Crisis

Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis

A recent study finds children with sickle cell disease are more likely to end up in the hospital with a sickle cell crisis if they live in households where people smoke.// Study after study has confirmed exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can harm the health of nonsmokers. It is found that exposure to smoke affects the way the blood handles oxygen, leading to a vast array of problems....

India Can Manage World’s Healthcare Crisis By 202

By 2020, India has the potential to be the healthcare crisis manager for the world and can earn upto $25 billion from medical tourism, experts say.// Speaking at a health summit organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Indian Health Care Foundation (IHCF), experts said the government should double the expenditure on healthcare and facilitate public-private partners...

Crisis Time In Wales NHS Dentistry

Dentists in Wales are warning that many more practioners could start private practices if there is no solution forthcoming from the NHS. //The problem is to do with heavy workloads and dentists are threatening to take action by going private if their loads are not lightened. The UK as a whole in the grip of a dental crisis that threatens to go out of control, thus affecting thousands o...

NHS faces mental health crisis; 'risky' patients sent home

Thousands of patients who need psychiatric care in the UK are being detained in expensive private hospitals or being denied treatment, owing to a massive shortage // of NHS beds. The National Health System psychiatry is engaged in perpetual crisis management, with patients being sent home at night or on long-term leave to clear ward space, according to inspectors from the Mental Health...

NHS financial crisis may lead to roll back of flexi-work scheme and private acquisition

Deficit in NHS fund has lead to cancellation of subsidized flexible working for NHS doctors, the part-time flexible working scheme which was introduced four years back by the Government is being rolled back// due to financial crisis in the NHS fund. The Private hospitals have also showed interest to acquisition of NHS funded government hospitals which are working in a horrible situation due to fi...

European Union: Poultry producers Need Aid to Survive Bird flu 'crisis'

Brussels: It is no exaggeration that bird flu has thrown Europe’s poultry industry into doldrums. An urgent call has been issued by European Union countries// for emergency aid to provide succor to the struggling poultry producers. The Union is also at its wits end trying ways to reassure fearful consumers. The EU's executive branch would be subsidizing the production costs of chicks...

So (y) Good: Soy Meal Takes-Off After Bird-Flu Crisis

Mumbai: Soy meal is finding itself in myriad plates and palates. People are moving on and Soy meal is fast becoming a chosen, safe substitute for protein, after the bird-flu crisis and the resultant fear of tucking into chicken. // Soy exports have never been so good. In March alone, India’s soy meal exports crossed 750,000 tones, breaking past records compared to 225,000 tones duri...

Food Companies show Pathetic Response to Health Crisis

Research has revealed that most of the world's top food companies show pathetically poor or no response to the global food-related// health crisis. The report prepared by London’s City University shows that the salt, fat and sugar contents of most food items had undergone very little change despite the targets set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2004 to overcome problems of ob...

Respite from the bird flu crisis: Chinese Official says high Risk Period is "Over"

According to a senior Guangdong health official of China the tide has ebbed and has declared an end to this year's peak human bird flu season in the province.// But as a damper this claim was brushed aside by other health specialists. The senior health official was Luo Huiming, director of the Guangdong Centre for Disease Control's Epidemic Disease Prevention and Cure Researc...

British Hospitals Face Financial Crisis

Several hospitals in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is facing a severe financial crunch, thereby resulting in job losses and changes// in work rules as well, which has deeply affected the employment prospects of Indian doctors. The financial crunch further lessens the prospects of thousands of Indian doctors currently seeking employment in Britain. Almost every day, several...

Health Insurance Fueling Medical Crisis in US

A lot of ground work has to be done along with the help of the public to bring down the number of people who lack health insurance.// It is one of growing issues and if not dealt properly would lead to a serious problem. Harris County, US is at the epicenter of this huge medical crisis. According to the statistics it has the highest (32%) uninsured rate in the country. This poses a severe set bac...

Immediate Attention Is Needed To Tackle the Obesity Crisis among Children

Doctors, nutritionists and health officials are demanding the government to take radical steps to tackle the obesity crisis. Education Minister Lynne Kosky announced// a ban on high-sugar soft drinks in schools. But Australian Medical Association federal president Mukesh Haikerwal said that this was not going to change present situation and asked to come down with radical measures. He...

