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Dalai Lama hospitalized with abdominal pains
The spiritual leader was admitted to a state-run New Delhi hospital on Thursday following media reports that abdominal pains for which he had spent four days in a Mumbai hospital in August had recurred. The spiritual leader was admitted to a state-run New Delhi hospital on Thursday following media reports that abdominal pains for which... more
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Man dragged to death by bus
A local mayor said Monday the public will want an explanation for the bizarre death of a man who was found under the wheels of a transit bus late Friday after being dragged more than five kilometres along Highway 99 A local mayor said Monday the public will want an explanation for the bizarre death of a man who was found under the wheels of a trans... more
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Cheerleaders are risking serious injury and death to support their teams
New research shows that cheerleaders, who once dazzled with their smiles and sequins, are at greater risk of serious injury than American football players.
Instead of just cheering on their team, cheerleaders are now encouraged to compete in high-stress competitions, where dangerous throws and tumbles reminiscent of gymnastics are the norm.
Because the pastime is not regulated like a sport, accidents are common and cheerleaders are swapping their pom poms for crutches, knee braces and ice packs.
Campaign groups, horrified by a growing incidence of "catastrophic injuries" which have left cheerleaders with disabilities, paralysis and even dead, are fighting to clean up the "sport", where many school coaches do not have the necessary safety training.
Figures collated by the National Centre for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research found that between 1982 and last year, 67 young women suffered devastating injuries or death, which accounts for two out of three of all serious sporting injuries among young women.
The incidence of injuries causing paralysis or disability was 2.68 per 100,000 cheerleaders, which eclipses the figure for American football, where there are more fatalities but a lower ratio of injuries to participants.
The number of cheerleaders treated at hospital accident and emergency wards increased from under 5,000 a year in 1980 to nearly 30,000 a year today. New research shows that cheerleaders, who once dazzled with their smiles and sequins, are at greater risk of serious injury than Ameri... more -
Jackson postpones two concerts after hospital stay
Jackson checked into Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and was discharged two hours later, said Rebecca Burns, a spokeswoman for the hospital. Jackson checked into Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and was discharged two hours later, said Rebecca Burns, a spokeswoman for the... more
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Sawed off arm saved by sausage rolls
A gardener sawed off his arm in a freak chainsaw accident, but was fortunate enough to have a neighbour who saved the severed limb by putting it in a bag of sausage rolls.
John Stirling, 59, was cutting off branches in a tree in his garden in East Sussex, when he is thought to have slipped and sliced off his arm. Mr Stirling knocked on neighbour Steve Francis' door and told him: "Please help I've cut off my arm."
Shocked Steve, 49, said: "He wasn't screaming, he was as relaxed as can be. I didn't realise anything was wrong until I looked down and saw his arm was missing. I ran inside to call the ambulance and he sat outside on a stool. I came out and tied his arm up with a belt and towels, the ambulance people talked me through it. But through it all he sat there talking away like it was normal."
While paramedics were working on him Mr Francis put the arm in a plastic Tesco shopping bag. "I then put it in another bag with frozen pastries in to keep it cold," he added. The arm was cut off from below the elbow but surgeons may now be able to re-attach the limb. A gardener sawed off his arm in a freak chainsaw accident, but was fortunate enough to have a neighbour who saved the severed limb by ... more -
New clinic tackles dentophobia
Specially-trained "phobia" dentists are about to go to work in Scotland, helping patients suffering from dentophobia, a fear of dentists that leaves them too terrified to have their teeth touched.
Patients fearful of a trip to the dentist's chair will be among those helped at a £1 million new walk-in surgery in Midlothian. The centre will allow patients to be treated on-the-spot, as well as providing additional NHS support for the area.
Phobia dentists use a range of methods to help fearful patients, such as burning scented candles and allowing patients to watch DVDs, as well as employing mild hypnotic therapies like relaxing music or aromatherapy massage. Specially-trained "phobia" dentists are about to go to work in Scotland, helping patients suffering from dentophobia, a fear... more -
Fire breaks out at Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children - 4 injured
The famous kids hospital has been evacuated after reports claim a fire has broken out in one of the wings.
Reports claim there have been 4 firefighters injured, and over 150 people evacuated.
Witnesses claim to have heard a loud explosion as the fire spread, this is expected to have been a gas canister in the Cardiac ward.
