Landmark Medical Fights for Life as Hospital Shutdowns Swell
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- David Goodrich sat in the emergency room of the 135-year-old Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, his head in his hands, waiting for doctors to treat his octogenarian aunt's swollen ankles.

Nigeria: Delta Doctors in Diaspora Donate Drugs, Equipment for Rural Healthcare
Members of the Delta Doctors in Diaspora, have donated medical equipment and several quantity of drugs estimated at over 5million Naira to boost the state government Free Rural Healthcare Scheme programme.

Zimbabwe health service in 'state of collapse,' doctors say
Zimbabwe's health system, once the envy of many African nations, is "in a state of collapse" -- with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors' group said Thursday.

Medical Miracle: Man Survives Torn Artery
In a KSPR Medical Miracle report Ozarks doctors explain how they helped save a man who tore a main artery after a car crash.

120 for medical event
A TOTAL of 120 doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals from various countries will converge at AIMST University in Semeling, near Sungai Petani, today for a three-day conference and workshop to learn more on using simulation in medical education.

Baptist Hospital Doctors Making Gains on Rare, Fatal Heart Disease
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A rare but fatal heart disease that wasn't recognized until 20 years ago is getting increased attention thanks to doctors at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and some Piedmont residents who live with pulmonary hypertension.

Zimbabwe: Only Medical School Closes Down
The University of Zimbabwe Medical School, the only institution producing medical doctors in the country, has closed indefinitely. The school was closed on Monday and the official announcement was made on Wednesday.

Club doctors to the fore at forum
The crucial role taken by club doctors in football prompted UEFA to organise the inaugural UEFA Elite Club Medical Forum in Nyon this week.

Cuban Doctors: Children Kept From Leaving Island
The children of more than a dozen Cuban doctors and medical professionals who defected from the communist island nation are not being allowed to travel to the United States even though they have visas, their parents said Tuesday.

Doctors stress an Advance Medical Directive is not euthanasia
SINGAPORE: It may have been available in Singapore for 11 years but even some doctors admit the Advance Medical Directive (AMD), more commonly known as a living will, is seldom broached between doctors and patients.

Private doctors report dip in patient numbers
Private medical doctors are reporting a decline in their patient numbers as the growing number of layoffs translate into less money for health care payments and a loss of health insurance benefits.

New Device from My Medical Memory Offers Portable, Private, Updateable Medical Records?in a Flash
Designed by doctors, My Medical Memory is a private, portable, updateable device that allows patients to carry their medical records everywhere they go. At a time when nearly 100,000 people die each year due to preventable medical errors, this information can help physicians provide better care and save lives. [PR.com - November 19, 2008]

Holmes Regional Medical Center wins recognition for organ-donation program
Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne has been recognized for its successful organ-donation program -- and is one of only two hospitals in Central Florida to receive the Medal of Honor for Organ Donation.

Better security lures 800 doctors back to Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Improvements in security have persuaded 800 doctors to return to Iraq in 2008, a senior health official said on Thursday.

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
(By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer) Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, ...

We diagnose a century-spanning medical manuscript
Menger-Andersons book defies classification as novel or short-story collection. Its a series of stories about a family of doctors descending from van Schulers arrival in New Amsterdam in 1664 to the work of Dr. Elizabeth Steenwycks, a medical researcher in modern-day Manhattan.

Doctors struggling with red tape and debt
A new survey paints a bleak picture of the life of an American doctor. Nearly half of the primary care doctors who responded to a Physicians' Foundation Survey said they would quit the business within the next three years if they had something to fall back on.

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.

European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells
LONDON (AP) ? Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. ?This technique has great promise,? said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been ...

AFP sends medical team to Quezon
THE Philippine military has sent four medical teams to the province of Quezon to assist in the ongoing efforts of national and local government agencies to address the reported typhoid outbreak in the area.