Malnutrition Crisis On Rise In India: World Bank

With one of the highest percentages of undernourished children in the world, the situation in India is abysmal, states a new World Bank report released Thursday//. "India's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) needs to undergo significant changes to address the current malnutrition crisis," states the report "India's Undernourished Children: a Call for Reform and Action". <b...

Bird Flu Crisis To Inflict Tremendous Damage: FAO

Bird flu crisis is likely to last several years inflicting ‘tremendous damage’ to bird population, domestic poultry in particular//, with continuing threat of the possibility of its turning into human pandemic affecting millions, the UN food agency has warned. Giving the new assessment, the Food and Agriculture Organization upped its monetary estimates for progressive control of the a...

Uganda Faces Crisis in the Field Of HIV/AIDS Due To Budget Cuts

Uganda faces a serious funding crisis as a result of budget cuts. This may affect the thousands of HIV/AIDS patients who have access to the key medications//. Kihumuro Apuuli, director general of the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) said that the budget cuts would affect patients' access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs). As such itself a number of other organizations are retrieving back their operati...

Crisis Of Bubonic Plague In New Mexico

A department spokesman, Deborah Busemeyer, says a man in critical condition was hospitalized due to septicemic form of the disease in which the plague bacteria multiply in the bloodstream//. Another women from Bernalillo County died last week from septicemic form of the plague and she was the first to die. Bite from an infected flies or direct contact with infected animals like rodents,...

Mental Health Crisis In Australia

Health experts claimed, national reform programmes implemented by government are needed to improve mental health in Australia//. Mental Health Council of Australia reports that Australia is in need of a new nationalwise approach with acute-care facilities for tackling mental health system crisis. A report on the Time for Service says mental health funding of up to $2 billion a...

Sexlessness in Japan may spark a population crisis

Japan's dwindling population has got the country's planning association all worked up. With the fertility rate at dismal levels averaging at 1.25 children per woman//, demographers are pressing the need of 2.1 children per woman to maintain the requisite population. A survey conducted by the Family Planning Association revealed that 31 percent of the16- to 49-years-olds did not indul...

Lebanon Fears of Epidemics as the Crisis Deepens

The plight of hundreds of thousands displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah conflict is getting worse as Lebanon heads towards severe shortages of fuel// and drinking water amid fears of epidemic outbreaks. "We are now faced with a major setback - and with the fuel problems increasing, we are soon moving towards a de-facto blockade of the country," said a spokesperson for the UN High Commiss...

Positive Religious Beliefs Might Help In Coping Through Medical Crisis

A new research suggests that religious faith does help people in coping with their stressful medical experiences like a heart surgery.// The researchers stated that when people go through a stressful medical event their religious beliefs might help or hinder them psychologically. They explained that patients who tend to take solace from their religious faith for support and comfort ap...

Hospitals To Get Extra Consultants To Eliminate A&E Crisis

The Health Service Executive in Ireland is all set to offer rewards for hospitals that deal effectively with accident and emergency overcrowding.// The Irish Examiner reports that hospitals may be offered additional consultants in order to help hospitals deal with the A&E crisis, where patients are made to wait for hours together in trolleys. But hospitals must ensure that A&E patients...

Queensland Staff Shortage Crisis Escalates

100 health professionals put their heads together to thrash out the burning issue of dwindling staff numbers, which is weakening the healthcare system in Queensland. The// representatives speaking for nearly 800 radiographers, radiation therapists, sonographers and nuclear medicine technologists in state-run hospitals has warned that the crisis may result in mass resignations of staff, in the ab...

Mock Exercise Conducted to Combat Potential Public Health Crisis

Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland have conducted their first exercise in emergency vigilance that also measures reaction time in the event of a public health crisis.// Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food Dr York Chow has expressed optimism that the exercise was a success, which has strengthened the communication and partnership between the three jurisdictions. The exercise...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

Who said water contamination is unique to the developing world? Look at Galway, the third largest city in Ireland//. It is now reeling under a major water crisis. Scores of people have taken ill and tens of thousands are feared to be at risk from contaminated water. Water supply in Galway has been hit by an outbreak of a parasite called cryptosporidium, with up to 170 peop...

US Confronted by a Major Healthcare Crisis, Say Critics

The US is entering a healthcare crisis, many activists are warning. It has one of the poorest health profiles in the developed world,// it has been assessed. Around 46 million in that country people do not have health insurance because they cannot afford it. Drug prices, health insurance, doctor visits and hospital stays are too expensive for many people to afford, while insurance and d...

