Sveikatos apsaugos ministerija užsimojo per ateinančius dvejus metus į privačių paslaugų teikėjų rankas perduoti net 80 proc. pirminės sveikatos priežiūros paslaugų. Tokie planai gąsdina ir medikus, ir jų pacientus.
Lietuvos sveikatos apsaugos sistema yra prasčiausia Europoje, konstatuojama Briuselyje pristatytame Europos Sveikatos paslaugų indekso tyrime. Lietuvos sveikatos paslaugų indeksas yra žemiausias iš 26 tyrime dalyvavusių šalių.
Panevėžio ligoninės pacientai vis dažniau bendras ligonių palatas iškeičia į ištaigingas, viešbučio lygio vienutes. Jau aštuonerius metus ramybę ir patogumą ligoninėje siūlo keturiolika mokamų palatų.
More than 3,000 people have signed up to be potential bone-marrow donors since word spread that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez, one of the child stars of “The Lion King” on Broadway, needed a transplant to combat her acute myelogenous leukemia.
A Vatican official has criticised the decision to award British IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards the Nobel Prize in Medicine, saying the choice was ‘very perplexing’.
Cutting-edge medical treatments clash with age-old caste divisions in India’s booming fertility industry, as parents seek donors from the same caste and religion.
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects’ permission.
Keys, cards, passports and PINs could soon be a thing of the past as biometric technology makes our bodies the only passwords we need.
“If one day a bionic hand outperformed a biological hand just on sheer practical performance — like dexterity, strength and speed — I’d probably consider replacing my biological hand,” said Kyle Peterson, a 21-year-old information science major at the University of North Florida in an e-mail.
Should medical researchers be allowed to create human-animal hybrids to investigate disease? No, says an ethics think tank that advises the Scottish Parliament. Yes, says Ian Wilmut of the University of Edinburgh, creator of Dolly the cloned sheep.
