Egypt is again allowing its doctors to work in Saudi Arabia, lifting a ban imposed last month after two Egyptian doctors working there were sentenced to lengthy prison terms and 1,500 lashes each.
Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap. Regulations that capped the working hours of bleary-eyed young doctors came just five years ago, limiting them to about 80 hours a week.
Being an ear, nose and throat specialist in Iraq doesn't feel so dangerous any more for Kareem, one of 27 Iraqi medical doctors who spent the past month learning about health care in the United States.
Two Egyptian doctors sentenced to prison and lashes in Saudi Arabia illegally sold pharmaceuticals and one had affairs with female patients, the official news agency reported Sunday.
Iraq will allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after hundreds have been targeted and killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the government said Monday.
Several medical associations and 13 state attorneys general voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed federal rule that they fear would open the door for hospitals and physicians to deny access to contraception.
Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits before patients.
A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital — one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer.
Some 650 of the 8,000 Iraqi physicians who fled the country since 2003 due to violence have returned to their jobs in the past two months because of improved security, a Health Ministry official said Monday.
The Bush administration on Thursday proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections.
When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.
Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient.
President Bush intends to block a bill protecting doctors from a cut in their Medicare pay, even though Congress seemingly has enough votes to override his veto, a White House spokesman indicated on Thursday.
Sellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based on prescriptions from doctors who actually were dead, some for 10 years or more, a congressional investigation has found.
Road trip! What college student doesn't get a thrill from that cry?
Republican senators blocked legislation Thursday that would trim payments to private health insurers serving people in Medicare and use the savings to raise reimbursement rates for doctors.
Lori Erickson-Trump has faked headaches and back pain. She's had physicals and MRIs she didn't need and she gets paid for it — all to evaluate the performance of doctors and their staffs.
For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend.
If you watched TV, read a newspaper, or flipped through a magazine this week, there’s a very good chance you saw a few advertisements for prescription drugs. They’re hard to miss. It’s not uncommon for a 30-minute network newscast to have four or five drug commercials.
The head of the state's medical board and its general counsel announced their resignations Wednesday amid criticism that the agency mishandled cases, including that of a doctor accused of running a "pill mill" linked to 56 deaths.
Troubling cases in which doctors were accused of botching operations while undergoing treatment for drugs or alcohol have led to criticism of rehab programs that allow thousands of U.S. physicians to keep their addictions hidden from their patients.
Physicians will get a six-month reprieve from a 10 percent rate cut when treating Medicare patients under legislation that passed the Senate on Tuesday.
The nation's medical doctors should have to adopt electronic record-keeping if they want to avoid a pay cut from Medicare next year, the Bush administration said Monday.
Federal authorities arrested more than two dozen people Tuesday in a crackdown on fraudulent medical licenses on the island.
Excerpt: Doctors performed surgery on an employee at Turri's Italian Foods after his arm was trapped up to the shoulder in a machine used to knead dough.
"At what speed do vibrating black holes stop vibrating?", scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth decided against the usual supercomputers.
>>Scientific research isn't as simple as portrayed in movies or fiction – and the results certainly are rarely as simple as what is reported by the mainstream (and, too often, lazy) media.
Often, living in the 'modern' and 'sophisticated' West, we like to think that we are so much more advanced than the rest of the world.
An Upper East Side celebrity dermatologist famed for his pricey beauty potions is neck-deep in a legal battle with financial backers who claim he skinned them out of millions of dollars.
I recieved this from my dad-just for fun, folks! Another addition to the Good News Wednesday Project. Enjoy-please add to the list if you can find some more amusing one liners!
Non-Compliance persistent problem at all Congressional, Federal, State, and local agencies continues to be responsible for the total destruction of entire American families. Economics over justice is terrorism.
To heal our ailing healthcare system, we need to stop thinking like Americans. That's the consensus of two articles published this week in the American Academy of Neurology journal Neurology by Dr. Marc Nuwer, a leading expert on national healthcare reform.
On Thursday, 20 men and women accomplished something that nobody in Somalia has done in nearly two decades: They graduated from medical school.
..."Marital satisfaction improves for couples who have been through counseling once a year, while control couples didn't improve at all," Cordova said. "People that have been through the marriage checkup are improving in all kinds of ways in comparison to couples who haven't."
Reporting from Washington -- The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally object …
According to experienced doctors used to seeing death up close, the Mumbai hostages were so horribly tortured that the physicians who examined the bodies can hardly discuss what they found .
And there's nothing like a free steak dinner, a free stack of pancakes or a free pizza. Several restaurants around the country offer such freebies. The catch: you need to wolf down gargantuan meals in a short amount of time. If you don't, you're stuck with a hefty check.
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Four genetic variations appear to determine the speed at which people burn up food, researchers say, �a finding that could one day see doctors offer their patients more individual care.
This is the kind of news story you couldn't make up if you tried. A Brit watchdog group has come out with a report saying -- despite warnings 3 years ago -- far too many neurosurgeons in the UK are drilling into the wrong side of patients' skulls during brain surgery.
With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care reform may seem about as likely as the Dow hitting 10,000 again before the end of the year.
PHOENIX -- Many around this time of year like to preach the importance of washing your hands to avoid the cold or flu. But a Phoenix-area woman is saying dirty hands might be to blame for a rare illness that sent her to the hospital recently.
This sounds like a fairytale, but Aravind Eye Clinic in India treats 2.4 million patients -- mostly for free.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso apologised Wednesday for appearing to insult doctors, an important political interest group, by saying many of them lack common sense.
"Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor working in Paisley, Scotland, said the attack on the airport came "out of the blue" and he only threw Molotov cocktails because he was trying to get rid of them.
I'm wondering if we need the VA Clinics and hospitals anymore. In the last couple of years I've found what I would call inattentiveness, uncaring, and downright rude doctors who are the backbone of our Veterans Administration System.
AFTER Lynne Wu moved to New York from Cincinnati, she realized her body wasn't prepared for the sheer amount of pavement-pounding required in her adopted city.
There has been a debate going on in the country for the last couple of decades about the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutic industry.
In 2000, health care experts for the World Health Organization tried to do a statistical ranking of the world's health care systems.