'Healing friends' boost patients
A Suffolk hospital is helping patients heal faster by encouraging them to befriend each other.

Parliamentary panel suggests amendments to paramedical bill
The Paramedical and Physiotherapy Central Councils Bill 2007 may be rephrased as Allied Health Professions Central Councils Act 2007 to better cover the contents on variety of specialties and will be presented in the Parliament in the coming session, in line with the recommendations of the concerned House Panel.

Health Research Week: Researchers are Finding Health Solutions
Today kicks off Health Research Week in Saskatchewan. Here are some of the many University of Saskatchewan (U of S) researchers contributing to better health for Canadians.

More female physicians, pharmacists working in Canada: reports
More women are joining the ranks of health-care occupations in Canada, including the traditionally male-dominated professions of medicine and pharmacy, according to a report released on Monday.

When texting can be dangerous
The way you use your personal electronics may be hazardous to your health, as a couple of recent reports remind us. Here's how to avoid short- or long-term health problems.

Women moved into new health work, study finds
Continue to dominate nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, but number grow in pharmacy and medicine

Acupuncture just as effective without needle penetration
Acupuncture works - but it works equally well with or without needle penetration. This conclusion can be drawn from a treatment study involving cancer patients suffering from nausea during radiotherapy.

Number of MDs growing faster than population
The number of doctors working in Canada grew faster than the national population over the most recent five-year period, a new report has found.

Homeless World Cup kicks off in Australia
SYDNEY: Austria beat hosts Australia 3-0 yesterday in the opening game of an unusual football competition that has drawn teams from 56 countries to Melbourne.

Study of health occupations in Canada finds more women in pharmacy, medicine
It's no surprise that women dominate health-care occupations in Canada, but a new study attaches some numbers to the situation.

?Educating kids with special needs is really complex?
(Editor?s note: The provincial government is currently in the process of re-evaluating its approach to special needs education in Alberta. As such, a series of [...]

Programme Halves Hip Or Knee Replacement Patients' Time In Hospital, West Suffolk Hospital, England
Patients who have undergone a hip or knee replacement at West Suffolk Hospital have spoken out to praise on a unique programme which has halved the time they spend in hospital.

Homeless World Cup kicks off in Australia
Sydney - Austria beat hosts Australia 3-0 Monday in the opening game of an unusual football competition that has drawn teams from 56 countries to Melbourne. The qualifications for entry to this all-amateur event are stiff: players must have been home...

Hospitals will cherry-pick lists: AMAQ
The federal government's plan to rate hospitals in a scorecard according to 70 different measures will lead to hospitals cherry-picking their patients, the Australian Medical Association's Queensland president Chris Davis says.

Fiona Yaron-Field on the portraits she has taken of her daughter Ophir, who has down's syndrome
When Ophir was born with Down's syndrome, Fiona Yaron-Field was left disoriented and grieving for a lost fantasy child. But then she picked up a camera and, during the next 13 years, rarely put it down. The result is a work of extraordinary tenderness by a mother about her daughter

The credit crunch hurts even the disabled
When Paul and Ann de Savary?s daughter Laura was born tiny and premature, they knew she was likely to have problems but they were totally unprepared for what lay in store. At six months old, a doctor told them Laura would never walk or talk. ?It was, ?Oh, you?ve got a vegetable here.

FIA To Engage An Extra One Million People With Its More Active 4 Life Campaign, UK
Full support pledged from Dawn Primarolo, Public Health Minister, and Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health Minister. The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) yesterday ( Wednesday November 26) announced its aims to engage one million more people - people who are not already 'activity literate' - with a new national campaign, More Active 4 Life.

Times & Star
TWO Cockermouth doctors? surgeries will move to the new £14.6 million community hospital in the town. Fitz Road and South Street surgeries are currently considered to be inadequate by NHS Cumbria, which runs frontline health services, because they are in old buildings.

Patients Are Now Able To Learn About Their Hip Replacement And Knee Implants, UK
A new website dedicated to provide independent information for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery in the UK has opened this month. Uniquely, the website, http://www.hipandkneenetwork.co.uk boasts a panel of orthopaedic surgeons and was launched at the British Orthopaedic Association conference in Liverpool.

Concerns raised about Sask. action plan for ASD
A Weyburn mom questions how the provincial action plan for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will be implemented since there aren?t enough speech language pathologists and behaviour therapists to deliver these services.