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In China, Real Statistics of H1N1 Infection Kept Secret
Jilin :: China | 5 days ago
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A student is being given the H1N1 vaccine shot. (AFP/Getty Images) The official H1N1 death toll in China’s northwestern province of Jilin was two as of Nov. 15, according to the province’s Health Bureau. The real death toll far exceeds that number, according...
Tags: staff worker, Jilin Province Health Bureau, deaths toll, h1n1 infection, ill patients, h1n1 deaths, CDC, critically ill, China, Jilin, Health Medical Pharma, Influenza, flu pandemic timeline, Health in the United States, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, flu pandemic in Thailand, flu pandemic
Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder. Fontana has been in the Air Force since 2006 and served a tour in Iraq in 2007. He worked as an intensive care nurse at...
Tags: Ex-Air Force, Lackland Air Force Base, force nurse, ill patients, Michael Fontana, terminally ill, San Antonio, Military nurse, Fontana, Nurse, 59th Medical Wing, Fontana California, Nursing, Health Medical Pharma, Law Crime, War Conflict, Politics, Intensive-care medicine, Emergency medicine, Intensive care medicine, Homicide, Medical ethics, Euthanasia, ER, Terminal illness, Death, Palliative medicine, Disability rights
Questions raised over Conn. license plate funds
Hartford :: CT :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Conn.— Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says more than $500,000 -- possibly more -- has been illegally diverted from funds raised from specialty license plates to the state's General Fund. Blumenthal says transferring money from those accounts, created...
Tags: Connecticut, license plate, Richard Blumenthal, ill patients, terminally ill
Old way best in treating critically ill
Ada :: OK :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The study of how best to manage high blood-sugar levels in the critically ill found that a relatively new treatment called intensive insulin therapy has a 10 per cent higher death rate than the conventional treatment, which is also much cheaper. The normal...
Tags: critically ill, ill patients, blood sugar, blood glucose, insulin therapy, New Zealand, intensively care
Air Force nurse charged in 3 patients' drug deaths
Fontana :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility An Air Force nurse has been charged in the deaths of three terminally ill patients at a San Antonio military hospital...Michael Fontana administered lethal doses of medication to three patients in his care at Wilford Hall Medical Center, the Air Force's...
Tags: ill patients, force nurse, Air Force, terminally ill
Everest trip helps critically ill
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility The lessons learned by medics from a trip to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients. The team that braved the Himalayan summit to study the body's responses to extreme adversity has recorded the lowest ever human blood oxygen level.
Tags: Mount Everest, blood oxygen, oxygen level, Everest Blood, Caudwell Xtreme Everest, critically ill, ill patients, low level, low blood, everest climbers
Medical News Today: JAMA Commentary Examines Terminally Ill Patients' Access To Experimental Drugs
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Access to Experimental Drugs for Terminally Ill Patients ," Journal of the American Medical Association : In the commentary, Benjamin Falit and Cary Gross of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program and Yale University's Section of...
Tags: health care, transition team, ill patients, U.S, terminally ill
State moves to implement assisted-suicide law
Portland :: OR :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Washington state officials have four months to set up a new voter-approved law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. Washington is now the second state in the nation to have such a law, and officials may look to neighboring...
Tags: death, Washington, terminally ill, Oregon, ill patients, prescribed lethal, assisted suicide
Doctor Tonmoy Sharma faces the sack for unethical tests on patients
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility March 29, 2008 A psychiatrist is expected to be struck off this weekend after being found guilty of conducting unethical drug tests on mentally ill patients. Tonmoy Sharma, a former lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, wrongly recruited patients
Tags: ill patients, Tonmoy Sharma, unethical tests, drug tests, unethical drug, mentally ill, NRI, conducting unethical
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