Dr Hameed said at the moment there were 78037 male and 65324 female doctors, 5420 male dental practitioners and 8300 female dental practitioners in Pakistan. Out of the total medical and dental practitioners, almost 50 per cent are women, he added.
Walmart previously opened three Care Clinics in Texas and two in South Carolina. These States were considered as pilots for Walmart’s healthcare program. The locations in South Carolina were said to be chosen because of its low-income demographic. Post and Courier reported that when Walmart’s Care clinics were opened in South Carolina, Sumter Mayor Joe McElveen expressed that the service was very much needed.
Whistleblowers still face real problems in speaking out in the health service - despite the push to create a more open culture, campaigners say.<br /><br />Promoting whistleblowing was a key recommendation of the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.
How sick and disabled, how far into advanced dementia, how close to death do elderly nursing home patients have to be before their physicians stop prescribing drugs that can cause uncomfortable side effects but show scant evidence of helping them?
The so-called People's March, which followed in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow Crusade, began in mid-August.<br />The protest took in more than 20 towns and cities, with union activists and other supporters joining the six women from Darlington.<br />Organisers said 5,000 people took part in the last leg from Red Lion Square in Holborn to Trafalgar Square, where they were addressed by shadow health secretary Andy Burnham.
A respiratory illness sweeping through parts of the U.S. has landed in Colorado, sickening hundreds of children, according to local doctors.<br /><br />The disease hasn't been officially identified but officials suspect a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.
A Harvard-led team is the first to demonstrate the ability to use low-power light to trigger stem cells inside the body to regenerate tissue.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday reported 128 new Ebola cases and 56 deaths in West Africa in the two days to August 11, raising the death toll from the worst ever outbreak of the disease to 1,069
Bowman says, his 140 bed hospital had only a handful of the full body protective suits which have become the standard for treating Ebola patients. They had so few, they had to use them, in his words, sparingly. The outbreak tore through the staff at St. Joseph's. In addition to the hospital director and the Spanish priest, Bowman counts off on his fingers the others who got infected.
The researcher behind a recent Lancet study says we have overestimated Aids epidemic and underestimated malaria deaths
Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer in men in the United States. An estimated one in six white men and one in five African-American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, with the likelihood increasing with age.
New research written up in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper finds that “cowboy” doctors — who deviate from professional guidelines, often providing more aggressive care than is recommended — are responsible for a surprisingly big portion of America’s skyrocketing health costs. The paper concludes that “36 percent of end-of-life spending, and 17 percent of U.S. health care spending, are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence.”
The report for the Institute of Medicine, released Tuesday, called for more accountability in the distribution of the federal funds earmarked for doctor training — $15 billion annually. About two-thirds of that cash comes from Medicare. The report also called for an end to providing the money directly to the teaching hospitals and to dramatically alter the way the funds are paid.
A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died Tuesday from the disease, officials said, as a major regional airline announced it was suspending flights to the cities hardest hit by an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people.
The U.S. government buys a lot of drugs. Purchases by the Pentagon, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs account for more than a quarter of all U.S. retail prescription spending, which reached $263 billion (PDF) last year. You might think that kind of buying power would entitle Uncle Sam to get the best price all the time. If only that were true. The government pays vastly different prices for medicines depending on which office is buying them, according to a new report (PDF) from the Government Accountability Office.
The European commission launched the €1.2bn (£950m) Human Brain Project (HBP) last year with the ambitious goal of turning the latest knowledge in neuroscience into a supercomputer simulation of the human brain. More than 80 European and international research institutions signed up to the 10-year project.
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<br />But it proved controversial from the start. Many researchers refused to join on the grounds that it was far too premature to attempt a simulation of the entire human brain in a computer. Now some claim the project is taking the wrong approach, wastes money and risks a backlash against neuroscience if it fails to deliver.
Researchers have discovered a "viable" new target for the treatment of a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. The molecule, known as alpha-v-beta-6, could also be used to identify those women with HER2-positive breast cancer who have a higher risk of developing secondary tumors.
A California father who doggedly pursued a genetics company for his son's DNA profile is the first to have completed the sequencing of a baby's genetic makeup before the infant was born. The father, Razib Khan, is now finishing a Ph.D. in feline population genetics at the University of California, Davis.
Records from nearly a million women and their newborn children offer new evidence that common antidepressants taken during pregnancy do not increase the risk of having a baby with a heart defect.
A new study by The Commonwealth Fund suggests that the United States has the worst health care system among wealthy nations, yet another blow to an oft-criticized system that continues to struggle even in the wake of the Affordable Care Act.