When Chinese surgeons ‘forgot’ to operate on man in OT

September 28th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu has said that no "serious adverse reaction" has been reported from people being immunized with the China-made A/H1N1 flu vaccine. Zhu's comments follow reports of Beijing announcing 14 cases of adverse reaction out of 39,000 residents, who were inoculated with the vaccine.

September 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists is all set to create a three-dimensional patient imaging system that will allow surgeons to view and virtually 'touch' genetic images of cancer. The 3D system will be made by a team of researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Delaware, who have received a grant from the Department of Defense.

September 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Chinese medicine made from dried venom secreted by the skin glands of toads has shown promise in slowing down cancer progression in patients, say researchers. Huachansu, the Chinese medicine, is widely used to treat patients with liver, lung, colon and pancreatic cancer at oncology clinics in China.

September 24th, 2009 Patient sues over brain surgery dispute in NYMINEOLA, N.Y. — A patient who was under anesthesia when a brain surgeon refused to step in for a no-show colleague is suing both doctors as well as the New York hospital.

September 23rd, 2009 Review: Rubik's TouchCube a little too touchyATLANTA — Thirty years ago Erno Rubik took a puzzle he had been tinkering with and turned it into the must-have brain twister toy, the Rubik's Cube. The original was hard enough with its confounding little "cubies," as the competitive Rubik's solvers call them.

September 23rd, 2009 Hospital cited; NY doc refused to perform surgeryGARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A New York doctor's refusal to perform brain surgery on a patient already under anesthesia — whose scheduled surgeon had failed to show up — has led the state health department to file violations against a Long Island hospital.

September 23rd, 2009 BEIJING - In their bid to control the fast spreading swine flu epidemic, authorities in China have so far administered H1N1 vaccine shots to more than 39,000 people, an epidemic control expert said Wednesday. Liang Xiaofeng, director of the immunization centre under the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said as of Tuesday only 14 people developed side effects after taking the vaccine shots.

September 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Using a pioneering technology, surgeons at The Methodist Hospital in Houston are removing gall bladders through a single incision in the belly button to prevent scarring for patients with gall stones. In fact, the breakthrough technique called single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) also ensures that patients undergo less pain during recovery.

September 14th, 2009 Feds urge small businesses to prepare for H1N1WASHINGTON — Federal officials say small business owners should be prepared to operate with fewer employees this fall as swine flu spreads across the country. The Department of Homeland Security is issuing guidelines on combating swine flu to small businesses, which employ about half the workers in the U.S.

September 10th, 2009 China tainted milk parents warned against meetingBEIJING — Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said Thursday. Milk powder contaminated with an industrial chemical killed at least six babies and sickened nearly 300,000 others with painful kidney stones — making it one of China's worst food safety scandals.

September 9th, 2009 BEIJING - With the release of first batch of the H1N1 vaccine, the Chinese Health Ministry has announced the country's vaccination plan against the influenza pandemic. China has become the first country in the world to be ready with a vaccine.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Edward Kennedy, who for decades championed health care reform in the US Senate until his death last month, has spoken out one last time on the issue that was closest to his heart. In a speech Wednesday to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama revealed that Kennedy wrote him a final letter in May - after being informed that his brain cancer was terminal - and instructed it to be delivered only after his death.

September 7th, 2009 BEIJING - With the surfacing of 100 new H1N1 cases since Friday, Chinese health experts have warned that the total cases nationwide will soon double to 10,000, as the peak of the outbreak has begun. "The recent clusters of school outbreaks are just the start of the peak season, which will feature widespread infections.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Tuesday said that the condition of the six-day-old baby with a protruding heart is "stable" and that they may perform a cardiac surgery on him Thursday. "The baby is alright and we will perform a second exchange blood transfusion on the baby Wednesday to rule out any infection.

August 29th, 2009 Ex-Ireland envoy, EMC chairman Egan dies in BostonBOSTON — Richard Egan, who rose from street kid to the U.S. ambassador to Ireland after making millions of dollars founding data storage giant EMC Corp., died Friday after a battle with lung cancer.