Established in 1996, the Shantha Sevana Hospice is the first Palliative Care Unit in Sri Lanka. It is situated adjacent to ...

The stoma/ostomy care market is projected to grow at a 4.9% CAGR, reaching USD 6.5 billion by 2033. The rising prevalence of ...

The amount of time spent in EMT class dedicated to the knowledge and skills needed to patient assessment clearly indicates the importance placed on the EMT having the ability to competently ...

A doctor is facing an abuse and neglect charge after a schizophrenic man with serious injuries was able to leave a Colonial Heights rehabilitation and nursing center, against medical advice, with a ...

India requires several Ostomy care and management centres as many patients are undergoing the trauma of living with external pouches for urine or stool everyday. DNA Web Team Updated : Nov 19, 2013, ...

But sometimes, that can’t happen. In those cases, you'll have an operation called a colostomy. Your surgeon will connect the colon to a hole in your abdomen, called an ostomy. You’ll have a ...

As an example, a patient has a serious wound that is infected and is not getting better with antibiotics and wound care. The wound is getting larger, the patient is getting sicker, and without better ...

About 30 per cent of patients who require hospital admission are still waiting in emergency eight hours after arrival, according to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Long wait ...

LONDON - UK patients are “coming to harm” with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a “collapse in care standards”, a report said on Jan 16.

Because public health agencies have learned that these patients had bird flu days or weeks after the person became ill, it has hampered efforts to find out how they were exposed and make sure they ...

Tearful nurses told an RCN briefing in central London of being powerless as patients spend hours slowly dying on a trolley in a busy corridor and finding a dead patient under a pile of coats.