WHO transfers critical patients out of Nasser Medical Complex, fears for safety of remaining patients at AshTip Solution.

Some patients continually cancel their appointments, ignore your medical directions, treat your staff rudely, or send you harassing emails. 2023-06-21

In a move that raises the stakes in doctors' ongoing scope-creep battle against nonphysician providers, the American Medical Association's (AMA) legislative body voted recently to change its policy on the supervision of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). AMA's House of Delegates called for state medical boards to regulate APRNs in addition to nursing boards. 2023-07-06

In March 2023, four "medical tourists" from South Carolina who were seeking healthcare in Mexico were kidnapped by a drug cartel. Two were killed when they were trapped in a shootout. One of them was scheduled for tummy-tuck surgery, and others were seeking cheaper prescription drugs. 2023-07-24

Sixteen people from Gaza with complicated medical conditions will arrive in Spain today to receive care there, through an evacuation process involving the World Health Organization (WHO) and multiple partners. Fifteen of them are children, ranging in age from 3 to 17 years old. The mother of one of the children will also be treated in Spain. The patients had been in hospital in Egypt for the past several months, after evacuating from Gaza. They are a small portion of the thousands of other children and adults who need access to specialized medical care outside of Gaza. 2024-07-25