Shimla Faces Water Crisis

With summer setting in, Shimla is running short of water supply pushing the civic authorities to ration it. // While the hill station with a 250,000 population needs eight million gallons of water daily, it has only six million for distribution, according to the Shimla Municipal Corporation. Civic officials said that starting Thursday, water would be supplied on alternate d...

Obesity - A Major Crisis

There is a major health crisis in Europe which has become a major cause for concern. That is Obesity. It is not just a health crisis but also a social crisis.// The available data show that among the European Union countries like England, Slovakia, Germany, Greek, Cyprus Czech Republic had the highest number of obese adults. A recent study shows that it is not just the adults but also...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

"In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, adolescent girls have a 1% chance of acquiring HIV, a 30% chance of getting genital herpes . Britain is facing a major teen sex health crisis. The increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and high levels of teenage pregnancy in the UK are "disturbing" and there is "no doubt" alcohol and drugs enhance sexu...

Ask Right Questions and Save Country from Further Healthcare Crisis: Michael Moore

I was informed by my physician that what I "thought" to be a cold was a bronchial infection bordering pneumonia and the physician told me without antibiotics I could wind up in the hospital . But then a good friend of mine once told me "I can afford to "die" because I have life insurance, only I just can't afford to get sick." I'll tell you what the "abuse" is. It is the over inflated prices of m...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

Recent figures from the Prison Service revealed that the prison population in England and Wales reached a peak of 80,846 at the end of May and that there were fewer than 300 cells available for new inmates. The prison authorities have already begun using police cells to house prisoners in some areas of the country. Dr Ashok Rayani, a prison doctor and member of the BMAs Civil and P...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

The World Health Organisation has been regularly urging the developing world to look for new initiatives and programmes targeting mental health care in their public health services. But many nations in the African continent are hard pressed for funds to rise to the challenge before them. Like elsewhere in the third world, visitors to Zambia could observe in the capital city of Lu...

AutoGenomics Addresses TB Crisis With a Genetic Drug Resistance Test

CARLSBAD, Calif., "In light of the recent news event where a passenger with extensive drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) flew on multiple airline flights and potentially infected other passengers, the need for rapid identification of MTB and assessment of drug resistance is critical to control of the spread of the disease" said Dr. Nani Dattagupta, Chief Scientific Officer of AutoGenomics. <br...

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

A growing shortage of allergists in the US may soon impact the quality of patient care for asthma and other allergic diseases, according to a report. Without intervention, the number of allergy-immunology specialists is projected to decline by 7 percent while demand will increase by 35 percent over the next dozen years, said ACAAI President Daniel Ein, M.D. The declin...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

The supposedly wooden Al Gore, former US vice president and presently a high profile environmentalist, will be coming alive, almost literally, across the world Saturday next. He is behind the Live Earth program - a series of concerts of pop and rock music featuring various artists planned to take place on Saturday July 7, 2007 to promote action to confront the global warming crisis....

US Officials Urge Testing for HIV as Health Crisis Intensifies

June 27 is being observed as the National Testing Day in the US. National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is an annual campaign produced by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA-US) to encourage at-risk individuals to receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 180,000 to 280,000 people nationwide are HIV-po...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

Strong links between alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour are providing fuel for a "sexual health crisis" in Britain, a government advisory body report said Friday . Sexual health among the young has deteriorated seriously in the last 12 years, and media coverage of celebrities' hard-partying lifestyles may make the problem worse, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health an...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

An industrial body recognizing the downward trend of access to quality health care in India, has suggested two things needed to reverse the situation- more money and a significant private-public partnership. According to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India needs to spend around $203 billion (Rs 912,375 crores), if the mission of achieving 'He...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

In the first systematic multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against pediatricians , the answer is neither yes nor no by the researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. "We studied pediatricians and malpractice because while the medical malpractice issue is extremely stressful and gets a lot of press, and we...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

The supposedly wooden Al Gore, former US vice president and presently a high profile environmentalist, will be coming alive, almost literally, across the world Saturday next. He is behind the Live Earth program - a series of concerts of pop and rock music featuring various artists planned to take place on Saturday July 7, 2007 to promote action to confront the global warming crisis. <b...