Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE Adelaide farmer and hunter diagnosed with Congo fever earlier this month, died at St George‘s Hospital yesterday.
Herald (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
THE skills and abilities of a former nurse at St George‘s Hospital came under the spotlight during the Malherbe trial in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
SIX laptops have been stolen from a major teaching hospital. The laptops contain information about some 20,000 patients, including their names, date of birth and postcodes, a spokeswoman for St George's Hospital, in Tooting, south London, said.
IT Sneak (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
As if we didn't know this already, more evidence has emerged that when it comes to data security, human beings are well thick, innit. This time the poor victims were patients at St George's hospital in Tooting, around 20,000 of them to be porecise, whose records have been stolen from said premises. A total of six unencrypted laptops holding sensitive data on them went missing a wee while back, but...
Sky News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Six laptops containing the names and postcodes of patients have been stolen from a major teaching hospital.
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Last week has been a hard week. A real mental roller coaster. Last weekend, My mother whilst on holiday south of the border, collapsed, and was rushed to hospital. She was then transferred to the Neural Intensive Care Unit of St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London. Diagnosis: A blood clot on the brain, and doctors were having to operate to release the pressure, and the only way to do that were...
Genetics and Health (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
(Image source: www.livingwithcfs.wordpress.com) Researchers from St George’s Hospital, University of London have identified a biological basis for 7 different genetic types of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The St George’s study looked at 55 patients from the US and UK with the condition, and carried out a genetic analysis of them and 75 healthy blood donors. It identified the seven [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine. Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening [...]
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Yes, on the right you see a cordless medgadget used by a renowned neurosurgeon during complicated brain operations. Doctor Henry Marsh of St George's Hospital in London performs pro-bono work in Ukraine twice a year, and has to resort to cheaper tools, not exactly CE Mark approved, when performing surgeries. When working for the National Health Service, Marsh uses a £30,000 compressed-air medical drill,...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
A lift operator in Vidhan Bhavan was admitted to St George's Hospital after a Shiv Sena MLA assaulted him.
Herald (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
THE culpable homicide trial of two well-known doctors at St George‘s Hospital was postponed for another week in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.
Herald (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
AWARD-WINNING breast cancer campaigner Brenda Foster died on Wednesday evening at St George‘s Hospital in Port Elizabeth.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Veteran TV star Jeff Stewart has been hospitalised after reportedly slashing his wrists on the set of The Bill moments after he was fired from the police show. Stewart, who played PC Reg Hollis since the show begun in 1984, was rushed to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London
Herald (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
THE culpable homicide trial of two high-profile St George‘s Hospital doctors resumed in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
St George’s Hospital has reported over 100 deaths from hospital superbugs. 116 people have died from MRSA and Clostridium difficile at the Tooting hospital in the last four years. The report comes on the coattails of St George’s clinical rating being lowered from 'good' to 'fair'; an adjustment influenced largely by the hospital's failure to combat the superbugs. These figures were released the same...
