Speaking at the Florence Nightingale Awards for Nursing Personnel, the Indian Health And Family Welfare Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramados said that under the National Rural Health Mission project, the country requires about 2 lakh nursing personnel to provide comprehensive health care.
Fear of stigma and discrimination remains one of the biggest factors in preventing people from seeking treatment for mental illnesses.
On Sunday, 13 May 2007, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide will walk together over a 24-hour period in each of the planet?s time zones, to deliver a message: child hunger has no place in this world and citizens across the globe can put an end to it.
A 53-year-old Richmond grandfather underwent heart valve replacement and by-pass surgery at Methodist Sugar Land Hospital last week, becoming the first patient to undergo open heart surgery in Fort Bend County.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center have found that while most pediatric residents have broached the subject of ending life support in terminally ill children, many feel neither comfortable nor sufficiently trained to discuss it.
High blood pressure in children often goes unnoticed at the doctor?s office, and many children go home without follow-up or treatment, suggests a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
Despite new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control saying that all teens be routinely tested for HIV, many pediatricians continue to test only patients with high-risk behaviors, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
A small study of conversations with 26 parents of babies who died shortly after birth found that what parents said they had been told about treatment or end-of-life options was frequently at odds with what caregivers reported in the medical record.
Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, state public health director, issued a warning about E. coli O157:H7, a specific strain of E. coli, associated with the consumption of some beef trim meat used to make ground beef. The U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that a Minnesota company has recalled 117,500 pounds of beef trim products due to possible contamination.
Dr. Susan Chon, associate professor in the Department of Dermatology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, knows adults and teens alike benefit from the seasonal reminder to practice key skin cancer prevention strategies.