A Palm Coast woman has been arrested for posing as a registered nurse and treating over 4,400 patients without a valid license, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Autumn Bardisa, 29, was arrested following a seven-month investigation that revealed she had impersonated a licensed nurse at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway. Bardisa used…
Hong Kong’s Pok Fu Lam neighbourhood was hit by heavy downpours in the early hours of Tuesday, with rainwater flooding a major thoroughfare and a public hospital, once forcing it to divert patients to other institutions. The Hospital Authority said on Tuesday the severe flooding on some roads within the Queen Mary Hospital compound had…
A doctor who worked full time at the Alliance Medical Group in Hong Kong has said the company’s sudden apparent closure followed months of financial instability, leaving him with unpaid wages of up to HK$800,000 (US$103,190) and causing anxiety for patients over ongoing treatment. The doctor, who spoke to the Post on Saturday on condition…
She found love in a hopeless place. Finding love in today’s digital dating world is no east feat — especially if you’re going through a life- changing experience. This is what happened to a young woman diagnosed with cancer — who swiped for love and to her surprise, found her dream man. Nella Pignatelli was…
Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity. At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, near the outbreak’s epicenter, several patients have been found to have abnormal liver function on routine lab tests, a probable sign that they’ve taken…
Big changes are coming to the fees people pay in Hong Kong’s public healthcare system under reforms that aim to support the neediest patients. Under the revamp, set to take effect on January 1 next year, the government is seeking to bring down the rate it subsidises public healthcare by, from 97.6 per cent, among…
NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (AP) — The world’s woes got you down? Feeling burnout at work? Need a little something extra to fight illness or prep for surgery? The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering its residents a novel medical option: Expose yourself to art and get a doctor’s note to do it for free. Under a…
Patients at Hong Kong’s public hospitals and clinics may need to pay more for their prescriptions, with authorities reviewing the current heavily subsidised HK$15 (US$1.92) fee for a 16-week supply of medicine. Without disclosing details of the fee adjustment review, Dr Simon Tang Yiu-hang, director of cluster services at the Hospital Authority, said the aim…
Is there such a thing as a cancer-fighting food? Can certain foods actually prevent cancer? Unfortunately, the answer is “no.” There is no food that can starve a cancer cell or lower your risk of developing cancer to zero. Eating healthy foods may reduce your cancer risk but won’t eliminate it entirely. “There are many different causes…
So Macron will just appoint a new prime minister, right? Yes, but it’s not that simple. The French National Assembly is divided into three political blocs: Macron’s centrists, the far-right National Rally, and the left-wing coalition. The three groups are poles apart on politics and refuse to work together, meaning that any new government could…