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Hospital workers called patient 'alkie'

A British woman is demanding the firings of two hospital staff members after her answering machine recorded them describing her as a black-toothed alcoholic.

Waiting Room Death & Other Health News

The patient was dead for more than an hour, collapsed on the waiting room floor of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital, by the time workers checked on her, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports. A surveillance video, released this week, captured the incident that occurred in June at Kings County Hospital. Esmin Green, 49, fell face down from her seat in the waiting room at 5:32 a.m. on June 19 and stopped moving about a half-hour later, but a hospital staffer didn't check on her until 6:35 a.m. At that point, Green was dead, according to the Associated Press. Green had been involuntarily committed to the hospital's psychiatric unit the previous day and was waiting for a bed. Six hospital staffers have been fired in the wake of the incident, the Washington Post reports.

Wellington: Wellington Hospital on code red The emergency department at Wellington Hospital is bursting at the seams, with high illness rates in the community and among staff

Wellington Hospital has elevated its operating status to code red, with its emergency department bursting at the seams.

Foreign workers in Dali ill with 'food poisoning'

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- More than twenty foreign workers employed at the Dali Industrial Park in Taichung County were treated at a hospital for food poisoning symptoms late Wednesday night, the park administration said yesterday.

IT Workers Are Getting Fatter

buzzardsbay writes "While technologies such as virtualization, multi-threading, and blade servers have made the data center leaner, those who work there are getting... well... not leaner. According to a new study by CareerBuilder.com, 34 percent of IT workers say they have gained more than ten pounds in their current jobs. And 16 percent say they've gained at least twice that. The culprits seem to be the stressful-yet-sedentary nature of tech work coupled with our famously poor eating habits. According to the survey, some 41 percent of IT workers eat out for lunch twice or more per week, making portion and calorie control difficult. Eleven percent buy their lunch out of a vending machine at least once a week."

20-plus foreign workers in Dali fall ill with suspected food poisoning

More than twenty foreign workers employed at the Dali Industrial Park in Taichung County were treated at a hospital for food poisoning symptoms late Wednesday night, the park administration said Thursday.

Online print store to enhance hospital environments

Personalised frame prints that improve hospital ambiences and a patient’s sense of wellbeing have been made easier to source and purchase by a new online store.

CALANDO PHARMACEUTICALS DOSES FIRST PATIENT IN siRNA PHASE I

Calando Pharmaceuticals doses first patient with CALAA-01, a targeted nanoparticle therapeutic. This represents the first siRNA therapeutic to enter the clinic in oncology and the first targeted delivery of any RNAi product. PASADENA, Calif.-- June 2, 2008- Calando Pharmaceuticals, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), announced today that the first patient has successfully completed the first dosing cycle (four doses over two weeks) of CALAA-01 in the first clinical trial using systemically-delivered siRNA to treat cancer. CALAA-01 is a targeted nanoparticle, comprised of a proprietary, non-chemically-modified siRNA against the M2 subunit of ribonucleotide reductase-a clinically-validated cancer target-formulated with Calando's proprietary RONDEL(TM) (RNAi/Oligonucleotide Nanoparticle Delivery) pol

Philips delves further into patient monitoring, critical care with Brazil acquisition

Royal Philips Electronics has reached an agreement to acquire Dixtal Biomédica e Tecnologia, a Brazilian manufacturer of in-hospital patient monitoring, anesthesia, ventilation equipment and electrocardiogram (ECG for vital sign measurements.

NHS trust loses 21,000 patient details on laptop

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt 21,000 patient details.

Homing pigeon checks into hospital for rest

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- A homing pigeon on its last leg of a 515-mile race checked into the hospital for a well-deserved rest. The friendly pigeon flew into the Meadows Hospital courtyard earlier this week and stuck around after receiving a warm welcome, said technician Jennifer Sommer, who first spotted the bird.

05/21/08 - CMS to Test Bundled Payments for Hospital, Physician Services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 16 announced a new hospital demonstration project to test the use of bundled payments for both hospital and physician services to improve the quality of care delivered through Medicare fee-for-service. CMS said the Acute Care Episode demonstration will use bundled payments "to better align the incentives for both types of providers leading to better quality and greater efficiency in the care that is delivered."

Health Robotics Announces IV Station (TM Pending) a Centrally-Controlled, Modular, Distributed, Flexible, Redundant, Patient-Specific Intra-Venous (IV) Automation Robot for Non-Hazardous Drug Preparation, Compounding, and Dispensing in Central Pharma

BOZEN, SUDTIROL, Italy, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics, the worldwide leader in the robotic automation of patient-specific IV Admixtures today announced IV Station (TM Pending), a new IV automation solution that complements CytoCare(TM), the company's award-winning and world-leading patient-specific chemotherapy IV robot.

