Health

The Guardian with Kailash Chand take a strong position about the NHS: "The notion that competition promotes excellence and market forces breed efficiency is a myth" (The Guardian, Kailash Chand) - Last year, a majority of new contracts to…

(The Guardian, author Richard Vize) - The backlash over plans to reconfigure hospitals and primary care in Greater Manchester is a warning of what can go wrong if consultations are mishandled. The plan – badged Healthier Together – was…

As Massachusetts prepares to implement its new medical-marijuana law, agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have reportedly visited at least seven Massachusetts physicians at their homes or offices and told them they…

LONDON (AP) — Britain's royal officials announced Thursday that starting September, the royal will train for about five months as a helicopter pilot with East Anglian Air Ambulance. If successful, he will join the charity group, based in…

Transporting the first Ebola patient of America as a common emergency case. This was the experience of an American paramedic. 

MANILA, Philippines - Social services will receive a boost in the national budget next year as the government plans to spend as much as P967.9 billion for programs aimed at helping the poor, Senate President Franklin Drilon said on…

(source IRIN NEWS) - Libya’s deteriorating security situation has led to an exodus of aid workers and suspension of development programmes, leaving tens of thousands of displaced and vulnerable people relying on skeleton networks manned in…

MedEx Ambulance Service in Illinois started using Google Glass which allow paramedics to transmit live video and audio from an ambulance to a doctor in an emergency room.

RIYADH, August 6, 2014 (AFP) - A Saudi Arabian who had travelled to Sierra Leone and had symptoms similar to those found in Ebola sufferers died Wednesday of a heart attack, the health ministry said. "The patient died of cardiac arrest,…

It happens often enough. Us, in front of a class, pouring our brains out while a few students struggle to keep themselves awake. Sometimes they win, most of the time their efforts are futile. Even coffee offers no quarter. We blame the…