Most stings can be safely handled at home. But in rare cases, you can get a serious allergic reaction, which needs urgent medical attention.
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Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
The problems facing the NHS have been years in the making: a result of poor decision-making, lack of political consensus and chronic underinvestment.
Collaboration and good working relationships are crucial for community-based ambulance services to work.
Coastal hospitals are still at high risk, nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina’s flood disaster at Memorial Medical Center shocked the world.
If your COVID symptoms worsen suddenly, hospital is the best place for you to be monitored, treated and to recover well.
An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
A safe home, a working fridge and access to transport are all needed before western medicine has a chance of working in the long term. But a new way of providing care can help.
Hospital overcrowding in Ontario is at an all-time high. And the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario just passed a policy that will make it worse.
Only 16 out of 48 African countries and islands have access to hospital services within the WHO’s two-hour time threshold.
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Joel Lexchin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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PhD Fellow, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Head, Population Health Unit, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of South Carolina
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Senior Lecturer Emergency Medicine and Global Surgery, University of Cape Town
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Conjoint Associate Professor in clinical pharmacology and toxicology, St Vincent’s Healthcare Clinical Campus, UNSW Sydney
