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People 5 years ago

Photo of Texas doctor comforting elderly COVID patient goes viral

Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU).

World 5 years ago

Maradona's surgeon responds tearfully to investigation into star's death

Earlier in the day prosecutors in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, said they were investigating Leopoldo Luque while Argentine television showed police raiding the doctor's surgery and home.

National 5 years ago

COVID-19 claims life of Indonesian Medical Association official

The recent death of Andrianto Purnawan, the head of the Indonesian Medical Association’s (IDI) public participation acceleration team for COVID-19 mitigation, adds to the rising number of medical personnel who have succumbed to the coronavirus.

Business 5 years ago

Standardization, doctors' support key to developing herbal medicine sector: Webinar

Officials and scientists say that developing the herbal medicine sector on a par with the pharmaceutical industry requires more regulatory certainty, familiarization among medical professionals and an effort toward improving Indonesia's self-sufficiency in health and medicine.

National 5 years ago

253 health workers lost to COVID-19 since pandemic began: IDI

East Java has reported 35 doctor fatalities, more than any other province.

National 5 years ago

Medical associations to file subpoena for Health Minister over new radiology regulation

A coalition of medical associations is planning to file a judicial review and issue a subpoena to Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto over a recently issued ministerial regulation on clinical radiology, which the group has deemed “an abuse of power”.

National 5 years ago

COVID-19: Health Ministry forms team to probe doctor deaths

The Health Ministry has formed a team to investigate the high death toll among doctors from COVID-19, the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has announced.

National 5 years ago

COVID-19 doctor tells Jokowi about shortage of healthcare workers in video call

“Insya Allah [God willing], we have enough medical equipment. However, we are short of [medical] workers, while the number of patients keeps rising,” pulmonologist Faisal Rizal Matondang from the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) said.

World 5 years ago

France probes doctors prescribing antibiotics for autism

French prosecutors said Thursday that they had opened an inquiry into dozens of doctors prescribing antibiotics and other drugs as a purported treatment for autism in children, potentially endangering their health.