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YouTube Opens Its Health Content Shelves to Registered Health Professionals
YouTube is expanding one of its health-related initiatives to allow verified content creators to spread awareness about different topics and diseases. Last week, the video streaming platform announced it was opening up ‘health content shelves’ and ‘health source information panels’, two exclusive features reserved for accredited health orga...
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High Court's Deadline To Delhi Government To Formulate Fire Safety Norms For Hospitals
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to decide within four weeks on a representation to formulate basic fire safety norms, including the installation of sprinklers, for smaller hospitals and nursing homes in the national capital.
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US Woman Dumps Tinder Match After He Asked Her To Pay His Electricity Bill
After a week, he sent Ms Roxberry, a nurse, a message asking her for $376 to "get his lights turned on."
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Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala Uncertain For World Cup, To Undergo Fitness Test This Week
While Anrich Nortje has sustained a lower-back injury, Sisanda Magala is nursing a left-knee problem.
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US Nurse, Child Kidnapped In Haiti Freed After 2 Weeks
An American nurse and her child kidnapped in Haiti have been freed after nearly two weeks in captivity, her employer said Wednesday.
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95-Year-Old Australian Woman Tasered By Police Dies
A 95-year-old great-grandmother died Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, police said.
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Nurses Day 2022: Here’s Why May 12 Is Celebrated As Nurses Day
Nurses Day is a special day to honour and celebrate the contributions of nurses all over the world.
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"Substandard, Hospitals Without Doctors": Madhya Pradesh Cancels Licences
Weeks after an NDTV report exposed the mushrooming of substandard hospitals and nursing homes, along with malpractices by doctors, in Madhya Pradesh, the state government has initiated a clean-up. Some 60 licences have already been cancelled.
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India May Need 5 Lakh ICU Beds In Next Few Weeks, Noted Surgeon Predicts
Forecasting that the COVID-19 pandemic is only going to get worse, noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty has said India may need an extra 5 lakh ICU beds, 2 lakh nurses and 1.5 lakh doctors in the next few weeks.
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Indian Army BSc Nursing Exam Postponed
The Indian Army has said that the BSc Nursing exam scheduled in the last week of April has been postponed and new dates will be announced later.
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US Nurse Tests Positive Over A Week After Receiving Pfizer Vaccine: Report
A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday.
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BSc Nursing Entrance Exam For LHMC, Associated Hospitals Next Week; Admit Card Released
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the admit card for the entrance examination of Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi. The admit card released is for admission to the B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing programme.
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Doctors Of Delhi COVID-19 Hospital On Strike Over Non-Payment Of Salaries
Resident doctors and nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital have began a strike today over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. For the last several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff have stopped working at the COVID-19 dedicated hospital.
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National Breastfeeding Week: Expert Tips To Increase Breast Milk Supply
Breastfeeding is crucial as it helps your child build the immune system and prevents him/her from allergies, infections at bay.
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Kolkata Markets Run Out Of Covid Drugs, Families On Frantic Run-Around
A shortage of Covid drugs in Kolkata is sending patient families on a harrowing run around. Since last week, the drug Actemra or Tocilizumab disappeared from the market. 53-year-old Rinku Banerjee flew in from Delhi via Jaipur to Kolkata to hunt for the medicine, personally, for her father who is in a south Kolkata nursing home. His doctor wanted t...
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YouTube Opens Its Health Content Shelves to Registered Health Professionals
YouTube is expanding one of its health-related initiatives to allow verified content creators to spread awareness about different topics and diseases. Last week, the video streaming platform announced it was opening up ‘health content shelves’ and ‘health source information panels’, two exclusive features reserved for accredited health orga...
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High Court's Deadline To Delhi Government To Formulate Fire Safety Norms For Hospitals
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to decide within four weeks on a representation to formulate basic fire safety norms, including the installation of sprinklers, for smaller hospitals and nursing homes in the national capital.
-
US Woman Dumps Tinder Match After He Asked Her To Pay His Electricity Bill
After a week, he sent Ms Roxberry, a nurse, a message asking her for $376 to "get his lights turned on."
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Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala Uncertain For World Cup, To Undergo Fitness Test This Week
While Anrich Nortje has sustained a lower-back injury, Sisanda Magala is nursing a left-knee problem.
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US Nurse, Child Kidnapped In Haiti Freed After 2 Weeks
An American nurse and her child kidnapped in Haiti have been freed after nearly two weeks in captivity, her employer said Wednesday.
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95-Year-Old Australian Woman Tasered By Police Dies
A 95-year-old great-grandmother died Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, police said.
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Nurses Day 2022: Here’s Why May 12 Is Celebrated As Nurses Day
Nurses Day is a special day to honour and celebrate the contributions of nurses all over the world.
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"Substandard, Hospitals Without Doctors": Madhya Pradesh Cancels Licences
Weeks after an NDTV report exposed the mushrooming of substandard hospitals and nursing homes, along with malpractices by doctors, in Madhya Pradesh, the state government has initiated a clean-up. Some 60 licences have already been cancelled.
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India May Need 5 Lakh ICU Beds In Next Few Weeks, Noted Surgeon Predicts
Forecasting that the COVID-19 pandemic is only going to get worse, noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty has said India may need an extra 5 lakh ICU beds, 2 lakh nurses and 1.5 lakh doctors in the next few weeks.
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Indian Army BSc Nursing Exam Postponed
The Indian Army has said that the BSc Nursing exam scheduled in the last week of April has been postponed and new dates will be announced later.
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US Nurse Tests Positive Over A Week After Receiving Pfizer Vaccine: Report
A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday.
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BSc Nursing Entrance Exam For LHMC, Associated Hospitals Next Week; Admit Card Released
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the admit card for the entrance examination of Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi. The admit card released is for admission to the B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing programme.
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Doctors Of Delhi COVID-19 Hospital On Strike Over Non-Payment Of Salaries
Resident doctors and nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital have began a strike today over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. For the last several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff have stopped working at the COVID-19 dedicated hospital.
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National Breastfeeding Week: Expert Tips To Increase Breast Milk Supply
Breastfeeding is crucial as it helps your child build the immune system and prevents him/her from allergies, infections at bay.
-
Kolkata Markets Run Out Of Covid Drugs, Families On Frantic Run-Around
A shortage of Covid drugs in Kolkata is sending patient families on a harrowing run around. Since last week, the drug Actemra or Tocilizumab disappeared from the market. 53-year-old Rinku Banerjee flew in from Delhi via Jaipur to Kolkata to hunt for the medicine, personally, for her father who is in a south Kolkata nursing home. His doctor wanted t...
