In 1998, Dr. James Orbinski was at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the slum settlement of Kibera outside Nairobi, Kenya. He was part of a team offering treatment for malaria and diarrhea, and was also setting up an HIV prevention program.
In recent times hospitals have been joining retail outlets in placing greater emphasis on customer satisfaction.
Vigorous exercise reduced the risk of both cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, U.S. researchers said.
The president of the American College of Physicians says the state of healthcare in the United States is poor.
Long-term complications from weight-loss surgery deserve more attention because the number of U.S. procedures is booming, advocates say.
A World Health Organization study found surgical checklists reduce medical errors, but some U.S. hospitals have been doing this for years, an expert says.
Academic medical centers are not meeting hospital diabetes care standards, U.S. researchers said.
Big drugmakers should market personalized-medicine diagnostics while selling pharmaceuticals, a U.S. life science consulting firm's partner said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tentatively approved the 75th anti-retroviral generic drug of the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief.
