China’s leading eye health hospital group is back in the spotlight. Only two days into the new year, tragedy struck one family in the country. A mother died while getting eye surgery with only an ambiguous explanation from the surgeon after her death. In a separate incident of medical violence, the surgeon was caught beating […]
Purdue Pharma is offering to pay up to $6 billion to victims who say they got addicted to the company’s drugs. But the deal would protect the Sackler family, the owners of the drug maker, from future lawsuits. On Dec. 4, the Supreme Court heard the opening arguments in the bankruptcy settlement case. How intentional […]
Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has received approval from an independent review board and hospital to begin recruiting for the first ever human trials of its brain implant for paralysis patients. In a press release, Neuralink said it has begun recruiting patients with quadriplegia owing to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) […]
China’s hospitals are inundated with the sick and the elderly during the Lunar New Year holiday, despite authorities reporting the nation’s COVID-19 wave is “coming to an end.” What’s more, Chinese health officials also say there was no infection “rebound” during last week’s travel surge. Fresh footage shared online shows a hospital in a central […]
OTTUMWA, Iowa—A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a private hospital in Iowa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated or unconscious, hospital and police officials said. The assaults at the Ottumwa Regional Health Center were discovered during investigations into the death of 27-year-old Devin Michael Caraccio, […]
In France, the Health Ministry created a new agency for monitoring and certifying doctors. It will also have the power to dismiss any physician going against its rules. Some of them, who decided to prescribe repurposed drugs to help their patients recover from COVID-19, might be dismissed. NTD spoke with one of them, who says the French government is tightening its […]
The latest NHS England figures show that at the end of June, nearly 7 million people were waiting to start hospital treatment. Almost 30,000 people had to wait more than 12 hours at Accident and Emergency Departments in July—a record number. NTD spoke to Jamie Jenkins, the former head of health analysis at the Office for […]
A former neurologist in New York City was convicted on July 29, on 12 criminal counts of raping and sexually abusing six of his patients after a month-long trial. A New York City jury deliberated for about three days at the trial of Ricardo Cruciani, 68, before finding him guilty on the charges, which comprise one […]
Patient advocates in California are concerned that the medical board is lenient toward doctors’ misconduct. My guest is Marian Hollingsworth, a patient advocate. She explains the role of the medical board in protecting patients and why the board should do more. Follow Epoch TV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv […]
A city in South Korea plans to roll out a system that uses facial recognition technology and data from over 10,000 surveillance cameras to detect COVID-19 cases and ensure mask compliance. Beginning in January, the nationally funded pilot project will be tested in Bucheon, a city of about 850,000 people located between Incheon and Seoul. […]
Officials at Children’s Wisconsin confirmed that it received 18 child patients following a mass casualty incident at a Waukesha Christmas parade that left five dead and dozens injured. The Milwaukee hospital, which confirmed the number of patients at its trauma center on Monday morning, said that “the Children’s Wisconsin Emergency Department and Trauma Center is fully […]
NEW DELHI—Eleven patients died Saturday after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. There were 17 patients in the ward in the city of Ahmednagar where the fire started, said police Inspector Jyoti Karkade. The remaining six patients are in stable condition, she added. […]
Most people who have recovered from COVID-19, even with mild illness, retain a broad and durable immunity to the disease, including some degree of protection against its variants, according to an Emory University study published in the journal, Cell Reports Medicine. The longitudinal study, the most comprehensive of its kind to date, involved 254 COVID-19 […]
Posts on Chinese social media suggest many are suffering from apparent CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus symptoms, which include fever, coughing, fatigue, diarrhea, chest tightness, and muscle disease. Despite their symptoms, they’re being blocked from getting treatment. That’s because their test results show that they’re virus-free.
PARIS—Two of the three Chinese nationals in France who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived without showing symptoms, doctors at a Paris hospital said on Saturday. On Friday, France confirmed the first three cases of the virus in Europe, with two patients hospitalized in Paris and the other in Bordeaux. The health ministry […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California’s attorney general said Wednesday that he is charging a Northern California doctor with killing four patients by overprescribing opioids and narcotics, crimes he linked to the nationwide opioid epidemic.
