‘What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients’ health outcomes,’ professor says
A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father's remains didn't make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received the remains of another man.
A Montreal-area woman is asking Canadian authorities to help locate her father's body in Cuba after a devastating mix-up that saw her family receive a stranger's remains instead. Funeral services for Miriam Jarjour's father, Faraj Allah Jarjour, were supposed to happen Sunday and Monday. But instead of laying her father to rest, Jarjour is desperately calling and emailing as many officials as she can, trying to find his body. "Up until now we have no answers," she said in a phone interview...
Last year, Oregon became the second state after California to pass hospital-wide nurse ratios that limit the number of patients in a nurse’s care. Michigan, Maine, and Pennsylvania are now weighing similar legislation.
Last year, Oregon became the second state after California to pass hospital-wide nurse ratios that limit the number of patients in a nurse’s care. Michigan, Maine, and Pennsylvania are now weighing similar legislation.
BATON ROUGE - With only a few days to spare, doctors and staff at Prairieville ER and Hospital, also known as Prairieville Family Hospital, will have to find new jobs. The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) decided to revoke the hospital's license after the facility failed to meet the minimum requirements for an average patient's length of stay. The facility is also breaking state regulations by operating a free-standing emergency room, according to documents from the LDH. "In...
Infant dies five days after caesarean delivery following death of mother in Israeli airstrike in RafahA premature Palestinian baby rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike has died, the baby’s uncle has said.Sabreen Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, Rami al-Sheikh said on Friday. Continue reading
Nurses are telling lawmakers that there are not enough of them working in hospitals and that it risks patients’ lives.
Health minister Mary-Anne Thomas says 10 people who were not unwell were inside Colac area health’s urgent care clinic during her 2023 visit Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastStaff members at a regional hospital posed as “fake patients” to make their urgent care clinic appear busier during a visit by the Victorian health minister last year, an investigation has found.The health minister, Mary-Anne Thomas...
A Virginia prosecutor says a former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children used physical examinations as a “ruse” to sexually abuse two teenage patients
The former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children used physical examinations as a “ruse” to sexually abuse two teenage patients, a prosecutor said Monday, while the physician’s attorney “adamantly” denied any inappropriate conduct.
Trial opens for former Virginia hospital medical director accused of sexual abuse of ex-patients