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  • Most US public swimming pools contain poop bacteria

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned US citizens that public swimming pool is filled with fecal matter. The researchers from CDC collected water samples from filters at 160 indoor and outdoor pools around Atlanta, and found traces of feces in nearly 60 percent of them, demonstrated by the presence of E. coli bacteria. The agency said that the E. coli bacteria enters ...

  • Vic nurses want action to stop violence

    ONCE a week, Jackie sees a violent outburst in her workplace. Like many Victorian nurses, she fears being assaulted, threatened or abused by patients and their relatives at her hospital workplace, and says it's time something was done. Jackie - who only wanted to be identified by her first name - says she has had death threats made against her and her family on two separate ...

  • Public Health boss calls for policy guidelines to implement IHR

    Accra, May 18, GNA- Dr Joseph Amankwah, Director, Public Health of Ghana Health Service (GHS), has stated the need for policy guidelines for the implementation of the International Health Regulation (IHR) ...

  • Spanish hospital loses embryos after freezer leak

    A hospital in Spain lost 172 embryos, intended for use in in vitro fertilization, when a freezer leaked liquid nitrogen, hospital officials said. The oversight angered would-be mothers, many of whom didn't find out about the April 22 incident until they made appointments with their doctors to have embryos implanted. An official at La Paz Hospital in Madrid told ThinkSpain the ...

  • Doctors urge action on the UAEs No 1 killer

    DUBAI //Doctors have called for a centralised, long-term programme to tackle heart disease, the nation's biggest single killer. Heart disease is the cause of 25 per cent of deaths in the UAE, and the average age of contracting the disease is 15 years younger than in the western world. A national board should be set up under the federal government with a clear timetable for cutting the ...


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  • Bahrain Free From Coronavirus Health Ministry said

    Manama-May-18(BNA)The Kingdom of Bahrain has today been declared free from Coronavirus disease-for the time being. The Health Ministry has issued a statement in this regard assuring the public that no cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed to-date in Bahrain. It urged people to abide by hygienic precautionary measures, including washing hands, avoiding touching one's eyes, mouth and ...

  • Years After Graduation UNN Doctors Still Denied Professional Certificates By Their Institution

    By SaharaReporters, New York Years after graduating from the College of Medicine of the University of Nigeria, the 2008/2009 batch of doctors can hardly call themselves doctors, as the University has inexplicably refused to issue certificates to certify the completion of their training. Dr. Ijeomah Augustine, the group’s spokesperson who spoke to SaharaReporters about their efforts to ...

  • Heart surgeon works on trial presents for Verve Medical

    Dr. Richard Heuser I caught up with Dr. Richard Heuser on Friday, right after he finished a surgical procedure and before he headed out to Paris for an interventional cardiology meeting. Heuser was the first in the U.S. to perform a medical procedure as part of a clinical trial for Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Osprey Medical Inc. The Osprey Medical Cincor system is designed to remove contrast dye ...

  • Stigma about epilepsy is putting lives at risk warn UAE doctors

    Social stigma about epilepsy and the mistaken belief that seizures are caused by djinn are putting the lives of sufferers and non-sufferers at risk, doctors warn. Such misconceptions mean cases often go undiagnosed, preventing patients from receiving the appropriate medical treatment and contributing to an underreporting of the condition. Doctors also say a lack of regulation on epileptics ...

  • UAE doctors call for stricter laws to keep epileptic drivers off the roads

    Doctors are calling for tougher legislation to govern the issuing of driving licences to epileptics. Sufferers of the condition are already banned from certain professions - such as aviation, driving public transport and operating heavy machinery - but doctors' advice to epileptic drivers of private vehicles is not legally binding, as it is in some western countries. "Someone with ...

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