Gaza – Ma’an – Eighteen Palestinian patients returned home from Egypt through the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Tuesday evening after having received medical treatment in Egypt.
According to Mu’awiya Hassanein, director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, the patients had sought medical treatment at Egyptian hospitals.
Hassanein said some of those patients were being treated for chronic diseases, while Read the rest of this entry »

, which, if approved by state voters, would ban virtually all abortions in the state except in narrowly defined cases of rape or incest or to preserve the health or life of the woman. Allen Unruh — a campaign organizer for supporters of Initiated Measure 11 and an antiabortion advocate — said proponents of the ban added the exceptions after a similar measure with no exceptions failed in the last election. “Countless people said, ‘If you’d had an Read the rest of this entry »

A top California State Parks official confirmed Wednesday that authorities are investigating a severe hypothermia case at Bonny Doon Beach as a possible fraternity hazing incident.
Warren Fung, a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Santa Cruz, remains hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Fremont, but medical officials and relatives have declined to discuss his condition.
Kirk Lingenfelter, a State Parks supervisor overseeing the Santa Cruz Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS
— A woman who never saw a doctor even though she waited 19 hours with an injury to her right leg in Parkland Memorial Hospital’s emergency department has received a bill from the hospital for $162.
Amber Joy Milbrodt, who was playing volleyball when she fractured a bone in her right leg, received the bill two weeks after her Sept. 24 visit.
“It should have been more like them paying me for having to sit in the emergency room for Read the rest of this entry »

GAZA CITY – A team of Jordanian doctors is in the Gaza Strip to set up a military field hospital to treat Palestinians after Israel’s devastating 3-week offensive.
Hospital director Brig. Zahran Bader says the tent facility will be operating by Tuesday in Gaza City, with 44 beds and 179 doctors and medics. He spoke Monday after entering from Israel.
The hospital includes neurologists, general and reconstructive surgeons and obstetricians from Read the rest of this entry »

More than 300 families have already flocked to Manual High School in Denver to take advantage of a range of free medical care sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
The doors opened at 8 a.m. for the MLK Day Health Fair, but people were lining up as early as 6 a.m., a spokeswoman said.
About 250 volunteers as well as medical staff from a variety of local agencies are helping to provide children’s wellness exams, women’s OB/GYN services, immunizations, Read the rest of this entry »

GALVESTON — A second case of suspected meningitis reported in Galveston County is unrelated to a case in which a 15-year-old died, a health official said today.
A Santa Fe woman in her mid-50s was admitted to the Mainland Medical Center on Thursday with meningitis symptoms, Galveston County Health District spokesman Kurt Koopmann said.
Koopmann said the case is not related to the death of a La Marque school district student who died last Read the rest of this entry »

THEY are the pearls of wisdom that have been handed down from one generation to the next.
But many accepted medical facts are pure myths, scientists have revealed.
For example, if you think you can survive the party season with a cure for hangovers then you’re mistaken because there isn’t one.
Eating close to bedtime won’t make you fat and giving children sugar won’t make them hyperactive.
The findings were revealed by U.S. scientists who Read the rest of this entry »

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginians are being urged to share their thoughts on how to improve health care in America with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.
West Virginia University’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health is hosting two public meetings on Monday, in Bridgeport and Morgantown. The meetings are part of the Obama team’s call for such gatherings across the country.
More than 4,200 public meetings are being Read the rest of this entry »

Hudson — The favored site for a hospital in northern Summit County was presented to Council Jan. 21.
Plans are still in the preliminary stage and an agreement has not been finalized, but Summa Health System and Western Reserve Partners presented a proposal for a site on Seasons Road in Stow for the new 100-bed Summa Western Reserve Hospital, which could be completed in 2011.
Summa Health System President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Strauss Read the rest of this entry »