Tapeworm Found in Sacramento Student’s Brain
A Sacramento State student is lucky to be alive today thanks to doctors who discovered and removed a tapeworm in his brain that was likely caused by eating pork.
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Chipotle Closes Oregon, Washington Stores Due to E. Coli
Chipotle closed 43 restaurants in Oregon and Washington due to an E. coli outbreak in the region.
Oregon Teenage Girl Contracts Bubonic Plague
According to the Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division and the Crook County Public Health Department, a 16-year-old Crook County girl contracted bubonic plague from a flea bite on October 16.
Health Dept. Finds ‘Patient Zero’ in Shigella Outbreak
The Santa Clara Health Department has narrowed down the search for the source of a shigella (shigellosis) outbreak that sickened nearly 200 people who dined at a San Jose Mexican seafood restaurant between October 16 and 17. “It’s quite likely
World Health Organization: 3.7 Billion People Have Herpes
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infects around 3.7 billion of the world’s population under 50-years-old.
Foreign Doctors Suspended From Practice For Language Skills That Risk Patients’ Health
The first European Union (EU) doctors disciplined in the UK for their failure to speak English properly have been revealed. One doctor from Poland has failed speaking, listening, reading and writing tests on three separate occasions, but has nevertheless been allowed to continue
Majority of Theranos Board Gone After FDA Report
Biotech sensation Theranos was supposed to be Silicon Valley’s next hot IPO. But late Thursday evening, the company told Fortune Magazine that its board of directors had shrunk from 12 members to five as it battles a perfect storm of negative publicity.
Saudis Admit ‘Mistake’ in Bombing Doctors Without Borders in Yemen
While the Obama administration deals with the fallout from bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, the Saudis have a similar situation on their hands in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi insurgents.
Report: USAID Provided Faulty GPS Data for Hospitals in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided inaccurate location data for nearly two dozen health facilities in the western Afghan province of Herat, placing the hospitals at risk of suffering the same deadly fate as the Doctors Without Borders medical center, a watchdog agency appointed by Congress found.
London Sees Tuberculosis Rates Higher Than Iraq, Rwanda And Eritrea
An “astounding” London Assembly report shows a third of London boroughs exceed the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) “high incidence” threshold of tuberculosis, and some wards within Hounslow, Brent, Harrow, Newham and Ealing have rates of more than 150 incidents per 100,000 people. Mayor Boris
Doctors Revolt Against Liberal Medical Establishment, Launch New Pathway
Several organizations of medical doctors and other professionals are joining together to change the “healthcare” narratives that have been set in the nation by a liberal medical establishment that does the bidding of a leftwing political agenda.
TTIP: Corbyn, Farage, Sturgeon And Others Unite To Defend NHS From Trade Deal
The leaders of nearly ever major British political party have united in their opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal (TTIP) becoming a means for an American business takeover of the NHS. The proposed TTIP deal is billed
Bernie Sanders Hedge Fund Donor Hammered Over AIDS Drug
Maybe Bernie Sanders does understand the drug industry — it’s a semi-socialized system where socialism creates shortages and other problems, and then socialists like Sanders can call for expanded government control to fix the problems they’ve created, in a downward spiral toward increasing state control of society, diagnosed in 1929 by economist Ludwig von Mises in his book Interventionism, as he watched Europe collapse into fascism.
Report: Cuba Refuses to Pay Doctors Sent Abroad to Fight Ebola
The estimated 460 Cuban doctors deployed to west Africa to participate in the fight against the Ebola outbreak developing there last year have not been paid the car, home, or World Health Organization (WHO) salaries they were promised if they returned from the mission healthy.
Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the Unfought War on Cancer: Republicans Are Stepping Up in the Fight Against Disease
On a personal level, it’s impossible not to feel great sympathy for Joe Biden when he talked about his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in May at age 46. His anguish still visible on Wednesday, as he announced he would not seek the presidency, Biden said he was making a “personal” commitment to seek instead a cure for cancer; as he put it, “I’m going to spend the next 15 months in this office pushing as hard as I can to accomplish this.”
Study: More Than Two-Thirds of Patients on Anti-Depressants Not Depressed
The study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that many individuals who are prescribed and take antidepressant medications may not actually have a depressive disorder, and that such drugs are often used by patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria of depression.
Health Chiefs: ‘Red Meat As Likely to Cause Cancer as Smoking’
Bacon, sausages and burgers are as likely to cause cancer as smoking, the World Health Organisation is set to announce. Also due to join its ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’ is fresh red meat, which has been deemed only slightly less risky.
Exiled Doctor: ‘I Could Not Afford an Egg a Day’ in Cuba
A Cuban-born doctor who has been living in Chile for more than two decades tells the Panamerican Post doctors could not afford to buy “an egg a day” to feed themselves and often woke up in the middle of the night due to hunger pangs.
Sen. Ben Sasse to Block All HHS Nominees Following Obamacare’s CO-OP Program Failures
Sen. Ben Sasse announced Monday that he intends to block confirmation of all Health and Human Services (HHS) nominees until the Obama administration provides “transparent accounting” of Obamacare’s failures regarding the CO-OP health insurance program.
Luis Gutierrez Tells Women Obama Will Keep Planned Parenthood ‘Safe’
Amnesty supporter Rep. Luis Gutierrez said during a recent congressional committee hearing that President Barack Obama will not allow Planned Parenthood to be defunded and will veto any legislation that seeks to do that.
Equality At Last? World’s First Male Rape Centre Opens In Sweden
The largest hospital in Europe’s rape-capital Sweden has opened a rape centre for men and boys, a crucial badge of honour for their commitment to “gender equal” patient care. The hospital’s pre-existing rape crisis centre has proven a useful service for
Study: Male Survivors Can Carry Ebola for up to Nine Months
A new study by the World Health Organization has found that the Ebola virus can live in the semen of survivors for at least nine months, dramatically increasing the risk of sexual transmission of the disease in west Africa, where an outbreak that began in March 2014 has not yet been fully contained.
Jerry Brown Denies Life Option After Approving Death Drugs
California Governor Jerry Brown approved legislation providing death-inducing drugs the week before vetoing legislation that would have allowed terminally ill Californians to seek certain life-saving drugs.
Cholera Outbreak Passes 1,400 Cases in Iraq
A cholera outbreak that had affected a reported 100 Iraqis in late September has now spread to over 1,400 patients, Iraq’s health ministry warned this week. The disease, carried through unclean water, has spread throughout the country, though the Iraqi government can only monitor cases in regions not controlled by the Islamic State.
Chains, Witch Doctors Care for Africa’s Mentally Ill
As west Africa struggles to recover from an ongoing Ebola crisis and the continent’s poorest nations work to develop medical infrastructures, The New York Times warns that mental health treatment in much of nations like Togo and Ghana amounts to constraining patients with chains and taking them to spiritual consultants.
