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Rann denies caretaker rules breach Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:32PMSouth Australian Premier Mike Rann denies he is snubbing caretaker mode protocols by giving a new federal health plan the thumbs up.
Greeks strike against austerity Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:32PMWorkers have once again taken to the streets in Athens, protesting the Greek government's new debt-driven economic austerity package.
State Sen. DeFronzo receives ‘Paragon of Excellence’ Award Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:32PMSpecial to The New Britain Herald Since it was first chartered in 1947, the Connecticut chapter of the American Federation of Teachers has never recognized a member of the General Assembly for advocacy or achievement, until this year.
Local vote offers hope of comeback for France s Royal Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:30PMA noisy crowd of student nurses greets Segolene Royal at a housing estate in Rochefort, a coastal town of 26,000 inhabitants in western France.
Eric Osborn charged with first-degree murder in girlfriend's death Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:20PM34-year-old Sarah McKay was found dead in her home on Monday.
Psychiatric Solutions confirm buyout interest Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:20PMPsychiatric Solutions Inc. confirmed this afternoon that third parties have approached the Franklin-based company seeking to buy it.
Psychiatric Solutions shares up on buyout report Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:20PMShares of Psychiatric Solutions Inc. are up more than 18 percent today on reports that the Franklin-based company is in talks to be acquired by a private equity firm.
Thai-ASEAN News Network Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:19PMThe Public Health Ministry is setting up an emergency medical center to prepare for potential violence during the Red-Shirt rally.
High school concussion rules proposed Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:12PMThe governing body of New Jersey high school athletics is proposing a regulation requiring athletes who sustain a concussion to get a certified physician's approval to return to game action.
Help Understanding the 2010 Census Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:59PMMany of you have probably started getting Census forms in your mailbox or have seen Census takers out and about in the community.
Superbug MRSA on rise in Canada Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:35AMThere has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of Canadians becoming infected or colonized by the superbug MRSA since 1995, both in hospitals and within the community, a study has found.
Athletic trainers promote sports safety Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:35AMThe National Athletic Trainers' Association has made the month of March the National Athletic Training Month with this year's theme "Sports Safety is a Team Effort." The national association's dedication to the month will be represented on the Western Illinois University campus, as Western's Athletic Training Education Program coincides with the association's theme of sports safety.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Renews Relationship With VHA Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:34AMIRVING, TX--(Marketwire - 03/10/10) - Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) of Buffalo, N.Y., one of the nation's leading comprehensive cancer centers, renewed its relationship with VHA Inc., the national health care network, as one way to cope with the anticipated devastating health care funding cuts proposed for facilities across the state. "We plan to leverage our membership in VHA to help us ...
Glutafin launches repositioning campaign Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:32AMGlutafin, the prescription-only gluten-free food brand, is launching an advertising campaign designed to help coeliacs carry on with life after diagnosis.
Whoever wins, Labor loses as Brumby, Rudd swap swipes Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:32AMWith both men facing elections, their fight over hospitals is bizarre.
Babies get fighting chance Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:32AMGroote Schuur Hospital, with the help of generous donors, has managed to raise funds for 23 new incubators - surpassing the original target by three and giving its cash-strapped neonatal unit an even better chance of saving babies.
Brumby plan aims to boost health staff Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:30AMAustralia would get almost 200,000 new doctors, dentists and nurses over the next 10 years under an overhaul of the national health system being pushed by Premier John Brumby.
Book helps patients navigate cancer Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:30AMGordon Aldrich was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, on May 13, 2004. He died May 13, 2006, two years to the day later. He was 43. But maybe he died too soon? Maybe his treatment was ineffective? Maybe his cancer team wasn't the...
Ontario's proposed health care reforms panned Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:27AMA group representing nurses says it was never consulted about the proposed changes to Ontario hospital funding, while a union is likening Premier Dalton McGuinty to "Leon Trotsky with an MBA."
Death toll of Perm nightclub fire reaches 156 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:48AMPERM, March 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll of the fire that broke out at the Perm nightclub Lame Horse reached 156 people.
Organ donar swap first for Bristol surgeons Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:43AMSurgeons at Southmead Hospital in Bristol are preparing for their first paired live kidney transplant.
USNS Comfort Heads Back to Baltimore Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:43AMThe Baltimore-based hospital ship that has been treating quake victims in Haiti, is coming home.
Veteran shares experiences of World War II at museum Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:41AMMILLVILLE -- While serving in World War II, Bill Hogan said every mission he participated in was a dangerous one. But he was never scared.
Knife-crime clampdown brings slight fall in injuries Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:40AMA FLAGSHIP Government scheme aimed at stopping knife attacks in crime hot spots has barely reduced the number of young victims taken to hospital with stab wounds, figures show. (10/03/2010 11:23:08)
Government to warn about baby slings Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:40AMConcern: a few infants have suffocated
Indianapolis-based e-health records network expands Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:36AMThe Indiana Network for Patient Care announced Tuesday that Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., has joined 40 other hospitals and clinics that are part of an online network that handles one of the nation's highest volume of health information exchanges.
