Only 3% of women say they have been questioned by their general practitioner about possible domestic violence in the last eighteen months, according to a study published Friday November 24…
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Domestic violence: doctors question their patients too little
Only 3% of women say they have been questioned by their general practitioner about possible domestic violence over the last 18 months. This is the result of a study published…
The government favors “a sanction mechanism” against patients who do not honor their medical appointments
The National Academy of Medicine and the National Council of the Order of Physicians estimate that the phenomenon affected 6 to 10% of patients with an appointment each week. GEOFFROY…
Botkin.AI has been suspended in the Russian Federation due to possible harm to patients
Roszdravnadzor for the first time suspended the use of a medical AI tool – the Botkin.AI system, which helped doctors detect cancer in the early stages by analyzing computer tomography…
Gaza: 200 patients evacuated from Indonesian hospital in Gaza after deadly strike, says Hamas
About 200 patients were evacuated Monday from the Indonesian hospital, north of Gaza City, where “12 patients and their relatives” were killed and “dozens injured” in an Israeli strike, the…
Condemned by her cancer, an American woman launches a fundraiser to pay off the debts of thousands of patients
The ociation in charge of the prize pool is already talking about one of the largest sums raised. Casey McIntyre died last Sunday, November 12, from ovarian cancer. Before dying,…
“Patient partners”, when cancer patients become experts
In the psycho-oncology unit of the Institut Curie, in Paris, in 2010. LAURENT VILLERET/PINK/SAIF IMAGES This morning, Maria (who wishes to remain anonymous), 68 years old, is supposed to join…
Al-Shifa: patients displaced, order given… what do we know about the evacuation of the hospital?
Hundreds of people evacuated this Saturday largest hospital in Gaza where more than 2,000 patients, doctors and refugees were trapped by the war between Hamas and Israel. Israeli soldiers carry…
Gaza: Hamas announces the death of 24 patients due to lack of electricity at Al-Shifa hospital
The reporting war around the world’s most followed hospital complex continues. Hamas announced Friday the death of 24 patients due to the lack of electricity in Al-Shifa hospital of Gaza,…
After the government’s decline in support for adapted physical activity, angry patients
Overweight people do physical exercises as part of their therapy at the thermal baths of Brides-les-Bains (Savoie), April 4, 2013. JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT/AFP Ten thousand steps and more. The movement finally…
“It is not necessary to wait for a situation of theutic failure to ask the question of a patient’s end of life”
Lhe debate on active istance in dying is shaking up our conception of medicine. The National Academy of Medicine was able to express reservations with regard to this aid which…
a night spent on a stretcher increases the risk of mortality in elderly patients by 40%
“Leaving our patients to spend the night on a stretcher, we already understood the indignity of the thing, notes Dr. Catherine Legall, head of emergencies at Argenteuil hospital (Val-d’Oise); we…
The “Free Medicines” program is a great success, with patients saving PLN 200 million in September alone
The “Free Medicines” program is a great success, in September alone patients’ savings amounted to PLN 200 million – emphasized the Minister of Health, Katarzyna Sójka, on Friday on TVP…
in Saint-Denis, “huge diagnostic delays among patients who do not have health coverage”
His knee has been hurting for two weeks. Maybe it’s nothing serious, but for this construction worker, specializing in masonry work, his knee is like a work tool. Except that…
Brain tumors can cause long-term disability – but some patients are not getting NDIS support
An ABC report reveals how terminally ill patients are being left in the lurch due to a debate over disability support in the states and the National Disability Insurance Scheme…