Nurses Slap Govt With Court Injunction Over Employment Row
[Nyasa Times] Over 300 nurses who were supposed to sit for interviews Tuesday to get employment in public hospitals will have to wait a little longer as Nurses and Midwives Organisation of Malawi has...
View ArticleColumbia University School of Nursing to Become New Home of the Jonas Center...
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of its 10th anniversary, the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare today announced that, beginning in 2017, it will be housed at Columbia...
View ArticlePrincess of Wales Hospital: Inquiry call after neglect case collapses
Families at the centre of a collapsed trial into alleged neglect at a Bridgend hospital fear relatives may have been harmed by care failings. In October, two nurses who worked at Princess of Wales...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court gives Planned Parenthood a win
Washington: The Supreme Court on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling shielding the documents of a Planned Parenthood affiliate in New Hampshire from an anti-abortion group's request under the open...
View ArticleMPs barred from Redland Hospital wards
Health Minister Cameron Dick has come under fire after banning Opposition members from Redland Hospital's Emergency Department. Shadow Health Minister Mark McArdle said Mr Dick was being vindictive and...
View ArticleWhat It's Like Being a NICU Mom
You'll rarely hear me calling my son a preemie. At 36 weeks and 5 days, he was only technically premature by two days, which people seem oddly disappointed to learn when they ask, "So how early was...
View ArticleHouse Staff Told by Judge to Obey Insider Probe Subpoenas
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and a former top staff member must obey subpoenas in a Securities and Exchange Commission insider-trading investigation tied to health-care legislation, a...
View ArticleA look at the abuse of pregnant women by health workers
By Rema Nagarajan Obstetric violence, the abuse of pregnant women by health workers, is shockingly common in the Indian medical system though it is rarely talked about. Recently, three infants died in...
View ArticleHSE ordered to pay €14m to man with locked-in syndrome
A man with locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital has secured a total €14.1 million under a settlement of his High Court action against the HSE. Mr Justice Michael...
View Article10 Things NICU Parents Want You to Know
By Amanda MacMillan, contributor to the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit mental health and wellness center for women and mothers in New York City. When a baby is born full-term and healthy, it's easy to...
View ArticlePolice bully shifted to same station as complainant
A policeman accused of harassing and bullying two female colleagues has been shifted to the same station as one of the alleged victims, despite most of the complaints being upheld by Victoria Police....
View ArticleNeonatal care services need investment now
Services for England’s sickest babies are under extreme pressure (Staff shortages ‘putting vulnerable babies at risk’, 19 October). A recent report from Bliss found that 2,140 more neonatal nurses are...
View ArticleThree doctors and one nurse for 4,000 prison inmates
With over 4,000 prisoners, many of whom are suffering from depression and stress-related non-communicable diseases, the central jail hospital at Parappana Agrahara does not have a regular psychiatrist...
View ArticleThe labour room bullies
Obstetric violence, the abuse of pregnant women by health workers, is shockingly common in the Indian medical system though it is rarely talked about. Recently, three infants died in Uttar Pradesh's...
View ArticleIn Caring For Sickest Babies, Doctors Now Tap Parents For Tough Calls
4:30 AM ET Partner content from Jenny Gold Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. i Kate Teague, a registered nurse at Lucile Packard Children's...
View ArticleSteiner School pioneer Peggy Macpherson was inspired by her nursing of children
PEGGY MACPHERSON 1910-2015 Peggy Macpherson was a pioneer in bringing "anthroposophy", the philosophical and spiritual work of Rudolf Steiner, to Australia. It was through this understanding of the...
View ArticleMassive Settlement Coming In For-Profit College Fraud Case
Federal and state prosecutors are poised to announce a settlement with Education Management Corporation, one of the nation's largest for-profit college chains, that would resolve allegations it...
View ArticlePost-Occupy scars: Hong Kong doctors get record number of complaints for...
A record number of complaints against doctors in Hong Kong were filed with the Medical Council last year, particularly during the 79 days of the Occupy protests. In a recent judgment the High Court...
View ArticleChandigarh school violates RTE Act
Kamini.Mehta@timesgroup.com Chandigarh: Implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act seems to be a distant dream in Chandigarh. Mohali-based advocate HS Hundal has filed a complaint to the UT...
View ArticleDoctors missing, garbage all over at Bikaner government hospital
BIKANER: OPD running without a doctor, unmanageable crowd at the medicine distribution counter, garbage spread all over in the wards as well as in the galleries — such was the scenario witnessed by the...
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