Waiting

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

In a research report done by Swedish scientists its said that it is better// to go for surgery while in early stage of prostate cancer than to wait and see if the disease progresses. Surgery for treating prostate cancer, also known as prostatectomy, is a common procedure. The researchers had conducted he study to see if prostatectomy done in early stages of prostate cancer benefits the...

Artificial Heart , Gives Hope For Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

A recent study shows a completely artificial heart could prevent death in critically ill patients and those who are candidates for a heart transplant . The artificial heart implant improved survival rates before receiving actual heart transplants and after transplantation. // The artificial heart was found to be a successful bridge to heart transplantation in many patients who did not i...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

In Scotland new measures are being undertaken by the health officials to reduce the waiting list of patients who have been referred by their General Practioner. // Hence new methods are being adopted by increasing the wages of the Surgeons three times their normal wages. Consultants receive more than ￡1,500 a day from officials to cut on the waiting list. In the near future pa...

U.K. Government to reduce waiting time of patients for non-emergency surgery

United Kingdom Ministry is planning for reduction of waiting time spent by patients before they had there surgery. The Government is planning to reduce the non-emergency surgery time to less // than 18 weeks from time of admission to NHS. Government is hoping the project will be made completed by the year 2008. Patients wait for long time for initial appointment with the doctor, for getting dia...

Mobile Operating Theater to Cut Waiting Times

A mobile hospital that is being started in the grounds of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at a cost of ￡1 million, aims to cut down the waiting times for patients//. The hospital is equipped with an operating theatre and health bosses hope that bout 200 operations can be carried out here. NHS Grampian said that this is the first Scottish theatre to employ a ward as well. The van has been l...

NHS To Achieve Waiting Figure Target By 2008

The National Health Services (NHS) patients, currently on a six-month waiting list would be promptly attended to following the Government report that would be released this Friday. // The health officials had stated earlier that the maximum waiting period would not exceed six months, if they were to be admitted to a hospital by the end of 2005. This in fact was one of the targets of...

Gynecologist Solving SuDoKu, While Waiting For Next Patient

David Penman, a gynecologist at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent has blasted the NHS authorities by saying that he is left to "twiddle his thumbs" since his hospital cannot afford to do more surgery. // "What do you do while you wait for the next person to turn up when there should be three in the gap between two patients? Sit and read the paper, drink coffee - while we're paid, whe...

New Study To Determine "Watchful Waiting" Period For Prostate Cancer

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are beginning a new study to monitor low-risk prostate cancer patients who are eligible for watchful // waiting and can avoid the stressful chemotherapy treatments. "With the advent of the PSA test, we see prostate cancer detected much earlier but there is no evidence that early detection means longer survival. Because...

800 People On US Waiting List for AIDS Drugs

More than 800 poor Americans are yet to receive AIDS medications from government-funded programs, which are most often the last resort to those who cannot afford to buy costly treatments, //according to an annual survey in the US. The report added that several US states were also forced to cut down on the medications that were allocated to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, or ADAPs, due to...

Innovative solution to help reduce the waiting times for kidney transplants

An innovative solution was found at the St. Michael's and Toronto General Hospital when the first Canadian kidney transplant paired exchange occurred. The scenario was that of two Toronto couples, both with one spouse dying //of kidney disease and the other unable to donate one of their own healthy kidneys because they weren't a compatible blood type. Tom McCabe in his early 60s, gave...

Funds Pumped In To Reduce Waiting List of Priority Patients

As the waiting list is growing day by day, the New South Wales (NSW) Government is planning to pump in more funds to reduce the queue//. It has decided to allocate to more money to the region's area health services. This step is thought to help cut elective surgery waiting lists. The Hunter New England and north coast area health services will get a funding boost of $500,000 e...

UK Patients Seek Fertility Treatment Abroad Due To The Long Waiting List

In UK couples go abroad in order to undergo fertility treatment. The main reason for not taking it up in their own country is that there is a long waiting list and the second the right of anonymity for UK donors //were removed by a law. Hence European fertility clinics are flocked with UK customers. But the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is warning people about th...

Waiting Period Of Over 10yrs For Women Needing Breast Reduction Surgery

A federal parliamentary committee that was formed to look into the costs of healthcare, met in Adelaide, and had heard the demand for breast reduction// surgery, which is extremely high and has no system of prioritising patients. This meant that a woman who though has a valid reason for wanting her breasts reduced has to wait just as long, sometimes longer, than women wanting smaller b...

Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

Looks like it is time for impatient patients to travel abroad rather than wait for weeks or months to get treated// for their ailments. Recently, a woman won the right to claim compensation from the NHS for a hip replacement surgery done abroad. In yet another case, a 63-year-old British woman who traveled elsewhere gave birth to a baby, after prenatal diagnostic tests confirmed absence of any ge...

