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- UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir without patient consent https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/04/uk_governement_set_to_extract/ 17 comments
- U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients 526 comments
- Hospital’s experiment in sedating patients without consent raises ethical concerns https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/07/25/hospitals-experiment-in-sedating-patients-without-consent-raises-ethical-concerns/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3fe1e289257b 10 comments politics
- Airstrike destroys Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, killing staff and patients https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/airstrike-destroys-doctors-without-borders-hospital-in-aleppo-killing-staff-and-patients/2016/04/28/e1377bf5-30dc-4474-842e-559b10e014d8_story.html 3670 comments worldnews
- Watch: Doctors, nurses attacked in Delhi hospital as Covid patient dies without getting ICU bed https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/delhi/story/doctors-attacked-in-delhi-hospital-by-family-of-covid-patient-1795567-2021-04-27 10 comments india
- Airstrike Destroys Doctors Without Borders Hospital In Syria, Staff And Patients Killed http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/air-strikes-hit-aleppo-hospital-at-least-27-killed-observatory-1400470 5 comments worldnews
- U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any COVID-19 Patients https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients 26 comments politics
- Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital https://apnews.com/article/business-public-health-madrid-coronavirus-pandemic-spain-138ca04c768ea0d06d1d3886d2177e77 5 comments worldnews
- (Alleged)Out of town heart patient kicked out of Shanghai Hospital and couldn't go home and now lives in the streets without food. https://twitter.com/bys8r7kv57/status/1512657172433600515?s=19&t=o-W3jUpc8kcSJetaVqbZJA 7 comments china
- The Register: ‘UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent’ | “'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down” — how stupid can you get? https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/04/uk_governement_set_to_extract/ 17 comments pltr
- Hospitals regularly save money by "medical repatriation" of undocumented workers, whereby an unconscious patient is flown to their home country without their consent. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-23/national/38745133_1_two-immigrants-federal-health-care-reform-hospitals 78 comments worldnews
- Studies show that even patients who need emergency care for a potentially serious problem will go without it if they are in a high-deductible health plan (although this increases their risk of subsequent hospitalization) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/when-cost-deters-care.html 10 comments politics
- China accused of cremating bodies in secret as coronavirus patient numbers spike. The sources confirmed “many dead bodies” were sent directly from hospitals to the cremation centres “without properly identifying these patients”. https://au.news.yahoo.com/china-cremates-bodies-in-secret-as-coronavirus-patients-spike-070222348.html 1050 comments worldnews
- No electricity, no antibiotics, no beds, no soap: A devastating look inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day, bleeding patients lie strewn on the floor, and doctors try to operate without tools http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3595946/no-electricity-no-antibiotics-no-beds-no-soap-devastating-look-inside-venezuela-s-crisis-struck-hospitals-7-babies-die-day-bleeding-patients-lie-strewn-floor-doctors-try-operate-without-tools.html 4 comments worldnews
- Israeli security agents held a Palestinian patient for three weeks without charge, interrogated him repeatedly and offered access to hospital care if he agreed to become an informant... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/06/isarel-gaza-patients-accusation-interrogation 76 comments worldnews
- Hospital giant's IT still poorly a week after suspected ransomware infection - Insiders tell of struggle to access patient info, meds without working computers https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/12/hospital_outages_ransomware/ 23 comments technology
- Support staff and Black and Latinx hospital employees with and without patient care responsibilities are at highest risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care settings. The results suggest a need to enact safety protocols to protect the health care workforce from future waves of infection. https://www.rutgers.edu/news/coronavirus-infection-odds-twice-high-among-black-latinx-hospital-workers 5 comments science
- Half of Syria's 88 public hospitals and nearly 200 clinics have been damaged or destroyed, the World Health Organization says, leaving many without access to health care. Diabetics can't find insulin, kidney patients can't reach dialysis centers. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/m/ml_syria_war_wounded?site=ripaw&section=home&template=default 10 comments worldnews
- US infected Guatemalans with syphilis in 1940s - A college professor has discovered that the US govt in the 1940s infected Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases in an experiment conducted without the knowledge of the 1,500 men and women - some of them patients in a mental hospital. http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2010/10/us_infected_gua.html?p1=news_links 166 comments worldnews
