Critical incident declared at Surrey hospital

A hospital in Surrey has declared a critical incident in order to "continue to deliver safe care to those who need it most", a spokesperson said. All patients and visitors at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill are required to wear a face mask in clinical areas due to an increase in respiratory infections. Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust...Read More

NRI doctors launches Ease to prevent suicides among Andhra Pradesh students

In an effort to prevent student suicides, NRI doctors have launched a massive comprehensive training and awareness program in the state.The project, titled Emotional Assessment of Student by Educators (EASE) ), has started its program for medical students, who will later extend support to students in other streams...Read More

WHO: 1st Ebola Vaccines to Arrive in Uganda Next Week

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain causing the current outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week. At a press briefing, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an expert committee convened by the agency had evaluated three experimental Ebola vaccines and decided they should all be tested......Read More

California faces 'darkest days' as COVID-19 cases surge, pushing hospital staff to the breaking point

These are scenes from a battlefield. Full intensive care units. Doctors and nurses working for hours without sleep. Waves of patients dying. Across California, a post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 spike is ravaging cities and counties that once had been models for how to keep coronavirus cases low. To date, the state has logged 1.9 million cases and 22,000 deaths, with new records seemingly set daily........Read More

Rising vaccine wariness in some nations doesn't bode well for COVID vaccines

Public confidence in vaccines varies widely around the world, with low but improving acceptance in some areas of Europe and growing wariness in countries experiencing political instability and religious extremism,.....Read More