Burial workers in the Sierra Leonean city of Kenema have dumped bodies in public in protest at non-payment of allowances for handling Ebola victims.
The workers, who went on strike over the issue, left 15 bodies abandoned at the city's main hospital.
One of the bodies was reportedly left by the...
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Team spent days in remote Liberian hospital to prove that remedies work
They planned to treat victims with 'rattlesnake venom' and 'Spanish Fly'
Boasted of the 'unique opportunity' presented by deadly Ebola outbreak
Claimed they would treat all European victims after proving success
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After the collapse of PIP, a breast implant manufacturer that used industrial standard silicon for the implants, not clinical standard, now the Harley Medical Group cries wolf.
Whilst I think that every woman who had breast implants for medical reasons should be immediately dealt with on the...
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A Danish doctor is claiming that he took naked photographs of anorexia patients and forced them to use sex toys in an attempt to make them feel better about their bodies.
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She stole his foot -- and now she might have to foot the bill. A former Florida paramedic who snatched a man's severed foot from the scene of a car crash is being sued by the victim.
Cynthia Economou -- a former St. Lucie County Fire District firefighter and paramedic -- admitted that she...
December 10, 2010
Weird News: Bad lung beats none at all
Britain’s National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former...
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This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...
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