Women giving birth are being admitted to maternity wards short of doctors and midwives as well as basic medical facilities, a review concludes today. "Significant weaknesses" persist in maternity and neonatal services across England, putting mothers and babies at risk despite years of sustained criticism from watchdogs, the Healthcare Commission said.
Medical errors and poor standards of care have contributed to the deaths of at least six women in England in recent years, inquests have found.
Health & Wellness
Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections.
An investigation into what the authorities say was a scheme that used homeless people to bilk tens of millions of dollars from federal and state health insurance programs began four years ago with a tip from a rescue mission employee.
Toronto's department of public health is advising teenagers and young children to limit their use of cellphones to avoid potential health risks.
The book's main character slaughtered his victims by running them through with sharp stakes. He once left hundreds dying slowly on a hillside while the soil grew "muddy with blood" and "blackbirds flocked around the corpses, fighting for a meal."
Although it has the contours of a horror story -- with splotches of red ink on its pages depicting blood -- it's actually a children's book. Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula is widely available in libraries and is making its way into middle-school social-studies classes.
Although it has the contours of a horror story -- with splotches of red ink on its pages depicting blood -- it's actually a children's book. Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula is widely available in libraries and is making its way into middle-school social-studies classes.
Even the most fabulous, high-flying lives hit pockets of dead air, periods when the sails go slack. Movie stars get marooned in D.M.V. lines. Prime ministers sit with frozen smiles through interminable state events. Living-large rappers endure empty August afternoons, pacing the mansion, checking the refrigerator, staring idly out the window, baseball droning on the radio.
Wondering: When does the mail come, exactly?
Scientists know plenty about boredom, too, though more as a result of poring through thickets of meaningless data than from studying the mental state itself. Much of the research on the topic has focused on the bad company it tends to keep, from depression and overeating to smoking and drug use.
Wondering: When does the mail come, exactly?
Scientists know plenty about boredom, too, though more as a result of poring through thickets of meaningless data than from studying the mental state itself. Much of the research on the topic has focused on the bad company it tends to keep, from depression and overeating to smoking and drug use.
Comment: If boredom has the potential (at least in some individuals) to "[begin] trying much more creative solutions", it makes sense that the PTB have arranged a world where the average sheeple can be distracted 24/7.
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| Five farms have been mysteriously affected by an outbreak of salmonella in Skåne, southern Sweden. |
The Swedish Board of Agriculture has so far not discovered the outbreak's cause. Speaking to Dagens Nyheter newspaper, the Board of Agriculture's veterinary inspector Elöd Szántó described the outbreak as one of biggest salmonella outbreaks of the last decade.
Fazilka - Farmers of several villages in Fazilka sub-division under Ferozepur district are having sleepless nights as a virulent disease is gradually claiming lives of their precious livestock, which are the sole means of their very sustenance.
Rourkela - At least 10 persons have died of a mysterious disease within a span of eight days near Bondamunda, about 10 km from here, triggering panic among local people.
Fifteen other patients from the area who complained of mild fever, severe headache and vomiting are being treated in several hospitals of the district, doctors said adding that efforts are on to identify the disease.
Fifteen other patients from the area who complained of mild fever, severe headache and vomiting are being treated in several hospitals of the district, doctors said adding that efforts are on to identify the disease.
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The mysterious deaths of two apparently healthy young men have bewildered their families and medical experts.
Teenage army recruit Hayden Smith never recovered after being found unconscious in bed by his dad, and father-of-one Michael Wilson died after collapsing at home.
Comment: According to the corporations that make them cellphones are safe, yet there is an increasing amount of evidence that these devices are not safe at all. But predatory capitalists are quick to dismiss anything that might interfere with profit margins, even at the cost of human lives.