NPSA produces new DVD to educate healthcare professionals on hand hygiene

The National Patient Safety Agency’s (NPSA’s) “cleanyourhands� campaign has produced a new DVD to educate and inform healthcare workers on the importance of good hand hygiene in preventing infection. The DVD was produced after surveys and feedback from trusts revealed that their staff did not always know when to use soap and water and when to opt for the alcohol handrub. It includes demonstrations of how healthcare workers should clean their hands.

Robotic woman gives birth

A community hospital in Colorado deploys a robot to simulate childbirth and train staff in delivering babies. The birth training using "Noelle" is videotaped so participants can later analyze their performance and discuss improvements. The robot is especially helpful to prepare for more rare problems that hospital staff won't often see in real life, and the simulation can also help promote teamwork, hospital officials said.

Trade Unions call for REACH amendment to cover nanomaterials

European labour unions have called on the European Commission to amend the REACH regulation on chemicals to better protect workers against nanomaterials throughout their lifecycle. Their call comes shortly after the EU executive argued that nanotech is already covered by existing EU regulation. "Workers all along the production chain from laboratories through to manufacturing, transport, shop shelves, cleaning, maintenance and waste management" are exposed to nanomaterials manufactured and placed on the market without true knowledge of their potential impacts on human health and the environment, states a resolutionPdf external adopted by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on 25 June. The confederation calls on the Commission to amend the bloc's chemicals legislation (REACH) to cover nanomaterials manufactured or imported below

E3 2008: Fat Princes Details

1UP.com did a feature called the “Merchants of Cool,� where its writers dressed up as salesmen and “surveyed� gamers on a bunch of made-up upcoming games. The games were all ridiculously bad sales pitches, including a game called “Duty Calls� with an innovative new multiplayer mode called “Capture the Flag� (seriously, anyone who thinks capture the flag is innovative needs to get out from under their rock). But the idea of an innovative capture the flag game is where Fat Princess, an upcoming PSN game, will most likely succeed.

GameInvest Announces Sarah's Emergency Room for Nintendo DS, Wii, XBLA, PSN and PC

Portugal's leading video games investor and developer, GameInvest, is bringing hospital drama to multiple platforms this summer with Sarah's Emergency Room. Currently in development for Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and PC platforms, Sarah's Emergency Room is a time management and hospital simulation game where players take on the role of a young nurse, caring for patients in fast-paced hospital environments. GameInvest is currently looking for qualified distribution and publishing partners for Sarah's Emergency Room on the various platforms.

Health Robotics Announces IV Station (TM Pending) a Centrally-Controlled,

BOZEN, SUDTIROL, Italy, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics, the worldwide leader in the robotic automation of patient-specific IV Admixtures today announced IV Station (TM Pending), a new IV automation solution that complements CytoCare(TM), the company's award-winning and world-leading patient-specific chemotherapy IV robot. IV Station (TM Pending) is aimed at helping global health care providers deliver rapid, cost-effective, and safer IV doses to their patients by addressing medication errors, sterility, accuracy, and waste problems in the preparation, compounding, and dispensing of IV Admixtures. "While many companies have recognized the life-critical importance of IV safety, all patient-specific automation solutions up until now have focused on the prescription and administration steps of the medication delivery process with prod

AIIMS marks global first with robotic surgery

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday claimed to have performed world's first robotic surgery to remove a tumour in the bladder, which was leading to hypertension in a patient. The surgery was performed on Tuesday and doctors said that patient's blood pressure was normal after the surgery. "He is recovering well and will be ready to leave for home in two to three days," said NP Gupta, Head, Department of Urology, AIIMS. He said that in normal surgery long incision are required and the patient takes up to ten days to recover.

Workers 'forced to take pay cuts'

Workers are being asked to take pay cuts of up to 40% because of the economic slowdown, one of UK's biggest unions has warned.

Hospital alcohol admissions soar

Hospital admissions linked to alcohol use have more than doubled in England since 1995, an NHS report shows.

Robotic hospital porter doing his rounds

Hospital BotThis is the 100th Aethon made robot to be deployed in US hospitals and the TUG seems to be doing a fine job in its new found medical assistant role, taking on board some of the more mundance tasks happily given to it by staff members.

Workers 'can't afford 4% personal accounts contribution'

The proportion of UK workers concerned they will not be able to afford the 4% contribution to a personal account has risen, a study suggests.

Workers not saving enough for retirement

NEW YORK - Fewer than one in five workers will be able to maintain their lifestyle upon retirement, with women being at a disadvantage because of their longer life spans and lower pay, according to a study released Tuesday.

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