Health

Insurance company ordered to pay Rs 26,882 for wrongly rejecting dengue claim

Times of India

Insurance company ordered to pay Rs 26,882 for wrongly rejecting dengue claim

A consumer commission ordered Star Health to reimburse a woman's dengue treatment claim. The insurer had rejected the claim citing hospital record discrepancies. The commission found these discrepancies were beyond the complainant's…

Times of India

Construction begins on $1.1 billion Mandurah hospital south of Perth

ABC News

Construction begins on $1.1 billion Mandurah hospital south of Perth

Construction starts on a new five-storey hospital in Mandurah, south of Perth, at a total cost of more than $1 billion.

ABC News

Charity cyclist Bob Montgomery, 82, dies one day after 5,200km ride across Australia

Charity cyclist Bob Montgomery, 82, dies one day after 5,200km ride across Australia

Montgomery died in a single-vehicle crash in Sydney just one day after completing his latest fundraising cycling trip with his teenage grandson Bob Montgomery, a charity cyclist who recently finished a 5,200km bike ride from Broome to…

Person critically injured after SH1 crash in Northland

Stuff

Person critically injured after SH1 crash in Northland

One person is being airlifted to hospital after the two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1.

Stuff

Shenzhen authorities order stop to illegal dental services, misleading ads in Hong Kong

South China Morning Post

Shenzhen authorities order stop to illegal dental services, misleading ads in Hong Kong

Shenzhen’s health authorities have issued a warning to private medical service providers, urging them to halt unauthorised operations and marketing activities in Hong Kong after local officials alerted their mainland Chinese counterparts…

South China Morning Post

Greener streets linked to longer sleep, study suggests

Euronews

Greener streets linked to longer sleep, study suggests

The way a neighbourhood looks could influence how well people sleep, new research suggests, adding to growing evidence that urban design can affect public health.

Euronews

Public urged to avoid hospital unless ‘life might be in danger’ after record day for Sydney emergency departments

Public urged to avoid hospital unless ‘life might be in danger’ after record day for Sydney emergency departments

Winter flu season is putting pressure on the health system, with medical staff bracing for the ‘worst three weeks of the year’ Sick patients in New South Wales have been told to avoid the emergency room unless their life is at risk after a…

Cancer survivors need protection from future discrimination, say German politicians

Cancer survivors need protection from future discrimination, say German politicians

Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance German politicians who have survived cancer have spearheaded proposals to protect people long in remission…

GPs’ breast cancer guidelines ‘miss’ 95% of women who will develop disease

GPs’ breast cancer guidelines ‘miss’ 95% of women who will develop disease

Findings prompt calls for review of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence criteria Young women in England who later develop breast cancer are not being referred for early tests or preventive treatment because current guidelines…

Philippine Daily Inquirer

DepEd urges Congress to fund separate compensation for Aral tutors