Tag Archives: patients

Nearly 450 patients at Salem Hospital in Massachusetts were possibly exposed to HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. According to ABC News, the hospital shared a statement with the outlet detailing the possible exposure on Thursday, November 16. RELATED: Vampire Facials & Botox Injections At New Mexico Spa Linked To HIV …

This is an opinion editorial by Travis Headley, an emergency medicine physician and medical director of an urban emergency department. As an emergency medicine physician, I witness the impact of various societal factors on the health and well-being of my patients every day. Among the concerning trends I have observed …

A five-year experiment aimed toward enhancing look after a few of California’s most at-risk Medicaid sufferers — together with homeless individuals and folks with extreme drug addictions — resulted in fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits that saved taxpayers an estimated $383 per affected person per 12 months, in line …

In current months, US and European politicians have been buying and selling public statements on fiscal assist to retain, maintain and develop their high-tech industries. We welcome the European Fee’s efforts to assist “clean tech industries” by means of the Inexperienced Deal. For our half, the research-based biopharmaceutical business continues …

The primary drug confirmed to slow Alzheimer’s is on sale, however most U.S. sufferers will be unable to obtain the therapy for a number of months. Consultants say some causes behind the sluggish debut for Leqembi, from Japanese drugmaker Eisai, are minimal insurance coverage protection and lots of well being …

With a reliance on the U.S. for as much as 40 p.c of our human blood plasma wants, Europe faces a serious problem: we merely don’t acquire sufficient plasma. Some 300,000 uncommon illness sufferers rely upon plasma-derived medicinal merchandise (PDMPs) to deal with a variety of great and life-threating circumstances, …

The EU desires to offer European shoppers entry to extra medicines, quicker, and for much less cash — and it’s selecting a battle with the pharmaceutical trade within the course of. A draft plan to overtake the EU’s pharmaceutical legal guidelines — a duplicate of which has been obtained by …

LONDON — Public sector staff on strike, the cost-of-living climbing, and a authorities on the ropes. “It’s hard to miss the parallels” between the notorious ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1978-79 and Britain in 2023, says Robert Saunders, historian of contemporary Britain at Queen Mary, College of London. Admittedly, the comparability …

Docs and pharmacists have referred to as on the European Fee to ship stronger laws to stop future drug shortages after the European Medicines Company (EMA) declined to declare the present extreme restrictions on antibiotics a “major event.” Sufferers all through Europe have been struggling to source frequent antibiotics, particularly …

NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist accused of molesting tons of of sufferers throughout a a long time lengthy profession was convicted of federal intercourse crime fees Tuesday in a victory for accusers who have been outraged when an preliminary state prosecution resulted in no jail time. Robert Hadden, 64, …

Elizabeth Arthur, Unit Supervisor at Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney, picked up an enormous specimen jar packed to the brim with shredded items of plastic. The container got here from a big perspex field full of labelled samples emblazoned with species’ names; inexperienced turtle, magpie, pied cormorant, Australasian darter, and …

Fewer people have gotten crucial medication for hepatitis C under Medi-Cal in recent years, troubling advocates who have pushed to expand the lifesaving treatment. Hepatitis C, a slow-moving virus that can lead to liver cancer, cirrhosis and death, can now be cured in most cases with a few months of …