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Polish scientists have found a gene that they say more than doubles the risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19, a discovery they hope could help doctors identify people who are most at risk from the disease. With vaccine hesitancy a major fac..
Hamad Medical Corporation announced in an illustrative picture published on its Twitter account that those recovered from a previous infection with the Corona virus (Covid-19) during the past 12 months will receive the privileges that the vaccinated ..
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced changes to its outpatient services in response to the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in Qatar. The changes have been made to protect patients, visitors and staff from COVID-19 and mean that from Sunday..
A team lead by Sidra Medicine, in partnership with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), have successfully performed ground-breaking ortho-plastic oncology surgery and saved the life and limb of a four-year-old girl with Ewing’s Sarcoma. Th..
A surgeon in Austria has been fined after amputating the wrong leg of a patient earlier this year. The elderly patient's right leg was removed instead of his left, with the mistake only discovered two days later. On Wednesday, the court in ..
Two cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, first detected in Southern Africa last week, have been confirmed in Canada, provincial health officials said on Sunday. The cases were reported in two people who recently travelled to Nigeria, t..
A South African doctor who was one of the first to suspect a different coronavirus strain among patients said on Sunday that symptoms of the Omicron variant were so far mild and could be treated at home. Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a private ..
A consumer court in Gujarat has ordered a hospital to pay Rs 11 lakh compensation to the kin of a patient who died after a surgery for kidney stones. Instead of clearing the stones, the doctor at the hospital removed the patient's left kidney whi..
People vaccinated against COVID-19 are highly unlikely to die of the disease unless very old and already badly ill before getting it, a study in Italy showed on Wednesday. The study by the national Health Institute (ISS), contained in a regular IS..
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