Six fire engines and 35 firefighters are tackling the blaze which is believed to have started around 8.30am this morning. The famous kids hospital has been evacuated after reports claim a fire has broken out in one of the wings. ... more -
Articolo 32
Un documentario sull'ospedale San Gallicano di Roma, ora diventato Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della salute delle popolazioni migranti e il contrasto delle malattie della povertà (INMP): le vite che si sono incrociate nella struttura di Trastevere, le testimonianze dei rifugiati di guerra e dei medici raccolte dai Elena, studentessa romana di 19 anni. Un documentario sull'ospedale San Gallicano di Roma, ora diventato Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della salute delle popola... more
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2 NM Hostpital Workers Fired For Taking Photos
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two University of New Mexico Hospital employees have been fired for using their cell phone cameras to take photos of patients receiving treatment and then posting the images to a social networking Web site.
Director of Public Affairs Sam Giammo said Sunday the photos — mainly close-ups of injuries being treated in the Albuquerque hospital's emergency room over the past few months — were posted on an employee's private MySpace page.
Giammo said he's never heard of a similar incident at the University of New Mexico Hospital or any other hospital.
A few other hospital employees were disciplined and the investigation is ongoing, he said.
UNMH values patient privacy "very, very highly and we will do everything we can to protect them," Giammo said. "We just won't tolerate unprofessional actions by any of our staff. We just won't stand for that."
The photos were discovered after a hospital supervisor received an anonymous tip about them Tuesday and launched an investigation.
Hospital managers personally oversaw the removal of the photos from the Web site and from the employees' cell phones, Giammo said.
"We have to rely on the people telling us that they don't have any others," he said.
The patients in the photos could not be notified that their pictures had been taken because their faces and personal identifying features had been removed from the photos, Giammo said.
Giammo said the MySpace page could only be accessed by the employee's online friends, not the general public.
Giammo said the employees who were fired violated a hospital policy that bans the use of cell phone cameras in patient areas. The other employees were disciplined for not bringing the photos to the attention of managers, he said.
The hospital is treating the matter as an employment issue and law enforcement has not been involved, Giammo said.
The use of cell phone cameras in hospitals have caused breaches of patient privacy or concern about such violations in California, Arizona and South Dakota in recent years. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two University of New Mexico Hospital employees have been fired for using their cell phone cameras to take photos ... more -
"Who's Most Deserving!" The Hospital Reality Show
Basingstoke hospital was at the centre of a prime-time Sky News debate on the controversial dilemma of NHS rationing.
Theatre number two became the scene of an interactive media operation that brought together a panel of eminent thinkers and top news anchor Dermot Murnaghan for The Big Debate.
The event was part of a week of programmes about the agonising issue of which patients can get life-saving treatments on the NHS.
Viewers were invited to vote for the case they felt was most deserving of treatment funded by the NHS.
The hour-long programme - part of Sky News' Price of Life season - was broadcast live on Thursday at 8pm, amid the busy main theatre ward where 200 operations are carried out each week.
Dermot Murnaghan told The Gazette the news team wanted to broadcast from the hub of a real hospital.
He said: "We wanted to bring the debate to where clinicians are making these tough decisions on who gets what, making these life and death decisions on a day-to-day basis.
"Basingstoke hospital is also one of those trusts that is forward-thinking and brings the public into its day-to-day running, so we thought it was an excellent choice."
The hospital, which is the town's largest employer, with 2,400 staff, was designated as a foundation trust in December 2006, as part of a transfer of responsibility from central government to a local level.
Mary Edwards, chief executive of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, was among the guests who took part in the debate.
She was also involved in the founding of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), which has drawn criticism for advising the NHS on dropping drugs not thought to be cost-effective.
She said: "One reason why we're hosting the debate is that we want to be open about the human decisions that have to be made and recognise the benefit of having a mature conversation about this."
Mrs Edwards added that Basingstoke and Deane faces a future dilemma of rationing treatment because there is a predicted 25 per cent growth in the over-65s by 2013.
Earlier that day within the theatre, four breast operations had been carried out before it was scrubbed clean for the TV crew to set up their equipment in the theatre, ready for the one-hour-debate.
Among the panellists dissecting the dil-emma were Baroness Warnock, an esteemed ethicist and pragmatist on rationing, and Professor Paul Goddard, who took the opposite view by fiercely criticising rationing, warning that the NHS was heading for meltdown because of its money-saving obsession.