- Over 2,000 doctors worked without pay at Japanese univ. hospitals - Japanese university hospitals have a practice of not paying wages to doctors -- many of whom are graduate students -- who treat patients as part of their research or training. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190628/p2g/00m/0dm/080000c 10 comments worldnews
- Prescribed painkillers 'shortened 456 lives' : 456 patients died from opiods prescribed without justification, report into Gosport War Memorial Hospital says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44547788 6 comments worldnews
- Hospitals miss dementia even when already diagnosed - Dementia is being missed by hospital doctors in four in ten cases, research shows. The study by University College London found medical staff are routinely treating patients without realising that they had been diagnosed with dementia. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/24/hospitals-miss-dementia-even-already-diagnosed/ 5 comments worldnews
- How can the body survive without blood? How does the body get oxygen? Human trials of suspended animation is scheduled to begin soon at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. They plan on replacing the patients blood with chilled saline, in order to slow down bodily functions and prevent blood loss. http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/26/human-suspended-animation-trials/?ncid=rss_truncated 15 comments askscience
- Western Drugmakers Tested Medicines on Unwitting East Germans. Until the fall of the Wall, Western pharmaceutical companies conducted drug trials in East German hospitals. More than 50,000 patients served as subjects, often without their knowledge, and many died. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/western-drugmakers-tested-medicines-on-unwitting-east-germans-a-899594.html 5 comments worldnews
- ‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, tries to collect blood from unconscious patient without a warrant by threatening and physically coercing nurse for doing her job and correctly obeying the law. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/this-is-crazy-sobs-utah-hospital-nurse-as-cop-roughs-her-up-arrests-her-for-doing-her-job/?utm_term=.90bba469b0ef 3 comments politics
- NATO Was 'Praying' for MSF as the US Attacked Its Hospital in Kunduz | Doctors Without Borders reveals that, while US airstrikes were killing patients in an Afghan hospital, the alliance was being warned via text that it was hitting civilians -- and that it replied with prayers https://news.vice.com/article/nato-was-praying-for-msf-as-the-us-attacked-its-hospital-in-kunduz 102 comments worldnews
- A new study found that during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic people living with HIV were less likely to die from Covid than persons without HIV. Hospitalized patients with HIV and Covid were less likely to require mechanical ventilation and were less likely to die. https://home.liebertpub.com/news/impact-of-hiv-virus-on-covid-19-disease/4877 91 comments science
- Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 - Retrospective data analysis (n=368) found no evidence that the use of hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf 9 comments science
- Hospital patients with dementia and other causes of confusion 'have worse outcomes'. People who are admitted to hospital with confusion seem to do badly, and are at an increased risk of dying, increased risk of re-admission, and a hospital stay nearly two weeks longer than those without confusion. http://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2017/07/hospital-dementia-outcomes/ 3 comments science
- Fears of NHS Winter Crisis After Major Incident at Hospital - Surprise inspection finds patients being inappropriately restrained & sedated without consent & “do not resuscitate” notices being disregarded. News comes as health secretary warns of most pressure ever on the system. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/14/colchester-hospital-sedation-restraint-cqc-nhs-crisis 4 comments worldnews
- “Deadly diarrhea” rates nearly doubled in 10 years: Infections with the intestinal superbug C. difficile nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010 in U.S. hospitals without noticeable improvement in patient mortality rates or hospital lengths of stay, study of 2.2 million C. difficile infection cases shows http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/deadly-diarrhea-rates-nearly-doubled-in-10-years-study 6 comments science
- India’s government-run hospitals provide low-cost treatment to the poor, but there are increasing claims that patients are being used as guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharmaceuticals without their knowledge. http://rt.com/top_news/2010-08-19/india-drug-trial-pharma.html?fullstory 12 comments worldnews
- Researchers have found that more than one-third of patients who denied that their self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted from a suicide attempt most likely had indeed tried to kill themselves, and commonly were sent home from the hospital without further mental health treatment. http://uoflnews.com/releases/self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-survivors-may-deny-suicide-attempt-face-barriers-to-care/ 71 comments science