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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2009 
Raytheon will provide an electronic patient tracking system to a public health-led team of first responders and hospital personnel in Long Beach, Calif., that will improve the availability of patient information.
The EPTS, an information technology solution, facilitates the triage, treatment and transport of victims during mass casualty incidents by providing selected patient data to all i ... read more
Beijing (AFP) Aug 7, 2009China is to set up health records for its 800 million rural residents as part of an ambitious reform that aims to provide basic medical care for all by 2020, state media said. By the end of this year at least five percent of the rural population should have records under a pilot project to test implementation of the new system, Xinhua news agency said, citing a ministry of health plan announ ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009More than 200 people fell ill Wednesday in an ammonia gas leak at a pharmaceutical plant in northern China, state media reported. The leak occurred at 9:40 am (0140 GMT) when a tanker truck was unloading 30 tonnes of liquid ammonia at the plant in Chifeng city, in Inner Mongolia, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the local district government. Twenty-one people were hospitalised and 18 ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Russia will boost monitoring at its border with China following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in a neighboring north-western region, Russia's top sanitary doctor said Monday. "Control over people crossing this border will be stepped up, including both Chinese and Russian nationals," Gennady Onishchenko said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency, adding that the region was fairly remote ... more  
Tripoli (AFP) July 30, 2009Libya and Canada have signed a memorandum of intent on nuclear power, the fourth signed by Tripoli in the past two years, an official said on Thursday. The memorandum foresees cooperation between the two countries in research and the mining, processing and transport of uranium, as well as its use in medicine and desalination projects. Since July 2007, Libya has signed another three ... more |
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Panama City (AFP) July 20, 2009The death toll from swine flu continued to mount throughout Central and South America on Monday, with Panama reporting its first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus -- a nine-month old baby. Panama's Health Ministry said in a statement that the infant died Sunday night at a children's hospital in the capital of "respiratory complications." So far, authorities in Panama have confirmed 541 ... more 
Cape Town (AFP) July 20, 2009Africans with AIDS increasingly need access to newer medications in order to survive, but the latest drugs are still priced far out of reach for people who need them, Doctors Without Borders said Monday. The global medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) warned that at one of the continent's longest-running treatment schemes, based in Khayelitsha township outside Cape Town, more ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) July 17, 2009Sitting in an emergency room, Saadi Ibrahim held an oxygen mask up to his face, his voice barely rising above a whisper, the casualty of Iraq's latest scourge -- sandstorms. "I cannot stand these sandstorms, I cannot breathe," the 46-year-old said in central Baghdad's Ibn Nafis hospital. Since the onset of summer, such storms have struck Iraq on a near-daily basis, making day-to-day life ... more |
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