As part of the interactive programme, viewers at home were given case studies and asked to decide who best deserved treatment.
The case studies included:
* a premature baby needing treatment because it was born weighing only 1lb 6oz
* a breast cancer patient needing a costly drug
* darts champion Andy Fordham, who is seeking a liver transplant after years of sinking pints of lager
* an elderly patient nearing the end of his natural life.
The majority chose the cancer patient as most deserving of NHS treatment. Basingstoke hospital was at the centre of a prime-time Sky News debate on the controversial dilemma of NHS rationing. ... more -
Free Health Care
Politicians have promised universal health care for generations, but more Americans than ever before remain uninsured and in constant fear for their health. Millions of the uninsured are young college grads like Justine and her boyfriend Brian, who are caught off guard when a serious illness strikes. The Ithaca Health Alliance runs a free clinic in Ithaca, NY to care for those whom the health insurance system has left behind. Politicians have promised universal health care for generations, but more Americans than ever before remain uninsured and in constant ... more
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United Kingdom Talk Saturday 13th September 2008
Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
News on Joy.
Testing.
Why do we go abroad ?
Pet food advice.
Turning the machine on.
Forums.
Things discovered in inhumane ways.
My eye is observing.
Not answering the phone.
Are you of advanced years ? What did you give your pets before pet food became available ?
Mad scientists.
Broken down ? Ross will help you.
Thanks to Shaun.
A harness.
Jimmy's doing well at his new school.
We are not made to eat chemicals.
James Dean is at the top of the list if you Google matinee show.
Paying the vet.
I am a hobosexual.
No elevator for Suko.
A new gadget.
Hospital phones.
Taking on too many jobs again.
A very big experiment.
Ear wax.
Take the work while it's there.
Where's the home made marmalade gone ?
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats. ... more -
Black bear attacks man on boat
A bloody battle of man against beast on a Vancouver Island dock has left one fisherman in hospital, a bear dead and a group of quick-thinking bystanders hailed as heroes. A bloody battle of man against beast on a Vancouver Island dock has left one fisherman in hospital, a bear dead and a group of quick-t... more
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Escaped killer raped schoolgirl
A man who escaped from a secure private hospital near Bristol and raped a 14-year-old girl has now been sent to a maximum security hospital. Darren Harkin, 21, dragged the schoolgirl off the street at knifepoint in Monmouthshire, before raping her in February.
He told the court that hospital staff allowed the mentally-ill patient to view horror films. Harkin, who also suffers from autistic spectrum disorder, was able to build a huge collection of horror and pornographic DVDs while he was detained at the low-security Hayes Hospital, in the village of Pilning near Bristol. He had been submitted for stabbing his six-month-old stepbrother David to death in his cot and cutting off his hand eight years ago. Harkin was aged 12 when he carried out the killing and then calmly walked to the local police station in Bristol where he confessed.
The court heard that Harkin's behaviour had started to deteriorate by early 2008 resulting in him being put on 24-hour watch. It was decided that he should not be left alone with female members of staff after he asked a woman who worked there for sex. He asked if there was "anyone else available" when his request was refused.
The Recorder of Cardiff, Nicholas Cooke, raised concerns over why Harkin, who had a history of absconding, was moved to a low-security unit and why staff did not immediately tell police he had escaped. "I have little doubt that the judge that sentenced him would have been very horrified had he been told that this would lead in due course to him having unrestricted access to horror films and pornographic material," the recorder said. "How on earth could it be thought appropriate that someone who had done such a thing could access horror films?"
The Recorder, Nicholas Cooke, ordered that Harkin, whom he described as "exceptionally dangerous", be made the subject of a hospital order under the Mental Health Act without limit of time and be detained at maximum security Broadmoor Hospital. A man who escaped from a secure private hospital near Bristol and raped a 14-year-old girl has now been sent to a maximum security hos... more -
Unknown Substance Forces Hospital Closure
Worries over an unknown substance forced the emergency lockdown of two hospitals near St. Louis, Missouri.
Hospital officials say patients entered complaining of exposure to a mysterious powder. Hazardous material teams began decontamination of the patients and dozens of people quarantined after coming in contact with the patients.
