Iraq health care 'in deep crisis'
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Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says.
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An urgent overhaul of US policy on Iraq is needed to stop "a slide towards chaos", says a major report.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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TIME correspondent Michael Weisskopf, a former patient, looks at how the hospital came to symbolize what's wrong in Iraq
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The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is pulling out of Iraq because of the danger to its staff. MSF said it had become impossible &quot;to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi&quot;.
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LONDON, March 11 -- British troops  wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving appalling  care in British hospitals, according to families who have made complaints similar to those leveled against Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
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The NHS is failing to offer sufficient out-of-hours GP care for severely ill patients, experts say.
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The military health-care system canât keep pace with the flood of battlefield casualties. Max Cleland--Vietnam vet, triple amputee, and former U.S. senator--on the roots of the crisis, and what needs to be done.
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Continuing drug shortages are having far-reaching, negative impacts on patient care and hospital costs, says a survey conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (news - web sites) (ASHP) and pharmacy residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Multimedia: Surgeons and medics in an army field hospital struggle to save the lives of Iraqi and American troops
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Iraqis trapped in Fallujah face a humanitarian disaster unless Iraqi and US authorities allow food, water and medicine into the besieged city, aid agencies said Friday.
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Dr. Alex Garza, an Army Reserve captain and emergency room doctor from Missouri, saw firsthand how hopelessly outdated Iraq's medical libraries were.
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What a mess! Instead of the war in Iraq, the economy, the health-care crisis, the environment and leadership qualities -- which should be the key issues in this year&#39;s presidential election campaign -- the
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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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In Baghdad's largest hospitals, overworked, underpaid Iraqi physicians and nurses see hundreds of patients per day, roughly half of whom are victims of the city's strife.