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January 25, 2012 |
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Houston Family Sues Hospital After Taping Ants In Breathing Tube |
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Two men are suing a Houston hospital after recording video of ants and gnats that had crawled into their father's tracheotomy breathing tube, Local 2 Investigates reported on Wednesday. The brothers provided their video recording to Local 2 Investigates after filing a malpractice lawsuit against Select Specialty Hospital-Houston West at 9430 Katy Freeway near Gessner. |
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January 23, 2012 |
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Food Safety And Drug Administration Comes Into Force In Tamil Nadu |
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Integrating the Food Safety Wing of the Directorate of Public Health and the Department of Drugs Control Administration, the government of Tamil Nadu has formed ‘Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration’ department (TNFS&DA). Government has formed the department following the central act, Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and Food Safety and Standard Rules, 2011. As part of the formation, Food and Drug Control Labs will be upgraded and modernized, for which the government has set apart |
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January 23, 2012 |
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Hospital Buries Its 'Rat-Nibbled' Shame On Campus |
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For a man who had donated his body for the welfare of the medical professionals, it was an end most unceremonious. Professor Rameshwar Sharma, late principal of the Jaipur Sawai Man Singh (SMS) medical college, had willed that after his death his body should be donated to the college. |
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January 20, 2012 |
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‘Fogging Harmful To Human Beings' |
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Fogging was harmful for human beings and was not an effective measure in controlling the mosquito menace, director of Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology (SRRIP), B. Reddya Naik said on Wednesday. |
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January 19, 2012 |
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No Asian Tiger Mosquitoes found |
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New Zealand Public Health staff are thanking residents close to the Port of Tauranga and Ports of Auckland for alerting them to possible sightings of two unwanted species of mosquitos. The Asian Tiger Mosquito and Culex quinquefasciatus were discovered on a visiting cargo ship in December and a Public Health advisory was issued. |
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January 13, 2012 |
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Rat Bite: Panel Seeks More Time For Filing Report |
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The three-member committee constituted by the MDM Hospital administration to inquire into the alleged biting of a patient's face by rats at the ICU ward on Tuesday morning has sought more time to submit its report. Superintendent of the hospital, Arvind Mathur, said the committee needed some more time to arrive at any conclusion. |
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January 11, 2012 |
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ICU Patient Dies After Rodents Feast On Him |
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Rodents with a taste for the human flesh have struck at a Jodhpur government hospital, killing a patient admitted in the intensive care unit. |
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January 11, 2012 |
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Rats Nibble On Paralysed Man At Jodhpur Hospital |
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An elderly paralysed man, who was on ventilator support, has been seriously injured after allegedly being nibbled at by rats at a government hospital here. |
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January 10, 2012 |
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Why Rats Nibble Wires And Make Our Lives Difficult |
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If rats chew up your car's electricals every second month, the latest research undertaken by Haffkine Institute will interest you. And if you are in a business that involves transfer of data through electrical cables and rats have been nibbling away at your profits, you may want to wait till the institute completes its study before investing in new hardware. |
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January 9, 2012 |
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Dengue Mosquitoes Still A Menace Indoors |
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When Abdul Hakim was diagnosed with dengue at Jinnah Hospital some 10 days ago, the maximum temperature in Lahore was 16 degrees Centigrade. Hakim, 65, passed away on January 5. But experts say that Aedes aegypti cannot survive in temperatures below 20 degrees. “Hakim must have been bitten by a dengue mosquito indoors,” said a doctor who treated Hakim. |
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