January 2015

Article By Leala Padmanabhan Health spending has become a major political battleground in the run-up to the general election, as the parties compete to offer answers to the huge challenges facing the NHS in England. Pressures on the NHS…

Article by James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website The price of life-saving vaccines has skyrocketed leaving some countries struggling to fully immunise children, Medecins Sans Frontieres warns. A report by the charity says there…

English speaking Pediatric Nurses needed for a Specialist Pediatrics and Women’s Health Hospital in Qatar (www.sidra.org). Sidra will open at the beginning of 2016 and is currently attracting the most talented Pediatric Nurses from the…

One man who miraculously survived an Oregon car crash on Saturday can't look at the dramatic photograph taken of him pinned between two semi-trailers for too long. "If I look at it, it scares me," Kaleb Whitby, who works in sales for his…

Mr. John Stewart has been a hospital nurse for more than 30 years, and is the author of the blog, No Heroics: In-hospital resuscitation. He is currently working at Providence Elderplace in Seattle. In his contribution on the Emergency…

A homeless cat in Russia has been praised for helping to save the life of an abandoned newborn baby by keeping him warm for several hours. The cat, named Masha, has been living in a cardboard box in a block of flats for the last three years…

FROM MARIO RUGNA, MEDEST118 -  Injury is a major cause of premature death and disability worldwide. Most existing injury control strategies focus on primary prevention – that is, avoiding the occurrence of injuries or minimizing their…

This Clinical review, published by Libertas Academica, is an interesting commentary about the management of pediatric polytrauma. The research, published on september, 2014, was realized by: H. Mevius - Medical Student, Department of…

People could be paying too much for dental treatment because dentists are not being clear about their prices, consumer champion Which? has found. A survey of 1,000 people in England found one in five was overcharged for treatment while 50%…

With a spectacular ceremony in Istanbul  the Turkish prime minister Tekirdağ, Davutoglu present the new 798 ambulances that enter into service from January in the country. The vehicles, equipped with the newest technology, as Spencer…