Doctors from the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust have warned against the 250 ventilators purchased from the Chinese company Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd., in a five-page letter.

The patient, named as Cui An, tested positive for COVID-19 in early February and had been hooked to a life-support machine for more than two months when surgeons performed the operation.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The 37-year-old Perth father had a 40cm chunk of his neck gauged out (pictured) in an effort to remove deadly melanoma.

A computer algorithm developed by British and U.S. scientists can help diagnose breast cancer more accurately than trained doctors, according to new research.

Police in Puebla, Mexico, rearrested three suspects linked to the murders of three students and their Uber driver, and charged them with homicide and vehicle theft.

As the sales of air purifiers and face masks increase by eight to 10 times in a month, and threefold in the last two days, doctors are still in doubt about the effectiveness of the toxic air 'defences'.

Last week, the AAP-led Delhi government passed an order to reserve half of the beds available at its GB Pant Hospital for the residents of the national Capital requiring specialised treatments.

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US lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to give unused green cards or permanent legal residency status to thousands of foreign nurses and doctors to meet the urgent needs of the overstretched healthcare sector in the country. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would allow for recapturing green cards that were approved by Congress but unused in past years, allowing thousands of additional medical professionals to serve permanently in the United States. The legislation would send green cards to 25,000 nurses and 15,000 doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that places like Iowa have the professionals they need to serve patients for years to come, a media release said. The move is likely to benefit a large number of Indian nurses and doctors, who are either on H-1B or J2 visas. In the House of Representatives, it has been introduced by lawmakers Abby Finkenauer, Brad Schneider, Tom Cole and Don Bacon. The bipartisan Senate companion bill is led by Senators ..

Several American lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to offer the 40,000 unused green cards to thousands of foreign nurses and doctors to meet the urgent needs of the overstretched healthcare sector in the US, the worst hit nation by the coronavirus pandemic. The US has nearly 1,284,000 cases of confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 77,000 people have died due to the highly contagious disease. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would allow for recapturing green cards that were approved by Congress but unused in past years, allowing thousands of additional medical professionals to serve permanently in the United States. The legislation would send green cards to 25,000 nurses and 15,000 doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that states like Iowa have the professionals they need to serve patients for years to come, a media release said. The move is likely to benefit a large number of Indian nurses and doctors in the US, who are either on H-1B or J2 visas. The ..

Experts from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences visited the civil hospital in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Saturday and interacted with frontline staff amid concerns over the rise in COVID-19 fatalities. The city's COVID-19 mortality rate stands at 6.5 per cent, which is almost double that of the country's death rate of 3.3 per cent. AIIMS director and pulmonologist Dr Randeep Guleria and Dr Manish Soneja of AIIMS' department of medicine, flew in on a special Indian Air Force plane on Friday, an official said. The duo visited the civil hospital and met doctors and staff, who were attending to COVID-19 patients and offered them guidance, the release stated. Principal secretary (health) Jayanti Ravi also interacted with frontline medical staff at the hospital, which has the highest number COVID-19 patients in the city. The AIIMS doctors were also scheduled to visit Sardar Vallabhai Patel Hospital in the city. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had urged Union Home ...

The Assam health department on Thursday launched a drive in every village to check if people were suffering from viral infections like Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI). Health teams moved from house to house to conduct tests on villagers.

Covid-19: Ghaziabad society bans entry of doctors, AIIMS RDA seeks intervention by Amit Shah

Five days after three doctors working in the Covid hospital of BPS Khanpur Medical College, Sonipat, were found positive of coronavirus, 11 junior doctors who were their contacts have been sent in 14-day quarantine.

Titled 'Game Changer', Banksy's new artwork depicts a young boy sitting on the floor playing with a nurse superhero toy.

The Ghaziabad municipal administration has appealed to residents welfare associations and local councillors to advise doctors and healthcare staff working in Delhi to stay there and not return home.

The Forum has written a letter to Chief Secretary Rajiv Sinha, who assured that the government will do whatever is needed for the safety and security of the doctors and health care workers in Bengal.

He also appealed to voluntary organisations, NGOs and people at large to come forward to promote voluntary blood donation to maintain ample blood stocks to meet any eventuality.

The high court bench issued notice to the Centre and Haryana government on a petition challenging the order of Sonipat authorities on restriction activities.

AIIMS director and pulmonologist Dr Randeep Guleria and Dr Manish Soneja of AIIMS' department of medicine, flew in on a special Indian Air Force plane on Friday, an official said.

The RJD supremo has been admitted in the private ward of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences which has been designated as a 'coronavirus hospital'.

The move by US to give gree cards to foreign nurses and doctors is likely to benefit a large number of Indian professionals.

Actress Vidya Balan has collaborated with celebrity shout-out platform Tring to raise donations to provide additional 1000 PPE kits, along with Manish Mundra of Drishyam Films and photographer cum film producer Atul Kasbekar.

London, May 03: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed for the first time on Sunday that there were "contingency plans" in place in case things went "badly wrong" and he died during his treatment for COVID-19 in a hospital here last

A group of senators have introduced a new legislation in the US Congress to grant 40,000 unused green card slots to foreign health care workers like nurses and doctors to meet the urgent need of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in their

A group of senators have introduced a new legislation in the US Congress to grant 40,000 unused green card slots to foreign health care workers like nurses and doctors to meet the urgent need of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in their

Chief secretary Ajoy Mehta in an official statement said all nine doctors are from Mumbai would contribute in the ongoing fight against COVID-19.

Half a million doctors worldwide are sharing their knowledge on a social network for medics to find answers for their patients.

On MedShr, set up in 2014 by a London cardiologist, doctors can post details of cases and other medics can give their input.

A doctor treating a young Afghan refugee in Serbia, who needed plates and pins in his legs, received advice from other specialists that helped formulate a plan to help the boy walk again. In Kenya, hospitals run by junior doctors are able to get remote support from seniors.

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Modi effect: 230 have applied; party yet to name its own men.

Meets CM, reviews construction of cancer hospital.

Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare. If it is successful, millions of people with diabetes could avoid losing their sight. Lily Peng from Google Brain explained at the WIRED Business Conference how technology like this would help doctors, not replace them.

Doctors are searching for non-addictive solutions to treat chronic pain. Virtual reality might soon be one of them, if the science can show it really works.

To contain the spread and manage the people during the period of incubation, the state health department has issued an elaborate advisory to be followed at the Covid care centres where the NRKs will be admitted straight from the airports.

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.

Paying his tribute to the father-daughter duo, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy praised them for their “selfless dedication to caring for others.”

Though two days have passed since the state health department issued show-cause notices to 362 absentee doctors, more than 85% of them have not come up with any explanation yet.

SAVING FUTURE: The medical practitioner saYS 50-70 per cent of deaths take place within one month of birth

The move is likely to benefit a large number of Indian nurses and doctors, who are either on H-1B or J2 visas.

Though hospitals have resorted to e-consultations, the increased burden to create capacity to deal with the Covid-19 situation has resulted in huge losses.

Resident doctors, MBBS students and those serving their bond are at the frontline in the fight against Covid-19 in the city as senior clinicians stay away from their duty, leaving the young team of medical professionals firefighting the crisis on their own.

Efforts on to trace other health workers who were in contact with them