Health Minister Praises Efforts By NHS In Reducing Patient Waiting Time

Scotland's health minister Andy Kerr said that the NHS staff should be praised for their efforts and has hailed the latest statistics on NHS waiting times// as the "best ever". He said that the maximum waiting time for the patients had reduced from 12 to 6 months. Reports indicated that the figures up to 31st March on the number of outpatients and inpatient day cases with an 18-week w...

Waiting list in British healthcare causing them to shell out a fortune!

Due to long and endless waiting lists for patients in Britain, they are forced into taking treatment elsewhere and that causes them a fortune //. For example citing an arthritis case of an Ulster man, who had to pay thousands of pounds so that he can be cured fast, could have done free if by NHS. But the waiting list was too long to wait for. He had to spend ￡3,500 on two drugs - Hum...

B C Medical Association Reports on Setting Limits to Waiting Times

According to the British Columbia medical association report it was announced that patients who are in need of cardiac//, hip or knee operations should not be made to wait for more than six months. The British Columbia released two reports which were commissioned by the provincial and federal medical associations. Long waits result in further deterioration of the patient’s health there...

Health Care Waiting Period Waived for Evacuees from Lebanon in Ontario

Canadians returning to Ontario from Lebanon will not have to wait for access to public health care.// The provincial government has said that it will waive the mandatory three-month waiting period for OHIP coverage for the new arrivals. According to the Health Minister George Smitherman the evacuees have undergone a lot of stress and strain and will have access to the "health...

Watchful Waiting Effective for Low Risk Prostate Cancer

"Watchful Waiting" may be more appropriate in men with low-risk prostate cancer than the common method of treating with surgery or radiation therapy, according to a research// team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The results of the study conducted by lead researcher Dr. John T. Wei and his associates have been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Thei...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

The long waiting lists for psychiatric consultation some over 12 months old in several areas of the country must be reduced urgently, it was claimed today.// Dan Neville, a Fine Gael TD, demanded that the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) be made available to mental health patients. He said, “It is simply unacceptable that waiting lists in many areas of the country are...

Inordinately Long Waiting Times at A&E Infirmary

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's accident and emergency unit is said to make patients wait longer than anywhere else in Scotland to be seen by a doctor.// This news has only added salt to the wound of hospital chiefs who face mounting criticism over cleaning procedures at the ERI following its branding as one of the dirtiest hospitals in the country earlier this week. Recent figures...

800 Patients to be Dumped from Hospital Waiting Lists

Mounting pressure on district heath boards (DHB) has led to the development of proposals to dump about 800 Auckland patients from hospital //waiting lists in one shot before the end of the month. The move follows the government’s requirement that only patients who can be guaranteed treatment in six months should stay on a list. Patients who have been assessed as not sick eno...

Waiting for Trial Results Sometimes Unethical

Waiting for the results of randomised trials of public health interventions can cost hundreds of lives, especially in poor countries. Researchers// in this week’s BMJ argue that, if the science is good, we should act before the trials are done. Randomised controlled trials are usually required before new interventions are implemented. But in 2003, the BMJ published an article about th...

NHS De-addiction, Rehabilitation waiting time ticking into months

The Scottish parliament has released figures which show that there is an incredible delay in meting out medical assistance //to patients enrolled for rehabilitation treatment programs under the banner of NHS(National Health Service) Scotland ,causing countless patients stranded and helpless . Most of the centers earmarked for drug and alcohol de-addiction have pointed out that most of th...

Better Management can Reduce Emergency Room Waiting Times

Senior people at Capital Health are extremely optimistic about the recent changes introduced at hospitals with a view to better management //of emergency care and reduce waiting time for patients. As part of the changes, a plan has been initiated to effectively manage space in the emergency rooms in hospitals. A "bed site manager" is newly designated in the hospital, whose job will be...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

A Canadian report has come out with news that would gladden the heart of investors of Indian biotechnology companies, as well as strike fear// in the minds of their western rivals. According to lead reporter Peter Singer of the McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health in Toronto, Canada, “ India is innovating its way out of poverty and ill health". The report published in...

CT Imaging With Novel Contrast Agent May Predict Heart Attack in Waiting

A new imaging technology may hold the key to not only stopping heart attacks in their tracks but also preventing them for ever occurring//. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have shown the use computed tomography (CT) imaging along with a novel contrast agent know as N1177 can detect dangerous, high-risk plaque which cause heart attack and stroke. The findings may help physicians diag...

Tech Heads Go Gaga Waiting for Apple's IPhone

Tech-heads camped overnight outside Apple electronics stores in US cities aiming to be the first to own an iPhone, marketed as the coolest gadget on the planet, when they go on sale Friday. The breakthrough device, which puts a phone, web browser and music player in the palm of the hand, goes on sale at 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Friday. Late Thursday some 60 fans armed with u...