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Former medical superintendent of the Lautoka Hospital, Dr Tui Taoi, who is now a consultant obstetrician, said women who needed to be examined and required medical reports to support their police report of domestic violence had to wait in line...

The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Surveillance Update shows five of the cases were chlamydia and one was gonorrhoea. There were a further 53 cases of gonorrhoea in the next age bracket of children aged 10 to 14...The update...

The Australian Veterinary Association said vets around the country spend a lot of the silly season looking after dogs with gastro problems. Association president Mark Lawrie said grapes, sultanas, avocados and macadamia nuts were particularly dangerous. “We don't know exactly...

Self-employed Sydney truck driver Kevin George first visited his general practitioner, Dr Hafizur Survery, on June 12, 2003 for advice and treatment for chest pains. A little over a month later he underwent emergency heart surgery, which left the 57-year-old...

The development of a new DNA strain typing method or DNA “fingerprinting” will also bring great benefits to the TB control programme. Because there are different strains of TB, DNA strain typing can be used to identify where in New...

Parents obsessed with cleanliness could be actually harming their children's hearts, claim scientists. The trend for antibacterial soaps could increase youngster's chance of being unhealthy later in life as exposure to everyday germs may prevent heart disease in adulthood. The...

Health authorities reported yesterday that a 53-year-old woman with underlying health conditions has died from influenza A(H1N1), the 33rd person in Taiwan to die from the virus. H1N1 flu had been patients of chronic diseases, “ said Chou Jih-haw, deputy...

The Mental Health List would reduce community harm by targeting the underlying pressures that lead people with mental impairment to offend, Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls said on Tuesday. Under the plan, about 300 cases would be heard by a magistrate...

About 40,000 corneal transplants are performed annually in the U.S. according to the Eye Bank Association of America. It is the most common transplant procedure performed in the U.S. Kao said the procedure is the only effective treatment for certain...

About 18 medicines were to be pooled, including atazanavir, abacavir, darunavir, lopinavir and nevirapine. In turn, the patent holders were to receive royalty from those using their patents. The basic principle behind the pool was to include all developing countries,...