Community Health Clinics Flourish, but Doctors Are Few
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The Bush administration has increased spending on community health centers by hundreds of millions of dollars since 2001, helping to open or expand more than 500 of the facilities and extending basic medical services to 4.5 million people.
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A major survey of Canadian doctors revealed what most Canadians already know first-hand - there aren&#39;t enough family doctors for everyone.
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In the wake of the tsunami, local medical workers are the unsung heroes.
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Men are much less likely than their wives, sisters and mothers to see a doctor, according to a 2000 study by The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based nonprofit that supports research on health and social services issues.
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The megaretailer rolls out in-store health clinics.
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GREENWOOD, Miss. -- A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Three months into the District's HIV campaign, almost 3 percent of more than 7,000 people tested at community health sites have been found to be positive for the virus -- more than double the national rate.
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The shortage of NHS dentists is so great in some areas, patients are turning to hospitals for treatment.
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Business leaders warn that millions of working days are lost because of the lack of weekend GP clinics.
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Throughout rural America, breast cancer screening is significantly underused, especially among poor minority populations, a new study finds.
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Millions have the disease but few discuss it, limiting options for care and research.
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A national survey by three top doctors groups says Canadians access to health care is being limited by an extreme shortage of physicians.
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Some family doctors have five times the number of patients than others, research shows.
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BWEFUM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- Not all that long ago, Mininyi Othman showed up at his clinic in this tiny village each morning to find a row of feverish people waiting on the bench outside. Malaria was ravaging his community. Now he has so few patients, his clinic was empty on Monday afternoon and he...
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By Jose Pagliery, The Miami Herald  Feb. 8--After 10 years wading through bureaucracy in the healthcare industry, Mario Yanez had had enough. He longed to separate himself from what he considered the dull business world and connect to a life outside of the city's concrete buildings.
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Why the impoverished Caribbean island has better medical care than its much wealthier neighbours.
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The city has made some adjustments at health clinics providing flu shots but enduring long waits and arriving very early are still the keys to getting vaccinated.