Comfort leaving Haiti against doctors' wishes Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:36AMNavy medical ship to arrive in Baltimore Sunday The hospital ship USNS Comfort left Port-au-Prince harbor Tuesday night to begin a five-day sail back to Baltimore, its Navy commanders having determined - against the advice of some civilian doctors on the ground - that the floating medical center is no longer needed in earthquake-damaged Haiti.
Nigeria : Presidency And Two Parallel Agenda (2) Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:34AMLagos — In any case why is Nigeria's ruling class, the various segments of which in the ruling-class political parties has turned the ideology of "less government" into a religion, belly-aching about the absence of government occasioned by President Yar'Adua vacation.
Pregnancy-related deaths increase nationwide Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:57PMWASHINGTON — Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
March 9: Births Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:44PMRecent births at area hospitals:
Google dangles ultrafast broadband and cities leap Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:43PMDULUTH, Minnesota: Wearing just a T-shirt and shorts, Mayor Don Ness strolled to the end of a dock jutting into frigid Lake Superior. He grinned, waved his arms to a cheering crowd, and jumped in. "I'...
Children return to school in post-quake Chile Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:32PMHundreds of thousands of Chilean children returned to class Monday as a revised death toll continued to climb nine days after an earthquake and tsunami waves devastated the country.
Women Hospitalized After Fake Silicone Injections Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:30PMJ-Lo and Kim Kardashian have curves women would kill for. This may have been the shapely image six New Jersey women were trying to achieve when they got injections from bogus medical providers to enhance their behinds, but instead ended up in hospitals with severe tumor-like infections.
Kewanee Hospital officials lobby for increase in state reimbursements Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:26PMRepresentatives of Kewanee Hospital and the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network met with state senators and representatives in Springfield last week to garner support for legislation that could mean $675,000 more revenue per year for the local hospital. Kewanee Hospital officials said the legislation, which would increase Medicaid reimbursements from the state to hospitals in rural areas ...
Utah Legislature: Bill would require insurers to cover prosthetics Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:25PMTami Stanley realizes if she hadn't been playing softball that day five years ago, and if she hadn't slid into third base at...
(Update) 6.0 earthquake hits eastern Turkey Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:23PMOKCULAR VILLAGE, Turkey - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people as it knocked down stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
Does the state owe you money? Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:22PMWhat do MetroWest Medical Center, Ashland Youth Basketball, Natick Labs and the Hudson Portuguese Club have in common? All may be entitled to some unclaimed cash.
George Mark Children's House a model for end-of-life care Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:44AMMaria Shriver's visit brings attention to San Leandro facility.
When jobs go public Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:42AMCOOS BAY — The economic downturn has made life tough for union electricians. In 2007, Kyle Electric of North Bend could barely keep up with demand, said Jonathan Bush, one of the company’s electricians. Then the economy tanked and Bush found himself traveling to California to find work.
Littleton’s Mager to run for governor Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:42AMLittleton resident Yoon Joo Mager has joined the race to become Colorado’s next governor. She announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination Feb. 17.
I know better, Brumby Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:39AMKEVIN Rudd says John Brumby is "kidding himself" if he thinks Victoria's hospitals do not need significant improvement.
Hospital's £3m neonatal cot boost Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:32AMWork on a £3m project to improve care for newborn babies in Lancashire and south Cumbria is to get under way.
Post-Op Liver Cancer Complications More Frequent At Low-Volume Hospitals Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:32AMThe frequency of post-operative complications following surgery for liver cancer is associated with a hospital having a low volume of liver surgery. Investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) are presenting that finding at the 63rd Annual Society of Surgical Oncology Symposium taking place this week in St. Louis. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical ...
Paramedics hail 'hero' boy from AZ bus crash Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:31AMSACATON, Ariz — A bilingual 4th grader hurt in an Arizona bus accident that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others translated from an ambulance stretcher for busy rescue workers as they hurried to set up a triage center, authorities...
Musicale will host "Banjoes of Michigan" next Friday at St. James Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:29AMGrosse Ile Musicale is hosting 14 of the members of “Banjoes of Michigan” at 1 p.m. next Friday at St. James Episcopal Church for members and their guests. From a very small group of banjo players who met in a basement in West Bloomfield to a group of more than 100 members, the Banjoes of Michigan became one of the largest banjo clubs in the Midwest. From their humble start in nursing homes ...
Most gov't hospitals comply with mercury ban (7:45 p.m.) Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:28AMMANILA -- The health department has reported that 16 out of 20 public hospitals in Metro Manila have fully complied with the government order to phase out the use of all healthcare devices that contai read more
Some homeless survey results in for county Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:26PM152 people responded to surveys reporting themselves as homeless in Comal County, according to results released by the Texas Homeless Network Thursday.
From carnivorous plants to the medicine cabinet? Anti-fungal agents in pitcher plants investigated Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:25PMUnusual components from carnivorous plants' pitchers were found effective as anti-fungal drugs against human fungal infections, which are widespread in hospitals.
Several burglaries reported at animal hospitals Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:24PMPolice in four communities are comparing notes on burglaries at animal hospitals in their towns. On Monday, someone broke into Werntz Memorial Animal Hospital on Verona Road in Penn Hills.
In White House meeting, Sebelius urges insurers to release all details on rate hikes Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:24PMInsurance companies should disclose more information about how they spend money to justify their rate hikes, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a group of insurance executives during a White House meeting Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.