Hospitals May Face Funds Crunch
...St Bartholemew and the Royal London hospitals. The hospitals in the country are experiencing difficulties with ... 40 years PFI deals. The guaranteed incomes of the hospitals are also in doubt as a result of the new payment-by-results policy. The larger the PFI schemes, th...New Zealand Prepares Itself For Pandemic
... and hotels may also be transformed into emergency hospitals where basic medical treatment will be provided to ...ther, leaving the sick without any help. The local hospitals are expected to be overwhelmed by a pandemic. Difficulties are also expected to be encountered in tr...Boy Refused Compensation For HIV Infection Following Hospital Admission
...e virus elsewhere as he had been operated in other hospitals in Henan province previously. There has been an increase in the number of lawsuits against numerous health agencies in China over HIV-tainted blood in recent years. Contrary to the above case, the applicants infected with the HIV virus have receive...Australian Health funds stand accused
...p premiums, while not passing on cost increases to hospitals // . Private health insurers are believed to have...g those increases on to the hospitals'. 'Private hospitals share the frustration of health insurers being able to put their premiums up by 7 per cent a year wi...Study Reveals Better Results in Patients Suffering From Depression.
...om various psychiatric disease and they throng the hospitals for treatment. Statistics show that a third of these people // suffer from mental depressions of different levels. Drugs that are used to treat them had a lot of controversial opinion about them and hence a study was conducted to analyze the effe...Many Indian Doctors Live In Poverty
...d with discrimination and unemployment rather than hospitals welcoming them, which is what they expected. All of them had gone through the professional and linguistic assessment board (Plab) test in the UK. Their own nations stand deprived of their skills and face a shortage of doctors. The number of unemploye...Infectious Diseases Reduced in China
...s made possible by forming a network between major hospitals and local hospitals and health centers which helped to share diseases statistics and treatment strategies leading to dec...Cheerleaders run high risk of injury-US study
...800 young people aged 5 to 18 were treated at U.S. hospitals for cheerleading-related injures during the 13-year period from 1990 to 2002. Most of the injuries were suffered by 12- to 17-year-olds; nearly 40 percent were leg, ankle and foot injuries. The number of high school and grade school cheerleaders s...New policy allows Britons to decide on treatment center
...reatment at any of the four NHS centers or private hospitals at their comfortable location and choice. Health S...ured that strict monitoring would be done at these hospitals so that they don’t compromise on their standards and also the cost of treatment. The Ministers ha...Metamorphosis of U.S. Hospital Buildings
...he hospital industry but the critics feel that the hospitals should concentrate more on the treatment aspect rather than the luxurious buildings, which could cost more than $1 billion for each hospital....Comfort home for mentally depressed
...modating these // people in psychiatry and mental hospitals could aggravate their illness. The NHS confederation wanted the private sector to provide these home care facilities but should be covered by the health insurance. The NHS Confederation recommends these comfortable homes for mentally disturbed people...Men queue up for Circumcision In Swaziland To Prevent HIV/AIDS
...zi men have been circumcised in recent months, and hospitals that were rarely approached for circumcision earli... workers. To address the issue, mobile military hospitals are being thought of to provide circumcision in villages at no cost to males between the ages 10-24....Health Insurance Scheme Generates Conflicting Opinions
...e same in both the private and public sectors. All hospitals violating these norms will be blacklisted," said Jose. He added that the company would get free publicity since it would reach out to 2.5 million households. "The insurers already have a scheme in Assam and have insured 3.5 million weavers acro...Mammography units and up gradation and tax cuts on diagnostic equipments in Hospitals
...l said that all diagnostic equipment in Government hospitals will be repaired and upgraded and added that Mammography units will be set up in all Government hospitals which would aid in early diagnosis of breast cancer as it has become importantly necessary for women...NHS Audit Commission Warns Possible Financial Collapse In Sussex And Surrey
...al deficit faced by primary health care trusts and hospitals is believed to reach £75m by the end of March, if appropriate steps are not taken to manage the crisis. If this were to happen, then payment of wages to workers and settlement of bills to suppliers could be affected. "I am concerned about the finan...Chinese Health Minister has asked to reduce Medical cost
...that the poor cannot afford drugs and treatment in hospitals as the hospitals are indiscriminately prescribing medicines and are charging high cost for unnecessary laboratory tes...After Cardiac Arrest, Children Fare Better Than Adults
...that the vast majority of adult cardiac arrests in hospitals are from sudden arrhythmias. Our findings show tha...arrests. The investigators collected data from 253 hospitals in the United States and Canada between 2000 and 2004. The study sends a message of hope that with...Chinese Hospital urged to cater to the poor
Public hospitals in China should focus on providing affordable medi...ll tighten the control over the expansion of large hospitals and their purchasing of large equipment with bank loans and public funds," Gao said. He urged hos...AIDS Patients Deceived By Private Health Care System In China
...ale of new drugs and high-technology tests. "The hospitals have had to increase their fees and boost drug sal...th ministry official. "The reform process has made hospitals into clubs for the rich. If the hospital were focused on making money, why would they tell anyone ab...... surgeries in evenings and consultations in mobile hospitals near the home or shopping places. Labour party has.... The Labour party has plans of starting mobile hospitals and health check up facilities near railway station, shopping malls and commercial places. Patients ...