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HMPV: China's healthcare system not overwhelmed, says WHO
3 days, 11 hours ago

HMPV: China's healthcare system not overwhelmed, says WHO

India Today  

The World Health Organisation has quashed earlier social media claims that China has declared a state of emergency, saying that the healthcare system is "not overwhelmed and there have been no emergency declarations or responses triggered." The health agency stated that an increase in respiratory illnesses is a normal pattern witnessed during winter and spring, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. …

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Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals leave healthcare system on ‘brink of total collapse’, UN warns
1 week, 3 days ago

Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals leave healthcare system on ‘brink of total collapse’, UN warns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Israel’s incessant bombardment on and …

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Bernie Sanders says CEO murder came amid people’s anger ‘rising up’ over health insurance denials
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Bernie Sanders says CEO murder came amid people’s anger ‘rising up’ over health insurance denials

The Independent  

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Dutch News Podcast: The Folkert Gets On His Bike Edition
2 months ago

Dutch News Podcast: The Folkert Gets On His Bike Edition

Dutch News  

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? The minister for tax affairs becomes the first casualty of Dick Schoof’s cabinet as Geert Wilders settles a score with NSC over the asylum law. Parents are blocked from checking their children’s homework online, while the axe hangs over household goods chain Blokker. And …

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Column: The Ozempic revolution in weight-loss drugs exposes the weakest links in our healthcare system — drug pricing and insurance
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: The Ozempic revolution in weight-loss drugs exposes the weakest links in our healthcare system — drug pricing and insurance

LA Times  

The diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic. This limits the length of time that health gains can be internalized as reduced claims.’ — David Anderson, University of South Carolina health policy expert Yet millions of Americans are unable to access these drugs, thanks to the two big, interrelated flaws in our healthcare system: unrestrained pricing by drug companies and the economics …

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Beyond scrubs and scalpels
7 months ago

Beyond scrubs and scalpels

New Indian Express  

What’s the real cost of living and dying in a hospital in India? Well, it’s a thin line between a patient’s luck and the physician’s acumen, where the battle for life often comes at a steep financial price. These questions are explicitly discussed than in Dr Sumanth C Raman’s latest book Sick Business: The Truth Behind Healthcare in India, which …

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Hamas depriving Palestinians of fuel, storing for terror under Shifa hospital: Gaza health official on phone
1 year, 2 months ago

Hamas depriving Palestinians of fuel, storing for terror under Shifa hospital: Gaza health official on phone

Firstpost  

In the call recording released by IDF, the hospital official could be heard saying, ‘Hamas’ fuel reserves of over half a million litres are under Shifa Hospital “Hamas is stealing fuel from civilians in Gaza and storing under Shifa hospital,” Israel Defense Forces revealed, as it shared a conversation with an official in the Healthcare System in Gaza. In the …

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LGBTQ patients face hurdles to fertility treatment in a system that wasn’t designed for them
1 year, 4 months ago

LGBTQ patients face hurdles to fertility treatment in a system that wasn’t designed for them

Salon  

After using their dead name, the doctor opened the door to greet Leighton Schreyer, who was waiting in the exam room to discuss fertility preservation. It is still legal for adoption service providers or foster care agencies to deny LGBTQ people parenthood, so fertility treatment is sometimes the only possible way to have children. From a lack of representation in …

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Opinion: How has American healthcare gone so wrong?
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: How has American healthcare gone so wrong?

LA Times  

It shouldn’t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them. A third conspicuous failure of our healthcare system, looming in the background every week for physicians like me, is hospital funding. These are only a few of the ways that the U.S. healthcare system’s failures now weigh on physicians. If a federal single-payer system …

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Pakistan hospitals short on insulin, essential drugs as financial crisis hits healthcare system
1 year, 10 months ago

Pakistan hospitals short on insulin, essential drugs as financial crisis hits healthcare system

India Today  

Pakistan is in dire need of funds as it battles a wrenching economic crisis. A low foreign exchange reserve means that the country’s capacity to import the required medicines or the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients used in domestic production has been drastically reduced. Pakistan’s low foreign exchange reserve has drastically reduced its capacity to import and the country’s medicine manufacturing is …

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PM Modi addresses Indian Association of Physiotherapists, explains their vital role in healthcare system
1 year, 11 months ago

PM Modi addresses Indian Association of Physiotherapists, explains their vital role in healthcare system

India TV News  

PM Modi on physiotherapists: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday, highlighted the role of physiotherapists in strengthening India's healthcare system, and said they can play a vital role in the rehabilitation of the injured. In his virtual address to the Indian Association of Physiotherapists National Conference in Ahmedabad, the Prime Minister underscored the need for telemedicine to be widely accessible …

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What's at play and what's at stake as states and territories push for Medicare funding overhaul?
1 year, 11 months ago

What's at play and what's at stake as states and territories push for Medicare funding overhaul?

