Hospital News
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Misdiagnosis of infection strains in hospitals is leading to a public health crisis, as doctors treat these infections unnecessarily and ineffectively with antibiotics. To tackle this, new precision medicine solutions are being tested.
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By AFP
Beira -
Wet beds stand empty in water-logged wards, workers slosh through the corridors in rubber boots and a nauseating smell permeates the air: Beira's main hospital is stricken, just when it is needed most.
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All nursing homes are dealing with the challenge of trying to care for higher acuity patients on tight budgets. To assist with cost control and as a means of lowering hospitalization rates, telemedicine can assist as Central Island Healthcare explain.
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By AFP
Lisbon -
A nurses' strike in Portugal which brought non-essential operations to a standstill for nearly three weeks over demands for higher pay ended on Wednesday after a union called it off, the government said.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US Justice Department charged two Iranian hackers Wednesday with extorting at least $6 million from hospitals, city governments and public institutions in the US and Canada by remotely locking down their computer systems.
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By AFP
Berlin -
A German former hospital nurse who has admitted to killing more than 100 patients in his care apologised Thursday to victims' grieving relatives.
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By AFP
Oldenburg -
German nurse Niels Hoegel, already serving a prison sentence over the deaths of six patients in his care, went on trial from Tuesday for killing another 100 people.Here's what you need to know about this extraordinary criminal case.
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By AFP
Oldenburg -
Former nurse Niels Hoegel admitted Tuesday to killing 100 patients in his care, on the first day of his trial in the biggest serial killing case in Germany's post-war history.
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By AFP
Berlin -
German nurse Niels Hoegel, already serving a lengthy term for previous killings, will go on trial before anguished relatives Tuesday over the murders of around 100 more people -- a spree prosecutors say is unprecedented in the post-war period.
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By AFP
Berlin -
The man accused of being post-war Germany's most prolific serial killer was known to colleagues as a "nice guy" who did little to raise suspicion until well into his murder spree.
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By AFP
Ak -
Shattered ultrasound machines and prosthetic limbs litter the hallways of Raqa's main hospital, still gutted a year after the Islamic State group made its infamous last stand in its Syrian heartland.
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By AFP
Port-de-paix -
In Port-de-Paix, the Haitian city hardest hit by a strong earthquake, medical personnel at the Immaculate Conception Hospital of Port-de-Paix are struggling to treat the wounded -- and helplessly looked on as some didn't make it.
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By AFP
Dhaka -
Jailed Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia was admitted to hospital in Dhaka on Saturday, an official said, following a court order in response to her deteriorating health.
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MBI Group, a leading NYC construction firm, has recently won a bid to construct multiple patient care spaces across its New York City network of hospitals. To discover how modern technology assists with such projects, Alex Getelman provides an insight.
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By AFP
Beirut -
Regime and Russian aircraft pounded Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib with missiles and barrel bombs on Sunday, killing at least two children, a monitor said.
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By AFP
Paris -
A superbug resistant to all known antibiotics that can cause "severe" infections or even death is spreading undetected through hospital wards across the world, scientists in Australia warned on Monday.
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By AFP
Bulgaria -
At the psychiatric hospital in Kurilo in the mountainous countryside near the Bulgarian capital Sofia, around 100 patients languish on their beds in dilapidated surroundings.
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Scientists have turned to an unusual source in order to tackle the problem of pathogenic bacteria – oxygen. This is in relation to MRSA, which is associated with hospital derive infections, in particular.
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By AFP
Balaban -
Her scarred hands wrapped in gloves, Malakeh Harbaliyya lifted an infant out of an incubator at a hospital in Syria's rural north, holding him gently as he guzzled milk from a bottle.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
A stray bullet in one of Rio de Janeiro's crime-ravaged suburbs tore into a hospital Saturday and hit a woman being treated there, police said.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israel has closed a field hospital set up near the Syrian border to treat the sick and those wounded in the conflict ravaging the neighbouring country, the army said Friday.
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By AFP
Tampa -
Some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants found in hand washes and sanitizers, allowing increasing infections to take hold, an Australian study warned Wednesday.
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East Meadow -
On June 11, 2018, stars, dignitaries and 3,000 Long Islanders united at the 2018 Pink Tie event that was held at The Carltun at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York, for a philanthropic cause.
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East Meadow -
On Monday, June 11, 2018, the sixth annual Pink Tie event will take place at The Carltun at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York.
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By AFP
London -
Russian President Vladimir Putin wished "good health" to former agent Sergei Skripal as he was released from a British hospital Friday, after recovering from a nerve agent poisoning alleged to have been orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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By AFP
London -
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain, triggering a diplomatic crisis with Russia, has been discharged from hospital, the facility said Friday.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Eight-year-old Luisito is awaiting surgery for a brain tumor, a daunting prospect at the best of times -- but this is Venezuela, and the hospital, typically, has little medicine or functioning equipment.
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By AFP
London -
Queen Elizabeth II's 96-year-old husband Prince Philip was admitted to hospital in London on Tuesday for planned surgery on his hip, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela's opposition-dominated Congress said Monday the country's deepening economic crisis has left hospitals lacking even the most basic medicines and surgical materials.
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By AFP
Valenciennes -
Wearing a big grin, Marame clambers into the small electric sports car and drives off -- to the operating theatre.
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San Francisco General Hospital Sergio Ruiz
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Accident and emergency wing of a London hospital.
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
A former ward in the now closed Shenley Hospital, U.K.
Acquapendente, where it’s not advisable to become sick Creative Commons
An Indian patient at an intensive care unit was brought to a hospital after suffering complications from a sterilization procedure Sanjay Kanojia, Getty Images/AFP
Light in a Hospital, Star in the Sky, Light in the Sky and a Star in the Hospital..
Photograph taken from the abandoned Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK.
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Napsbury Hospital, inside the crumbling building.
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
UPMC Mercy Hospital Screengrab via KDKA-TV
Beth Israel Hospital in New York, NY where Huguette Clark died at the age of 104. Edenpictures
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
The entrance to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital. KZN Department of Health
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