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Canada Medical News  Dec 16, 2022  2 years ago
Canada Medical News: There is now an acute shortage of Pediatric ICU (PICU) beds and even beds at neonatal intensive care units (NICU) as the number of critically ill children is rising on an exponential basis daily in Canada.   Already hospitals are facing an overwhelming number of adult patients due to COVID-19 and other respiratory infections but the rising number of children badly ...
Medical Tourism News - Thailand - Singapore - Malaysia - Vietnam  Dec 14, 2022  2 years ago
Medical Tourism: Despite local Thai authorities coming up with a new mediocre medical tourism visa programme that starts in January 2023 and also are constantly beating their drums that their tourism industry is picking up or that foreigners are coming in droves for medical tourism, often quoting unreliable sources or media and associations that can be bought for peanuts to say whatever one wants ...
Source: While SARS-CoV-2 Surges, New Strains Of Pathogens Responsible for Ebola, Monkey Pox, Legionnaires Disease, Lyme Disease, Etc Are Emerging! - N  May 27, 2022  3 years ago
Despite attempts by those controlling the COVID-19 narrative to downplay the COVID-19 crisis, new SARS-CoV-2 surges are being witnessed in many countries driven by the new BA.2.12.1 subvariants and its third generation variants, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants and its emerging subvariants, and also by new Delta subvariants.   Studies are already showing that these new variants are more immune ev...
Source: Thailand Medical - Monkey Pox - UK  May 07, 2022  3 years ago
Health authorities in UK have confirmed that an individual in England has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection monkeypox. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-england   It was reported that the infected individual had recently travelled from Nigeria, which is where they are believed to have contracted the infection, before travelling to the UK.   ...
Source: COVID-19-Nipah Virus  Sep 07, 2021  4 years ago
India Medical News: Kerala, an Indian Southern state has reported an outbreak of the Nipah Virus as it is still struggling with the COVID-19 crisis due to the fast spreading Delta variant.   In the last 24 hours alone, the Indian state of Kerala recorded a total of 19,688 new COVID-19 infections and 135 COVID-19 deaths.   Health and government authorities in Kerala quickly ramping up ef...
Source: U.S. Medical News  Jan 06, 2021  4 years ago
U.S. Medical News: It was reported that ambulances in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California are now stopping to transport some patients due to strain on hospitals as result of an exponential surge in COVID-19 cases.   In Los Angeles, ambulance workers have been told to stop transporting some patients with extremely low survival chances to hospital, and to limit oxygen use, as record COVID...
Source: India Medical News  Dec 08, 2020  4 years ago
India Medical News: Health authorities in the town of Eluru in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh are reporting the emergence of a new strange disease that has affected more than 487 individuals so far with one death. Credit: PTI   Most manifest symptoms similar to epilepsy attacks that last for few minutes and loss of memory coupled with anxiety, nausea, headache and back pain and a few ...
Source: Polio Vaccine  Sep 02, 2020  5 years ago
Vaccines are basically meant to protect individuals against a disease but in some cases the things could go wrong and backfire especially when proper studies are not conducted and things are expedited over monetary concerns.   The WHO or World Health Organization finally admitted that  a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad, a week after ...
Source: World Medical News  Aug 13, 2020  5 years ago
World Medical News: Authorities of a remote Russian region on Thursday announced that livestock herders and other residents of two districts on the border with Mongolia have to be vaccinated against bubonic plague.   The new order was issued after Mongolia's health ministry said Wednesday that bubonic plague killed a second man in the country's west. It was the l...
Source: Bubonic Plague China  Jul 06, 2020  5 years ago
Bubonic Plague: China health authorities have reported an outbreak of Bubonic Plague in the inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.   Bubonic plague, caused by bacterial infection, was responsible for one of the deadliest epidemics in human history  ie the Black Death which killed about 50 million people across Africa, Asia and Europe in the 14th Century.   There have been a handful of ...
Source: Singapore Medical News  Jun 23, 2020  5 years ago
Singapore Medical News: Disturbingly, Singapore saw 1,377 dengue cases in the week ending 20th of June, the highest number of weekly dengue cases ever recorded since 2014.   Significantly, the dengue virus serotype 3 (DENV3), which is currently circulating in Singapore, can undergo dramatic structural changes that enable it to resist vaccines and drugs, according to findings from a research...
Source: UK Healthcare News  Jun 16, 2020  5 years ago
UK Healthcare News: A total of more than 237 million pharmaceutical and medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS almost US$124 million and more than 1700 lives every year.   The data and national estimates were published in the British Medical Journal and reflect on the sad state of affairs of the UK Medical Industry and its credibil...
Source: Telehealth  Jun 14, 2020  5 years ago
Telehealth App:  UK’s most used online doctor consultancy app: Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.   The company was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations.   A security follow-up check by Babylon revealed a s...
Source: China Medical News  Jun 13, 2020  5 years ago
China Medical News: Certain Areas In Beijing, China’s capital have been placed under lockdown today as six new confirmed  domestic coronavirus cases were reported, fuelling fears of a resurgence in local transmission. Local hospitals are however saying that there are far more cases than authorities are reporting as hospitals are seeing a surge of patients manifesting symptoms. &n...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 18, 2020  5 years ago
The debilitating condition remembered as a disease of pirates, Scurvy is still found in a developed country like Canada. The disease, which is caused by a vitamin C deficiency, can result in bruising, weakness, anemia, gum disease, hemorrhage, tooth loss, and even death if undiagnosed and untreated. Researchers from McMaster University surveyed the data of patients of Hamilton's two ho...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 23, 2019  5 years ago
Researchers from the State University of New Jersey (Rutgers) are reporting a dramatic increase in teen use and overdoses from benzodiazepine. The total number of teens taking and overdosing from benzodiazepines, commonly prescribed anxiety medications, has risen dramatically over the past decade, according to a national study coauthored by Rutgers researchers. The collaborative research, ...
