No oil, no electricity, no surgical gloves: Inside Cuba’s medical collapse

A person wearing a white medical uniform and nurse's cap is standing behind a wooden counter and speaking into a microphone held by another person. Several people wearing blue surgical masks stand on either side of the counter and in the background of the hallway. The following is written on the wall behind the counter: "nursing" Comes with medical symbol. Red and white heart-shaped balloons hang from the ceiling. The person on the right, wearing a gray T-shirt and blue surgical mask, leans against the counter and looks toward a person in medical attire.

Staff at the William Soler Children’s Heart Center Hospital in Havana, which receives humanitarian aid from Mexico’s Nuestra América convoy, speak with representatives of the convoy in March.Yuri Cortes/AFP/Getty Get your news from sources that are not owned and controlled by oligarchies. Sign up for free mother jones daily. as the worst of cuba The … Read more

Healthcare reform in UAE: UAE announces new healthcare rules: medical faculty can work in hospitals, licensing for graduates eased | World News – Times of India

UAE announces new medical rules: medical faculty can practice in hospitals, licensing requirements for graduates relaxed

UAE eases medical approvals to allow academic doctors to treat patients / Image: File The United Arab Emirates has introduced sweeping new regulations aimed at strengthening its medical workforce, allowing university medical faculty to practice in hospitals and relaxing licensing procedures for new graduates. Health authorities at the federal and emirate levels are expected to … Read more

Survey finds Washington doctors are sounding the alarm over the health effects of marijuana

Survey finds Washington doctors are sounding the alarm over the health effects of marijuana

This story was first posted MyNorthwest.com More than a decade after recreational marijuana was legalized in Washington, a new survey of health care providers suggests that many clinicians are concerned about the impact on patients’ mental health. In a survey of nearly 400 Washington state clinicians, more than half said they were very concerned about … Read more

How a foster child insurance plan threatened an 8-year-old’s cancer treatment

Brittany, Jason and Ollie Super

Ollie Super has been in and out of cancer treatments since being diagnosed with neuroblastoma while in foster care as a toddler. Now the 8th and 2nd graders are working on it again. Her cancer returned late last year. Ollie’s parents, who adopted her in 2020, tried to enroll her in a clinical trial using … Read more

OPINION – Another global health crisis is gaining momentum. Preparation is required.

OPINION - Another global health crisis is gaining momentum. Preparation is required.

A global health emergency is underway, and we are dangerously unprepared to contain it. Drug-resistant infections are outpacing our medical defenses, and the gap between rapidly evolving superbugs and dwindling antibiotic pipelines is widening, putting millions of lives at risk. Currently, approximately one in six bacterial infections is resistant to antibiotics. A major analysis published … Read more

Naturopathic medical school programs face uncertain future

Naturopathic medical school programs face uncertain future

The emerging field of naturopathic medicine may soon face an existential threat as the primary accrediting body for university programs. Last week, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity voted 12-0 against reauthorizing the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education, citing concerns about student outcomes at member institutions. Although the vote is advisory and … Read more

Center for Specialty Care’s Fairmont site is closed.

Center for Specialty Care's Fairmont site is closed.

Above: Dr. Corey Welklin and his team, Tom Tow, Abby Thomas, Kayla Olson, Amanda Guthmiller and Thomas Carpenter at the Fairmont Specialty Care Center on Tuesday. It was the last day of medical treatment at Fairmont. FAIRMONT – In 1990, Dr. Cory Welklin opened a clinic in Fairmont and on Tuesday officially closed his specialty … Read more

Snips snuff? Christus St. Vincent does not offer vasectomy services in Santa Fe

Snips snuff? Christus St. Vincent does not offer vasectomy services in Santa Fe

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‘Health care is next’: New Mexico House Speaker Haaland proposes public option

'Health care is next': New Mexico House Speaker Haaland proposes public option

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