Migrants

Devil in The Dock: Fraud Doctor Swindles Immigrants with Fake tests gets freaked out!

A San Francisco fraud doctor without license has been impersonating as a licensed medical practitioner and conducting fake medical tests on immigrants, providing them with false certificates and medical records. // He was slapped 106 felonies after his guilt was established, according o the prosecutors. Stephen Brian Turner, 51, without any license, hood winked immigrants by injecting t...

Study Finds ER Not Overburdened By Uninsured & Immigrants

A new survey of 60 communities has gone against the general notion and has shown that uninsured Hispanics and immigrants are not overstrain the emergency rooms// in hospitals in the US. It was reported that previous reports had stated that most of the Hispanics were uninsured and because of this they usually let their conditions worsen to the point where they would be forced to go to...

East Asian Immigrants Bring Hepatitis to New York

According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at New York University School of medicine it was found that one in seven East Asian immigrants are carriers// of the hepatitis B virus. These predispose them to conditions such as liver cancer and cirrhosis. But it is surprising to know that most of the people are unaware that they were infected. Three-quarters of these people who a...

Immigrants Who Responded After 9/11 Lack Health Care

Many immigrants who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11 are struggling with serious health problems and have nowhere to turn to, according to advocates.// "When we were needed on 9/11, no one asked for our papers. Now they don't want us here anymore," said Lucelly Gil, who was present in the disaster zone. A Daily News investigation showed that contractors were taking illegal immigrants t...

Surveys Find Outright Hunger among Latino Immigrants in North Carolina

Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers have found high rates of hunger in surveys of immigrant Latino families in eastern and western North Carolina,// southwestern Virginia and Forsyth County. “Although the United States enjoys a relative lack of hunger, there are segments of the N.C. population – Latino immigrants – with hunger more severe than areas of persistent pov...

Health Care Benefits for Immigrants Favored by MD Court

According to the ruling by Maryland's highest court a group of immigrant children were unfairly dropped from the state's medical// assistance program by Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration. The Court of Appeals voted unanimously that Ehrlich violated civil rights protections afforded by the state constitution when he cut $7 million from the program that provided heal...

Health Expenditure on Illegal Immigrants

Washington- A study conducted by U.S. researchers in North Carolina sought to tabulate expenditures related to health care on illegal immigrants//. The analysis revealed that most of the medical expenditure was related to childbirth and pregnancy related complications. The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is opportune as it raises concern about the e...

TB Super-strain Found in Myanmar Migrants

The first cases of a dangerous, highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis among Myanmar migrants have been diagnosed in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, aid workers said Monday. "We had confirmation for two cases in Mae Sot," said Andres Romero of the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Romero, who heads MSF's TB programme in Mae Sot, said both men were migrants and both had di...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

Amidst rising incidence of tuberculosis in Britain, senior doctors here want all immigrants from the Indian sub-continent to be screened for the disease. The doctors want the screening to also include immigrants from Africa. The Observer reported Sunday that two new outbreaks, in Luton and Cardiff, had prompted concern that public health officials were failing to come...

Immigration Department Failed To Check On Immigrants With TB, Report Says

A report released on Wednesday by the Australian National Audit Office found that the Department of Immigration and Citizenship knowingly allowed more than 100,000 people with tuberculosis to enter Australia but frequently failed to check up on whether they sought medical treatment, The Australian reports. People with inactive TB or who have a history of the disease sometimes are p...

Illegal Immigrants Allowed To Stay A Year More To Care For Their Child

A 17-month old girl who underwent a heart operation for a rare birth defect has more than one share of good news. Not only has she fully recovered, her parents, illegal immigrants in the U.S, have also been granted a year more to stay there and care for their U.S citizen daughter. Hazelle Roas little-known genetic abnormality left her with a thyroid deficiency and a narrow artery into...