• New plans for former Lackawanna County hospital

    BLAKELY, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A landmark building in Lackawanna County will soon have a new purpose. Blakely Borough officials will turn the former Mid-Valley Hospital into a community center. Back in 1912, the Mid-Valley Hospital in Blakey opened its doors to the community. After serving the community for many years, the hospital closed in []

  • Dublin hospital to trial wearable device for asthma patients

    Respiratory consultant Prof Patrick Mitchell will lead a trial involving 50 asthma patients initially. : Dublin hospital to trial wearable device for asthma patients

  • Nuneaton's George Eliot Hospital announces expansion plan

    A planning application has been submitted to the Town Hall

  • Kazatomprom 'action plan' addresses supply chain risks

    Kazatomprom is "fully capable" of maintaining its position as a reliable supplier of natural uranium, with an action plan that enables it to react to evolving geopolitical events, the company said in its yearly financial results statement.

  • Drone services improve medical supplies to Bayelsa hospitals – Stakeholders

    Healthcare professionals, stakeholders and nursing mothers in Bayelsa State have lauded the efficiency of the drone services deployed by the state government to supply drugs and other medical consumables to hospitals across the state. They made their positions known in separate interviews with journalists who visited some health facilities in Yenagoa and Ogbia local government Read More

    • CHCH

    Panel investigate patient safety, staffing levels at Brantford Hospital

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. According to the Ontario Nurses’ Association, since 2018 there have been hundreds of cases where patient care at the Brantford General Hospital was at risk, or delayed because of staffing levels. The hospital was the subject of an independent hearing this week. “What we’re seeing is that this department is chronically understaffed, there’s a revolving […]

  • Watch: Inside the Gaza hospital where nurses starve alongside patients

    In the war-ravaged north of Gaza, where medics have been intermittently reduced to eating animal feed themselves, they say starving pregnant women are losing their babies. The levels of hunger at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza City are so high that even if the mothers successfully give birth, a growing number cannot breastfeed their newborns, who end up in intensive care malnourished, dehydrated and sick. Israel vehemently denies there are any limits on aid going into Gaza and maintains it is...

  • Burlington City Council Approves Rezoning Plan to Boost Housing Supply

    Burlington city councilors on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning proposal that officials say will create hundreds of new homes over the next decade. BTV Neighborhood Code, a zoning rewrite months in the making, will allow people to build multifamily homes where they're currently banned. The citywide "upzoning" encourages denser, infill development by allowing more than one building on a residential lot and by letting those buildings take up a greater portion of the property. The...

  • Severely injured patients trapped in Gaza’s hospitals as evacuations are halted

    Destruction of buildings, too few ambulances and having to work in ‘red zones’ all adding to traumaThere have been no medical evacuations from northern Gaza for more than a month so severely injured people are trapped in damaged hospitals where they cannot get adequate treatment, a leading medical charity has warned.Ambulances need urgent access to take the most vulnerable patients for specialist care, said Patrick Münz, head of mission in Gaza for German medical charity Cadus. Continue reading

  • Endangered desert pupfish delays Colorado River conservation plans for Imperial Valley

    Plans to scale back water usage from the imperiled Colorado River have been hindered by a tiny fish no bigger than an index finger. The Imperial Irrigation District in far Southern California had been gearing up to begin a water conservation program next month that would pay farmers to temporarily stop watering crops such as alfalfa and wheat in an effort to save supplies. But those plans were put on hold after environmentalists raised concerns that dry irrigation drains could threaten desert...

    • NPR

    Medicare plans can now cover Wegovy for patients at risk of heart disease

    This change follows the recent FDA approval of the weight-loss drug for preventing heart attack and stroke in people with overweight or obesity.