Source:Thailand Medical News  Dec 20, 2019  5 years ago
President Trump's administration unveiled a plan Wednesday to allow imports of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, but it was opposed by Ottawa, which said the scheme threatened its own medicine stocks.   Typically, Americans spend an average of $1,200 on prescription drugs per year, more than in any other country in the world and the US president ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 16, 2019  5 years ago
Customers of Cigna Insurance would be glad to know that the company will start using artificial intelligence (AI) to track patients' drug intake and assess whether they are complying with their prescribed treatment for chronic diseases including diabetes and heart conditions. The surveillance tool, called Health Connect 360, was created by Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits manager...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 12, 2019  5 years ago
American consumers seeking cheaper, faster access to antibiotics are apparently consuming antibiotics intended for treating fish and aquaculture rather than humans, according to research presented at the ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) 54th Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition. Currently, there are shortages of various antibiotics in the US and prices of antibiotics are ext...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 11, 2019  5 years ago
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by monkeypox virus and has been reported mainly in central and west African countries. Monkeypox, in most cases, is a mild condition which will resolve on its own and have no long-term effects on a person’s health. Most people recover within a few weeks. Symptoms usually include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exh...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 09, 2019  5 years ago
First it was Philippines in the later part of the year, now Malaysia too is witnessing cases of polio re-emerging in its country after almost 27 years. Malaysia has reported its first polio case in 27 years, health authorities said yesterday, announcing a three-month-old baby had been diagnosed on Borneo island. Malaysian health ministry's director-general, Dr  Noor Hisham Abdullah, sa...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 05, 2019  5 years ago
Research led by Dr Han-Wei Zhang of China Medical University, Taiwan shows that long-term exposure to hydrocarbons in the air is a risk factor for ischemic stroke development. The study findings has been  published the open-access journal PLOS ONE yesterday. Past studies have demonstrated a link between cardiovascular diseases and increased levels of ozone and airborne particulat...
Source: Thailand Medical News   Dec 01, 2019  5 years ago
It seems that the European Healthcare System is much backwards than even Asia when it comes to HIV. Many women in the WHO European Region, particularly those in their 40s, are diagnosed at a late stage of HIV infection when their immune system is already starting to fail. They are three to four times more likely to be diagnosed late than younger women. From  data for 2018 released last wee...
Source: November/December 2019 issue of Clinical OMICs  Nov 23, 2019  6 years ago
Genomic researchers and developers of pharmacogenetic tests cheered in August 2019 when United Healthcare (UHC) concluded in a policy statement effective October 1, that “the use of pharmacogenetic multi-gene panels to guide therapy decisions is proven and medically necessary for antidepressants and antipsychotics” when all of three criteria are met: The individual has a diagnosis of...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Nov 21, 2019  6 years ago
A study conducted by University of California, Davis found that  previous exposure to the pollutant DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) may contribute to the risk of diabetes among Asian Indian immigrants to the United States. The recent study  in the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology, linked high levels of DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrich...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Nov 18, 2019  6 years ago
According to a new study on cancer trends in Canada from 1971 to 2015 published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association),the overall rate of new cancer cases is decreasing in men but increasing in women younger than 80 years, and obesity-related cancers are increasing in young people, according to a study on cancer trends. Dr. Darren Brenner, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Nov 18, 2019  6 years ago
China has announced that a 55-year-old man has been diagnosed with pneumonic plague after killing and eating a wild rabbit, adding to two plague cases already discovered in the capital Beijing. A media statement from the health authority in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region north of Beijing said that as of Saturday the man was being treated at a hospital in the city of Huade. Health investi...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Nov 06, 2019  6 years ago
Pakistan is the second Asian country having a dengue epidemic besides Philippines. A record-breaking 44,000 people have been infected with mosquito-borne dengue in Pakistan this year, a senior health official said on Wednesday, as increased outbreaks linked to rising temperatures and erratic rainfall ravage other parts of Asia. Philippines had more than 249,547 cases since the start of the year, w...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Oct 28, 2019  6 years ago
Rocket Pharmaceuticals which is based in New York has announced that data from it clinical trials from a new gene therapy to treat a rare blood disorder called Fanconi Anemia is proving to be positive.   Fanconi anemia is a rare disease passed down through families (inherited) that mainly affects the bone marrow. It results in decreased production of all types of blood cells. This...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Oct 11, 2019  6 years ago
California which can be considered as one of the most progressive states in the US, with a progressive Governor that truely cares for the people, became the first state to allow people to buy HIV prevention drugs at pharmacies without a prescription. Around 1.4 million Americans currently live with HIV, an incurable disease that develops after an individual is infected with the HIV virus. In...
www.medtecchina.com   Mar 31, 2019  6 years ago
SHANGHAI - Following the growth in its scale by 17% last year, Medtec China 2019 has continued its upward momentum trend in terms of the area of exhibition booths commercially available, which has increased by 25%. The overall scale of the event, meanwhile, is up by 21%. So far, the number of new exhibitors, according to the most recent data, has risen to 53. Further, 10 suppliers from New York, U...

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