Health dept starts surveillance for heatwave cases; special emergency units set up in hospitals
Special emergency treatment units have been set up in primary health centres and hospitals across the state to manage cases ...
Man died after Sacramento jail guards, nurse ignored his medical problems, video shows
Jail video shows Sacramento County deputies and a nurse ignoring or mocking the clear medical problems of an inmate, who soon died of an overdose.
Mental patient escapes from New York hospital, cops warn locals ‘do not approach him’
A mental patient who is a danger to others is on the run after he made a dash for freedom from an Orange County hospital ...
Gene Hackman’s wife was protective of his health for years. She died of hantavirus and days later, he was gone
For years, actor Gene Hackman’s doting wife Betsy Arakawa would do whatever she could to help keep him healthy, whether it ...
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AI Meets Public Health: InfectA-Chat’s Role in Arabic Disease Surveillance
English AI model developed by KISTI to provide real-time infectious disease monitoring, bridging language gaps in public ...
Dwyane Wade discovered he had kidney cancer thanks to this scan. Should you get one?
Dwyane Wade, Kim Kardashian, Maria Menounos and Rick Springfield have touted full-body MRI scans. Should you get one?
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Active postmarketing device surveillance as a legislative priority
Active surveillance using routine health data can improve patient safety The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires manufacturers of medical devices, such as ventilators and defibrillators, to ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
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Late adverse event reporting from medical device manufacturers to the US Food and Drug Administration: cross sectional study
Objective To describe the extent of late adverse event reporting by manufacturers to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Manufacturer And User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database as ...