The Supreme Court Could Take Its First Abortion Case In 9 Years
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court hasn’t heard an abortion case in nine years. But pro-choice activists are hoping they’ll decide this fall to take up a major Texas abortion case that threatens to close...
View ArticleFor Ontario’s patients, the time is now for leadership
Ontario’s doctors launched a challenge last week under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms against the Ontario government. At its core, this challenge is about fairness — for Ontario’s patients...
View ArticleSame minister, same story
While Muscat's government is drowning in scandals, Konrad Mizzi and Chris Fearne have taken on the role of salesmen, just like their boss. They are selling our health system to Vitalis Global...
View ArticleChris Fearne guarantees jobs, benefits, shifts and job location for PPP...
Parliamentary Secretary Chris Fearne today guaranteed workers at St Luke's Hospital, Karen Grech Hospital and the Gozo General Hospital that their jobs, wages, shifts,...
View ArticleTheranos is wrapped in scandal but goes hard to change laws to its advantage
Imagine walking into your local pharmacy and ordering one of hundreds of blood tests from a menu, no doctor’s note required. You will receive the results in a matter of hours and decide for yourself...
View ArticleDocs take action against Wynne government
Doctors Nadia Alam and Kulvinder Gill are so concerned with the Kathleen Wynne government’s random health-care cuts, they created a Facebook forum where patients, doctors and nurses can swap stories...
View ArticleDisrupting Today's Healthcare System
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system. Healthcare...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Medical School Students
Medicine has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. We've waxed extreme from a strongly relationship-driven practice to a technologically-advanced and financially-driven system. The time has come...
View ArticleVoalte, Uber, SMH Unite to Help Address Patient Transportation Challenges...
SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Voalte, the leader in healthcare communication technology, today announced at its inaugural client conference, VUE15, an initiative with Uber and Sarasota...
View ArticleCitizens 16+ to register for organ donation
Parliamentary Secretary for health Chris Fearne unveiled the first draft on the organ donation law that will be tabled in parliament for the first reading this evening. Under the proposed legislation,...
View ArticleMany elderly with diabetes overtreated
When it comes to treating seniors with diabetes, new research suggests that doctors often don’t cut back on medications, even when treatment goals are surpassed. The study found that when people had...
View ArticleCancer no longer considered a ‘death sentence’, PS Chris Fearne says
Where diagnosis of a cancer was once often considered a death sentence, nowadays a good number of cancer cases are being treated and the success rate is generally high, Parliamentary Secretary for...
View ArticleEmbryo freezing ‘unnecessary, unreasonable’, will create embryo ‘orphanages’...
The prevailing scientific data and the results obtained locally in IVF treatment actually show that the introduction of embryo freezing in connection with IVF procedures in Malta is both “unnecessary”...
View ArticleMedicine for Type-2 diabetes to be included in government formulary – Chris...
The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Chris Fearne, said today that gliptins medicine, which is used to treat Type-2 diabetes,...
View ArticleNew foreign owner of Gozo Hospital meets staff in unpublicised event
The new foreign owner of the Gozo general hospital was introduced to the staff during a meeting held on Tuesday with Energy and Health Minister Konrad Mizzi and...
View ArticleWHO for strengthening mental healthcare system
While the country’s elderly population is projected to increase in the next few decades, dementia may be a tough mental health challenge. Keeping this in view, it is important for the country to have a...
View ArticleFighting new diseases by giving them blander labels
Something new and bad is always blowing through — winds roar and cities flood, or people cough and die. Whether it is a hurricane or a dire new epidemic, each iteration will be similar enough to...
View ArticleWelcome to the age of digital healthcare
The internet and high-speed broadband have transformed a wide range of consumer-led businesses in the last two decades. Think banking, travel agencies, film distribution, book-selling and food...
View ArticleWorld Diabetes Day celebrated at Plaza
World Diabetes Day was celebrated around the world on the 14th November to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, first conceived the idea which led to the discovery of...
View ArticleDrugstore chain Rite Aid adds prescription analysis to over the counter...
Rite Aid is giving patients a chance to peek over their doctor's shoulder with genetic tests that help determine the effectiveness of some prescriptions. The drugstore chain said Thursday that it is...
View ArticleWhat the commission said
There were no surprises in the European Commission’s autumn economic forecast for Malta. It confirmed that this year’s economic growth will be significant and that the momentum will carry over into the...
View ArticleMalta’s neutrality clause should not preclude us from fight against terrorism...
Malta’s neutrality clause should not preclude the country from taking part in action against terrorism, especially in a case where such action was in response to an attack carried out within the EU’s...
View ArticlePatient waited nine hours in ambulance before ER would admit them
A backlog in emergency care stranded a paramedic and a patient for nine hours in a Winnipeg emergency room Monday. “You’ve got a paramedic stuck there, there’s an ambulance off of the street,” said...
View ArticleDoctors fear Ontario not equipped for influx of refugees
Don’t worry. Be happy, is the dewey-eyed message being sent by Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins about bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees into Ontario. In fact, he assured the public as recently as...
View ArticleInside the Sony Hack
Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Greeting her at the gate...
View Article'Intersection of technologies, disciplines the future'
Most future innovations will happen at the intersection of technologies and disciplines and this will play a big role in transforming the way we address issues, said Vishwanath Madhugiri, founder...
View ArticleIrony in health minister's meeting delay with doctor
First-year doctor Michelle Rabie contacted her MPP and Health Minister Eric Hoskins for a face-to-face meeting on Sept. 12. She got nothing but the runaround for weeks, and weeks, and weeks — until the...
View ArticleGovernment half-declarations and u-turns creating doubts in health sector – PN
The latest declarations by Energy and Health Minister Konrad Mizzi on the national TV station with regard to the privatisation of the Gozo General Hospital, St...
View ArticleGovernment, MAM reach agreement on the future of the health sector
After a number of meetings were held between the government and the Medical Association of Malta, discussions between the two parties...
View ArticleMoseda Technologies (V.MSD) signs pilot deal with large home care provider
One of the best performing Venture Exchange companies in 2015 to date, Moseda Technologies (TSXV:MSD, Forum) announced today a deal with a Western Canada-based home health care provider that services...
View ArticlePlaza centre hosts the Maltese Diabetes Association
World Diabetes Day was celebrated around the world on 14 November to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, first conceived the idea which led to the discovery of insulin...
View ArticleMyhealth system being modernised, making it easier for patients to use -...
The online myhealth system is being modernised, making it more accessible to patients and doctors, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Chris Fearne said today. Dr Fearne said the system,...
View ArticleWisconsin’s Abortion Law Is Unconstitutional
Judge Richard Posner, writing for a divided 2–1 panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in an opinion filed on Monday that Wisconsin’s 2013 law requiring all abortion providers to obtain...
View ArticleEuropean Commission approves Rural Development Programme for Malta 2014-20
Malta’s Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which is co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the Maltese Government, was approved by the European Commission...
View ArticleUpgrade healthcare to tackle non-communicable diseases
“You have high blood pressure and a borderline cholesterol level,” declared the doctor, to his 30-year old patient. A decade ago, this would have been considered an unusual diagnosis in someone so...
View ArticleMalta goes against intelligence services standards– EU Agency for Fundamental...
The European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has highlighted a rather concerning fact about Malta’s security services. The report, called ‘Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights...
View ArticleMAM questions need to waive environment impact assessment for hospitals
The Medical Association of Malta has questioned Parliamentary Secretary for Health Chris Fearne’s statement, (reported in yesterday’s issue) that safety regulations will be adhered to despite the...
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