Obstetrics & gynaecology
Who's in control when you're giving birth?
Kimberly Turbin wasn't expecting childbirth to be a pleasant experience, but she wasn't expecting it to be a nightmare either.
Dec 5, 2017
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Page 5 - News tagged with hospital doctors
Surgery
'World's heaviest woman' dies in Abu Dhabi hospital
An Egyptian believed to be the world's heaviest woman died Monday of heart and kidney failure at an Abu Dhabi hospital, following months of treatment to help her lose weight and one day walk again.
Sep 25, 2017
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Health
Doctor 'sat nav' project gives new direction for out-of-hours care
The results of a research project run by the University of Nottingham which used the latest technology to track out-of-hours doctors have revealed significant improvements can be made to provide safer staffing levels and ...
Aug 8, 2017
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Other
UK court sets new hearing in case of terminally ill baby
A British court on Monday gave the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard a chance to present fresh evidence that their terminally ill son should receive experimental treatment.
Jul 10, 2017
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Health
Portuguese doctors launch two-day strike
Portuguese doctors launched a 48-hour strike Wednesday to protest at working conditions and budget cuts, with only minimum healthcare being offered at public hospitals nationwide.
May 10, 2017
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Health
Striking Kenyan doctors threaten to shut private hospitals
Kenyan doctors and nurses warned Thursday they will extend a strike crippling public hospitals to private clinics as well next week, unless the government offers them more in a pay dispute.
Dec 8, 2016
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Health
A child's scraped knee turns scary in crisis-hit Venezuela
It was just a scraped knee. So 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco's parents did what parents do: They gave her a hug, cleaned the wound twice with rubbing alcohol and thought no more of it.
Oct 4, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Teen survives rare amoeba infection that kills most people
A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the infection is made by a company in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday.
Aug 23, 2016
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Surgery
Doctors in India remove 40 knives from man's stomach (Update)
Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday.
Aug 23, 2016
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Surgery
APNewsBreak: Chimp victim's body rejecting face transplant (Update)
The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors discovered her body is rejecting the transplant.
May 4, 2016
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