Bowel cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood are more likely to survive the disease, a study shows.
At least 21 people were killed and eight others injured in a fire that occurred at a sanatorium in Jangseong, some 300 kms south of the South Korean capital city of Seoul, early on Wednesday, local broadcaster YTN reported.
The Nursing Care at Home Pvt Ltd (NCAH) has turned the whole notion of health care service upside down by providing medical services to patients right at their own doorsteps,which has solved the health problem of Napali.
A shortage of nurses has haunted China for years and the situation is showing no sign of improvement.
Though China's Mental Health Law, which went into effect in May 2013, raised the profile of patients with mental illness, few in the country are as familiar with their daily struggles as the nurses who care for them.
Though their rare disease leaves them dizzy and struggling for breath, Chinese suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have taken up the fight for recognition and treatment.
A senior political advisor in central China's Hubei Province has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and removed from public office for suspected dereliction of duty and taking bribes, the CPC's discipline agency said on Friday.
A hospital in Singapore started offering a 50 percent discount on Monday to emergency patients who see a general practitioner first.
Officials confirmed Tuesday four patients in the U.S. state of Texas have died of a mysterious flu- like illness, local media reported. A total of eight confirmed patients, ranging in age from 41 to 68, were admitted to hospital with flu symptoms in Montgomery County, but tests for influenza were negative, the website of the Houston Chronicle reported.
Way to predict survival in ovarian cancer patients by counting the number of tumor-attacking immune cells that have migrated into the tumor in an effort to eradicate it.
A fire broke out late Tuesday evening in a building of the largest maternity hospital in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong made public a set of scores on June 13 to predict risks of liver cancer in chronic hepatitis B patients who are receiving antiviral therapy.
Two patients have contracted Legionnaires' disease at a hospital in Australian eastern city Brisbane, with the bacteria found in the hot water system and bathrooms in the facility's east wing on Thursday.
A university in Hong Kong said on Tuesday that it has invented a new brain training "helmet" to help stroke patients to control their paralyzed limbs through detecting brainwaves.
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