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Washington (AFP) - Louisiana's strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women's health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure in 2022. But a joint fact-finding mission conducted from May to November last year by four medical NGOs charges that Louisiana's abortion b...
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Washington (AFP) - After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, women who were undergoing fertility treatments in the southern US state had their lives thrown into shock and uncertainty. One woman had her long-awaited embryo transfer canceled, while another did not know when or if she would be able to retrieve her frozen eggs, they told US media. The state supreme court ruled in mid-February that embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) should have the rights of children. Destroying abnormal or non-viable embryos -- among other common measures practiced by fer...
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Boston (AFP) - A hospital in Boston refused to perform a heart transplant on a patient who had not been vaccinated for Covid-19, US television media reported Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Brigham and Women's Hospital confirmed in a statement to AFP that vaccination against the coronavirus is "required" for organ transplant recipients there. The patient's father, David Ferguson, appeared on news channels CNN and ABC to share the family's story, saying his 31-year-old son has been to the "edge of death" and "pushed to the limit" waiting for a heart transplant. The patient, who had been in line fo...
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New Orleans (AFP) - As the Covid-19 Delta variant tightens its grip on the United States, that grip is nowhere tighter than in the southern state of Louisiana, where the sky-high rate of infections is the worst in the country. With hospitals hammered and healthcare workers struggling amid a furious virus surge that has brought the state's daily average of infections to 126 per 100,000 inhabitants, historic New Orleans has opted for decisive action: on Monday it will follow New York and San Francisco in requiring what amounts to a "health pass" for entry to an array of venues. "We're here tod...
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Washington (AFP) - An American nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday over the murder of seven veterans to whom she had given lethal doses of insulin while they were under her care in a hospital. "There is no explanation and certainly no justification," Judge Thomas Kleeh told Reta Mays as her sentence was imposed. "You're the worst. You're the monster that no one sees coming." Mays, 46, pleaded guilty in July to the seven murders and attempted homicide of an eighth man, avoiding a trial and full investigation into a dozen other suspicious deaths. Confronted Tuesday for the firs...
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Reno (United States) (AFP) - To cope with an influx of coronavirus patients, a hospital in Reno in the western US state of Nevada has transformed two floors of a nearby parking garage into a care unit dealing with patients experiencing less severe symptoms. The space gives Renown Health Hospital patients and staff a secure environment that has direct access to key hospital facilities -- lab, pharmacy, food services -- while freeing up intensive care unit beds in the main building for the most severe cases. The site was constructed in just 10 days back in April, when specialized companies were ...
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