Health

Raefah Makki, Beirut - The situation in the Gaza Strip continues to be extremely challenging for civilians and aid workers who have not been spared from the fighting. According to the latest figures from OCHA, 700 Palestinians were killed,…

On 1 July 2013 Croatia became the 28th Member State of the European Union, after over three decades of political and economic transformation. In the years before accession, Croatia implemented a number of important reforms in the health…

UPDATE - The plane was carrying 54 passengers and four airline crew. Twelve people were sent to the hospital almost immediately after the crash, with one arriving without vital signs. Transportation Minister Yeh Kuang-shih confirmed…

(Sheboyang, Wisconsin) - The driver of the ambulance was cited for failing to operate safely as an emergency vehicle operator. The woman in the car was cited for failure to yield to am emergency vehicle. That's the conclusion of a terrific…

PUNE (Times of India) - As many as 56 well-equipped ambulances of 'Maharashtra Emergence Medical Service' (MEMS) helped 29,972 warkaris (pilgrims) - people who take annual pilgrimage to Pandharpur - this year, said Dhyaneshwar Shelke, chief…

Belal Dabour is a recently graduated doctor from Gaza, Palestine. He blogs at belalmd.wordpress.com Thursday night, 17 July, was the heaviest yet since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza began almost two weeks ago. Dozens of people arrived to…

NEW DELHI, INDIA (AFP) - An outbreak of encephalitis has killed 60 people in two weeks in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a top health official has said, calling the situation "alarming'. Hundreds of mainly children die across…

The ICRC condemns in the strongest terms the shelling of the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir El Balah, Gaza, which killed at least four people and injured scores of others. The hospital came under direct fire at least four times. The surgical…

(Melbourne, Australia: XX AIDS Conference) - Two years after launching a first of its kind Combination Drug Study for TB treatment in 2010, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) raised hopes of a novel drug regimen to…

The Chennai Police with a team of doctors from two hospitals ensured that an ambulance carrying a donor heart could be transported in the nick of time. The donor heart was transported from the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital to the Fortis…