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Doctor's 53 years without a sick day
Inglewood :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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FOR 50 years, Colin Owen has been the bush doctor you can rely on...The accrued sick leave column shows 5416 hours, or more than 135 weeks. And the numbers will keep piling up because Dr Owen, 70, has no plans to leave the town of Inglewood, southwest...
Tags: Dr Owen, Queensland Health, rural doctors, Inglewood, Health Medical Pharma, Health economics, Healthcare, Healthcare reform, Healthcare reform in the United States, Inglewood California
Woman with tumour sues Health service
Brisbane :: Australia | 12 days ago
Credibility The 49-year-old woman, who only wants to be known by her given name Robyn, has filed an initial notice of claim against Queensland Health. Lawyer Olamide Kowalik, from Trilby Misso, said Robyn was undergoing chemotherapy to treat a life-threatening tumour...
Tags: Queensland Health, Robyn, brain tumour, Australia, Brisbane, Health Medical Pharma
Healthy perspective
Brisbane :: Australia | 15 days ago
Credibility The new Greenpeace chief is a dynamo whose mind is on mobilisation and whose focus is squarely on solutions. Linda Selvey's life seems to jump the tracks and race off the map, down uncharted roads. Two such times come to mind, which she recalls with such...
Tags: Linda Selvey, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, climate change, Queensland Conservation Council, Queensland Health, Queensland Wet Tropics, India, Washington, Australia, Brisbane, Civil society campaign, Civil disobedience, Environmentalism, Greenpeace, Environment
Bundaberg dental clinic results negative
Sydney :: Australia | 16 days ago
Credibility Thirty-three patients were treated at Bundaberg Hospital's dental health clinic on November 6, the day a problem occurred in the cleaning process for dental instruments. Two were not treated with instruments, but Queensland Health tested the remaining...
Tags: Queensland Health, Bundaberg Hospital, health services, Australia, Sydney, Bundaberg Base Hospital, Patient, Bundaberg, Dentistry, Bundaberg Queensland, Health Medical Pharma
Bundaberg hospital scare unacceptable, Minister says
Bundaberg :: Australia | 19 days ago
Credibility The State Government and Queensland Health are at odds over an infection scare at the Bundaberg hospital. Queensland Health says 235 patients at the Bundaberg Hospital Dental Clinic were recently treated with instruments that had been cleaned, but not...
Tags: Queensland Health, Bundaberg Hospital Dental Clinic, sterilised process, health clinic, dirty instruments, Australia, Bundaberg, Patient safety, Infection control, Bundaberg Queensland, Epidemics, Health Medical Pharma, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis, Sterilization, Viruses, Hepatitis C, Bundaberg Base Hospital, Robert Messenger, Dentistry, Hygiene, Infectious disease, Microbiology, Methadone, HIV, Virus, HIV/AIDS, Social Issues, Clinic, Patient
Dengue fever return to north Qld surprises authorities
Cairns :: Australia | 22 days ago
Credibility The early onset of the mosquito-borne virus this season has authorities desperate to stop the insects breeding and spreading the potentially deadly disease. During the last outbreak, more than 1,000 people were infected and re-infection could have serious...
Tags: Queensland Health, dengue fever, Cairns, Townsville, Australia
Authorities investigate overseas trained doctor
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 29 days ago
Credibility The doctor was practising at the Emerald Hospital in central Queensland. Health Minister Paul Lucas says patient files are being reviewed but no deaths have occurred. Mr Lucas says the doctor did not reveal charges of falsifying documents in Zimbabwe.
Child dies from meningococcal
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Queensland Health is assessing if antibiotics are needed for anyone who has had contact. Tags: health , diseases-and-disorders , meningococcal-disease , australia , qld , brisbane-4000 Search for news Search
Tags: Queensland Health, health minister, Paul Lucas, minister paul
31 swine flu deaths in SA
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility Thirty one people have died of swine flu while more than 7 000 laboratory confirmed swine flu cases have been recorded in South Africa, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases said on Tuesday. Monday, September 7 and that Gauteng remained the...
Tags: swine flu, SA Health, flu deaths, Queensland Health
Hendra vaccine 'still a decade away'
Rockhampton :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility The death of Rockhampton vet Alister Rodgers has heightened concerns about the lack of a vaccine or treatment for the lethal Hendra virus. Dr Rodgers lapsed into a coma almost immediately after testing positive for Hendra virus around two weeks ago. The...
Tags: Take Hendra, hendra virus, Rockhampton, Dr Alister Rodgers, Queensland Health, flying foxes, rodgers died, sick horse, central queensland, rockhampton vet
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