An elderly patient in a wheelchair at a hospital in England. An NHS regulatory has claimed that around 10,000 patients are killed each year by the “dangerously” variable treatment by hospital and doctors in England. According to a report published in The Guardian on Tuesday, Care Quality Commission (CQC) chair David Prior warned that many patients receive poor care which leads to many thousands... 

At least two people have been killed in devastating floods gripping the western Czech Republic. The disaster caused by torrential rains has prompted the evacuation of metro stations, several hospitals and the zoo in the capital. Heavy rain over the weekend has resulted in flood warnings in west, north, central and south Bohemia. At least one woman is dead, after her home collapsed in Trebenice u Prahy,... 

The United States is sponsoring the construction of facilities in Georgia on the threshold of a military conflict in Iran, a member of Georgian opposition movement Public Assembly, Elizbar Javelidze has stated. According to the academician, that explains why President Mikhail Saakashvili is roaming the republic opening new hospitals in its regions. “These are 20-bed hospitals…It’s an American... 

Egyptian army forces clash with protesters near Liberation Square, Cairo, December 16, 2011. Egyptian military police have stormed a makeshift hospital near Cairo’s Liberation Square, burning medical supplies and detaining doctors for helping protesters. The regime’s army forces surrounded the makeshift hospital on Saturday and threatened doctors to leave the site, as Egyptian military... 

Breakthrough: The blood made from stem cells would transform blood transfusions by preventing shortages in hospitals and prove a lifesaver on battlefields and at the scene of car crashes Artificial blood created from stem cells could be tested on Britons within two years. The scientists behind the research, which could provide industrial scale quantities of blood, believe it will transform transfusions... 

Infection: Officials are trying to discover how intravenous feeding bags became contaminated with bacteria after nine critically ill patients died and 10 others were sickened at Alabama hospitals. Patients were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags. Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died and the maker has pulled the product...