than one third of antibiotics prescribed in hospitals might be unnecessary and could be fueling drug resistance, US health authorities said Tuesday.The latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms earlier re...
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
One person was killed and 27 rushed to hospital following a carbon monoxide leak at a New York restaurant, officials said on Sunday.The fatality was the manager of a sea food restaurant in a mall in the Long Island town of Huntington Station, Suffolk C...
In the Media
by AFP
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Many U.S. hospitals fail to rules designed to protect patients from preventable and potentially deadly infections, a new study shows.
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Madrid -
Eleven students from Madrid’s Alfonso X University ended up in hospital on Saturday night after eating a birthday cake baked with marijuana. One student is still in a serious condition.
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A study into hospital hygiene has found higher levels of infectious pathogens in water from faucet taps with aerators compared to water from deeper in the plumbing system. This means that poor practices are causing contamination around the taps.
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London -
A famous London's children hospital has agreed to pay out £2.8 million ($4.6 million, 3.4 million euros) to a girl who was left brain damaged when glue was accidently injected into her brain.
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Hospital Image
London Colney, breaking into the asylum: A message written by the last person to leave? Or a sign that other people have broken in since Napsbury Hospital was closed in 1998?
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks to patients and staff at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre.
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Photograph taken from the abandoned Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK.
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Walter Baxter
Borders General Hospital
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Queen Sofia was awaiting the arrival of King Juan Carlos at Quirón University hospital in Madrid, when a nude protester came prancing in.
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Photo by Armando Argandar
Mexican hospital
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Acquapendente, where it’s not advisable to become sick
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Natchitoches General Hospital emergency waiting room on a late night.
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A view from the outside of Napsbury Hospital.
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Napsbury Hospital, inside the crumbling building.
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From Google StreetView
The front of the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket
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A patient awaiting a blood transfusion
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Emergency Room entrance.
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With permission by Reuters / Benoit Tessier
Alain Carpentier, surgeon at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, said on December 21, 2013, it had carried out its first implant of an artificial heart that can beat for up to five years, adding that the operation had gone smoothly
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Photo of an perating theater
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Indrani Soemardjan
medical chart
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A cast on a broken arm
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St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse was fined $22,000 by the New York Department of Health over two incidents, one that included a 41-year-old woman who was mistakenly declared dead.
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A view from inside Napsbury Hospital.
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