Immigrants in U.S. detention sue over alleged poor conditions and shoddy medical care
Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities. In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S. District Court, immigrants said they're placed ...
This is the story of a 72-year-old retired electrician in Britain — let's call him "Jack" — who forgot to tell his surgeon that he wore dentures. Anyone reading this account of what happened next is unlikely to make the same mistake. Six days after having ...
A Southern California hospital spent $72 million on a building designed to do two things after an earthquake: stay standing and stay open. But when a pair of strong earthquakes struck the region last month, the hospital couldn't use it. Structurally, the building was OK. But ...
Boris Johnson aims to meet notorious Brexit bus pledge with health care boost
Boris Johnson plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on hospitals and health care technology, as the U.K.'s new prime minister seeks to deliver on his own most contentious political promise. Back in the 2016 referendum, Johnson's pro-Brexit campaign emblazoned a slogan on the ...
White House scraps key plan to lower U.S. drug prices, may target makers
The Trump administration on Thursday scrapped one of its most ambitious proposals for lowering prescription medicine prices, backing down from a policy aimed at health insurers and raising the possibility of new measures focused on drug makers. The abandoned proposal would have required health insurers ...
Obamacare's future in play as U.S. appeals court weighs its constitutionality
The future of Obamacare could be at stake on Tuesday when a group of Democratic-led states and the House of Representatives urge a federal appeals court to overturn a Texas judge's ruling that the U.S. health care reform law is unconstitutional. Republicans have repeatedly tried ...
London midwifery students use augmented tech to improve clinical skills
Midwifery students in London are learning to bring new life into the world in a radically new way with the help of augmented reality (AR) technology. Using AR headsets and lifelike models of full-term mothers, trainee midwives at Middlesex University can take part in fully ...
Red state Nebraska slowly rolls out voter-approved Medicaid expansion
Marti Poll knows she should see a doctor. Sometimes she has a severe tightness in her chest. She also has chronic sinus and ear infections. But she can't afford the medical bills, so she simply waits and hopes the pain will subside. She thought her wait ...
Japan's Diet passes record ¥101 trillion budget with spending hikes for defense and social security
Key to the budget is a ¥2.03 trillion stimulus package that the government hopes will underpin domestic demand after the consumption tax is increased.
Some 45 percent of children with cancer are left undiagnosed and untreated, according to an innovative study of the disease's global footprint among under-15s, published Wednesday. Worldwide, there are some 400,000 new cases of childhood cancer each year, but barely half are logged in national ...
Maybe it's something in the gazpacho or paella, as Spain just surpassed Italy to become the world's healthiest country. That's according to the 2019 edition of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, which ranks 169 economies according to factors that contribute to overall health. Spain placed ...
Japan approves world-first trial using iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries
The health ministry on Monday approved the world's first clinical test in which artificially derived stem cells will be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries. A team of researchers from Keio University, which filed a request for the test with the ministry, will ...
