Provides the latest RSS feeds for Public Health News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Middle East Star.com http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/cat/fb382975d494227f/ en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 04:46:29 -0400 Sun, 26 May 2013 04:46:29 -0400 30 Doctors treating injured Congress leader VC Shukla, who suffered gunshot injuries in the Maoist attack on a Congress rally in Chhattisgarh, here on Sunday said that his condition remains critical. The 84-year-old Shukla was airlifted to Gurgaon's Medanta hospital from Chhattisgarh this morning. Dr AK Dubey from Medanta confirmed that Shukla is being treated for gunshot wounds, and said his ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214773431/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 26 May 2013 03:30:02 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214773431/scat/fb382975d494227f Britain's health secretary says every primary care physician should be an advocate for their patients, instead of being the gateway to the healthcare ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214772392/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 26 May 2013 00:42:35 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214772392/scat/fb382975d494227f But an increasing number of physicians have accepted the situation and are seeking business training as they adjust to pressures that they cut costs and improve the quality of health ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214770911/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 22:08:18 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214770911/scat/fb382975d494227f DALLAS (WFSS/CNN) – There's a new trend in the bar scene that involves your favorite hard liquor and dry ice. Breathing in the alcohol vapors gets you buzzed fast and some say you don't ingest any empty calories.But one doctor in Texas is saying "smoking" your alcohol is extremely bad for your health."Once I lost the weight ... if you lose the weight, then you want ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214768830/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 20:24:07 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214768830/scat/fb382975d494227f California residents who get health insurance through the state's exchange will have limited choice of doctors and hospitals, officials say. Some insurers are offering plans through Covered California that are more restrictive than their other coverage, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Blue Cross of California, for example, said those buying insurance through the state-run exchange ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214763706/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:02 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214763706/scat/fb382975d494227f Manama-May-25(BNA)Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi returned home after attending the 66th annual meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. He led Bahrain's delegation which included the Kingdom's Permanent Representative Dr. Abdulkarim Bucheeri, Assistant Undersecretary for Primary Care and Public Health Dr. Mariam Adhbi Al-Jalahmi, Public and ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214762941/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 15:08:53 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214762941/scat/fb382975d494227f JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli pediatric surgeons corrected congenital heart defects on a four-year-old Syrian girl at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214761386/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 12:36:23 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214761386/scat/fb382975d494227f Children Are Dying ,'; in which Alexandra Robbins, a former editorial assistant at this magazine, describes a baby named Atticus. Eleven weeks old and born about three months premature, he resides in the neonatal intensive-care unit at a Washington-area hospital, ';one of the most prominent in the country'; (though unnamed by Washingtonian, perhaps for legal reasons), yet the ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214760332/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 10:43:28 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214760332/scat/fb382975d494227f A Business Friendly Contact Desk has been set up within the health ministry to promote contacts with the business community for ventures within the health sector. In a press conference held this morning at the Ministry of Health in Valletta, current Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Claudio Tonna, said the desk will "serve as a contact point with the ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758039/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 07:35:39 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758039/scat/fb382975d494227f Entertainment News: BANGALORE: Doctors, especially oncologists, in Bangalore have been flooded with queries about the treatment, after the story about Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie undergoing prophylactic double mastectomy broke about a week ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758056/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 07:34:28 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758056/scat/fb382975d494227f The Angelina effect: Some doctors have been asked by patients, a few of whom have been treated for breast cancer earlier, to consider performing mastectomies on ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758057/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 07:26:04 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214758057/scat/fb382975d494227f Dr. Jacques Roy is seen in a court room sketch in Dallas Texas Monday March 5, 2012. (CBSDFW.COM photo) MONTREAL - The Canadian government has quietly revoked the passport of a Quebec doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. Medicare system of $375 million - before he's even had a trial. QMI Agency has learned that Passport Canada rescinded the passport of Dr. Jacques Roy, the Quebec City-area ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214756789/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 05:44:34 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214756789/scat/fb382975d494227f NEW ORLEANS-A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare and Medicaid more than $21 million for medical tests at New Orleans area clinics. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk on Friday sentenced 50-year-old Jerayr Rostamian, of Northridge, Calif., to 40 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $250,000 fine. Africk ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214756633/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 05:25:25 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214756633/scat/fb382975d494227f American Journal of Public Health Study Shows Public Clinics Provide More Choices, More Care WASHINGTON - August 14 - A new study in ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755773/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:47 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755773/scat/fb382975d494227f Millions of Chronically Ill, Lacking Insurance, Can't Get Needed Care CHICAGO - August 4 - Over 11 million Americans with chronic physical illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and asthma are not getting the medical care they need because they ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755646/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:35 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755646/scat/fb382975d494227f www.IranFreeTheDocs.org MEXICO CITY - August 4 - A coalition of AIDS and human rights organizations that includes Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) has launched a campaign to free two Iranian physicians, Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei. The doctors, who are brothers, are active in HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment in Iran. According to international ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755775/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:32 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755775/scat/fb382975d494227f AUSTRALIAN doctors fear they may not be able to keep up with the latest medical developments if a federal government decision to cap tax breaks for personal training expenses is not reversed. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) passed a unanimous motion at its national conference in Sydney on Saturday condemning the budget-saving measure. The AMA said the decision will disadvantage doctors ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755517/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 04:02:16 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214755517/scat/fb382975d494227f Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state agency running California's new health insurance exchange, announces the plans and prices that will be offered by private ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214754986/scat/fb382975d494227f Sat, 25 May 2013 03:33:30 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214754986/scat/fb382975d494227f MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The birth rate in Russia grew by 5.6 percent year-on-year in 2012, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Friday. "In 2012, birth rate increased by 5.6 percent - from 12.6 to 13.3 [births] per 1,000 people," she said. She added that the number of abortions fell by 5.5 percent, or by 53,900, due to state measures to support pregnant women ... http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214751600/scat/fb382975d494227f Fri, 24 May 2013 22:10:18 -0400 http://www.middleeaststar.com/index.php/sid/214751600/scat/fb382975d494227f