Amid the discovery of videotapes from thousands of medical examinations of children in sex-abuse cases that had been withheld for years, the nurse who conducted those examinations has testified under oath that local prosecutors have long known she was taping the procedures.
Her former boss, the doctor who oversaw the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center unit, agrees the videotaping was no secret. He said he made the decision to keep the tapes from Read the rest of this entry »
Salmonella poisoning spreads, but no Q-C cases
Fallout from the latest food-poisoning scare continues across the country, and the public is being warned to keep an eye out for possibly contaminated peanut-based products.
The latest numbers available Friday show that 488 people in 43 states have fallen ill from salmonella typhimurium poisoning that resulted from consuming peanut butter and peanut paste products. There are two cases in Iowa, with Read the rest of this entry »
The alert is “an early heads-up” for doctors. If current trends continue, they may need to change how they treat patients this flu season, said
, director of the
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Health officials say they are not too worried, for several reasons. First, it is early in the flu season, and it is not clear whether this strain will dominate through the next several months. Second, not many people take antiviral medications for the flu.
Third, the flu vaccine Read the rest of this entry »
Two men are to face trial over alleged killings after supplying drugs following a decision by appeal judges.
Lawyers acting for Kevin MacAngus and Michael Kane had challenged the relevancy of culpable homicide charges brought against them.
The bench of five judges sitting in Edinburgh and headed by Scotland’s senior judge, the Lord Justice General, Lord Hamilton, refused their appeals.
The alleged incidents happened in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Read the rest of this entry »
A spokeswoman for Maryland’s health department says seven salmonella cases in the state have been tied to a nationwide outbreak of the disease.
says the seven cases have the same DNA “fingerprint” as other cases in the outbreak that has struck 42 states.
No deaths in Maryland have been attributed to the outbreak. However, federal health officials say the strain involved in the outbreak has hospitalized about one in five.
Nearly 400 people nationwide Read the rest of this entry »
WOOSTER — The Wayne County Health Department received confirmation three local salmonella cases, first reported in December to the Ohio Department of Health, are linked to the national outbreak. No deaths have come as a result of the infections.
“Here, salmonella ran its course, and they got better, which is typical,” said Sallie Bair, a nursing supervisor for the health department’s communicable disease program. No serious illnesses have resulted Read the rest of this entry »
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GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – More than 60,000 people have been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, a figure which the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said would be a “worst case scenario” in the epidemic which broke out in August.
Some 60,401 people have caught the water-borne disease, of whom 3,161 have died, according to the latest figures released on Friday by the United Nations in Geneva.
“The humanitarian situation Read the rest of this entry »
H5N1 already has been a disaster for poultry farmers in Asia. Public health officials estimate that as many as half a billion fowl have been killed by the virus or culled to contain its spread, causing enormous economic strain and food shortages. But the bigger fear has always been that H5N1 would give rise to a human pandemic like the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
It was in Hong Kong in Read the rest of this entry »
Dr Sheila Campbell Forrester (seated), chief medical officer, goes over notes with Lovette Byfield, director of HIV prevention, at the Ministry of Health’s King Street office in downtown Kingston yesterday morning. – Norman Grindley/Acting Photography Editor
The Ministry of Health is reporting that there was a 30 per cent decrease in the number of new AIDS cases in 2007 when compared with the previous year.
Data also indicate a drop in the number Read the rest of this entry »
GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – More than 60,000 people have been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, a figure which the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said would be a “worst case scenario” in the epidemic which broke out in August.
Some 60,401 people have caught the water-borne disease, of whom 3,161 have died, according to the latest figures released on Friday by the United Nations in Geneva.
The deadliest outbreak in Africa in 15 years shows Read the rest of this entry »