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Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela

...ech, saying that the privately owned hospitals and clinics would be made part of the public health service if...e by the law. He also described costs at private clinics as a symptom of "the evil of capitalism", which allow only wealthier, insured patients to afford bet...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...e limited to community settings, such as community clinics and therapists offices. Although most intervention policies for co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders are community-based, a significant number of people with co-occurring disorders never appear in these settings, said study co-author R...

South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

...s carried out among pregnant women attending state clinics and hospitals, and its findings are used as an indication of the national HIV prevalence rate. "The decline in the under 20s, from 15.9 percent in 2005 to 13.7 percent in 2006, in particular, suggests a possible reduction in new infections in the p...

AIDS Foundation Lauds Brazil for Negotiating Price Cut on Abbott's Kaletra

...tion provider, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today lauded the government of Brazil for successfully negotiating a price cut of 30% on Abbott Laboratories' lifesaving medication, Kaletra (its two drug AIDS drug combination including lopinavir ...

Botox Offers Via Mail Order Enrages Plastic Surgeons

...perienced non-surgical practitioners across our 22 clinics are either a qualified doctor, surgeon or a registered general nurse. The partnership with Grattan is an effective means of widening the non-surgical market."...

Overweight Baby in Clinic

...a session on their diet. We refer them to training clinics too so they can get regular exercise." She said that all the parents of her patients co-operated with their treatment....

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...xpect well see these kinds of devices in all major clinics and rehab hospitals in the developed world, and even in patients homes. Some 700,000 US citizens suffer strokes every year. Of these, some 500,000 require therapy for problems with language, memory or movement. It is the last aspect that is the foc...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

... today's health care is delivered during visits to clinics or doctors' offices, so it's important to know whether the electronic systems are producing better outcomes, he added. For the study, Stafford and his colleagues drew their data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a survey conducted b...

'Sexually Active' Malawians Urged to Take HIV Tests

...this year by going to rural areas and using mobile clinics at 350 sites." About 97,000 people were tested in 2006, and 10.8 percent of them were HIV positive, the authorities said. "We want to encourage Malawians to go for the tests. We also want to take advantage to reach them with correct information o...

Nigerian Health Authority Crackdown On Sub-Standard Health Institutions

... In an effort to wipe out sub-standard hospitals, clinics and chemist shops which constitute immeasurable health hazards to its innocent citizens, the government had last week sealed up 235 illegal health facilities in different parts of the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who d...

Retail Health Clinics Start Shop

...ew regulations to allow for the operation of these clinics . They vouch that the move could also encourage no...tion process for operating limited service medical clinics transparent to any entity that feels they have a role in their community. The move will allow not-f...

Police Raids Hospitals and Labs in Orissa

...They also sealed several unregistered pathological clinics and private hospitals in Nayagarh district. "Investigation is going on regarding the case. The identity of sweepers and attendants who are engaged in disposal works are being verified. Moreover, ultrasound machines used for gender verification are...

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...d that many unregistered private nursing homes and clinics were involved in the crime. "They conduct ultrasound tests to determine the sex of a foetus, after which doctors perform an abortion if it is found to be a female," child rights activist Anuradha Mohanty told IANS. India banned the practice of pr...

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

...ld die." The drugs are available at private clinics and pharmacies but, at between 20 and 30 dollars a dose, they are far beyond the reach of many Sierra Leoneans in one of the poorest countries in the world....

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

...would die." The drugs are available at private clinics and pharmacies but, at between 20 and 30 dollars a dose, they are far beyond the reach of many Sierra Leoneans in one of the poorest countries in the world....

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

.... There were very few advocacy groups and very few clinics taking responsibility of putting children on treatment. Only now are people beginning to analyse the children," he said. But, as Dube pointed out, only 27,000 of the 123,000 HIV-infected children who are considered sick enough to require ARVs actua...

Punjab Wants Ban on Advertisements by Doctors

...ors using advertisements to lure patients to their clinics and hospitals, the Punjab government Monday asked the state's medical council to take steps to ban such advertisements . Punjab's medical education and research minister Tikshan Sood said here that advertisements given by medical practitioners were...

Doctors Warn of Deficiencies in Antenatal HIV Testing

...n Coventry. In the United Kingdom, all antenatal clinics routinely offer HIV testing. Most mothers accept screening, but two recent cases, they say, highlight the deficiencies in the existing system. In 2006, two infants were diagnosed with HIV within a few weeks of one another. Both mothers had had ante...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...es enrolled in several de-addiction centres. The clinics attend to 1400 clients every month, besides creating awareness among people from far-flung areas on tobacco-related diseases. According to doctors, the endeavour would curb the growing menace of cancer in the State. Jeemy L.Pautu, an oncologist, ...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...ed national health system in order. The network of clinics offers free treatments including vaccinations, but with nearly a quarter of Brazil's 185 million people living in poverty, it is under funded and overburdened. On assuming charge as the health minister he went on to cut prices on birth control pills...

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