"Several patients came to St. Anthony's Emergency Department from a site in East St. Louis, Illinois with an unknown chemical exposure," wrote St. Anthony's Medical Center spokeswoman Mary Jo Wich in a statement on the hospital's website.
"As a precaution for our patients, visitors and employees, access to the entire hospital campus initially was restricted," she said.
Wich said restrictions on the hospital's non-emergency areas were later lifted. However, the emergency department "will remain closed until the nature and extent of the exposure is determined."
Mehlville Fire Protection chief Jim Silvernail said the powder was believed to be a hazardous material.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported it caused respiratory problems among those exposed.
Jamie Newell, a spokeswoman for SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, Missouri near St. Louis, said three men who "came in contact with a dangerous substance" were admitted to the facility Saturday afternoon.
Newell noted the emergency department was put on lockdown shortly thereafter. The men were in fair condition and recovering, she said.
"Fifteen employees and one patient had to be decontaminated as a precaution... but we don't believe that anybody else has been harmed," said Newell.
She said officials had identified the substance, and it was not viral -- meaning a widespread airborne contamination was not likely.
Local NBC television station KMOV reported that two patients were in critical condition at SSM DePaul Health Center. However, Newell denied the report.
KMOV also reported that the cases were likely linked to people who were exposed to a substance while rooting through a dumpster in East St. Louis.
Announcement of the exposures emerged as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain was preparing to fly to St. Louis. He had a rally scheduled on Sunday in nearby O'Fallon, Missouri, but there was no change in plans. Worries over an unknown substance forced the emergency lockdown of two hospitals near St. Louis, Missouri. ... more -
Leonardo Viellas 13.07
Leonardo Viellas came to London with his partner in 2003 to study Enlgish. He tried to commit suicide on the 13 of August 2007 after a broke up of a 8 years relationship with his boyfriend. He was in coma at the University College Hospital. The doctors said that if he woke up he would be living like a vegetable, he would never walk or speak again. 3 months later he woke up... then he started speaking, recognizing some people and getting some of his movements back. This month (August 2008) the British Immigration decided to deport him back to Brazil to stay with his mum. His mum is a widow who lives on her own in a one bedroom house and she makes around 150(hundred and fifty) pounds a month. Leonardo Viellas came to London with his partner in 2003 to study Enlgish. He tried to commit suicide on the 13 of August 2007 after a... more
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Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.
The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.
"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.
The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.
"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spendi... more -
Madrid plane crash survivors tell their horrifying tale
From his hospital bed, Alfredo Jesús Acosta Mendiola was calling out for his parents.
The eight-year-old was one of the youngest of the 19 survivors of yesterday's plane crash at Madrid's Barajas airport, in which 153 passengers and crew lost their lives.
Alfredo's father Alfredo Acosta Sierra died in the crash and his mother, G Rodriguez Mendiola has not been identified.
One of three children in hospital, Alfredo was dragged from the wreckage of the burning plane by emergency workers, and suffered only a broken leg. From his hospital bed, Alfredo Jesús Acosta Mendiola was calling out for his parents. ... more -
Dead body left unattended on hospital ward
A body was left alongside other patients in a Glasgow hospital ward for seven hours.
Christine Martin told BBC Scotland how her husband David was admitted to Stobhill hospital in June. The male patient in the next bed died at about 1100 BST, but his body was not removed until after 1800 BST, it was claimed.
Mrs Martin said curtains were drawn around the dead body but "were open sufficiently for me to see this man, whom we had got to know over a period of 10 days, lying dead, face uncovered, propped up on white pillows."
The standard practice if someone has died in a four bedded ward is to access a single room where the deceased could be viewed by the family. In this case there was a delay as the hospital had agreed to leave the body until a relative arrived. The dead man's son told BBC Scotland that hospital staff acted with "utter compassion" to his request to see the body on the ward before it was taken to the mortuary. However, he confirmed he left the hospital at 1500 BST and there was a further delay in the removal afterwards.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the case highlighted its campaign for all patients to be given more dignity. "This case highlights the campaign we're running and highlights the kind of problems nurses come across, because no nurse would want a deceased patient lying on a ward for seven hours." A body was left alongside other patients in a Glasgow hospital ward for seven hours. ... more -
Woman attacked by black bear
A 35-year-old Coquitlam woman is in hospital after being mauled by a black bear outside her home this morning.
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