Health system not yet ready for disaster: study
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Half of all U.S. states would run out of hospital beds within the first two weeks of a moderate flu pandemic and 47 states would run out if a bad one hit, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officials...
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Many hospitals do not believe that the promised guarantee of treatment can be implemented in Finnish public health facilities next year.
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Many people are not being treated properly for a common illness that is a silent killer, a watchdog says.
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(AGI) - London, Nov. 27 - There is a chronic shortage of investments in human resources in the health sector around the world. This impedes forceful fighting of illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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Most states in the US are still ill-prepared to cope with a bioterror attack or other public health emergency, even after a surge in federal spending for such efforts since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Preventing outbreaks of diseases across  tsunami-hit Asia is a race against time, but contrary to  popular belief, the thousands of rotting corpses do not pose  the main threat, health officials said on Thursday.
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Survivors of the deadliest tsunami on  record face serious water-borne diseases such as cholera, and  will urgently need medicine and access to healthcare in the  months ahead, doctors and health experts said on Friday.
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Patients may not be given a choice of hospitals by the end of the year as ministers promised, a report says.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.
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From an emergency department with faulty monitors, IV pumps and broken stretchers to an operating room running part time for lack of staff, patient care is increasingly limited and uncertain at Greater Southeast Community Hospital, according to a draft report by District health regulators.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia  can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds  of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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Patients in accident and emergency units are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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The Trust for America&#39;s Health says most states don&#39;t even have a comprehensive response plan for an emergency involving a biological weaon.
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As the death toll in Sunday&#39;s tsunamis continues to rise, health authorities are struggling to prevent the outbreak of diseases in the worst affected areas.