Lack of nurses 'killing Africans'
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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An inquest into the death of nurse finds shortcomings in standards of care expected in a major teaching hospital.
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More than a million babies die across Africa every year in their first month of life, a hidden tragedy neglected by donor countries and African governments.
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France's health minister on Sunday called for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital workers were found slain &#151; one decapitated and the other with her throat slit &#151; at a psychiatric facility.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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MEXICO CITY -- African countries are facing a health crisis because they lack enough medical personnel to attend to the sick, a top international health official told a summit of government ministers and researchers Thursday.
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Critics bemoaning the probable closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center seem to be missing an important point: The hospital is killing people.
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PARIS - France&#39;s health minister yesterday called for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital workers were found slain -- one decapitated and the other with her throat slit -- at a psychiatric facility.
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Patient safety is at risk because of delays in hearing misconduct cases against nurses, the BBC learns.
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The world is suffering an acute shortage of doctors, nurses, and other health workers, according to a global group of health leaders.
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Health centers staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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The wife of a Hong Kong nurse who died of SARS last year alleged Monday that hospital authorities did not provide training on how to care for victims of the disease or set up enough treatment facilities.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres expresses shock at the killing of one of its local staff in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Foes of the death penalty say fewer Africans than ever before are being hanged, beaten, shot, shocked, stoned or poisoned by their governments.
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Politics: 18 October 2004, Monday. The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya could only provisionally count on the support of the European officials, Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.
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A South African study concludes it is the elderly, particularly women, who are bearing the brunt of caring for AIDS sufferers and children orphaned by the disease.