ABC  

Premiers and chief ministers will lobby the federal government to reform Australia's "broken" healthcare system when leaders gather on Friday for national cabinet's first meeting of 2023. Calls for GP reform Photo shows A doctor holds a stethoscope in two clasped hands State and territory leaders are urging the federal government to fix Australia's "broken" GP system, saying they want …

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Health insurance premiums increased 61% since introduction of healthcare system
2 years ago

Health insurance premiums increased 61% since introduction of healthcare system

NL Times  

Health insurance premiums have risen by an average of 61 percent since 2006, according to the comparison website Pricewise. Since the introduction of the current healthcare system, the average health insurance premium went from 85.58 euros per month to 137.42 euros per month next year. Until 2006, the Netherlands had a healthcare system in which the health insurance fund covered …

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L.A. County COVID surge raises prospect of return to indoor masking order
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A. County COVID surge raises prospect of return to indoor masking order

LA Times  

Herb Smith, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Mission, gives masks to Carmen Santiago and Juanita Glover, left, on skid row in downtown Los Angeles in this 2020 photo. “These numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday. “It would mean that hospitalizations are really going up very, very …

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Connected beds in non-ICU hospital wards can save over ₹2,150 crore per annum for the public healthcare ecosystem in India: study
2 years, 5 months ago

Connected beds in non-ICU hospital wards can save over ₹2,150 crore per annum for the public healthcare ecosystem in India: study

The Hindu  

Connected beds in non-ICU hospital wards can save over ₹2,150 crore per annum for the public healthcare ecosystem in India, said a study conducted by Sattva Consulting. As per the research, connected beds can save up to 80% of nursing time used for monitoring patient vitals through manual spot-checks in non-ICU wards. The study highlighted how connected contactless remote patient …

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How the NEET counselling and NEET PG 2022 delay would affect India's medical education and healthcare system
2 years, 11 months ago

How the NEET counselling and NEET PG 2022 delay would affect India's medical education and healthcare system

India Today  

NEET PG 2022 which had been originally scheduled for March 12 has now been postponed by six to eight weeks. Here’s why the NEET counselling and NEET PG 2022 were delayed and how it affects India’s healthcare system. How the delay in NEET counselling and NEET PG exams will affect the healthcare system “The year 2021 will go down as …

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Telehealth services to become a permanent part of healthcare system, following COVID-19 success
3 years ago

Telehealth services to become a permanent part of healthcare system, following COVID-19 success

ABC  

Telehealth services that connected millions of Australians to their doctors and kept people safely at home throughout the pandemic are set to be made a permanent feature of the country's healthcare system. Key points: More than $100 million will be spent to make telehealth services permanent More than 16 million Australians have used telehealth throughout the pandemic The service has …

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Colorado’s COVID-19 surge is an urgent warning for California
3 years, 1 month ago

Colorado’s COVID-19 surge is an urgent warning for California

LA Times  

A man waits for a COVID-19 vaccination booster shot at a pharmacy in Denver. Colorado “may be a precursor to what we could see ultimately here in California as things get cooler for us,” UCLA epidemiologist Dr. Robert Kim-Farley said. Chillier weather hits Colorado earlier than California, sending people indoors, “which leads to higher potential for transmission of COVID.” In …

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Smart medical system improves healthcare in Hohhot
3 years, 2 months ago

Smart medical system improves healthcare in Hohhot

China Daily  

New improvements to the smart medical system in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, have helped to deliver more convenient medical services for local residents. The system has been collecting population data and electronic health records, and has been promoting the integration of health data with medical services and supervision and management. In addition, to advance smart …

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Healthcare sector fears flu epidemic in winter
3 years, 3 months ago

Healthcare sector fears flu epidemic in winter

NL Times  

The healthcare sector is concerned about the strain a flu epidemic in the winter could put on the healthcare system, Het Parool reported. The population had less chance to get infected with the flu in the past one and a half years, due to social distancing rules being in place. Now that we haven’t come in contact with flu that …

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Meet the Australians stuck waiting for mental healthcare as the pandemic takes its toll
3 years, 3 months ago

Meet the Australians stuck waiting for mental healthcare as the pandemic takes its toll

ABC  

When Andrea* needed to see a psychiatrist earlier this year she was placed on a waiting list. Australian Psychological Society chief executive Zena Burgess says the mental healthcare system is "under extreme pressure, in fact it is unprecedented pressure". Helen says it has been a relief to see her son's mental health improve but says it shouldn't take a personal …

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Covid-19 and India’s eldercare system: Time to address the loopholes
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 and India’s eldercare system: Time to address the loopholes

Times of India  

HelpAge India recently brought out heart wrenching findings about India’s elderly in both the household and old age home settings in the context of Covid-19. India’s current healthcare system takes a very disease-centric view towards the elderly. Recently, the NITI Aayog launched a campaign called ‘Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan’ in association with Piramal Foundation to ensure the well-being of …

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Need to Redesign Welfare System to Meet Challenge of Pandemics: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee
3 years, 6 months ago

Need to Redesign Welfare System to Meet Challenge of Pandemics: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

News 18  

The Covid-19 pandemic has paved the way for learning many lessons with regard to the country's health situation and preparedness in general as well as highlighted the need to redesign welfare systems, Noble laureate and renowned economist Abhijit Banerjee said on Sunday. While addressing a webinar organised by the city-based National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases, Banerjee focused …

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By Delivering Jabs, Medicines to Remote Rural Areas Quickly, Drones Can Aid India’s COVID Fight
3 years, 7 months ago

By Delivering Jabs, Medicines to Remote Rural Areas Quickly, Drones Can Aid India’s COVID Fight

News 18  

Vaccination drive for COVID-19 is going to be a gigantic task even though India has a well-structured vaccination delivery system owing to its universal immunisation programmes. Using drones could make delivery of critical medicines, especially vaccines, to remote areas more accessible and faster. Using drones to deliver medical supplies will help in better resource management of the limited supplies and …

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